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Little Milton

As the blues was electrified in the 1950s, developed a backbeat becoming R&B in the '60s and wound down into slow, stripped-bare soul in the '70s, Little Milton was an important pioneering figure at the forefront of the changes. As a result he had a thriving career that spanned five decades and produced 30 albums. Born in rural Mississippi, his father was a farmer who played the blues in local juke joints, and by his teenage years James 'Little Milton' Campbell Jr. was singing with bar band the Rhythm Aces where he was spotted by Ike Turner. Turner took him to make his first r...