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Watkins, Beverly "Guitar"

LC control no.no2006132157
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Personal name headingWatkins, Beverly "Guitar"
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Variant(s)Watkins, Beverly, 1939-2019
Watkins, Guitar, 1939-2019
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedCommerce (Ga.) Atlanta (Ga.)
Birth date1939-04-06
Death date2019-10-01
Place of birthAtlanta (Ga.)
Field of activityBlues (Music)
Profession or occupationBlues musicians Guitarists Singers Composers
Found inBlues guitar women [SR] p2005: container (Beverly "Guitar" Watkins) insert (Beverley [sic] "Guitar" Watkins; from Atlanta)
All music guide WWW site, Dec. 7, 2006 (Beverly "Guitar" Watkins; Georgia-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter; b. Atlanta, GA)
Beverly "Guitar" Watkins WWW site, Dec. 7, 2006: bio (Beverly "Guitar" Watkins; 59 years old; article c2005)
Wikipedia, June 1, 2018 (Beverly Watkins; Beverly "Guitar" Watkins; born April 6, 1939, Atlanta, Georgia; around age 12, moved with family to Commerce, Georgia; American blues guitarist; performed with Piano Red (aka Doctor Feelgood) until 1965; lives in Atlanta
Music Maker Foundation WWW site, June 1, 2018: Artists (Bevely "Guitar" Watkins; "Guitar" Watkins; electric blues guitarist)
   <https://musicmaker.org/artists/beverly-guitar-watkins/>
Atlanta journal-constitution WWW site, viewed Oct. 7, 2019 (in obituary dated Oct 01, 2019: Atlanta blues musician Beverly Hayes Watkins, 80, whose blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved nickname "Guitar," died Tuesday morning [Oct. 1, 2019]; born at Atlanta's Grady Hospital April 6, 1939)