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Big George Brock (19322020) Born in Grenada, Mississippi on May 16, 1932, BIG GEORGE BROCK spent his teenage years near Clarksdale, Mississippi, before settling in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1950s. While living in the Clarkdale area, he did backbreaking fieldwork, boxed on weekends, and played the blues. He remembers hanging out at house parties in the Delta where folks like Memphis Minnie would show up. Even today, he still has relatives in the Clarksdale area, including his bluesplaying nephew James Super Chikan Johnson and brotherinlaw Big Jack Johnson. In St. Louis, Big George owned a series of blues clubs in the 1960s and 70s, including Club Caravan (formerly the Early Bird Lounge) where his wife at the time was killed by stray bullets from a drunks pistol and New Club Caravan. Later, Big George the Houserockers was the house band at Climmies Western Inn for 12 years. During his career, Big George has played shows with blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Jimmy Reed a