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Article: Accident at home fatal to guitarist Bradshaw.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2003
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Funeral arrangements are pending for Eugene blues guitarist James "Supe" Bradshaw, whose musical resume included gigs with top performers from Buddy Miles to Albert Collins.
Bradshaw, 55, bled to death Saturday after cutting himself while trying to enter his Eugene home through a window.
The son of Elmer and Arvetta Bradshaw, he grew up in Long Beach, Calif., in a musical family.
"His father played. All the relatives and all the cousins played. We grew up with guitars and fiddles and all that," recalled his cousin, Suzanne Hall of Eugene. `The first recording he ever did was a 45 of `Fever.' He did it in the ...