Zuzu Bollin was an American

United States

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 Texas blues

Texas blues

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 guitarist and singer from Frisco, Texas

Frisco, Texas

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. Originally named A.D. Bollin, the name 'Zuzu' is believed to refer to a brand of ginger-snap cookies popular at the time.

Bollin notably recorded "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night" and "Headlight Blues" (1951), and variously worked alongside Duke Robillard

Duke Robillard

Michael John "Duke" Robillard is an American blues musician.After playing in various bands and working for the Guild Guitar Company, he co-founded the band Roomful of Blues with pianist Al Copley in 1967. He has also been a member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds which included Kim Wilson, replacing...

, Doug Sahm

Doug Sahm

Douglas Wayne Sahm , was an American musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music, but became a significant figure in blues rock and other genres. Today Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tejano music...

, Booker Ervin

Booker Ervin

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, Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield

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 and David "Fathead" Newman.

Bollin was thought to be dead, until he was rediscovered in 1988 living in Dallas, Texas

Texas

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, by the Dallas Blues Society Records founder, Chuck Nevitt. Nevitt gathered together a band and produced Bollin's first full length album

Album

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 Texas Bluesman in 1989, as the debut release on Dallas Blues Society Records. This record was sold to Antones Records

Clifford Antone

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 a couple of years later, and Antones released it on compact disc

Compact Disc

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. This recording augmented Bollin's only four sides (two 78rpm records

Gramophone record

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) recorded in the early 1950s on the Dallas based Torch Records label. Bollin made festival dates both in the United States and abroad.

Bollin died in Dallas, Texas in October 1990, aged 68.