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Under the context of The Washington Projects, brother/sister duo Jekob & Rachael Washington merge insightful hip-hop, scintillating soul, rippling R&B, old school funk and pure bred pop. It’s an astonishingly inventive merger that’s given them instant accessibility steeped in street credibility, while breaking down boundaries more than any other eclectic troupe in recent memory. And while this fitting moniker may appear to be a new force on the horizon, the pair previously comprised two thirds of the Word/Warner Brothers recording group SoulJahz, who took the industry by storm in the early 2000s with a jaw dropping spread of radio singles,...

Washington White, Bukka White (Booker T. Washington White, November 12, 1909 - February 26, 1977) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer. Performing in Memphis, White met Ralph Lembo, a white Mississippi furniture dealer who served as an agent for the Victor label, and he enthusiastically stepped into Victor's Memphis studio to record 14 sides in 1930. Several of them were gospel pieces; one, "I Am in the Heavenly Way," was billed as a "Sermon Sung for You by Washington White, 'The Singing Preacher,' with Guitars and Women Singers." With the Depression underway, Victor released only four of White's...

Born in Jamaica, but grew up in England. Signed by Front Line Records and debuted in 1976 with 'I Sus'. .

Washington Lane is a powerpop band from North Carolina, they've released one EP, and have recently been hard at work to record their first full length. .

Washington Phillips (* 11. Januar 1880 in Texas; † 20. September 1954 in Teague, Texas) war ein bemerkenswerter Gospel-Sänger, der Ende der 1920er Jahre insgesamt 16 Songs für das Columbia-Label aufgenommen hat. Seine Songs, alle zwischen 1927 und 1929 aufgenommen, interpretiert Phillips, indem er sich selbst auf einem Instrument begleitet, das wie eine bundlose Zither klingt. Dieses Instrument, das lange Zeit für eine Dolceola, ein Celestaphon, eine Phonoharp oder ein Instrument gänzlich 'Marke Eigenbau' gehalten wurde, erzeugt einen Klang mit einem außerordentlichen Wiedererkennungswert. Ry Cooder hat Phillips' Denomination Blues auf seinem Album Into the Purple Valley, den Song Tattler auf...