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Guitar Crusher

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Personal name headingGuitar Crusher
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Variant(s)Selby, Sidney
Bone Crusher, 1931-
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedBerlin (Germany)
Freiburg (Germany)
Birth date[1931-07-23,1931-07-28]
Place of birthHyde County (N.C.)
Field of activityBlues (Music)
Profession or occupationBlues musicians Guitarists Singers Harmonica players
Found inBoogie on Broadway [SR] 198-?: label (Guitar Crusher, guitar) container (AKA Sidney Selby)
Wikipedia, September 27, 2017 (Guitar Crusher; born Sidney Selby, July 23, 1931, Lake Landing, Hyde County, North Carolina; formerly known as "Bone Crusher"; American blues singer and guitarist; also plays blues harmonica; based for many years in Berlin, Germany, where he moved in 1982)
Oxford music online, September 27, 2017: Encyclopedia of popular music (Guitar Crusher; born Sidney Selby, July 28, 1931, Hyde County, North Carolina; in the 60s, playing guitar and singing, he recorded a number of singles and toured with artists such as Ben E. King and the Isley Brothers; he has for many years been a resident of Freiburg, Germany; guitarist, singer, and harmonica player; grandfather of rapper Sidney Selby III, also known as Desiigner)