Years active 1950–2008 Name D.C. Minner | Role Musician | |
Born January 28, 1935,
Rentiesville, Oklahoma, United States ( 1935-01-28 ) Occupation(s) Musician, singer-songwriter Instruments Guitar, vocals, bass guitar Associated acts D.C. & Selby Minner, BLUES ON THE MOVE, Larry Johnson, NEW BREED, Tony Mathews, Redwoods band, Home Cookin'. D. C. Website The Official D.C. Minner Site Died May 6, 2008, Oklahoma, United States | ||
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D.C. Minner (January 28, 1935 – May 6, 2008) was an American blues musician, teacher, and philosopher who was known for sharing music with children and adults alike throughout Oklahoma and beyond.
Born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, he performed with O. V. Wright, Freddie King, Chuck Berry, Eddie Floyd and Bo Diddley, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999. He owned the 'Down Home Blues Club' in Rentiesville, where he and his wife Selby Minner held a long-running annual blues festival, the 'Dusk 'til Dawn Blues Festival'. The couple had won an international KBA from the Blues Foundation in Memphis for their BITS (Blues in the Schools) work with children.
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