The First Poll for The First State: Notable Delaware Musicians

Ned Raggett made me do this.

Voted Spindrift because we used to hang out back in the olden days.

Clifford Brown, easy.

Also, Matthew Shipp!

Also Zen Guerrilla, imo.

Honestly Cab Calloway in a walk if we're counting him but like Bob Marley it's more tangential. Most of the rest were actually from there, yes?

Also I must love the ILX software for cutting it off as "Verlaine would later brie," for he would not cheddar.

LOL xp

Oh, the complete text for option six:

"Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell of the band Television. Attended school at St. Andrew's School. Verlaine would later briefly attend the University of Delaware."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9PcZ4Tx1HA

Cab Calloway by an infinite distance

I lived several years of my youth in Delaware, and was always dismayed by how the list of notable musicians from there was even shorter than you'd assume. was always cheered by the Television roots. covered a Boysetsfire song in my high school band, because that's what you do if you're a Delaware emo/hardcore band. but will vote for Thorogood, because radio DJs down there always play the hell out of him and refer to his band by their original name ("George Throgood and the Delaware Destroyers," which is awesome because it sounds like they're destroying Delaware).

like southside johnny of asbury park and jason of nashville, george of delaware is docked one hundred million points for dropping the place name from hit band name.

from *his* band name, that is.

Clifford brown was the shit. Cabby C a close second.

Write-in for Matthew Shipp (already mentioned). I feel like I must be forgetting some obscure Delaware musicians I should certainly know about having lived so close to the border with Delaware in Delaware County, PA, but I can't think of any.

Clifford Brown was "ridiculous". my trumpet teacher used to play recordings of him for me for no reason other than to just listen in awe. this is the easiest poll ever.

brownie

will vote for Thorogood, because radio DJs down there always play the hell out of him and refer to his band by their original name ("George Throgood and the Delaware Destroyers,"

Wait, is this not national practice? They definitely did it where I grew up in neighboring Maryland (which, by the way, what, Joan Jett? I'm drawing a blank.)

Cab Calloway vs Verlaine & Hell. Rockist tendencies won.

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"Bob Marley lived in Delaware for a brief time, during which he was employed at the General Motors site in Newport." - Bob Marley

weak, should have been C-Bro.