Champion Jack Dupree has been played on NTS in shows including Leila Samir , featured first on 16 March 2020. Songs played include Bad Whiskey And Bad Women and Shim Sham Shimmy.

William Thomas Dupree (birth date disputed; died January 21, 1992, in Hanover, Germany), best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an American blues pianist. He was the embodiment of the New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist. On his best known album, Blues from the Gutter, for Atlantic in 1959, he was accompanied on guitar by Larry Dale, whose playing on that record inspired Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. Although best known…