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El Rocco was a famous restaurant and club in Greensboro that hosted blues, R&B and soul legends

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El Rocco was a famous restaurant and club in Greensboro that hosted blues, R&B and soul legends

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Roy Roberts

Blues singer and record producer Roy Roberts at his studio, Rock House Records, in Greensboro in January 2009. Roberts performed at El Rocco in Greensboro.

Alexander and Eloise Faucette

Alexander and Eloise Faucette owned the El Rocco music club and restaurant in Greensboro. The club was as famous for its fried chicken as its star-filled musical roster.

Drummer and horn player Chuck Cotton spent time at El Rocco in Greensboro.

Roy Roberts, seen here in February 2012, has good memories of El Rocco in Greensboro.

Amos Faucette has many good memories of father Alexander Faucette’s club, El Rocco, in Greensboro.

James Brown, seen here performing at War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro in July 2001, performed at El Rocco in Greensboro.

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By Grant Britt Special to Go Triad

He ran a Greensboro entertainment empire as famous for its fried chicken as for its stunning array of internationally known black musicians. From 1949 until 1971, Alexander Great Faucette’s El Rocco club fed and entertained Greensboro residents in a manner rarely seen outside New York, with some folks comparing it to Harlem’s famous Cotton Club and even the Apollo Theater.

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Roy Roberts

Blues singer and record producer Roy Roberts at his studio, Rock House Records, in Greensboro in January 2009. Roberts performed at El Rocco in Greensboro.

Alexander and Eloise Faucette owned the El Rocco music club and restaurant in Greensboro. The club was as famous for its fried chicken as its star-filled musical roster.

Drummer and horn player Chuck Cotton spent time at El Rocco in Greensboro.

Roy Roberts, seen here in February 2012, has good memories of El Rocco in Greensboro.

Amos Faucette has many good memories of father Alexander Faucette’s club, El Rocco, in Greensboro.

James Brown, seen here performing at War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro in July 2001, performed at El Rocco in Greensboro.

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