scrapper

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In 1958, Mr. Rosenbaum tracked down and recorded in Indianapolis a musician named Scrapper Blackwell, whom he described as “one of the best and most influential blues guitarists of the 1920s and ’30s.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Theo Barrowclough, producer of BFI-backed film Scrapper, endorsed her view, saying working with Longley on their film set "proved to be a major coup".

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2022

Some 45 years after winning his first election to the county council of New Castle, Del., the Scranton Scrapper has earned a return to normal life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 2, 2015

Mr. Simic has you racing to Spotify to hear the blues songs he loves, from men and women like Walter Davis, Bertha Chippie Hill, Funny Papa Smith, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2015

At the sight of that telltale feather all the birds knew that Weaver was right, and led by Scrapper the Kingbird they began a noisy search of the Old Orchard for the sly robber.

From The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)