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Jesse James was part of the WWII era migration of African-Americans to the East Bay. James McClelland was born in 1943 in Eldorado, AR, but his father was a longshoreman who brought the family to Richmond, CA. As a young man he would work in one of…

Rodger Collins was born in Texas circa 1940, but his family was among the massive migration of Southern African-Americans who came to the Bay Area in the 40's in search of industrial jobs created by the war. For a long time his 1967, "She's Looking…

It's a stretch to consider this Fresno based band to be geographically part of East Bay, but Ray Camacho and the Teardrops (sometimes The Ray Camacho Group) were indelibly a corner stone of music on both sides of the Bay in the 60's and 70's. Able…