tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13973445733899905562024-03-18T08:17:14.337+01:00Blue eyeA blues blog by Gerard HerzhaftGerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-69095023408718028212024-03-06T11:36:00.004+01:002024-03-06T11:37:56.446+01:00JAMES COTTON 1953-68<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">JAMES
COTTON/ 1953-68</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPE68spd4T0-FDzSS23OiD7B3_0CuQZ4sJQYXHgoggbmSfA6qS23jdqUCpneegfPdD_F1kud2dt2jRn98rKbPkNXL4TgZTFa5HP8fUPW6gZCngKfo1CL4CNClCWslO-PP3jSNlDTB4qL7d4CaaxW80mOEpMuAKLfl5nnsc1m0Rie8pDgjwqDZd7nirima/s1500/COTTON%20couv.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPE68spd4T0-FDzSS23OiD7B3_0CuQZ4sJQYXHgoggbmSfA6qS23jdqUCpneegfPdD_F1kud2dt2jRn98rKbPkNXL4TgZTFa5HP8fUPW6gZCngKfo1CL4CNClCWslO-PP3jSNlDTB4qL7d4CaaxW80mOEpMuAKLfl5nnsc1m0Rie8pDgjwqDZd7nirima/w400-h400/COTTON%20couv.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Si James Cotton jouit
aujourd'hui à juste titre d'une réputation de légende vivante et figure au
Panthéon des grands harmonicistes de blues, cela n'était certainement pas le
cas lorsqu'au début des années 60 le petit cercle d'amateurs de blues européens
le découvrit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cotton n'était
alors essentiellement connu qu'en tant que remplaçant de Little Walter au sein
de l'orchestre de Muddy Waters, et pas forcément à son avantage! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Né le 1er
juillet 1935 à Tunica dans le Mississippi, James Cotton apprend très jeune à
jouer de l'harmonica en écoutant les disques de John Lee "Sonny Boy"
Williamson que son oncle lui prêtait et l'émission de radio King Biscuit Time
dans laquelle officiait Sonny Boy "Rice Miller" Williamson. Persuadé
que Rice Miller était le Sonny Boy des disques, Cotton convainc son oncle
d'aller le voir. Flatté, Miller prend l'adolescent sur la route avec lui et
Cotton le remplace sur scène (ou derrière le rideau selon les lieux étant donné
son jeune âge) quand Sonny Boy est trop imbibé pour jouer. Lorsque Miller part
soudainement vers le Nord, Cotton se retrouve embauché à Memphis par Joe Hill
Louis puis Howlin' Wolf. Dans le groupe, Cotton noue une amitié durable avec
les frères Murphy (Floyd et Matt), Pat Hare, Junior Parker, Willie Johnson...
Presque naturellement, Sam Phillips enregistre James sur Sun, deux 78t de R
& B de très bon niveau mais dans lesquels Cotton ne joue pas d'harmonica et
qui ne se vendront guère.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RfR9d-Vb8WSmYWbD9c6_xA118j0I-Epi2-ZNq3LUeAnQj5sU06iRuEggwPm6N723aZYxLVVFMSG3fijPIgRmRHC98qlil7M3VIvg8ZK6-M7PA8qyVGYaYk4Tmntu9ATn7ETB_qtvoTB5GlMQ_uKnoSlmzCeQvBrAySpVY6owkA0RmGEz3jLoEEQDc6dS/s651/COTTON06.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="491" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RfR9d-Vb8WSmYWbD9c6_xA118j0I-Epi2-ZNq3LUeAnQj5sU06iRuEggwPm6N723aZYxLVVFMSG3fijPIgRmRHC98qlil7M3VIvg8ZK6-M7PA8qyVGYaYk4Tmntu9ATn7ETB_qtvoTB5GlMQ_uKnoSlmzCeQvBrAySpVY6owkA0RmGEz3jLoEEQDc6dS/s320/COTTON06.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br />James gagne
Chicago au milieu des années 50. Lorsque Muddy Waters licencie Big Walter
Horton de son orchestre à cause de ses nombreuses inconséquences, James Cotton
devient l'harmoniciste du groupe. Une fonction qu'il conservera une dizaine
d'années. Cotton enregistre abondamment avec Muddy Waters et se fait ainsi
connaître du grand public. Au début, il semble quelque peu gêné par la présence
occulte de ses grands prédécesseurs (Little Walter notamment, au style très
différent). Mais il développe peu à peu un jeu d'harmonica, bien plus terrien
que celui des Walters, swinguant, tout en puissance et finalement extrêmement
efficace.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lorsque Muddy
emmène James avec lui en Angleterre, l'infatigable jazzman britannique Chris
Barber en profite pour enregistrer James, huit titres qui ne paraîtront qu'en
Europe sur deux 45t EP. Malgré un accompagnement laborieux et peu inspiré,
cette séance de 1961 permet à Cotton de prouver l'étendue de ses talents
d'harmoniciste et de chanteur. L'influence de John Lee Williamson est alors
écrasante autant dans les trois morceaux qu'il lui emprunte que dans le reste.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cette escapade
anglaise a permis à Cotton de s'aviser qu'un public blanc et international
s'intéressait de plus en plus au blues et qu'il y avait là une opportunité à
saisir. De retour à Chicago, Cotton se rapproche de la petite fraternité de
jeunes fans de blues qui gravitent autour de Paul Butterfield et Mike Bloomfield
et il se produit avec eux dans plusieurs campus universitaires et clubs du
North Side, montrant au passage pas mal de "plans" à Butterfield.
Quelques titres enregistrés au cours de ces prestations nous sont parvenus avec
un Cotton particulièrement en verve. Sa voix chaude, grasseyante se marie
merveilleusement à son harmonica et autant Butterfield en second harmonica que
Mike Bloomfield (ou Elvin Bishop?) à la guitare montrent leur réelle empathie
avec le vrai blues.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdEw94-eFP-zrLVMHREoTTUU8rOX9YCF_SqatbOMCzt2g4IBAApkbehkjvx26cOQUTLcIq3C4s5ERN-gSimVwzKEOKAJ-QOe0o0VoJFj7KBqt55VMI2mt6cxO4AKIoktiNM0tx1Lav2aUAGljA-mlSKjhKiX-1ZFlWGgj725VGoF-JB8UdBUeR4AAT3HT/s900/COTTONJames1956.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="649" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdEw94-eFP-zrLVMHREoTTUU8rOX9YCF_SqatbOMCzt2g4IBAApkbehkjvx26cOQUTLcIq3C4s5ERN-gSimVwzKEOKAJ-QOe0o0VoJFj7KBqt55VMI2mt6cxO4AKIoktiNM0tx1Lav2aUAGljA-mlSKjhKiX-1ZFlWGgj725VGoF-JB8UdBUeR4AAT3HT/s320/COTTONJames1956.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <br /></span>En 1964,
Cotton partage un microsillon produit par Sam Charters avec les autres membres
du Muddy Waters blues band mais le LP est uniquement attribué à Otis Spann.
Après un 45t pour Cadillac Baby dans lequel c'est Little Mack qui joue de
l'harmonica (!), Cotton retrouve Charters et les autres musiciens de Muddy
Waters pour cinq magnifiques titres qui paraissent dans la célèbre anthologie
Chicago/ The blues today.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finalement,
James se décide à tenter une carrière personnelle, forme son propre blues band
avec Sammy Lawhorn à la guitare, le temps d'enregistrer un nouveau (et
excellent) 45t pour le label Loma en 1966.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Il lui faudra
attendre l'année suivante (1967) pour enfin graver son premier album sous son
nom sur le label Verve qui sera suivi de beaucoup d'autres.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Etant devenu
un bluesman légendaire et de premier plan, James Cotton est décédé le 16 mars
2017 à Austin (Tx).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPLRlW3H037XY3A9-PNaNXFXbYzgzVLNDhFxzkUHqUWqg6dh7RKFb2yuzF30yId4mNt2oVrjW5ZfUEak6b9q8Rr-H6arP9NIHFnHkvBJ739fTlD-d7yIZDE_UhugyD7ODTvNiDCYxbzmOMBE6EnkzmGStkrX0vdBjWiiuOh3A9u-b9afxK04qTw4V5czTR/s592/COTTON03.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="423" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPLRlW3H037XY3A9-PNaNXFXbYzgzVLNDhFxzkUHqUWqg6dh7RKFb2yuzF30yId4mNt2oVrjW5ZfUEak6b9q8Rr-H6arP9NIHFnHkvBJ739fTlD-d7yIZDE_UhugyD7ODTvNiDCYxbzmOMBE6EnkzmGStkrX0vdBjWiiuOh3A9u-b9afxK04qTw4V5czTR/w286-h400/COTTON03.jpg" width="286" /></a></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /><span style="color: red;"> If
today James Cotton stands rightfully as a living legend and as one of the
leading stalwarts of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>
blues harmonica style, it has not always been the case. In the early 60's for
instance when <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> discovered the blues,
Cotton was chiefly considered as a so so substitute to Little Walter in the
Muddy Waters' blues band. And he will have to fight hard to stand out as his
own.</span><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Born
on a plantation near Tunica, Ms. July 1st, 1935, James learned at a very early
age to play the harmonica while listening to his uncle's huge record
collection, particularly the 78s of John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson
and the King Biscuit Time's radio programme from Helena (Arkansas) that was led
by the "other" Sonny Boy Williamson, Rice Miller.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
uncle like the nephew, persuaded - like many others - that there was only one
Sonny Boy, went to see his show, chatted and playing with him. Some time after,
the young James was taken under the not so protective wing of Rice Miller who
used him as a valet as well as a replacement on stage (or behind a curtain,
Cotton being still too young to play in most of the joints) when he was too
whiskey-soaked to stand up. When Sonny Boy dropped everything suddenly to go
North with his new wife, Cotton tried to maintain the band for awhile but it
was a too hard task for such a young man and he instead settled in Memphis,
playing in several blues bands, particularly Howlin Wolf's. As almost every
blues act around <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>,
Phillips recorded twice James Cotton, four nice R&B tracks with stunning
Pat Hare's guitar parts but no trace of harp blowing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James
went to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>
in the mid-50's, playing with almost everybody. At that time, Muddy was looking
for a new harp player, Little Walter being already a star on his own and Big
Walter proving he had a not reliable enough behaviour to play regularly with a
busy touring band. And James was very reliable, so he took the place, a role
that he would keep for more than a decade. And Cotton recorded widely with
Muddy in a very different style than the Walters, more down-home, almost
"Country", always Sonnyboyesque and more and more swinging, forceful
and effective.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
Muddy brought James with him for a tour of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the indefatigable
British jazz band leader Chris Barber took the opportunity to record him as a
leader. Despite a very uninspired and pedestrian backing band, this 1961
session is very rewarding. Cotton proves his talents with his harmonica during
eight titles with a very strong John Lee Williamson's influence.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>During
this British adventure, Cotton realized that there was a new public outside the
black ghettos for the blues. Back to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>,
Cotton was more and more involved in the Blues Revival fledgling movement,
beginning a friendship with the young white bluesmen like Paul Butterfield and
Mike Bloomfield and playing with them on college campuses and North Side clubs.
Some tracks recorded during those kind of venues had reached us, featuring a
very masterful Cotton in this acoustic setting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
1964, Sam Charters recorded five tracks by Cotton as a leader with the current
Muddy Waters' band but the album was attributed only to Otis Spann. After a 45
for Cadillac Baby (in which Little Mack plays the harp, not James!), Cotton
recorded another session for Charters with Spann and others, a stunning session
that would be issued on the famed Chicago/ The blues today series, doing a lot
to establish Cotton's reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
that time, Cotton finally tried to lead his own band enrolling the great Sammy
Lawhorn on lead guitar. They recorded a masterful 45 for the Loma label in
1966.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cotton
will have to wait 1967 to sign a contract with the Verve label and at last
record his first album under his name which would be followed by many more. And
this is as a legendary and highly praised bluesman and harmonica player that
James Cotton died in Austin (Tx) on 16 March 2017<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><u><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/8a5a9nc5c35g72o/COTTON_discography_1953-68.pdf/file"> COTTON discography 1953-68</a></u></span></b></o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-79442522789387835692024-02-26T10:15:00.002+01:002024-02-26T10:15:41.388+01:00CAL GREEN/ Blues Guitar Masters Volume 11<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CAL GREEN/ Blues Guitar Masters Volume 11<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJhieHvs6DdUzWd4VcoXhWDOrkKDpVMD1hylJfwubZpXapYzdskt5nr8v0Lc7ynuqSiKFieOjg1GENmYNNYRMWs_aD0T7ZTPximPxLS746k0_fdhhyphenhyphenG_mztxHe2NoaU4pFrKoXi1xLzoOwOO2seIkWun_6rMmtZoL4z3yakPu_GDGS3lwU-6tY5IYOBHC/s1500/GREEN%20Cal%20couv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJhieHvs6DdUzWd4VcoXhWDOrkKDpVMD1hylJfwubZpXapYzdskt5nr8v0Lc7ynuqSiKFieOjg1GENmYNNYRMWs_aD0T7ZTPximPxLS746k0_fdhhyphenhyphenG_mztxHe2NoaU4pFrKoXi1xLzoOwOO2seIkWun_6rMmtZoL4z3yakPu_GDGS3lwU-6tY5IYOBHC/w400-h400/GREEN%20Cal%20couv.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Cal Green was born in <st1:city w:st="on">Dayton</st1:city>, Tx. on June 22<sup>nd</sup> 1935 but moved at a very
early age to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city>.
His mother who played spiritual taught him (as well to her elder son Clarence
Green) the guitar and how to read music. As a teenager <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cal</st1:place></st1:state> saw his recording idol Gatemouth Brown
who encouraged him to go further on guitar. So, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cal</st1:place></st1:state> decided to make a living with his music.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quickly, Cal who had become a very
versatile guitar player, able to play any kind of music, became in demand in
cubs, venues and recording studios. He is featured as a sideman on many <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state> blues and R&B
records by Quinton Kimble, Connie McBooker, Big Mama Thornton etc... In 1954,
he got the job of being the lead guitar player of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters
who were becoming a big name in R&B. Cal so was constantly on the road and
in studios. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Cal</st1:state></st1:place>
has plenty of solos on most of Ballard's records, influencing many Rock'n'roll
and rockabilly guitarists like Sleepy La Beef. Cal Green even managed to cut a couple
of singles under his name that, though excellent, didn't sell too much. In
1959, Cal Green and Hank Ballard co-wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Twist</i> that reached n°4 in the Billboard but went to be a monster
international hit when Chubby Checker waxed it some months later, launching one
of the most famous and still popular dance through the decades and until now!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But the things suddenly turned bad
for Cal who was framed for drug possession and served a 21 months jail
sentence! During his time, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cal</st1:place></st1:state>
played with a band of convicts who were mostly in jazz and Green became a good
Kenny Burrell's disciple! Out of jail, <st1:state w:st="on">Cal</st1:state>
moved to <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, played with Gatemouth
Brown, then <st1:city w:st="on">El Paso</st1:city> playing with Long John
Hunter before joining for two years Brother Jack McDuff's band in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>! There he
played with many fellow jazz musicians like George Benson and Lou Donaldson.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Cal</st1:state></st1:place>
made a good living as a sideman and studio musician, recording a lot behind
musicians of all genres. He also recorded sporadically under his name, some
singles and a jazz album (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Trippin'</i>).
Some of his own records having been reissued for the new blues audiences from
all over the world, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cal</st1:place></st1:state>
gained the interest of this public. He was featured on several blues magazines
namely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living Blues n° 24</i> with a
in-depth essay by Dick Shurman. <st1:state w:st="on">Cal</st1:state> then came
back to his blues roots and recorded a great album in 1988 that led him to tour
in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and abroad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cal Green died in his home of Lake
View Terrace, Ca. on 4 July 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This post gathers all the recordings
he made under his name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">CAL GREEN</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/g;
Mark Patterson, tpt; Wilbert Dyer, a-sax; Jimmy Moore, t-sax; Danny Bank,
b-sax; Ivory Joe Hunter, pno; Menth Martin, bs; George DeHurt, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 23 may
1956<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01.
I can hear my baby calling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02.
The search is all over<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, vcl/g; Mark Patterson, tpt; Jimmy Moore,
t-sax; Jimmy Johnson, pno; James Fisher, bs; George DeHurt, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:place></st1:city>, Oh. 14
january 1958<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03.
The big push</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4TjKP8LjZp1L4hsMNeLEyqTYXICffjEgnNGDdFWsgWexgQ-2a5A1Wzvaw5yijObFcwL6ty4868k5XYeYdfWtWO3CCriUMPOlGBEpHaknN-nKI8w6_SDG57BORBzvATMD2eFQ9rF52INnzPuvq-K3f1sBkwcU_NAq7R-wBflqmOB8MRv87CuZt8Zcri1a/s1000/Cal%20Green%2045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4TjKP8LjZp1L4hsMNeLEyqTYXICffjEgnNGDdFWsgWexgQ-2a5A1Wzvaw5yijObFcwL6ty4868k5XYeYdfWtWO3CCriUMPOlGBEpHaknN-nKI8w6_SDG57BORBzvATMD2eFQ9rF52INnzPuvq-K3f1sBkwcU_NAq7R-wBflqmOB8MRv87CuZt8Zcri1a/s320/Cal%20Green%2045.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><o:p></o:p></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04.
Green's blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, vcl/g; band. Houston, Tx. 1960</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05.
Huffing and puffing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06.
Honky Tonk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07.
Sawdust floor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, vcl/g; band. Houston, Tx. 1962</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08.
Fast times in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09.
I knew I was wrong<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10.
All that slow jazz got me blue<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, vcl/g; The Specials, band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. 1965</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11.
I'll give you just a little more time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12.
Stormy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13.
Spanky<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, vcl/g; Charles Kynard, pno/org; Tracy
Wright, bs; Billy Moore, dms/perc. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. 1969</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14.
Days of wine and roses<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15.
Johnny goes to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16.
Mellow in blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17.
My Cherie amour<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18.
Sieda<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19.
Sweet september<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20.
Trippin'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, g; band. Houston, Tx. 1972<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21.
Revolution rap I & II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cal Green, vcl/g; Sammy D., t-sax; William Clarke,
hca; Chuck Rowan, pno/org; Mike Saucier, bs; Roscoe Riley, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. march 1988</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22.
What makes your pretty head so hard?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23.
You don't know how it feels<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24.
Big leg woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25.
Greasy spoon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26.
White pearl<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27.
24 hours a day<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28.
Back where it used to be<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29.
Just want to make love to you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30.
Mister silk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-22994670125518592692024-02-15T10:48:00.003+01:002024-02-15T10:48:58.427+01:00ROY MILTON/ The Later Years (1956-69)<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ROY
MILTON/ The Later Years (1956-69)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjfMEEkUVr2AWdkosaKzdvieF4c1THIhw-WVB5XJq6Og2imL6mcUtHdRnhpKKKSm82kR6VDzqzA8nCVkQ7VvsE40ahk2nZi6CopFqTMYm5Ms0sn4VMAYLo4uaewcJGU2s1wNi134tYDROe1TyBWdu5agq4axdU-C8ffM1SRXbTI0l6amK0sh4Qv-qv-n1J/s1500/MILTONRoy%20couv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjfMEEkUVr2AWdkosaKzdvieF4c1THIhw-WVB5XJq6Og2imL6mcUtHdRnhpKKKSm82kR6VDzqzA8nCVkQ7VvsE40ahk2nZi6CopFqTMYm5Ms0sn4VMAYLo4uaewcJGU2s1wNi134tYDROe1TyBWdu5agq4axdU-C8ffM1SRXbTI0l6amK0sh4Qv-qv-n1J/w400-h400/MILTONRoy%20couv.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Between 1945 and 1953, Roy Milton
and his band were extremely popular among the afro-American public. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R.M. Blues</i>, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Milton</i></st1:place></st1:city><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'s boogie</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rainy day</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best wishes</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Confession blues</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Them there eyes</i> made it to the top of the
national charts. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R.M. Blues</i> was even
number one on the West Coast for almost all 1946.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Born <st1:city w:st="on">Roy</st1:city>
Bunny <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:city> in
Wynnewood, Ok. on 31<sup>st</sup> July <st1:metricconverter productid="1907 in" w:st="on">1907 in</st1:metricconverter> a wealthy family with native American
grandparents, he moved to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tulsa</st1:place></st1:city>
and was strongly influenced by the pre-swing bands of the era. He joined Ernie
Fields band as a drummer and singer during the 1920's. After moving permanently
to <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city> in 1933, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Roy</st1:place></st1:city> formed his own band, the Solid Senders
which gathered some of the most brilliant musicians of the West Coast like the
pianist Camille Howard. They recorded <st1:city w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Milton</i></st1:city><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'s boogie</i>
on the Miltone label (owned by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Roy</st1:place></st1:city>
of course) but he get a big break in 1945 with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R.M. Blues</i> that led him to a contract with Art Rupe's Specialty
label. He then recorded prolifically for Specialty, touring from coast to coast
with some of the best bands of the era. A witty composer, a dynamic singer, and
a driving showman Roy and his band became one of the favorite R&B band of
the late 1940's, contributing greatly to define the genre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But after 1953, R&B became less
and less in favor among the African American public and although <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:city> was certainly one
of the Rock n'Roll forerunner he, unlike Big Joe Turner, never was recognized
as such and didn't enjoy the interest of the younger generation, least of all
the European blues buffs. After 1955, he struggled to live with his music,
recording only sporadically during the 1960's. He enjoyed a kind of recognition
when his old friend Johnny Otis took him with his band at the Monterrey Jazz
Festival and recorded him a whole LP in 1969. <st1:city w:st="on">Milton</st1:city>
would tour <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> during the 1970's, recording
an excellent album for Black & Blue. I had the chance to see him during his
1977 tour of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and he was still a great entertainer leading a wonderful band with, among
others, Roy Gaines and Billy Butler.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on">Roy</st1:city>
died in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>
on 16th September 1983.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His early and Specialty works are
largely reissued, particularly on the Ace label but his later recordings (1956-69)
are much more difficult to get although they are still very good with great
musicianship all over. We have thus tried to gather most of them minus two
tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRk9p2H_0B6p7KgAqYImsHWwSistTlFaOi6xPSZM79MLPyL90GI1wiYBFV5L9zLSGWZbLuXN6dn2PzDoO5sPqXsr51SFS1iHCvcKTnYGAV8QqXZi893OT9hx0cQsTB8KL-bPrLNg5ADbFOvVVJgzBJ6lLtw-KpUz33hMcp6rqZqYiMFzjb3BCGfAPU-Phl/s1000/MILTONROY%20&%20band2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRk9p2H_0B6p7KgAqYImsHWwSistTlFaOi6xPSZM79MLPyL90GI1wiYBFV5L9zLSGWZbLuXN6dn2PzDoO5sPqXsr51SFS1iHCvcKTnYGAV8QqXZi893OT9hx0cQsTB8KL-bPrLNg5ADbFOvVVJgzBJ6lLtw-KpUz33hMcp6rqZqYiMFzjb3BCGfAPU-Phl/s320/MILTONROY%20&%20band2.jpg" width="265" /></a></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; Walter Williams, tpt; Harvey Braxton, a-sax; Clifford Salomon,
t-sax; Oscar estelle, b-sax; Emmanuel Kennebrew, pno; Johnny Rogers, g; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:city></st1:place> Kato, bs. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:city></st1:place>, Oh. 17 october
1956<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">01. You're gonna suffer </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Iñez Coleman)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">02. One zippy zam<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">03. Succotash<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; Walter Williams, tpt; Harvey Braxton, a-sax; Clifford Salomon,
t-sax; Oscar estelle, b-sax; Emmanuel Kennebrew, pno; Johnny Rogers, g; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:city></st1:place> Kato, bs. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 27 february
1957</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">04. I'm grateful<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">05. Skid row (King)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; Walter Williams, tpt; Harvey Braxton, a-sax; Clifford Salomon,
t-sax; Oscar estelle, b-sax; Emmanuel Kennebrew, pno; Johnny Rogers, g; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:city></st1:place> Kato, bs. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:city></st1:place>, Oh. 2 july
1957</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">06. Rocking pneumonia and
booge wogie flu<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><st1:metricconverter productid="07. A" w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">07. A</span></b></st1:metricconverter><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> brand new thrill<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">08. R.M. blues 1957<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">09. Jeep's blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city></st1:place>,
16 july 1960</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10. Early in the morning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11. Bless your heart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12. Red light </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Warwick</st1:city></st1:place>)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13. So tired<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14. Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. RM blues 1960<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; Roy Gaines, g; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1961</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16. Come home when you're
thru<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17. Baby you don't know<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18. I wonder<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19. Hop skip jump<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20. I can't go on<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thelma
Lou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
was I to know?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. 1963</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21. Driveway blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">22. I'm forgettin' about
you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; Charles Gillum, tpt; Jackie Kelso, a-sax; James Jackson,
t-sax; Leon Blue, pno; Junior Ryder, g; La La Wilso, bs. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1964</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">23. You could have kissed
me goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">24. Have it your way<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roy
Milton, vcl/dms; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. 1967</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25. Miss you so<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><st1:metricconverter productid="26. A" w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">26. A</span></b></st1:metricconverter><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> true confession<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Roy Milton, vcl; Larry Reed, pno; Shuggie Otis,
g/og/bs; Melvin Moore, tpt; <st1:place w:st="on">Preston</st1:place> Love,
t-sax; Jackie Kelso, a-sax; Johnny Otis, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1969<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27.
Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28.
Hop skip and jump<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29.
I got a big fat mama<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30.
Information blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31.
R.M. blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32.
Red light<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Roy</st1:city></st1:place>’s boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Roy</st1:city></st1:place>’s groove<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35.
So tired<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-71566638709377617332024-01-30T16:52:00.004+01:002024-01-30T16:52:30.373+01:00NEW YORK CITY/ The Blues Yesterday/ Vol. 9<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NEW YORK CITY</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">/ The Blues Yesterday/ Volume 9<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPs7N238rZCFIS7S7YvKE__cqyiClJ2asocpMWBoQbKZwUHT1hxClEZm0gTJhB_ZP5tsq87Apf37p94LsSvZrQKoQmT6j_sy6h6-a1EHNkD_iClck6vtBzdTvzSUD2clCsAR4hTeLO3L_vSepkFzh4n5qRmSLnkBsFAC3IuJVd9oV6fFodj0-c0QH2d3X/s2000/NYCBlYy9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPs7N238rZCFIS7S7YvKE__cqyiClJ2asocpMWBoQbKZwUHT1hxClEZm0gTJhB_ZP5tsq87Apf37p94LsSvZrQKoQmT6j_sy6h6-a1EHNkD_iClck6vtBzdTvzSUD2clCsAR4hTeLO3L_vSepkFzh4n5qRmSLnkBsFAC3IuJVd9oV6fFodj0-c0QH2d3X/w400-h400/NYCBlYy9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Let's
start this <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York City</i></st1:place></st1:city><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">/ The Blues Yesterday Volume 9</i> with the very underrated singer and
guitarist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dickie Thompson</b>. Although
he is mostky known for being the creator of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thirteen
Women</i> which would become a classic R&R tune thanks to an expurgated
Bill Haley's version, Dickie was much more than that. Born in <st1:city w:st="on">Jersey
City</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state> on 13 December 1917,
James Edward Thompson first played ukulele but switched to guitar around 15
years old, largey influenced by some friends and later by Bill Jennings'
records, particularly <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jennings</st1:place></st1:city>'
work behind Bill Doggett. During the 1940's to the 60's, Thompson made himself a
name in New York City as a trustworthy and talented sideman, playing jazz or
R&B with the same efficiency behind Cozy Cole, Lawrence Brown, Sam
Woodward, Wild Bill Davis, Clifford Scott, Harry Edison, Johnny Hodges, Dinah
Washington etc... He also will be the lead guitarist of famed singer Jackie
Wilson and the Jonah Jones Quintett. Thompson managed to make some R&B
records as a leader but the success eluded him and he confessed he was anyway
more at ease as a sideman than in front of a band. But his own records are
mostly very good and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thirteen women</i>
could have been a hit but the lyrics seemed to risqué to the ears of the DJ of
that time and the song was rewritten by (or for) Bill Haley, replacing the
"only man" with thirteen women in a context of an H-Bomb survival!!!
This edulcorated version would be recorded by numerous artists like Ann
Margret, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Dinah</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Shore</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Danny Gatton etc... After a long
career as a musician in <st1:city w:st="on">New York City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOqAcHcZWQZFzPBjTQZxVwmPbLBv7J8URzNSAm1X1yoCCp0VPRJTaG4gUrSzwsCysLnAJtAKgdTqWbC9fIagKsJ4k1Cn0mePJNKHc9L9NjQ6g1qoTDK2xb7YFuBg-3_13j8lGcDMNiad1yXGf78Rjzymgu002k63TRp6HlOs-fgz4SDNVZ-gxTNB-ntgz/s1000/THOMPSONDickie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="930" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOqAcHcZWQZFzPBjTQZxVwmPbLBv7J8URzNSAm1X1yoCCp0VPRJTaG4gUrSzwsCysLnAJtAKgdTqWbC9fIagKsJ4k1Cn0mePJNKHc9L9NjQ6g1qoTDK2xb7YFuBg-3_13j8lGcDMNiad1yXGf78Rjzymgu002k63TRp6HlOs-fgz4SDNVZ-gxTNB-ntgz/s320/THOMPSONDickie.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /></st1:city> and
touring across the nation and overseas, Dickie Thompson retired in the sunny <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tucson</st1:place></st1:city> in 1991, playing
around town quite often and becoming a local legend. He died in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tucson</st1:place></st1:city> on 22 February
2007. I have tried to gather all his recordings but unfortunately some are very
rare. If anyone got them and would share, it would be great!<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
must say I don't know nothing about blues belter <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bob Marshall</b> who recorded 12 fine sides in 1949-50, some as
vocalist of the Cozy Cole's Orchestra. All infos are much needed and welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joey Thomas </b>(Joseph Thomas Jr who not
must confused with band leader Joe Thomas) has fortunatley an entry on the
essential book Blues/ A Regional Experience (by Eric Leblanc and Bob eagle). He
was born in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Muskogee</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ok. on 23 December 1908 and relocated with his saxophonist brother Walter
Thomas in New York City around 1930, recording with Jelly Roll Morton and a few
tracks under his name. But he mostly made a career as an A&R man for Decca
and RCA. Joey Thomas died in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>
on 15 April 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That's
all folks (from the time being)!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">DICKIE THOMPSON</span></u></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">, vcl/g; Ted Bannon, pno; John Hardee, t-sax; Frank Skeete, bs; Gene
Groves, dms. august 1946</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">01. Hand in hand blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">02. Tailor made girl<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">03. Swing song<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">04. Stardust<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Dickie Thompson, vcl/g; Teddy
Brannon, pno; Gene Groves, bs. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York City</st1:place></st1:city>, september 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">05. Gambler's blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Dickie Thompson, vcl/g; Teddy
Brannon, pno; Ray Abrams, t-sax; Aaron Bell, bs; Denzil Best, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Linden</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state></st1:place>.
october 1949</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">06. Don Newcomb really throws the ball</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">07. Everybody gets together<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dickie Thompson, vcl/g; Taft
Jordan, tpt; Tyree Glenn, tb; Buddy Tate, t-sax; Cecil Payne, b-sax; Joe Black,
pno; Aaron Bell, bs; Jimmy Crawford, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 21 september 1951<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">08. What's the reason?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">09. Whiskey and gin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dickie Thompson, vcl/g; Taft Jordan, tpt; Tyree Glenn, tb; Buddy Tate,
t-sax; Cecil Payne, b-sax; Joe Black, pno; Aaron Bell, bs; Jimmy Crawford, dms.
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
22 avril 1952</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you got some place to go<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If I can't wear the pants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dickie
Thompson, vcl/g; Zilla Mays, vcl; George Kelly, tpt; Grady Fats <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:city>, t-sax; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ga.</st1:state></st1:place>
1953<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">10. On the other side<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dickie
Thompson, vcl/g; Mickey Baker, g; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 1954</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11.
Thirteen women and one man<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12.
I'm innocent<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Jockin'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If I hadn't been drunk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dickie
Thompson, g; George Kelly, t-sax; Earl Knight, pno; Barney Richmond, bs; Chink
Hines, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
1959</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13.
Real zan-zee I & II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">BOB MARSHALL</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, vcl; Joe Wilder, tpt; Big Nick Nicholas, t-sax; Cecil Payne, b-sax;
June cole, pno; Billy Taylor Sr, bs; Cozy Cole, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 2 march 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">14. Red light<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15. Milk cow blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">16. Until I fell for you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The huckle buck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Bob Marshall</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, vcl; Shad Collins, tpt; Tony
Faso, tpt; Mort Bullman, tb; Henderson Chambers, tb; Eddie Brown, t-sax; Sid
Cooper, t-sax; Budd Johnson, t-sax; Art Drellinger, t-sax; Dave Mc Rae, b-sax;
Billy Kyle, pno; Earl Barker, g; Bill Pemberton, bs; Bob Rosengarden, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 13 may
1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">17. Nine o'clock gal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">18. That's the gal for me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bob Marshall, vcl; Ray Parker,
pno; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
january 1950<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">19. Call me darling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">20. Just one more time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">21. It's a great great pleasure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">22. I'm going to live for today<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bob Marshall, vcl; Eddie Wilcox,
pno; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
may 1950</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">23. I shouldn't love you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">24. Are you lonesome tonight?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">JOEY THOMAS</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, vcl/ldr; Frank Galbraith, tpt; Dickie Wells, tb; Walter Thomas, a-sax;
Harry Johnson, t-sax; Andy Brown, b-sax; Bill Doggett, pno; Abie Baker, bs;
Jimmy Crawford, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
28 march 1951<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">25. Bad luck child </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(vcl: Freddie Jackson)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">26. Sarah Kelly from Plumbnelly </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(vcl: Charlie Singleton)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">27. There ain't enough room here to boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Investigation blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Joey Thomas, vcl/ldr; Johnny
Letman, tpt; Alton Moore, tb; Walter Thomas, a-sax; Skippy Williams, t-sax;
Pinky Williams, b-sax; Howard Biggs, pno; Everett Barksdale, g; Abie Baker, bs;
Herman Bradley, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
6 august 1951</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">28. Cherokee boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">29. Hobo boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-89243721177326094252023-12-20T12:07:00.003+01:002023-12-24T11:45:49.703+01:00ROBERT Jr LOCKWOOD<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14pt;">ROBERT
Jr LOCKWOOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Complete Recordings 1941-81</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Wide Latin";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWmS-tDSAHQ0GybQJYfYeRwd1GoUKmvFJXjflpjA1phGePSKMKmPPK9zp7LOB95whGu-xTSujPFgHXgMBIi5PRgNhbtaIuJXHAyL-_rW1wNF1SuNh1Fq1IWuR7xN5ZEKsuS1dEXXKrotGTuZK8DYOleKDHJD32vKuK4gk4Lu64gl4DcQU1YHQo5w_F2hI2/s2000/Lockwood%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWmS-tDSAHQ0GybQJYfYeRwd1GoUKmvFJXjflpjA1phGePSKMKmPPK9zp7LOB95whGu-xTSujPFgHXgMBIi5PRgNhbtaIuJXHAyL-_rW1wNF1SuNh1Fq1IWuR7xN5ZEKsuS1dEXXKrotGTuZK8DYOleKDHJD32vKuK4gk4Lu64gl4DcQU1YHQo5w_F2hI2/w400-h400/Lockwood%20cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Avec la
"RobertJohnsonmania" qui a déferlé à partir de 1990, on aurait pu
croire que Robert Jr Lockwood, le dernier héritier direct de Johnson, eut été
interviewé en détail et largement enregistré. Il n'en a rien été. La presse
musicale du monde entier a surtout demandé à Keith Richards et Eric Clapton,
qui avaient plus entendu Ted Heath et Tommy Steele dans leur enfance, de
témoigner sur Robert Johnson!<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Il est
vrai que l'homme, sous une apparence placide, n'est pas toujours très facile.
Et lors de l'interview qu'il m'avait donnée en 1980, je me souviens de sa
colère froide et de son hostilité à partir du moment où j'avais un peu trop
mentionné le nom de Robert Johnson! Robert
Jr nait le 27 mars 1915 à Turkey Scratch dans l'Arkansas, un campement cherokee
à quelques miles de la petite bourgade de Marvell. Son père, Robert Lockwood
est un agriculteur noir marié à une pure indienne, Ella Reese. Le grand'père de
Robert Jr était un authentique chef indien. Le bluesman a toujours insisté,
avec une pointe d'agacement, pour que son nom soit "Robert Lockwood
Jr", "le fils de mon père" et non Robert Jr Lockwood, ce qui est
la norme et qui le renvoie à une filiation imaginaire avec Robert Johnson. Le
ménage ne s'entend pas très bien et Mrs Lockwood gagne Memphis avec son fils en
1920. Il traine avec sa mère de ville en ville, jusqu'à Saint Louis avant que
celle-ci ne le ramène à Marvell et le confie à son frère, Emmett Reese. Elle le
reprend ensuite avec elle et ils s'installent chez un autre de ses oncles
maternels à Helena, dans l'Arkansas, alors une des rares bourgades actives de
cet Etat, un des plus pauvres des USA. C'est, semble-t-il, à ce moment-là (vers
1925-26) que Robert Jr apprend le piano grâce à ce parent passionné de musique.
Le jeune Lockwood passe aussi beaucoup de temps à écouter la vaste collection
de disques de son oncle. Il avoue adorer alors King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton,
Blind Blake et accompagne leurs disques sur le piano de l'oncle. Les années
suivantes, il découvrira les disques de Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson. Un
goût pour le jazz qui ne quittera jamais Robert Jr Lockwood.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>La mère
de Robert Jr semble traîner entre Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri et Mississippi,
subsistant de divers travaux domestiques. C'est ainsi que dans les années 30,
elle est courtisée par Robert Johnson dont elle "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ne peut se débarrasser</i>". Finalement, comme Robert Jr le
relate, Johnson s'installe chez Mme Lockwood-Reese: "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robert Johnson allait et venait, partait des semaines ou bien des mois
entiers, mais revenait toujours chez ma mère. Il y avait posé ses affaires,
laissé quelques guitares. Mais je pense qu'il était lui aussi d'origine
indienne, un Pied-Noir ou un Cree, et qu'avec ma mère, ils se comprenaient
parfaitement"</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D'après
Lockwood, Robert Johnson, peu partageux d'habitude, se prend d'affection pour
le fils de sa maîtresse, à peine plus jeune que lui! Comme il voit son intérêt
pour la musique, il lui fabrique une guitare avec des bois de récupération et
lui apprend à en jouer. L'élève s'exerce lorsque Johnson est absent. A chacun
de ses retours, le bluesman constate les progrès de son protégé. Il n'est guère
étonnant, si tout cela est authentique, que Robert Jr joue d'abord de la
guitare dans un style extrêmement proche de Johnson avec un répertoire similaire.
Lockwood insiste dans ses interviews sur le fait que presque tous les premiers
titres qu'il a enregistrés étaient régulièrement joués par Robert Johnson.
Bientôt, sans doute vers 1934-35, le jeune Lockwood suit Johnson dans certaines
de ses pérégrinations à travers le Sud. Via Johnson, il se lie d'amitié avec
Johnny Shines, son cousin Calvin Frazier et Rice Miller, le futur Sonny Boy
Williamson n° 2. En 1936, Miller, un autre trimardeur-né, qui souhaite se faire
accompagner par un guitariste qui saurait jouer à la façon de Robert Johnson,
embauche Lockwood. Ils sautent ensemble de train en train, passent de Helena à
Saint Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham... Cette vie de musicien itinérant
est difficile - ils finissent à plusieurs reprises en prison - mais riche de
rencontres marquantes. Lockwood cite Hacksaw Harney ("<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">certainement le meilleur guitariste de son époque</i>"), un
musicien fortement marqué par le ragtime mais qui n'a a que peu enregistré;
Little Walter Jacobs, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">déjà un
excellent harmoniciste</i>"; Robert Nighthawk, Charley Jordan et surtout
Eddie Durham que Lockwood va voir en concert à Memphis vers <st1:metricconverter productid="1939. C" w:st="on">1939. C</st1:metricconverter>'est sous
l'influence du guitariste de jazz que Robert Jr adopte la guitare électrique.
Il se passionne aussi à ce moment-là pour le jeu de Charlie Christian dont il
reste encore aujourd'hui un fervent admirateur.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> En 1940,
Lockwood tente sa chance à Chicago. <span lang="EN-US">Il joue avec John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Dr Clayton, Big
Bill Broonzy. </span>C'est semble-t-il grâce à Big Bill que Robert Jr
enregistre pour Lester Melrose, gravant quatre magnifiques titres pour Bluebird
en 1941 (<i>"Take a little walk with
me", "Little Boy Blue", "Black spider blues"</i> et <i>"I'm gonna train my baby"</i>)
dans un style très proche de celui de son mentor, Robert Johnson. Mais Melrose
s'aperçoit vite que Lockwood est bien davantage qu'un bluesman soliste. Il se
retrouve ainsi dans les studios pour de nombreuses séances d'enregistrement
derrière Dr Clayton, Saint Louis Jimmy, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes..., le
début d'une très longue carrière de sideman.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Lockwood
avouera toujours n'avoir jamais aimé la vie trépidante de Chicago. A l'instar
de nombreux musiciens sudistes, il fait de constants allers-retours entre
l'Arkansas (où vit encore sa famille maternelle) et la grande métropole des
bords du Lac Michigan. Dans les années 40, Lockwood retrouve Sonny Boy
Williamson/Rice Miller à Helena et participe activement au programme
radiophonique de blues sponsorisé par Interstate Grocery, le King Biscuit Time
en compagnie de Joe Willie Wilkins, James "Peck" Curtis, Dudlow
Taylor, Houston Stackhouse. Mais, là comme souvent ailleurs, et sans doute avec
de nombreuses raisons, Lockwood s'estime insuffisamment payé par Max Moore, le
producteur radiophonique du programme, et il quitte définitivement le King
Biscuit Time. Lockwood
réalise alors son ambition de devenir un musicien de jazz. Il devient le
guitariste des Three Starkey Brothers (piano, deux cuivres, basse et batterie
plus sa guitare) qui animent une émission régulière sponsorisée par une marque
de farine, Mother's Best Flour. Cela
n'empêche pas Lockwood de retrouver Sonny Boy, mais cette fois sur KXLR à
Little Rock. On le signale à Memphis où il joue un instant avec Howlin' Wolf,
rencontre B.B. King, rejoint un nouvel orchestre de jazz, celui de Bill
Johnson.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cJT_RtYT4xMKoS-xuBiVABZrTGliQpc-xt6zc2roQh-D3HHvlh2ws6c1I4fX_HI5jLxGqijkkU01QNdK56K50DdNUDzs_MYJ-djl31RpIi75zQChg-n92BzJE7lvvR9dZXlhrO17-KxdoiJAgFixpiZ8dRDVCjkAyzUHMgO7O6TcHyAXEKpzrXUs5PtE/s1222/LOCKWOOD03.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1222" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cJT_RtYT4xMKoS-xuBiVABZrTGliQpc-xt6zc2roQh-D3HHvlh2ws6c1I4fX_HI5jLxGqijkkU01QNdK56K50DdNUDzs_MYJ-djl31RpIi75zQChg-n92BzJE7lvvR9dZXlhrO17-KxdoiJAgFixpiZ8dRDVCjkAyzUHMgO7O6TcHyAXEKpzrXUs5PtE/s320/LOCKWOOD03.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Après
1950, Lockwood, fatigué de sa vie itinérante, s'installe à Chicago pour de bon.
Durant les dix années suivantes, il va entièrement vivre de sa musique, essentiellement
en accompagnant d'autres musiciens, en studio (pour Chess, Mercury, JOB...) et
en faisant partie des orchestres de Little Walter, Eddie Boyd, Shakey Jake,
George Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson et, semble-t-il aussi, de Muddy Waters.
Assez curieusement, est-ce dû à son tempérament à la fois reservé et quelque
peu ombrageux ou bien son goût pour le jazz alors qu'il est davantage catalogué
comme "blues"?, Lockwood n'enregistre que très peu sous son nom: en
1951, deux titres pour Mercury et deux autres pour JOB, en 1955 deux autres
titres pour le même label. Et c'est tout! Ce n'est qu'en 1960 qu'il fait
quelques apparitions inattendues en chanteur-leader sur des microsillons de
Sunnyland Slim et Otis Spann, destinés au public du Blues Revival. A cette
époque, le blues ne marche plus guère auprès des Noirs et les studios
délaissent les talents de Robert Jr Lockwood. En 1960, il quitte Chicago et
s'installe à Cleveland. Il rencontre la même année Annie qui devient son
épouse. Il forme un quatuor avec, une fois encore, Sonny Boy Williamson, venu
le rejoindre. Mais Sonny Boy saisit l'opportunité européenne que Lockwood
refuse. Il rejette l'offre de participer à l'American Folk Blues Festival
("<i>On me proposait un salaire de
misère"</i>) et reforme un orchestre entre blues et jazz en compagnie de
Gene Schwartz, une formation avec laquelle il jouera régulièrement durant les
trente années suivantes. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGlRPMGMnnHe02luguL1fG8SQlSN0DgxgEHXHJB1218O1EcykSOwOpis8kQP6qVrkCa_TOeELW5jBfwUh0Uc_GGclyD2F1vbAtVywJNqFVkkCyWMTuiDTp-uuB7IoYU1Ph2w3amoCF4froLbQcq8k-fEDoaMK7e7zR7WAzem-FJxbx7zncM0J1PJwH0xK/s1000/LOCKWOOD02.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGlRPMGMnnHe02luguL1fG8SQlSN0DgxgEHXHJB1218O1EcykSOwOpis8kQP6qVrkCa_TOeELW5jBfwUh0Uc_GGclyD2F1vbAtVywJNqFVkkCyWMTuiDTp-uuB7IoYU1Ph2w3amoCF4froLbQcq8k-fEDoaMK7e7zR7WAzem-FJxbx7zncM0J1PJwH0xK/s320/LOCKWOOD02.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br /> Cleveland
n'est guère connu pour ses activités bluesistiques, peu de visiteurs viennennt
y humer le climat musical. Lockwood y vit largement dans l'ombre, à l'écart des
courants d'intérêt pour le blues. Il apprécie aussi la vie familiale et
sédentaire, éludant plusieurs propositions de disque et de tournées. Il faut
tout le talent persuasif de Bob Koester pour qu'il enregistre en 1970 son
premier album,<i> </i><u><i>"Steady rollin' man"</i> </u> en
compagnie des frères Myers. Un bon album, solide, de Chicago blues mais dans
lequel, à quelques exceptions près, Lockwood joue surtout au "meilleur disciple"
de Robert Johnson. En <st1:metricconverter productid="1973, l" w:st="on">1973,
l</st1:metricconverter>'audacieux producteur Pete Lowry produit <u><i>"Contrasts"</i></u>. Lockwood y démontre toutes les facettes de son vaste
talent: blues à la Robert Johnson, pièces de R & B, instrumentaux de
jazz... Il s'agit, à mon avis, du meilleur album de Lockwood. Deux ans plus
tard, Lowry récidive avec un autre grand album, <u><i>"Does 12"</i></u> dans lequel Lockwood joue uniquement de la guitare à douze cordes,
mais là encore dans tous les styles dont il est capable. Ce disque comprend des
versions lumineuses de <i>Walking blues</i> et de <i>Terraplane
blues</i> plus des instrumentaux comme <i>Red Top</i>. A cette époque, Lockwood
tourne au Japon ainsi qu'en Europe. C'est à cette
occasion qu'il gravera en 1982 un bon album en solo, une fois de plus largement dans le
moule de Johnson: <u><i>"Robert Lockwood plays Robert and Robert"</i> </u><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>En
1980-81, Lockwood et son vieil ami Johnny Shines décident de réunir leurs
talents et se produisent ensemble, jouant d'abord en solo chacun, puis ensemble
d'exquis duos où ils s'accompagnent et se répondent à la croche près. En
deuxième partie, on retrouve les deux grands bluesmen à la tête d'une formation
orchestrale comportant deux cuivres et une section rythmique. Le spectacle, que
j'ai eu la grande chance de pouvoir alors apprécier aux Etats Unis était
remarquable: deux vieux compagnons de route aux racines communes et aux idées
différentes mais complémentaires réunis sur une même scène avec un formidable
feeling et une réélle amitié. Malheureusement, alors que ce show devait tourner
en Europe, Johnny Shines était frappé d'une crise d'hémiplégie dont il ne se
remettra pas vraiment. Cette association Lockwood-Shines a enregistré deux
albums, l'un remarquable (<u><i>Hangin' on</i>)</u>,
l'autre hélas marquée par un Shines diminué qui se cantonne dans un rôle
secondaire:<i> <u>"Mister Blues is here to stay"</u></i>.
Mais Lockwood y est excellent dans un répertoire jazz et Rhythm & Blues.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Robert
Jr Lockwood a passé les quinze dernières années à Cleveland, presque oublié de
tous. A l'exception d'une interview dans "Living Blues", sa parole a
été totalement absente de la vague d'idolatrie pour son professeur Robert
Johnson dont, quoi qu'il en ait, il demeure le seul véritable héritier. J'avais
contacté une grande revue musicale qui venait de réaliser la ennième interview
de John Lee Hooker en envoyant un correspondant jusqu'en Californie afin qu'ils
fassent la même chose avec Lockwood. Mais le vieux maître, il est vrai
taciturne et peu médiatique, n'intéressait personne! Et, malgré une courte
association avec Ronnie Earl dans les 90's, il dut auto-produire son seul
disque de cette période, "What's the score" sur son propre label
"Lockwood"! </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Robert
Jr Lockwood est décédé à Cleveland le 21 novembre 2006</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nous
avons réuni ici la totalité des enregistrements que ce grand bluesman a
effectués entre 1941 et <st1:metricconverter productid="1981. A" w:st="on">1981.
A</st1:metricconverter> l'exception de l'album live in Japan.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh2s7Qu9sEDGRa8IlbC_aUS-RykGLIPaM0787aeJLzGZEwyl5-Ywo9lnj7TSlry3iBxq0BNnnE3eV-ZsHzneCPfAhtT0Ras3xTgtL8hJfvFt43WHNB5hdL2a7EcRV9waA83GY4Gab1Xi4XbSGbJSa-zxOpd8b4RpSACjJotN5Lc9-5NLy4A6c5usUQQVZ/s1122/Lockwood%20disco_001.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1122" data-original-width="793" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh2s7Qu9sEDGRa8IlbC_aUS-RykGLIPaM0787aeJLzGZEwyl5-Ywo9lnj7TSlry3iBxq0BNnnE3eV-ZsHzneCPfAhtT0Ras3xTgtL8hJfvFt43WHNB5hdL2a7EcRV9waA83GY4Gab1Xi4XbSGbJSa-zxOpd8b4RpSACjJotN5Lc9-5NLy4A6c5usUQQVZ/w452-h640/Lockwood%20disco_001.jpg" width="452" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65vK8KdVpY8oh39PCr-uujIokxtJDrELjuMyV5-HKtr1lEPNYl-iTdGkihano10L7Vwxpb9xoSh9BlNNsdfq-A9fByNP5gAdtaCwzt4BqXPo0nesEQMCnX0IMC_4-_0CWiiM7EMeWquF9vUWgZqPC9a-NeN1MV3MIZ40lVXcM6vPJWU0X4QD9WabJpzDg/s1122/Lockwood%20disco_002.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1122" data-original-width="793" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65vK8KdVpY8oh39PCr-uujIokxtJDrELjuMyV5-HKtr1lEPNYl-iTdGkihano10L7Vwxpb9xoSh9BlNNsdfq-A9fByNP5gAdtaCwzt4BqXPo0nesEQMCnX0IMC_4-_0CWiiM7EMeWquF9vUWgZqPC9a-NeN1MV3MIZ40lVXcM6vPJWU0X4QD9WabJpzDg/w452-h640/Lockwood%20disco_002.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>SOURCES</u><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Interview de Robert
Lockwood avec l'auteur partiellement éditée dans "L'héritage de Robert
Johnson, un bluesman très influent" (Revue d'Ethnomusicologie XIV, 2:
"Apprentissage direct et dérivé chez les bardes itinérants").<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Divers numéros de Soul Bag, Blues Unlimited,
Blues Access, Living Blues.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LEADBITTER (Mike),Ed.- Nothing but the blues.- </span></i><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ha</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">nover</span></i></st1:place></st1:state><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Books, Londres, 1971<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ROWE (Mike).- <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>
Breakdown.- Da Capo; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>,
1981.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-67279636876527381132023-12-13T10:49:00.004+01:002023-12-13T10:51:43.928+01:00SMOKY BABE/ Complete Recordings<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 style="text-align: left;"> <b style="color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt;">SMOKY BABE/ Complete Recordings</span></b></h1></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff8f4; clear: both; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJbrFXjDZ6w/XDyAAjL-ieI/AAAAAAAAEUQ/RHJbi1Qb-HgYBh9p7fajjRxNaG-gLiMJACLcBGAs/s1600/Smoky%2BBabe%2Bcover.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJbrFXjDZ6w/XDyAAjL-ieI/AAAAAAAAEUQ/RHJbi1Qb-HgYBh9p7fajjRxNaG-gLiMJACLcBGAs/s400/Smoky%2BBabe%2Bcover.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Born Robert Brown on July, 31st 1927 in Itta Bena (Ms), Smoky Babe has been one of the very best discovery from the Blues Revival era. A sharecropper helping his family at an early age and during years around Itta Bena, Smoky Babe has taken the guitar and the blues under the strong influence of Robert Petway and Tommy McClennan, seeing them performing and listening to their records. He developed the same rhythmic guitar style, full of a furious energy, the similar passionate singing and, if one adds a great ability to compose autobiographic blues and to make every standard his own, you sure have with him a major bluesman!<o:p></o:p></span><br style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> During the late 1940's and maybe at his mother's death, Smoky Babe leaves the miserable sharecropping to work in a factory in Alabama, then in New Orleans where he works as a longshoreman while playing sometimes in local clubs. Around 1953, he marries and the couple settles in Baton Rouge, buying a little farm and finding a good job as a car mechanic in a garage. He anyway plays here and there, mostly at friends' parties. It's like that and only by chance that Harry Oster discovers him in February 1960 during a party at Robert Pete Williams' house (his neighbor) where there are other Robert Pete's neighbors, Lazy Lester, Clyde Causey or William and Sally Dotson! Oster is stunned by Smoky's talents and then records him substantially during the following days. Those wonderful records when issued on several albums and anthologies stir interest in the then small coterie of blues buffs in the USA and Europe. But Smoky, quite suspicious, would turn down any offer to appear at colleges or festivals during the early 1960's, liking better to catch his steady work at his garage and his farm than trying his chance on a musical career.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> He is reported to have died in Scottlandville around May 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> We have gathered here all his known recordings in chronological order. That still leaves at least 20 unissued tracks that are probably by now at the Smithsonian and that we certainly would be eager to be able to listen to!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: purple; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "columbus db";">SMOKY BABE</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "columbus db";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: purple; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "columbus db";">Complete Recordings</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "columbus db";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">(Robert Brown)<b>, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La, 6 february 1960<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">01. Shake, shake Mattie<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La, 10 february 1960</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">02. Long way from home<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">03. I’m goin’ back to Mississippi<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">04. I'm goin' away<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Sally Dotson, vcl. Scotlandville, La. 25 february 1960</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">05. Rabbit blues n°1</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">06. Rabbit blues n°2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">07. Ghost blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g; William Dotson, vcls. Scotlandville, 25 february 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">08. Two wings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La, 27 february 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">09. Bad luck and trouble<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">10. Now your man done gone<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">11. I’m broke and I’m hungry<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">12. Bad whiskey<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">13. Going back home<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">14. Goin' home blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">15. Melvanie blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">16. Ocean blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">17. Boogie woogie rag<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Lazy Lester, hca. Scotlandville, La. 27 february 1960</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">18. Mississippi River<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">19. Too many women n°1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">20. Too many women n°2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">21. My baby she told me<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">22. My baby put me down<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Clyde Causey, hca. Scotlandville, La. 27 february 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">23. Ain’t got no rabbit dog<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">24. Black gal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">25. Locomotive blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, g. Scotlandville, La. 6 march 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">26. Boogy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">27. Boogie gal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">28. If I had listened what my mama say<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">29. I'm goin' home on the morning train<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Sally Dotson, vcls; Hilary Blunt, g. Scotlandville, La. 14 april 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">30. Your dice won’t pass<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">31. Black ghost<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 3 november 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">32. Talkin' baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">33. Backyard boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Sally Dotson, vcls on *; Lazy Lester, hca. Scotlandville, La. 10 february 1961</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">34. Chicago bound<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">35. Somethin’ wrong with my machine*<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 27 march 1961</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">36. Insect blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">37. Boss man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">38. Way back in the country blues</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "rockwell condensed";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 1 april 1961<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">39. I went down 61 Highway<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">40. Hottest brand goin’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">41. Regular blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">42. Arkansas blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">43. What's wrong with you<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">44. Working on Mr Walter's farm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 14 june 1961<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">45. Cold, cold snow<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">46. Diggin' my potatoes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">47. I'm wild about you black gal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: garamond;">Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Vance, Ms, 11 august 1961</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">48. Terraplane blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="background-color: #f0e9e1; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Going Downtown Boogie (14-4-60) on Country Negro Jam for Arhoolie CD372</span><br style="background-color: #f0e9e1; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f0e9e1; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Cotton Field Blues (10-08-61) on the same Arhoolie CD372 (Thanks to Adrian Florès)</span></i></span></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-49248075885036932032023-11-30T11:49:00.003+01:002023-11-30T11:49:50.100+01:00CHUCK HIGGINS 1951-64<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CHUCK HIGGINS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8Jk2SCy4Dcif54ydyQKYCZbSqOpyxaw9cm6sak6ffkYYXFBnn0SI8z9ACCFtE0pfkza-fRD1DmSz9oHnbuw6OGU39nU8jfdRy0FQeW67EyRy6tHfqUKYAFXy_5bjUD8vYIf3dQJDr6FSLh7-j_9-g2PlhNhrTKEJOesNgvOEVz2Hs0xjD_nnAfv50Yxq/s1500/Chuck%20Higgins%20couv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8Jk2SCy4Dcif54ydyQKYCZbSqOpyxaw9cm6sak6ffkYYXFBnn0SI8z9ACCFtE0pfkza-fRD1DmSz9oHnbuw6OGU39nU8jfdRy0FQeW67EyRy6tHfqUKYAFXy_5bjUD8vYIf3dQJDr6FSLh7-j_9-g2PlhNhrTKEJOesNgvOEVz2Hs0xjD_nnAfv50Yxq/w400-h400/Chuck%20Higgins%20couv.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Charles
William (Chuck) Higgins, saxophonist, singer, showman, bandleader, and
somewhere a Rock'n'roll pioneer was born 17<sup>th</sup> April <st1:metricconverter productid="1924 in" w:st="on">1924 in</st1:metricconverter> Gary Indiana,
learning trumpet and saxophone at an early age. He was already a proficient
musician when he moved to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>
around 1940. The young Higgins then attended the Music Conservatory and formed
a band with Fred Dunn on piano and a very young guitar player Johnny Watson
(!). In December 1951, Chuck recorded his first session for the Combo label,
waxing the classic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pachuco hop</i>, about
the Mexican migrants that were coming to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>.
This first success led to many sessions by Higgins during the subsequent years
and in fact, as a leader or an accompanist, Chuck was constantly roaming the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">L.A.</st1:place></st1:city> recording studios
until 1957.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
the kind of no-nonsense hard-driving honkin' sax instrumentals delivered by
people like Higgins weren't favoured anymore by the R&B buying public and
Chuck didn't get to the studios until 1962 for a modest session and in 1964
with a band that featured future Canned Heat guitarist Henry Vestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unable
to get enough gigs, Chuck had to make a living teaching music in various
schools. But he anyway managed to record two LP's during the 1970's that led to
his "re-discovery" by European and Japanese blues ad R&B fans,
bringing him to tour overseas and recording again several albums.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chuck
Higgins died of lung cancer in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:city> on 14<sup>th</sup> September 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Recently,
the excellent Jasmine label has issued a <a href="https://jasmine-records.co.uk/en/rb/3595-chuck-higgins-come-on-and-blow-your-horn-selected-singles-1953-1957.html">CD of 30 tracks</a> by</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQx_DWJ1xXYBrLbIn1llOmZTe5QnJT68Q8d1rA3ho0h8qg-wLHuWKhQNI32LLBd6xhOAiZK_lX9FkfOk1Z9_u18pdYYsFvQAWhC4sA-zVvL2UbovOOMi3-orsq1fwGvNY8zqfhKedmkkivXx6NdD6Cs03zzqHUK1RtMdt_kQxDFBMRWDnJ9VN-jHqMimC6/s1000/Chuck%20Higgins%20Jasmine%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQx_DWJ1xXYBrLbIn1llOmZTe5QnJT68Q8d1rA3ho0h8qg-wLHuWKhQNI32LLBd6xhOAiZK_lX9FkfOk1Z9_u18pdYYsFvQAWhC4sA-zVvL2UbovOOMi3-orsq1fwGvNY8zqfhKedmkkivXx6NdD6Cs03zzqHUK1RtMdt_kQxDFBMRWDnJ9VN-jHqMimC6/w263-h263/Chuck%20Higgins%20Jasmine%202.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /> Higgins. Here are
all the other titles (minus one) this great saxophonist has recorded.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Gérard
HERZHAFT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Charles William
Higgins)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, t-sax; Johnny
"Guitar" Watson, vcl/g; Joe Ursery, bs; Eli Tooney, dm. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. december
1951<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">01. Pachuko hop I &
II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">02. Motor head baby </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Johnny Watson)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">03. Love my baby </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Johnny Watson)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">04. Ain't gonna leave
baby </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Joe Ursery)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, t-sax; Fred Higgins, vcl; Johnny Watson, pno; Joe Ursery, bs; Willie
Jones, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. 5 february 1952<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">05. Cotton picker </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Fred Higgins)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">06. Iron pipe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, t-sax; Johnny Watson, pno; Jason Higgins Jr, bs; Joe Ursery, bs;
Willie Jones, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. march 1952<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">07. Blues n'Mambo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">08. Stormy </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Johnny Watson)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">09. Real gone hound dog </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Fred Higgins)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10. Tortas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11. Big fat mama </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Fred Higgins)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Boyle</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Heights</st1:placetype></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13. Bug jump<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14. Just won't treat me
right </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Johnny Watson)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. <st1:place w:st="on">West
Side</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16. I'm in love with you </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Ora May Garvin)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17. Chuck's wig<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, t-sax; Frank Dunn, pno; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. april 1952</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18. Blue sax<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19. Papa Charlie </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Daddy Cleanhead)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20. Higgins bounce I
& II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21. Higgins blues I &
II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, vcl/t-sax; Paul Clifton, t-sax; Frank Dunn, pno; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. november
1952</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">22. That Dubonnet wine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">23. The song of love </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vcl: Carl Green)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, t-sax; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. 19 août 1953</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">24. Wiggle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, t-sax; Daddy Cleanhead, vcl; Don Epstein, tb; Jason Hogans Jr, b-sax;
H.B. Barnum, pno; Jimmy Nolen, g; Winston Williams, bs; James Lee, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 16-31 august
1954</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25. Something's going on
in my room </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vcl: Daddy Cleanhead)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">26. Let me come back home
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(vcl: Daddy Cleanhead)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">27. Special tea<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">28. Is it real?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">29. I know what you're
talking about</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck
Higgins, t-sax; Daddy Cleanhead, vcl; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 12 november 1954</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">30. Middle of the mambo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">31. One chord
instrumental<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck Higgins, vcl/t-sax; Kenny Batte, b-sax; Frank
Dunn, pno; Jimmy Nolen, g; Roy Johnson, bs; James Lee, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. october-november 1955</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32.
Oh yeah<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33.
I need your love<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34.
Hey dig<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35.
Chuck's fever<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck Higgins, t-sax; Daddy Cleanhead, vcl; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 12 march
1956</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36.
Rock'n'roll<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">37.
Pachuko hop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">38.
Good luck<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">39.
Tonk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck Higgins, t-sax; g; Kenny Battle, b-sax; Frank
Dunn, pno; Joe Ursery, bs; Eli Toney, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1957</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">40.
The rooster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">41.
The duck walk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck Higgins, t-sax; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1962</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">42.
Baby shoes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Pacho hop twist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chuck Higgins, t-sax; Henry Vestine, g; Jay Cantrell,
t-sax; bs; Bobby Woods, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1964</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">43.
Pancho Villa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">44.
Too smart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">45.
Sorry 'bout that<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">46.
Night scene<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">47.
Jerky junction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">48.
Squiggly wiggley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-38963399488484197752023-11-19T12:07:00.002+01:002023-11-19T12:09:33.821+01:00LADIES SING THE BLUES/ Volume 8/ Mozelle Alderson<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LADIES SING THE BLUES Volume 8/ Mozelle Alderson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UccQ2FMd83jFAIjmrkYEVTarw1_UIQtXESurnG9iY7LCC2x_zk5VuP0KHy4QIIUgjTUu-iAuUNWupMgh7CAfokSNF4oS6fJONtCJG_2NCF-b3Ebh4wkscSNepnuogFgg0KUE6yBV3pV3AK_fcZ54TCb7JH9fVpgWFn8PKLm4yp1HjIYdYOg2nrO6PTod/s1500/ladies%20Blue%20Eye%208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UccQ2FMd83jFAIjmrkYEVTarw1_UIQtXESurnG9iY7LCC2x_zk5VuP0KHy4QIIUgjTUu-iAuUNWupMgh7CAfokSNF4oS6fJONtCJG_2NCF-b3Ebh4wkscSNepnuogFgg0KUE6yBV3pV3AK_fcZ54TCb7JH9fVpgWFn8PKLm4yp1HjIYdYOg2nrO6PTod/w400-h400/ladies%20Blue%20Eye%208.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></blockquote></blockquote><br />This
8<sup>th</sup> opus of our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ladies sing
the blues</b> series is entirely dedicated to the elusive blues singer and
comedian Mozelle Alderson.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Entirely"
because this very lady has recorded a lot of tracks during a period spanning
from 1927 to 1934. "Elusive" for Mozelle has recorded under several
nicknames that for a long time prevented her to be clearly identified even by
the most dedicated blues buffs the world around! Jane Lucas, Hannah May, Harum
Scarums, Mae Belle Lee and the most famous Kansas City Kitty are in fact the
same singer Mozelle Alderson, as her long time partner Georgia Tom Dorsey
revealed in an 1975 interview to Jim O'Neal and Amy Van Singel for their
magazine Living Blues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Elusive"
is anyway still Mozelle Alderson and I've not been able to track a photo by the
lady through my anyway important collection of blues magazines! It's once again
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blues/ A regional experience</b> that
gives the most details of her whereabouts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86e5OB7ukZYr75yLrzKih8unPwnQHn01uNoUVSZ_kN9QZw3s2iPh8cj-ld-7KVv5k5DUjTJtr7MqtM1WAvSVZERY5IHgM4lKVrxvkM96e0yXINE1Yi35kMbcSztf37jNERjglj2Zmkwf3S1RGZr-ntQSJMAZbwMxVdU0etIL0rD0JQhMKob3KzctHAxaS/s800/DORSEYGTom01.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86e5OB7ukZYr75yLrzKih8unPwnQHn01uNoUVSZ_kN9QZw3s2iPh8cj-ld-7KVv5k5DUjTJtr7MqtM1WAvSVZERY5IHgM4lKVrxvkM96e0yXINE1Yi35kMbcSztf37jNERjglj2Zmkwf3S1RGZr-ntQSJMAZbwMxVdU0etIL0rD0JQhMKob3KzctHAxaS/w251-h320/DORSEYGTom01.jpg" title="Georgia Tom Dorsey" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Georgia Tom Dorsey</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><br /></span>She
was born Mozelle Fagans at Bedford, Ohio on November 20<sup>th</sup> 1904 and
she moved to Chicago sometimes in the early 1920's after wedding to a Mr
Alderson. She probably sang already for a long time as one can notice when she
recorded her first three 78s in 1927 for the Black Patti/ Gennett label backed
by the excellent piano player Blind James Beck. She came back to the studios
three years later for a session with the obscure pianist Judson Brown for a
couple of risqué blues. By now her career took another speed and she was almost
always in the recording studios during the years 1930-31, producing duos with
the ubiquitous and very influential Georgia Tom Dorsey under her many nicknames
that puzzled the discographers for so long. As Kansas City Kitty, Jane Lucas or
among the Hokum Boys, Mozelle Alderson waxed dozens of records with sometimes
the add of several <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>
blues stalwarts of the era: Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy and of course almost
always Tom Dorsey. Her repertoire ranged from Classic blues singers to Hokum
and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>
Minnie...<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
a very good last session in 1934, Mozelle disappeared from the recording
vaults. Has still other nicknames hidden somewhere in the discographies? Or did
she dropped her musical career to other goals?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
was a widow in 1941 and she re-married two years later to John H. Slocum in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>. Mozelle died on
May 15<sup>th</sup> <st1:metricconverter productid="1994 in" w:st="on">1994 in</st1:metricconverter>
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>,
largely forgotten and unfortunately never interviewed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have been able to gather all her known recordings in this comp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: purple; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson, vcl; Blind James Beck, pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
29 april1927</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">01. Mozelle blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">02. Sobbin' the blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">03. Room rent blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">04. State Street</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"> special<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson, vcl; James Beck, pno; Al Miller, mdln. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
may 1927</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">05. Mobile Central blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">06. Tall man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson, vcl; Judson Brown, pno/vcls. 17 april 1930</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">07. Tight whoopee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">08. Tight in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (as <st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city> Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls; <st1:city w:st="on">Tampa</st1:city> Red, g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 13 may 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">09.You got that stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">10. The doctor's blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place>
Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey,
pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 25 august 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">11. Do it by myself<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">12. Fish house blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">13. Room rent blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">14. Show me what you got<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (as Hannah May)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Big Bill
Broonzy, g/vcls; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 15 september 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">15. Pussy cat pussy cat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">16. What you call that?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">17. Court house blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (as Hannah May)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia
Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls; Big Bill Broonzy, g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city></st1:place>, 16-17 september 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">18. Come on mama<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">19. What's that I smell?</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">(Hannah May)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">20. It's been so long<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">21. Terrible operation blues</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">22. Rent man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place>
Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl/pno; Georgia Tom Dorsey,
pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 1 november 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">23. Killing floor blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">24. How can you have the blues?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as Jane Lucas)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom
Dorsey, pno/vcls; Big Bill Broonzy, g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Richmond</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ind.</st1:state></st1:place> 19 november 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">25. What's that I smell?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">(Jane Lucas)</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">26. Terrible operation blues </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">(Jane Lucas)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">27. Where did you stay last night?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">28. Fix it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">29. Ain't goin' there no more n°2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">30. That's the way she likes it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">31. Double trouble blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">32. Leave my man alone</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">(Jane Lucas)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson, vcl/tamb; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls; Big Bill
Broonzy, g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Richmond</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ind.</st1:state></st1:place> 20 november 1930</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">33. Hip shakin' strut<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">34. Hokum stomp<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place>
Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey,
pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 2 december 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">35. Who's been here since I been gone?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">36. Gym's too much for me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson, vcl </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place>
Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
17 december 1930</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">37. When can I get it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">38. That thing is a mess<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as Harum Scarums)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls; Big Bill
Broonzy, g. Grafton, Wisc. january 1931</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">39.
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alabama</st1:place></st1:state>
scratch I & II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">40.
Come on in<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">41.
Where did you stay last night? (1931)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">42.
Sittin' on top of the world<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place> Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
5 january 1931</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">43.
Root man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">44.
Close made papa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as <st1:city w:st="on">Kansas
City</st1:city> Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia
Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls; <st1:city w:st="on">Tampa</st1:city> Red, g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
7 janvier 1931</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">45.
Scronchin'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">46.
What a fool I've been<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place> Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
12 march 1931</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">47.
Do it some more<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">48.
Knife man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as Mae Belle Lee)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls.
Grafton, Wisc. 13 april 1931</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">49.
I'm takin' bout you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">50.
Bumble bee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">51.
Times done got hard<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">52.
Sittin' on top of the world n°2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mozelle Alderson </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: purple; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city></st1:place> Kitty)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Georgia Tom Dorsey, pno/vcls; kazoo.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
1 november 1934</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">53.
Christmas morning blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">54.
Double trouble blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">55.
Leave my man alone<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">56.
Mistreatin' easy rider<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-9798788842093845692023-09-14T12:22:00.001+02:002023-09-14T12:22:06.042+02:00DELTA BLUES/ Volume 3<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt;">DELTA
BLUES/ Volume 3<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtwKQTF-9qIwzlRdWN7BrpSZxs16-C-Be2AktDgRho0X7roIT2I2izwljjkbK-uZc-SWLU7kLdkTuUeXs1QhlUXiPN8gpi21wc61i3g-FI0AvBVjH1uiMob3nkH7cl8w2GuXTlQXpXrqP4OxFKxg61ZPqwweMW5gsDCoA24RK5AECF_5QNCWWfRYOkJWr1/s1500/Delta%20blues%20Blue%20eye%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtwKQTF-9qIwzlRdWN7BrpSZxs16-C-Be2AktDgRho0X7roIT2I2izwljjkbK-uZc-SWLU7kLdkTuUeXs1QhlUXiPN8gpi21wc61i3g-FI0AvBVjH1uiMob3nkH7cl8w2GuXTlQXpXrqP4OxFKxg61ZPqwweMW5gsDCoA24RK5AECF_5QNCWWfRYOkJWr1/w400-h400/Delta%20blues%20Blue%20eye%203.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This Delta
blues Volume 3 starts with the complete work of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shortstuff Macon</b> (John Wesley Macon). Shortstuff born in 1923 at
Shuqualak, Ms. was Big Joe Williams' cousin. He started to play guitar around
nine years old while listening to local bluesmen and radio stations. He would
play on week ends for private parties and this is Big Joe who brought Macon
with him to coffeehouses during the blues revival of the early 60's and into
studios to record with him in New York City after a gig in Greenwich Village.
Shortstuff is a good bluesman on his own, playing rhythmic Delta blues style
alternating some local standards with some own blues compositions. He would
record again very fine tracks in 1971 at Big Joe's home in<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6DCIoYHZo-VXlhVimJjQHiOesnIgqx1x-q3b8m6YujNjCPqlzl_MCMaZqTQ8HA8acuvLFfJtvzEN8ETFJZiMqUZSZcUDpgX7pFYZlWflcbOQ_XVDEY4JF04pgu8sEkhh01sAbglEWGonZXKaN-ilm2JWR8Upi9E7pkqTJ7Rx8HgjabXqiU31hWNyNotNc/s1000/MACONShortstuff%20et%20Big%20Joe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="798" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6DCIoYHZo-VXlhVimJjQHiOesnIgqx1x-q3b8m6YujNjCPqlzl_MCMaZqTQ8HA8acuvLFfJtvzEN8ETFJZiMqUZSZcUDpgX7pFYZlWflcbOQ_XVDEY4JF04pgu8sEkhh01sAbglEWGonZXKaN-ilm2JWR8Upi9E7pkqTJ7Rx8HgjabXqiU31hWNyNotNc/s320/MACONShortstuff%20et%20Big%20Joe.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Photo © Len Kundsadt </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> Crawford. Although quite
shy, Shortstuff could have made overseas tours and more recordings but he died
on 28<sup>th</sup> December <st1:metricconverter productid="1973 in" w:st="on">1973
in</st1:metricconverter> Macon, Ms.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby McCoy</b> recorded also a few sides
with Big Joe Williams although many unissued tracks still remain in some vaults
somewhere that it would be nice to be able to hear. Ruby was born in
Bonneville, Ms on 16<sup>th</sup> august 1917 and was the sister of blueswoman
Ethel McCoy (all related to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>
Minnie & Joe McCoy). She sings with a plaintive but powerful voice
wonderfully backed by Big Joe Williams. She died on July 1967.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVn4_PSnRCQPbE6u7LebqTJUNgka34T4yNAWzzs7v-ktYPiPBIGEkZlY-Amh4qljaWMO-XcaNXCjsxtFWwmctxlKwPlPuS9s30kFg9G9Qm0E-Uw6lGZkaQnSeqA0vYwmLjNQjNaiKu3WOwE3GDvMdY5f50YDc3VpyXKr3JAU6y5MBl1nhNnw9YI8nikSq/s700/BROWN%20Elijah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="548" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVn4_PSnRCQPbE6u7LebqTJUNgka34T4yNAWzzs7v-ktYPiPBIGEkZlY-Amh4qljaWMO-XcaNXCjsxtFWwmctxlKwPlPuS9s30kFg9G9Qm0E-Uw6lGZkaQnSeqA0vYwmLjNQjNaiKu3WOwE3GDvMdY5f50YDc3VpyXKr3JAU6y5MBl1nhNnw9YI8nikSq/s320/BROWN%20Elijah.jpg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Photo © Pete Welding </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elijah Brown</b> is an elder bluesman (born
in Macon, Ms. on October 1896) but was also brought to recordings by the
ubiquitous Big Joe! Elijah learned the guitar with his brother in law Jerry
Ingram and he might have known and maybe played a little with Charlie Patton
and Son House all around the Delta juke joints during the 1910's and 20's. The
few tracks he recorded display a strong Delta blues style. He probably died not
long after his 1965 recording session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thanks
a lot to Pete Welding, Chris Strachwitz and Len Kundstadt without whom probably
none of those blues artists would have recorded. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SHORTSTUFF MACON</span></u></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></u></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(John Wesley Macon)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl/g; Big Joe Williams, g/vcls. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 23 May 1964<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">01. My jack don't drink no water<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">02. Hell bound and heaven sent blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">03. Shortstuff's Corinna<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">04. Messing with that thing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">05. Rock road bad treating<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. Cotton
picking<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. Don't want<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. Great big
legs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. I want a
little bit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. I want to
love<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. Moanin'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. No special
woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Old Grey
mule<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortsuff
Macon, vcl/g; Big Joe Williams, g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Starkville</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ms. March 1971<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14. My baby
stopped drinking water<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15. Good times
here, better down the road<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. My baby
don't stand no foolin'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17. She have
broken my heart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortsuff
Macon, vcl/g; Big Joe Williams, g. Crawford, Ms. 21 May 1971</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18. Bird nest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19. Corrina<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20. Sugar on
the bottom<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. Bad luck<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22. Moanin' 'fo
day<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">RUBY MC COY</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl; Big Joe
Williams, g. Chicago, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
10 October 1974<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. Rising sun
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24. Rising sun,
shine on<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25. Black Mary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ELIJAH BROWN</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">East Saint Louis</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
12 March 1965<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26. Crying wont
make me stay<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27. Pearline<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28. Won't be
troubled long<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29. Winding
ball<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30. John Henry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-49427801723647359622023-08-20T10:40:00.002+02:002023-08-20T11:31:13.074+02:00BIG JOE TURNER/ Late Sessions<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="fauxcolumn-outer fauxcolumn-center-outer" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; inset: 0px 260px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute;"><div class="fauxborder-left" style="background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat-y; height: 23314.3px; position: relative;"><div class="fauxcolumn-inner" style="height: 23314.3px;"></div></div><div class="cap-bottom" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="cap-left" style="background-position: 0% 100%; 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position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6155674951636827696" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 12.6px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1989185378136789798" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-auJYB4iv_7U/XBZXvhBmIuI/AAAAAAAAETU/bWNOpogch44kbAqQ4agJAw-0WLKOvUe0ACLcBGAs/s1600/TURNERBig%2BJoe%2Bcover.jpg" style="color: #c81a00; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="915" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-auJYB4iv_7U/XBZXvhBmIuI/AAAAAAAAETU/bWNOpogch44kbAqQ4agJAw-0WLKOvUe0ACLcBGAs/s320/TURNERBig%2BJoe%2Bcover.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Quand Big Joe Turner (1911-85) enregistre pour Norman Granz, il est quelque peu oublié. Pionnier du blues de Kansas City, partie prenante de la folie du boogie woogie dans les années 30 auprès de Pete Johnson, chanteur ultra puissant archétype des Blues Shouters, Joe est le chanteur des grands orchestres de Benny Moten, Andy Kirk, Count Basie avant d'</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">enregistrer en vedette du R&B une oeuvre copieuse pour de nombreux labels. Très avisé, superbe showman, Big Joe va savoir maintenir intacte sa popularité longtemps. Il est d'ailleurs un des rares artistes noirs du R&Blues capable de s'arrimer au courant du Rock n'Roll. Il signe sur le label Atlantic en 1951 qui l'entoure des meilleurs musiciens du moment, le produit intelligemment et distribue ses disques dans toute l'Amérique. <i>Shake, rattle and roll; Flip, flop and fly </i>et <i>Teenage letter</i> obtiennent autant de succès dans les Hit Parades "Rhythm & Blues" que "pop" et son nom est associé aux stars adolescentes du Rock'n'roll!, notamment dans plusieurs films.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Mais dans les années 60, Big Joe apparaît largement comme une figure du passé. Il essaie de s'adapter aux goûts du blues revival mais, malgré la très grande qualité de ses disques (magnifique album Kent avec George Smith!), sa manière d'être et de chanter ne plaisent guère à ce nouveau public qui ne jure plus que par les bluesmen du Delta ou ceux du ghetto de Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Big Joe s'installe alors en Californie et apparaît surtout dans des festivals de jazz et de façon irrégulière dans les clubs de Los Angeles. Lorsque le producteur de jazz Norman Granz, après une éclipse forcée, décide de relancer son label Pablo et de reprendre des tournées internationales de big bands, il pense en premier à Count Basie à qui il adjoint Big Joe Turner. Le succès de cette tournée au printemps 1972 est tel que Granz décide d'enregistrer live le concert parisien et de le sortir sur Pablo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Les dés sont lancés: Joe Turner revient à son rôle favori de blues shouter et, devenu très ami avec Granz, il va enregistrer pas moins de neuf autres albums pour Pablo entre 1972 et 78, entouré de certains des noms les plus prestigieux du jazz. Si l'album <i>The Bosses</i> (avec Count Basie mais en studio) recueille de bonnes critiques, les autres sont très fraîchement accueillis, notamment par les critiques de blues qui soulignent l'absence de nouveau répertoire, les solos très longs, les morceaux étirés, les disques enregistrés en très peu de temps. Joe n'est pas non plus toujours dans une grande forme. Sa santé se détériore beaucoup durant cette période et il ne se déplace plus que difficilement et à l'aide d'une canne.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Malgré tout, ces disques prennent avec le temps une autre dimension: ils réunissent de grands musiciens qui ont marqué l'histoire et qui ont d'évidence du plaisir à se retrouver ensemble. Et finalement, ce long corpus permet à Big Joe Turner, un des plus grands noms de l'histoire du blues, d'ajouter - presque en fin de carrière - une nouvelle pierre solide à sa longue et riche oeuvre.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> La plupart de ces LPs sont aujourd'hui introuvables et nous remercions tous ceux qui ont permis de les rassembler ici: Marc (Fr), Hartmut Münnich, Kempen, Steve 626...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">When Big Joe Turner (1911-85) began his series of recordings for Norman Granz' rejuvenated Pablo label, he was a little bit forgotten. Pioneer of the Kansas City blues, linked with the boogie woogie craze of the 1930's, particularly with his fellow Pete Johnson, Joe is a consummate showman and an ultra-powerful blues shouter with the big bands of Andy Kirk, Benny Moten or Count Basie before launching a personal career as a major name of the R&B, heavily recording for numerous labels. Moreover, when signing with the Atlantic label in 1951, Joe became one of the few black R&B star to be able to crossover in the emerging Rock'n'roll field, singing before audience of teenagers, appearing in many R'n'R movies and placing records like <i>Shake, rattle and roll; Flip, flop and fly </i>or <i>Teenage letter </i>into the Tops 40 of R&B as well as Pop!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> But in the 60's, Big Joe seems to be a figure of the past. He tries to cope with the tastes of the new Blues Revival audiences, waxing excellent deep blues albums (one with George Smith) but he was not the Delta or the Chicago ghetto bluesman that this public wanted exclusively at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Big Joe comes to live in California and appears irregularly on jazz festivals and L.A. clubs. When in 1972 producer and former civic rights activist Norman Granz decided to launch a big band tour of Europe, he chose to reunite old Kansas City partners, Count Basie and his Orchestra with blues shouter Big Joe Turner. The tour proved to be so successful that Granz recorded live the Paris concert and issued it on his Pablo label. This started a new association between Turner and Granz that gave nine subsequent LP's until 1978! Joe is once again the blues shouter supreme surrounded by some of the biggest and most respected jazzmen still working then. But if <i>The Bosses</i> (with Count Basie) has some good reviews, the other albums are mildly welcomed, particularly by blues critics who point out the lack of new material, the overlong numbers and solos, the quickly recorded sessions and sometimes a lacking of rehearsal... Joe's health is also declining and it shows sometimes in his voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Anyway, the passing years give those LPs a better significance: they brought together great musicians (and some of the greatest) who evidently enjoyed playing with each other and at last those late sessions are a welcomed addition to the recording works of one of the true giants of the blues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Most of those records are unavailable today, sometimes very hard to find and all those who have made possible this project must be thanked: Marc (Fr) particularly, Hartmut Münnich, Kempen, Steve 626..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Gérard HERZHAFT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/jqol0j6rronqrae/JOE_TURNER_discography.pdf/file"><b>BIG JOE TURNER/ Late Sessions/ Discography</b></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-50917634383114434852023-08-11T12:03:00.006+02:002023-08-11T12:15:45.985+02:00WILEY & FLASH TERRY/ The Real Blues Brothers.<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">WILEY & FLASH TERRY/ The Real Blues Brothers </h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 12.6px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6558103772625082416" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff8f4; clear: both; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hix5iNiUFAs/W-AaEhzMBdI/AAAAAAAAEQY/EoHifLVh6SANnf3KTIgiXCurk-mn4ABcwCLcBGAs/s1600/Terrys.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="915" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hix5iNiUFAs/W-AaEhzMBdI/AAAAAAAAEQY/EoHifLVh6SANnf3KTIgiXCurk-mn4ABcwCLcBGAs/s400/Terrys.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;">On peut classer les frères Terry, Wiley et Flash, parmi les grands méconnus du blues. Ils sont pourtant deux remarquables guitaristes qui ont substantiellement enregistré.<o:p></o:p></span><br style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> <b>Wiley Terry</b> est surtout réputé pour son single en deux parties <i>Follow the leader</i>, devenu un favori des clubs de danse popcorn, notamment en Europe. Mais on ne savait que très peu de choses sur lui. J'ai eu la chance d'entrer en contact avec sa fille Tamara Leigh Terry qui m'a très aimablement donné davantage de renseignements sur son père et sa famille de musiciens.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_U9Bq4ShzVk/W-AaZyr5QyI/AAAAAAAAEQg/jvX8TsjvVssK7KI3GnH38_MMqZ8WwM7WQCLcBGAs/s1600/TERRY%2B%2BWiley.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #c81a00; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="691" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_U9Bq4ShzVk/W-AaZyr5QyI/AAAAAAAAEQg/jvX8TsjvVssK7KI3GnH38_MMqZ8WwM7WQCLcBGAs/s200/TERRY%2B%2BWiley.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="153" /></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Wiley , né à Inola, une banlieue de Tulsa (Oklahoma) le 10 septembre 1936, a appris très jeune la guitare en même temps que son frère aîné Flash et a été aussi élevé avec Ted Taylor qu'il considérait comme son "frère" et qui, lui, fera une prolifique carrière de chanteur de Soul Blues. Dans nombre de disques de Ted, notamment dans la première partie de son oeuvre, le guitariste lead est Wiley Terry et ses solos sont souvent tranchants, précis et plein de feeling. Wiley a vécu en Floride, à Los Angeles et en Arizona, enregistrant à chaque fois derrière différents chanteurs et plusieurs instrumentaux sous son nom ou avec l'orchestre de Ted Taylor, avant de s'installer à Chicago en 1964. C'est là qu'il grave ses 45t les plus connus pour USA, les remarquables <i>Follow the leader</i>, <i>Shake it baby</i>, <i>Joker's Wild dance</i>. La maison de Wiley Terry était souvent fréquentée par quantité de bluesmen de Chicago et sa fille se souvient de Howlin' Wolf, Koko Taylor, Willie Mabon, Albert King et bien d'autres... Contacté par James Brown pour faire partie de ses JB's, Wiley a préféré rester à Chicago. Pour des raisons économiques, il a dû ensuite prendre un job de conducteur de poids lourds et a abandonné progressivement la musique, se consacrant avant tout à sa congrégation. Il est décédé à Chicago le 1er mars 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Tamirah pense qu'il a enregistré bien davantage que les quatre singles que nous lui connaissons. Nous avons inclus ici ses trois 45t pour USA, des extraits seulement de son single <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #545454; float: right; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P6cvNln6Uqk/W-Aavh1a_SI/AAAAAAAAEQo/97rIFHF9ttEuU2_eqzJSzI0ulT21ZZ5UACLcBGAs/s1600/TERRY%2BWiley%2Band%2BTed%2BTaylor.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #c81a00; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P6cvNln6Uqk/W-Aavh1a_SI/AAAAAAAAEQo/97rIFHF9ttEuU2_eqzJSzI0ulT21ZZ5UACLcBGAs/s320/TERRY%2BWiley%2Band%2BTed%2BTaylor.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: center;">Wiley Terry & Ted Taylor</td></tr></tbody></table>californien car, malgré mes efforts, je n'ai pu obtenir une copie décente de ces instrumentaux qui semblent bien juteux...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Selon Tamirah, Wiley serait aussi le chanteur et guitariste (sa guitare paraît immanquable) des deux titres enregistrés à Los Angeles en 1961 et que le label a attribué à l'inconnu <b>Kid Guitar Thompson</b>, certainement un nom inventé pour la parution des années après d'une séance ensevelie dans les tiroirs! Nous avons inclus ces deux titres qui ne sont en fait que deux prises d'un même morceau.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> <b>Flash Terry</b> (Verbie Gene Terry) est né lui aussi à Inola (Oklahoma) le 17 juin 1934 et a substantiellement enregistré sous son nom à partir de 1958, essentiellement en Californie puis à Tulsa où il est revenu vivre. Il a tourné et enregistré avec Leon Mc Auliffe, Bobby Bland, Bo Diddley, Etta James et bien d'autres avant de, lui aussi, abandonner la musique pour devenir chauffeur d'autocar de la ville de Tulsa. Mais, à sa retraite, il a repris une carrière musicale active, dirigeant un nouveau blues band avec de jeunes musiciens locaux, ce qui lui a permis de tourner en Europe et d'être élu à l'Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Il est décédé le 18 mars 2003 d'une attaque.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Merci encore à Tamirah Leigh Terry pour son aide déterminante. Elle est aussi une excellente chanteuse de R&B, de Gospel et de Jazz, a enregistré en studio mais cherche un producteur et un label (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/musicsongbird?fref=ts" style="color: #c81a00; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.facebook.com/musicsongbird?fref=ts</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> The blues brothers Wiley and Flash Terry are largely unknown outside some blues circles although they were remarkable guitar players who recorded some first rate music. Thanks to Wiley's daughter Tamirah Leigh Terry that I had the chance to be in contact with I have been able to document more accurately the career and life of her father.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Wiley Terry's <i>Follow the leader</i>, a two parts semi instrumental is currently enjoying a great reputation in Europe, particularly in the "popcorn" dance clubs. But he has offered much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> <b>Wiley Terry </b>was born in Inola (Oklahoma) on October 9th, 1936, learning the guitar at an early age with his elder brother Flash. The famous Soul blues singer, Tulsa born Ted Taylor was also considered as a "brother" by the Terry Family and Wiley will be several years in the studio and on tour with Ted, delivering concise, precise, bluesy and full of feeling guitar solos on many records. Wiley lived in Arizona, Los Angeles, Florida, doing studio work everywhere. Before settling in Chicago permanently in 1964, where he waxed his two most famous 45t for the USA label (<i>Follow the leader I & II</i>, <i>Shake it baby</i>, <i>Joker's wild dance</i>). Tamirah remembers many bluesmen coming to the Terry's home: Howlin' Wolf, Koko Taylor, Willie Mabon, Albert King and many more. Wiley was even approached by James Brown to be a member of the JB's but he turned down the offer. Unfortunately, he had to give up his musical career and make a living as a truck driver and centered more his talents for his church. He died in Chicago on March, 1st 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Tamirah thinks her father recorded much more than the four singles that we know from him. We have included here his three 45s, and just extracts from a single recorded in Los Angeles because, despite my efforts, I have been unable to get a good enough copy of what seem to be very spicy blues guitar instrumentals.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> On the other hand, here is a track (with two takes named differently) that was probably recorded by Wiley in LA in 1961 but issued only years after under the odd nom de disque <b>Kid Guitar Thompson</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> The better known Wiley's elder brother <b>Flash Terry</b> (Verbie Gene Terry) was also born in Inola (Ok) on June, 17th 1934. He made many records under his name and behind others, touring and recording with Bobby Bland, Etta James, Bo Diddley, even Western Swing's veteran Leon Mc Auliffe and many others... He enjoyed some Hits but he too had to gave up music for years and make a more secure living as a bus driver in his hometown of Tulsa. When retired, Flash resumed his musical career, formed a new band with local youngsters, toured Europe and was even elected at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. He died from a stroke in Tulsa on March, 18th 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Thanks again to Tamirah Leigh Terry for her essential help. She is herself an excellent composer and singer who made some studio recordings and who is currently looking for some label and producer. (</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;">(<a href="https://www.facebook.com/musicsongbird?fref=ts" style="color: #c81a00; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: red;">https://www.facebook.com/musicsongbird?fref=ts</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"> Gérard HERZHAFT</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-24156376426757932912023-07-28T10:47:00.004+02:002023-08-01T19:03:26.475+02:00LADIES SING THE BLUES/ Volume 7<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LADIES SING THE BLUES/ Volume 7<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXQJQs7zS01EyV0RnKffILTSi9V1ijqI6A6-UtoRuIjr4SxSzInQslO1uV-OOvvGexW30auHDv91-nYSaHAYUenIobHSSCSr0QYTl-1UfJ1AZGMoOfTtdf7-fXKiwpEd0BYmOgyeYNPSD8NNXBOqkxTRexkllbg-o6IT3PVHH2XwtUIJSocRrBqpXSIBw/s1500/ladies%20Blue%20Eye%2007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXQJQs7zS01EyV0RnKffILTSi9V1ijqI6A6-UtoRuIjr4SxSzInQslO1uV-OOvvGexW30auHDv91-nYSaHAYUenIobHSSCSr0QYTl-1UfJ1AZGMoOfTtdf7-fXKiwpEd0BYmOgyeYNPSD8NNXBOqkxTRexkllbg-o6IT3PVHH2XwtUIJSocRrBqpXSIBw/w400-h400/ladies%20Blue%20Eye%2007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This
7<sup>th</sup> Volume of our surprisingly popular series "Ladies sing the
blues" opens with the complete recordings of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Betty Hall Jones</b> (born Cordell Elizabeth Bigbee in <st1:city w:st="on">Topeka</st1:city>
(<st1:state w:st="on">Kansas</st1:state>) on 11 January 1911) into a musical
family who moved quickly to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>
where the young girl learned piano and became a proficient blues, boogie and
ballad pianist. In 1927 she married banjoist George Hall. As Betty Hall, she
began a musical career being the pianist of Buster Moten and then Roy Milton
from 1937 to 1941. She joined Luke Jones Orchestra, remarried Jasper Jones, then
taking her stage name as Betty Hall Jones. As her reputation as a very good
pianist and sometimes singer she then joined Paul Howard and Alton Reed's band,
recording a lot with them. She also started her own recording career in 1947
with the Maxwell Davis' band that led her with a contract with the Capitol
label, recording and writing songs that would be lifted by none others than Ray
Charles or Nellie Lutcher. After Capitol, she recorded quite prolifically for
Dootone, Combo and others. Although Betty Hall's records were never
"hits", she played a lot of night clubs, hotels, even touring USO in
East Asia and even made a comeback in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
during the 1980's. She died in <st1:city w:st="on">Torrance</st1:city> (<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>) in 2009.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
you want more about this fine musician, go to the Marv Goldberg site <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.uncamarvy.com/BettyHallJones/bettyhalljones.html">https://www.uncamarvy.com/BettyHallJones/bettyhalljones.html</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlgT1oHa9fztP1MEym_FAkRUD7jIkVpw-v_VqboLvnunzp84r8NTI0sFlx6KLwKRfPEvYMwysurJiYMSl5YztHG9cm5TBsisBrAJvLsi9zseAQWNt1FKbrVOu3wtfWterrcFFKnqqxlg5dGJx-b58B5mrscHvYQNyD0Y0nzShlVpmWqTVKKXAc_x7IfEx/s1000/Betty%20Hall%20Jones.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="986" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlgT1oHa9fztP1MEym_FAkRUD7jIkVpw-v_VqboLvnunzp84r8NTI0sFlx6KLwKRfPEvYMwysurJiYMSl5YztHG9cm5TBsisBrAJvLsi9zseAQWNt1FKbrVOu3wtfWterrcFFKnqqxlg5dGJx-b58B5mrscHvYQNyD0Y0nzShlVpmWqTVKKXAc_x7IfEx/w198-h200/Betty%20Hall%20Jones.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
don't know anything about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rose Brown</b>
who cut two excellent tracks for the GST label. She shares vocals with a Jimmie
Harris and her backing band is the still mysterious "Bubbles"!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although
she recorded constantly in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York
City</st1:place></st1:city> between 1946 and 1958 nothing much is known about
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baby Dee </b>(Dolores or Delores
Spriggs) who was another very fine singer. She apparently started as the
featured singer with the Bill Campbell band who was quite in demand in night
clubs and venues around NYC after WWII. Here are also her complete recordings
and more details about this lady blues singer, a category which has been sometimes
neglected by most of the blues magazines insofar, would be nice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span> Our friend Marc D. has unearthed some more infos about Baby Dee (see the comments section), particularly an odd album of "risqué" songs produced by Joe Davis named '"Sexarama" under the name Miss Dee. The album is entirely available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0nfDK6NJU">You Tube</a></span> but it's quite far from any blues or R&B genres. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6hxVV18j5gu4xDECoAuG29WC1oFFxu4mW_jrSzOI7NyzfxrvpIyBlvrofM6RvwBUFmDzi7I1TRkEbWKrBJsNpDAFHOEptD00A1NucX0hqIijNpIH4Pn-tyabGBMJlNreTY1nPKL9vk8lUJEQaOGKRlXnxOb5DdQ-2GXI7ZKu5gv8EeEq2YvO6PS0Aarr/s1000/Baby%20Dee.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6hxVV18j5gu4xDECoAuG29WC1oFFxu4mW_jrSzOI7NyzfxrvpIyBlvrofM6RvwBUFmDzi7I1TRkEbWKrBJsNpDAFHOEptD00A1NucX0hqIijNpIH4Pn-tyabGBMJlNreTY1nPKL9vk8lUJEQaOGKRlXnxOb5DdQ-2GXI7ZKu5gv8EeEq2YvO6PS0Aarr/s320/Baby%20Dee.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anyway,
enjoy the music!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">BETTY HALL
JONES</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/pno; Maxwell Davis, t-sax; Buddy Harper, g;
Ralph Hamilton, bs; Bob Harvey, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. may 1947<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01.
Learn to boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02.
Fine and mellow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03.
That same old boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04.
Make me know it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Hall Jones, vcl/pno; King Porter, tpt; Marshall
Royal, a-sax; Bumps Myers, t-sax; Gene Porter, b-sax; Charlie Davis, pno; Gene
Phillips, g; Arthur Edwards, bs; Bill Settles, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. 27 december 1947<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05.
That early morning boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Hall Jones, vcl/pno; Henry Coker, tpt; Dave
Cavanaugh, t-sax; Bumps Meyers, t-sax; Tiny Webb, g; Ralph Hamilton, bs; Jesse
Price, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ca. 11 february 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06.
Why can't you love that way<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07.
This joint's too hip for me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08.
If I ever cry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09.
You've got to have what it takes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Hall Jones, vcl/pno; Forrest Powell, tpt;
Maxwell Davis, t-sax; Tiny Webb, g; Ralph Hamilton, bs; Bob Harvey, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. 2 august
1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10.
I never miss the sunshine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11.
That's a man for you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12.
Thrill me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13.
Buddy stay off the wine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Hall Jones, pno; Her Combo, band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca.
september 1952</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14.
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Richmond</st1:place></st1:city> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Hall Jones, vcl/pno; Jake Porter, tpt; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. september
1952<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15.
Goin' back to town<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16.
Frustration frustration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17.
Poor spending daddy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18.
Way after hours<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Hall Jones, vcl/pno; Gay Cowie, vcls; Bonnie
& Linda Cowie </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as
The Gay-Bon-Lin Trio)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcls; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, Ca. 1955<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19.
Love my love<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20.
Shina no yoru<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21.
How long blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22.
Is he handsome?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ROSE BROWN</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
vcl; Jimmie Harris, vcl; Bubbles, t-sax; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Newark</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state></st1:place>.
17 mai 1951</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23.
Back from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24.
Rockin' chair woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">BABY DEE</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Dolores
Spriggs)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; Bill Campbell, pno; band.
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
septembre 1946</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25.
Boogie me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26.
Used to be a daddy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; Bill
Campbell, pno; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
novembre 1946<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27.
Look what baby's got for you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28.
I want to see my daddy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29.
Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30.
Feel it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; Bill
Campbell, pno; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
mars 1947<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31.
Like he's never loved me before<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32.
It feels so doggone good<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; Leroy
Kirkland, g; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
15 juin 1954<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33.
Don't live like that no more<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34.
He ain't mine no more<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35.
Hold the light for me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; Charlie Singleton, t-sax; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 11
novembre 1954</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">36. When I cry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">37. Stout hearted<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 23 août
1955</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">38.
Zoom de de Ho Ho<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">39.
I wish you out of my mind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">40.
Find the one meant for you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">41.
Unless you love me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 1957</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">42. Pretty eyed baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">43.
Sittin' here wondering<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Baby <st1:place w:st="on">Dee</st1:place>, vcl; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 1958</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">44.
I cried the last time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">45.
You don't have to be a fool<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-52482808815035082722023-07-10T13:04:00.002+02:002023-07-10T13:04:37.339+02:00DELTA BLUES/ Volume 2<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">DELTA BLUES/ Volume 2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5x-fUVESA-sVhY1JIN1Bsl0wYUVF1AircDQ7WW30oGBV5T56vmPNE2bPSUkj4cUBHEsJAsO5ZSlpvnL3-Ja0k_C6VG5duUwraHxX8-v9nO16dAs4H6j1gWmJlATD5BH5e5VnVGkfJ1rhrFATGC5QWhjPQqdsjPVSlv4a3rsdeVAnALQ_vLK3pdggz4lHw/s1500/Delta%20blues%20Blue%20eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5x-fUVESA-sVhY1JIN1Bsl0wYUVF1AircDQ7WW30oGBV5T56vmPNE2bPSUkj4cUBHEsJAsO5ZSlpvnL3-Ja0k_C6VG5duUwraHxX8-v9nO16dAs4H6j1gWmJlATD5BH5e5VnVGkfJ1rhrFATGC5QWhjPQqdsjPVSlv4a3rsdeVAnALQ_vLK3pdggz4lHw/w400-h400/Delta%20blues%20Blue%20eye.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Second
volume of our Delta Blues series starts with the great underrated <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lane Hardin</b> (1897-1975). Born in <st1:state w:st="on">Kentucky</st1:state>, Hardin made a living mostly outside music,
holding a restaurant in <st1:city w:st="on">Saint Louis</st1:city> or as a
longshoreman on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pacific</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Coast</st1:placetype></st1:place>. He anyway managed
to record several times, first in 1935 during an odd <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>
session, then twice in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
the 1951 tracks staying unissued until Bruce Bromberg and Frank Scott unearthed
them for their classic "Anthology of the blues series". Not really a
Delta blues stylist, Lane is nevertheless a great country blues artist who
could have made more records if he had been re-discovered on time.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ex6zvZwY367LGwQvdWafUB_JmsJ6DxpFPok44_QKXJguNNzVrrzFjMPdq_1S4NEhdTvnfNGAcxqJkMdOTx2tSYlMm2X5T2B0vIKqgJay1P_LOieps1fsFkFFtoB-SEcGffdr0hfbSuCIVN4Uqwj295vrM6nHJsr_cHWhRVlSXvXHMGvRu3dVryTWU0LL/s1400/GHetLucius%20Smith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1400" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ex6zvZwY367LGwQvdWafUB_JmsJ6DxpFPok44_QKXJguNNzVrrzFjMPdq_1S4NEhdTvnfNGAcxqJkMdOTx2tSYlMm2X5T2B0vIKqgJay1P_LOieps1fsFkFFtoB-SEcGffdr0hfbSuCIVN4Uqwj295vrM6nHJsr_cHWhRVlSXvXHMGvRu3dVryTWU0LL/w400-h238/GHetLucius%20Smith.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Banjoist
and singer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lucius Smith</b> (1881-1980)
recorded before and after the war for the Lomaxes, generally with Sid Hemphill
(grandfather of Jessie Mae Hemphill). The three tracks here feature him solo.
He was a living legend around Senatobia (Ms) when I visited him in 1979.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBF-vLOe6JH9Ag3vyyGRG4md50gA7bx0QhJPGw3lUKTO7F7uwnXD0PAwaeYkLwIujQsYu4yD2EpW5yymtvXJDXDcfDgayfkJgUb6_qQ5L1w1dFrbsgaVP7rzDULk-fAxUjdEoLsda6hygjl58PAGDwPjvgbQ5VxOuFskc3GqPvUe59mmEeohRM523_YRl/s1213/DUDLEYJohn2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1213" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBF-vLOe6JH9Ag3vyyGRG4md50gA7bx0QhJPGw3lUKTO7F7uwnXD0PAwaeYkLwIujQsYu4yD2EpW5yymtvXJDXDcfDgayfkJgUb6_qQ5L1w1dFrbsgaVP7rzDULk-fAxUjdEoLsda6hygjl58PAGDwPjvgbQ5VxOuFskc3GqPvUe59mmEeohRM523_YRl/w400-h330/DUDLEYJohn2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Dudley</b> (c. 1899-1963) recorded
only for Lomax while an inmate at Parchman's Penitentiary. His tracks are stunning
and he appears as a great traditional Delta blues stylist. He also could have
been a major artist if, once free, he would have toured <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
and recorded albums.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Guitarist/singer
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Miles Pratcher</b> (1895-1964) was also
a discovery of Shirley Collins and Alan Lomax. He was a friend and neighbor of
Fred McDowell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>W.C.
Clay</b> (1927-?) was from Jonestown, a small town in the heart of the Delta. He
moved to Helena (<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ark</st1:place></st1:state>)
where he became a member of the famous King Biscuit Show alongside Sonny Boy
Williamson/Rice Miller. He was also recorded later in life by researcher Louis
Guida (cf: Living Blues # 32)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaDj4RNJeEHUPS-Z-tKmWss_M5AD0L9BswU1z1JFGsQAsbJUhhYQQY1bZ2p8zlhKy9ZGB0QY4yeBecqDVnXn5NagJn-WlXUPRlnKP0RMX47xCcw1n3HnTdx1v_GfwBNGPWobgV8mkoCLfsJMm9ApQC89XlWJEjBZ_wlIzwkt0Iqzk3DCjq6uhclLnglTaM/s350/032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="273" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaDj4RNJeEHUPS-Z-tKmWss_M5AD0L9BswU1z1JFGsQAsbJUhhYQQY1bZ2p8zlhKy9ZGB0QY4yeBecqDVnXn5NagJn-WlXUPRlnKP0RMX47xCcw1n3HnTdx1v_GfwBNGPWobgV8mkoCLfsJMm9ApQC89XlWJEjBZ_wlIzwkt0Iqzk3DCjq6uhclLnglTaM/s320/032.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Most
of the datas come from the essential Blues/ A Regional experience (Bob Eagle
& Eric LeBlanc). And a lot of thanks too to Lomax Digital Archive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lane Hardin</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 28 juillet 1935<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01. Hard time
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Desert</st1:placetype></st1:place> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lane
Hardin, vcl/g; bs. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ca. 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03. Cartey
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lane
Hardin, vcl/g. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ca. 1951<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04. Keep'em
down<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05. I'll be
glad when you're dead<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lucius Smith</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/bjo. Senatobia, Ms.
22 septembre 1959<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. Goodbye
honey<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. Lulu behave
yourself<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">John Dudley</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/g. Parchman, Ms. octobre 1959<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. Big road
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clarksdale</st1:place></st1:city> Mill blues I<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clarksdale</st1:place></st1:city> Mill blues II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. Cool drink
of water I<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Cool drink
of water II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14. I'm gonna
move to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15. Interview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:metricconverter productid="16. Po" w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. <st1:place w:st="on">Po</st1:place></span></b></st1:metricconverter><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">' boy blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17. You got a
mean disposition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miles Pratcher</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/g; Bob Pratcher,
fdl/vcls. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Como</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ms. 21 septembre 1959<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18. Bill Bailey<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19. Buttermilk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20. If it's all
night long<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. I'm gonna
live anyhow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22. Joe Turner<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. Old hen
cackle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">W.C. Clay</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/g. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Elaine</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ak</st1:state></st1:place>. 23 mai 1976<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24. King
biscuit time I & II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25. Keep it to
yourself<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26. Someday
baby blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27. Standing at
my window<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28. What'd I
say?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-49401552882796611842023-07-08T10:31:00.001+02:002023-07-08T10:31:10.808+02:00DELTA BLUES Volume 1/ Anthology of the blues<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">DELTA BLUES/ Anthology of the blues</h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7140546887491670351" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">DELTA BLUES/ Anthology of the Blues</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b0REBShgdiQ/VIBgJJttlsI/AAAAAAAACTU/kzpxk4z0YZs/s1600/Delta%2BBlues.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b0REBShgdiQ/VIBgJJttlsI/AAAAAAAACTU/kzpxk4z0YZs/s1600/Delta%2BBlues.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Tous les amateurs de blues du monde entier ont une affection particulière pour la région du Delta. Bien que personne nulle part n'en ait jamais apporté le moindre début de preuve - le blues ne serait-il pas bien davantage né parmi les songsters des medicine shows? -, le Delta passe pour avoir été le berceau du blues. Il s'agit d'une bande de terre située au sud de Memphis, entre le fleuve Mississippi et la rivière Yazoo. Ce territoire, paysage plat et désolé sauf dans le nord collineux, espèce de petite plaine alluviale soumise jadis à tous les caprices du fleuve, possède une atmosphère indéfinissable qui a frappé tous les visiteurs. On y hume des odeurs exotiques et épicées, proches de certains fonds des îles Caraïbes les plus reculées. Le blues semble baigner l'atmosphère des campagnes et des bourgades.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Le Delta blues est généralement rythmique, lancinant, hypnotique avec une figure de basse répétitive, souvent sur un seul accord décomposé en boucle. Très peu de ligne mélodique pour des textes singuliers et évocateurs. Plus qu'une histoire bien construite, le bluesman du Delta enfile des "versets flottants", tissant une trame poétique irrésistible. Cela confère à ce type de blues une qualité "ethnique" considérable qui a fasciné des générations de musiciens et d'amateurs. Il faut aussi noter que, même sur un territoire limité comme le Delta, l'unité de style est largement battue en brèche par des particularismes locaux importants. Le Nord de la région, Hill County, a donné naissance à un blues encore plus rythmique et encore moins mélodique avec, d'évidentes survivances des musiques Cherokees (le Delta était un territoire indien jusque dans les années 1880!). Dans la région de Bentonia, c'est un autre type de blues qui a vu le jour, presque entièrement joué en mode mineur, avec une ligne mélodique plus prononcée. On note aussi, dans les premiers enregistrements en provenance du Delta, l'existence de songsters, très influencés par l'old Time Music des nombreux immigrants Scots-Irish adeptes d'un fingerpicking régulier et d'un répertoire presque entièrement composé de folk songs et de pièces du Music Hall: Mississippi John Hurt, Joe Callicott et même, sur certains titres, Charlie Patton!...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"></div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><b>Napoleon Strickland</b> (né le 1er octobre 1919 à Como (Ms)- † le 21 juillet 2001 à Senatobia (Ms))</span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">est surtout connu pour avoir dirigé un des principaux "fife and drum bands", sortes d'orchestres sans cordes, tambours et flutes, comme on en trouve aussi beaucoup dans les communautés amérindiennes d'Amérique Centrale et du Sud. Mais il était aussi un excellent harmoniciste et guitariste fort influencé par son excellent voisin et ami Fred Mc Dowell. Les titres présentés ici sont pour la plupart inédits et permettent d'apprécier la variété des talents de cet important bluesman du Delta. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oLCzXF9Bqk4/VIBh5zKEMXI/AAAAAAAACTo/D3LdYTK5soI/s1600/SUTHERLANDBelton2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></a></div><b>Belton Sutherland</b> (né le 14 février 1909 à Holmes (Ms) - † le 7 octobre 1983 à Camden (Ms)) est un excellent bluesman qui n'a malheureusement été que brièvement enregistré chez lui en 1978.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Enfin, <b>Avery Brady</b>, né le 25 août 1912 autour de Clarksdale (Ms) a connu plusieurs grands créateurs du Delta blues, en particulier Charlie Patton avant de venir travailler à Chicago durant la guerre. Il n'a jamais été un musicien professionnel, ne jouant que pour ses amis et voisins. Découvert par Pete Welding, Brady a pu démontrer son jeu de guitare original (<i>Poor Kennedy</i> par exemple avec un doigté sur la gamme de Do) et sa capacité à composer des blues originaux tout en restant ancrés dans la tradition. Il avait certainement le potentiel d'enregistrer davantage et de se produire dans les festivals. Il est décédé à Chicago le 4 février 1977.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Gérard HERZHAFT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Every blues (and Rock) fan all over the world owes something to the "Delta blues". The Delta - without real evidence in fact - pass often for the true birthplace of the blues. The Delta is a region lately included inside the State of Mississippi, just South of Memphis, where the Mississippi and the Yazoo River form more or less the letter Δ. This territory was for a long time very isolated, frequently flooded and considered unsuitable for cultivation and thus left to the Cherokees and the Choctaws. The Delta was in fact an Indian territory until the 1880's when the new technologies opened it to colonization from other States and transformed this inhospitable land in a rich and fertile ground. The Native Americans were soon considered "colored" people and melted with numerous African Americans who came to work in the fields. And the music itself is the result of those mixed influences.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> The Delta blues is generally rhythmical with very often a modal construction, hypnotic bass figures, floating verses... a music <span class="tgtcoll">that remains in your head. But of course, even on a limited territory like the Delta, there was much more than one style of blues: if the North Hill Country fits quite well with the aforementioned description, the so called "Bentonia style" is quite different, more melodic. And since the very beginning, recordings coming from this area featured many songsters with a nimble fingerpicking like Mississippi John Hurt, strongly influenced by the music of the many Scots-Irish fiddlers and such who came there from Ulster during the XIXth Century.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span class="tgtcoll"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> <b>Napoleon Strickland</b> (1st October 1919, Como, Ms - † 21st July 2001, Senatobia, Ms) is mostly known for the recordings he made with his fife and drum band, an ensemble without strings very similar of bands found in Central and South America among Native Americans. Several of those bands were still playing into the 1960's in remote Southern areas. But Napoleon was also a very fine singer, harmonica and guitar player strongly influenced by his neighbour Fred Mc Dowell as can be appreciated here on those mostly unissued titles.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span class="tgtcoll"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oLCzXF9Bqk4/VIBh5zKEMXI/AAAAAAAACTo/D3LdYTK5soI/s1600/SUTHERLANDBelton2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oLCzXF9Bqk4/VIBh5zKEMXI/AAAAAAAACTo/D3LdYTK5soI/s1600/SUTHERLANDBelton2.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red;"><b>Belton Sutherland</b> (14 February 1909 in Holmes, Ms - † 7th October 1983, Camden, Ms) is quite an excellent Delta bluesman who has only been briefly recorded at home.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span class="tgtcoll"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> <b>Avery Brady</b>, born August, 25th, 1912 around Clarksdale met and knew several "Delta blues founders" like Charlie Patton before going to Chicago for better job opportunities during the war years. Never a professional musician, Brady played mostly for friends and neighbours. He nevertheless was a very original guitar player (<i>Poor Kennedy</i> for instance) and blues composer and was discovered and recorded by Pete Welding in Chicago in the mid-60's. He certainly had much more to give but never found again the path of the studios or the festival stages and died, mostly unknown, in Chicago on February, 4th, 1977.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span class="tgtcoll"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Gérard HERZHAFT</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="IT" style="font-family: Garamond;">NAPOLEON STRICKLAND</span></u></b><b><i><span lang="IT" style="font-family: Garamond;">, vcl/g/hca/d-bow. </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Como, Ms. 29 août 1978</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">01. Baby please don't go</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">02. Black Mattie</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">03. Diddley Bow medley</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">04. Louise</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">05. Rock me all night long</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">06. Sitting on top of the world</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">07. Woke up this morning</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Napoleon Strickland, vcl/hca. Como, Ms. 20 octobre 1980</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">08. Banty rooster</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">09. Cryin' won't make me stay</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family: Garamond;">BELTON SUTHERLAND</span></u></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">, vcl/g. Canton, Ms. 3 septembre 1978</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">10. Belton's blues</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">11. Got a sleeping</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">12. I have trouble</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">13. Kill the old grey mule</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">AVERY BRADY</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">, vcl/g. Chicago, Ill. 15 may 1964</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">14. Bad weather</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">15. City of New Orleans</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">16. Gangster blues</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">17. I have a woman</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Avery Brady, vcl/g. Chicago, Ill. 5 june 1964</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">18. Poor Kennedy I</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">19. Poor Kennedy II</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">20. Bad weather blues</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">Avery Brady, vcl/g. Chicago, Ill. march 1965</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">21. Let me drive your Ford</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">22. I don't want you no more</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">23. Gonna let you down</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">24. Goin' home with my baby</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">25. Uncle Sam's own ship</span></b></div></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-47270975508467973822023-06-20T13:58:00.002+02:002023-06-20T13:58:27.211+02:00SAM BAKER/ NASHVILLE SOUL BLUES<p> <b style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">SAM BAKER: NASHVILLE SOUL BLUES</b></p><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P9B-U0BO-pU/U9-bf8slpxI/AAAAAAAACBQ/TsGhtAwB0pU/s1600/BAKERSam+couv.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P9B-U0BO-pU/U9-bf8slpxI/AAAAAAAACBQ/TsGhtAwB0pU/s1600/BAKERSam+couv.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bien qu'il jouisse à juste titre d'une grosse réputation dans certains cercles férus de Soul, Sam Baker n'a jamais réussi à se faire connaître au-delà. Trop Soul pour les amateurs de blues, trop blues pour les tenants d'une Soul plus commerciale?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quoi qu'il en soit, Sam Baker a gravé dans les années 1960 une série de superbes 45t qui révèlent un chanteur expressif et vibrant, un ténor qui utilise fréquemment et pour le meilleur des effets de falsetto. Son oeuvre prend place parmi les meilleurs moments de la scène R&B de Nashville.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Né à Jackson, Ms, le 14 juin 1941 Baker est très jeune passionné par la musique, chante dans plusieurs orchestres locaux, côtoie Jimmy Reed et Clyde Mc Phatter. Il enregistre un seul 45t à Jackson sur un obscur petit label local. Malgré la présence d'un beau blues <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crazy about you baby</i>, le disque demeure confidentiel et Baker décide de gagner Nashville pour y tenter sa chance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Il semble devenir assez vite une figure familière des clubs de la ville puisque le D.J. Hoss Allen (qui produit ce qui est peut-être la première émission TV de R&B noir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The !!!Beat</i>) lui fait enregistrer trois 45t dont une magistrale version de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sweet little angel</i>. Après une séance à Miami, durant une tournée que Sam effectue en Floride, c'est le producteur John Richbourg, un des personnages clés de la scène du R&B de Nashville, qui, considérant que Baker a le potentiel de devenir une vedette, le fait signer pour son label Sound Stage Seven. Hélas, malgré l'excellence des séances enregistrées entre 1966 et 1969 (dont une à Memphis dans les studios Stax), Sam Baker ne connaît qu'un succès d'estime local et son contrat n'est plus renouvelé après 1969. Sam Baker quitte même Nashville dans les années 1970 pour retourner à Jackson où il s'occupera un peu de groupes de Gospel mais vivra en dehors de la musique</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3q26tJIb7rA/U9-bqI5K1EI/AAAAAAAACBY/yNql3vMJ8e4/s1600/BAKERSam1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3q26tJIb7rA/U9-bqI5K1EI/AAAAAAAACBY/yNql3vMJ8e4/s1600/BAKERSam1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Il sera finalement retrouvé par des collectionneurs dans une maison de retraite de Jackson, malheureusement confiné sur une chaise roulante à la suite d'une attaque cérébrale.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Gérard HERZHAFT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Although he is highly praised among some circles, Sam Baker has never been able to be known as the major name his talents would have qualified him to be. Too "Soul" for the hardcore blues buffs, particularly during the 1960's and 1970's? Too "blues" and downhome for the Sweet Soul fans?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anyway, Sam Baker has recorded during the 1960's some of the best R&B records coming out from Nashville. Baker's soulful, crying tenor voice makes almost every number he sings a winner, whether deep blues or ballads.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Born at Jackson, Ms, on June, 14th, 1941; Baker starts to sing while a teenager with local bands and even opens for Jimmy Reed and Clyde Mc Phatter. While in Jackson, he records his first single in 1959 for a tiny label with an excellent blues, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crazy about you baby</i>. Baker, finding Jackson a little bit limited for his musical ambitions, goes to Nashville to try his luck.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He seems to have quickly become a familiar figure in R&B clubs and Hoss Allen, a DJ who was then launching what it might have been the very first black R&B TV programme (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The !!!Beat</i>), takes him under his wing and brings him in the Nashville studios for three excellent singles and a superlative version of Tampa Red's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sweet little angel</i>. After another 45 recorded in Miami while on tour in Florida, Sam Baker signs with John Richbourg's fledgling label, Sound Stage Seven. Unfortunately, despite the very high level of the subsequent sessions (one in the Stax Studios at Memphis), real success eludes Sam and his contract ends in 1969, putting a final point to Sam Baker's recording career. The man even goes back to Jackson where he will participate at some Gospel sessions. But he will mostly have to make a living outside the music business.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He will finally been rediscovered in the 1990's, living in a nursing home and confined to a wheelchair after a stroke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">Gérard HERZHAFT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tous mes remerciements à/ A lot of thanks to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Red Kelly (<a href="http://redkelly.blogspot.fr/2008/09/sam-baker-comin-to-bring-you-some-soul.html">http://redkelly.blogspot.fr/2008/09/sam-baker-comin-to-bring-you-some-soul.html</a>) et/ and John Ridley (<a href="http://www.sirshambling.com/">http://www.sirshambling.com/</a>) qui ont permis la rédaction de cet article.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">SAM BAKER</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Complete Recordings</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; Johnny Jones, g; band. Jackson, Ms. 1959</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01. Crazy about you baby</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02. So long</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; Johnny Jones, g; Skippy Brooks, pno; prob. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, g; Billy Cox, bs; Freeman Brown, dms. Nashville, Tn. 1964</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03. Storming and raining blues</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04. Keep on scratchin'</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05. You’d better check what you got</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. Storming and raining</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. He'll be sorry</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. Once upon a time </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Nancy Cohen, vcls)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; Skippy Brooks, pno; George Yates, g; Jimi Hendrix, g; Mal Mc Millon, t-sax; Johnny Green, b-sax; James Watkins, bs; Freeman Brown, dms. Nashville, Tn. 1965</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. Sweet little angel</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. Best of luck to you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. Tossin' and turnin'</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. The Bump</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; band. Nashville, Tn. 1965</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Do right man</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14. You can't see the blood</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15. What did Sister do?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. Sometimes you have to cry</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17. Something tells me</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; band. Nashville, Tn. 1966</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18. Let me come on home</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19. Someone bigger than I and you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20. Don't feel rained on</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. Just a glance away</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22. Safe in the arms of love</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; band. Memphis, Tn. 1967</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. I can't turn her loose</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24. That's all I want for you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25. I believe in you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26. I'm number one</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27. I can't stand it</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28. Sunny</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; Johnny Jones, g; Larry Lee, g; Skippy Brooks, pno; Harrison Calloway, tpt; Pete Drake, st-g; Billy Cox, bs; Freeman Brown, dms. Nashville, Tn. 1968</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29. Coming to bring you some Soul</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30. I can't break away</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31. Slow down baby</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32. Strange sensation</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33. Sugarman</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34. Why does a woman treat me so bad?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sam Baker, vcl; band. Nashville, Tn. 1969</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35. Hold back girl</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36. I love you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">37. It's all over</span></b></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><br />Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-61464647333946593702023-05-21T10:23:00.005+02:002023-05-21T11:44:34.864+02:00LOUISIANA RED: Complete Recordings 1952-1973<p> </p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1890690714719461064" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">LOUISIANA RED/ Complete Early recordings</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><i> (Re-post with new links)</i></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IjZ4GQzF9Ts/VKU8aKfC9iI/AAAAAAAACYI/CaMRQP_1aGE/s1600/Louisiana%2BRed%2Bblue%2Beye.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IjZ4GQzF9Ts/VKU8aKfC9iI/AAAAAAAACYI/CaMRQP_1aGE/s1600/Louisiana%2BRed%2Bblue%2Beye.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Voici l'intégrale des premiers enregistrements effectués par Iverson Minter dit Louisiana Red.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Comme nombre de ses contemporains bluesmen, Red était un grand raconteur d'histoires et sa vie qu'il relatait reflétait davantage ce que voulaient entendre ceux qui l'interrogeaient que la réalité. Il est probablement né le 23 mars 1932 à Bessemer (Alabama) bien qu'il ait indiqué plusieurs autres lieux comme Vicksburg (Ms). Il a sans doute été orphelin assez jeune bien que là aussi les circonstances des décès de ses parents sont confuses. Minter a prétendu avoir été élevé à La Nouvelle Orléans dans le même orphelinat que Louis Armstrong mais ce qui est sûr c'est qu'il a grandi auprès de ses grands parents à Pittsburgh (Ohio) et qu'il n'a probablement jamais vécu en Louisiane. Encore adolescent, Iverson Minter part chercher du travail dans l'industrie automobile à Detroit, apprend la guitare avec les disques de Lightnin' Hopkins et Muddy Waters et se retrouve jouer ici et là dans des clubs en compagnie de John Lee Hooker et Eddie Burns qui lui apprend aussi l'harmonica. C'est l'infatigable producteur Joe Von Battle qui en 1952-53 l'enregistre sous le surnom de Rocky Fuller qu'il lui donne pour la circonstance, trouvant Iverson Minter invendable! Ces enregistrements démontrent le côté caméléon de Minter qu'il conservera toujours, cette capacité à imiter de façon convaincante un peu tous les musiciens qu'il côtoie. Il grave même un titre, peut-être à Chicago (il prétendait l'avoir fait par téléphone!!!), pour Chess accompagné de Little Walter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Encore une séance avec son mentor John Lee Hooker et notre homme part tenter sa chance à New York City. Il est vite remarqué par le producteur Bobby Robinson qui lui fait graver un single pour son label Atlas. C'est à ce moment seulement que Iverson Minter/Rocky Fuller prend le nom de Louisiana Red, là aussi probablement une idée du producteur Robinson. Mais son heure de gloire va arriver en octobre 1962 grâce à un autre grand producteur noir, Henry Glover, un des hommes-clés du label King, qui, cherchant de nouveaux talents à New York pour le compte de Morris Levy, un homme d'affaires qui vient de créer Roulette, un label aux dents longues, rencontre Louisiana Red dans un club et lui fait enregistrer dans la foulée <i>Red's dream</i>, une resucée du <i>I had a dream</i> de Big Bill Broonzy mais remise au goût du jour avec des allusions à la crise des missiles, Kennedy, Cuba et un zeste de droits civiques. Le titre s'installe dans le Top 100 R&B durant plusieurs semaines en 1963.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Après sa rencontre en 1965 avec Herb Abramson d'Atlantic qui a une évidente affection pour lui, Louisiana Red est souvent en studio avec différents accompagnateurs newyorkais pour des séances plus ou moins informelles dont seulement une petite partie paraîtra en album au début des années 1970. Remarquablement servi par ses sidemen, avec d'excellents arrangements, Louisiana Red y apparaît au sommet de son art: chanteur profond, guitariste de blues multiforme avec un slide tranchant (au style de Muddy, Red a ajouté celui d'Elmore James qu'il a rencontré chez Bobby Robinson), compositions élaborées qui font souvent mouche...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JLPaG-PtsQM/VKU8uZtAyPI/AAAAAAAACYQ/kIOgCEHXAYQ/s1600/Louisianaredcov.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #c81a00; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JLPaG-PtsQM/VKU8uZtAyPI/AAAAAAAACYQ/kIOgCEHXAYQ/s1600/Louisianaredcov.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Mais cela n'apporte pas grand' chose à Red qui, presque sans engagements américains, décide de partir tenter sa chance en Europe où il finira par se fixer définitivement en Allemagne, se mariant et tournant sans cesse sur le continent européen. Il enregistrera quantité d'albums, souvent en solo, parfois avec des groupes locaux. Sa créativité semblera quelque peu émoussée au fil des ans et ses prestations scéniques qui pouvaient être remarquables un bon jour laissaient malheureusement assez souvent une impression d'inachevé. On le vit même quitter abruptement la scène pour... ne pas rater une émission de télévision à son hôtel!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Red décède à Hanovre le 26 février 2012.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Merci à tous ceux qui ont rendu possible cette "intégrale" de la première (et meilleure) œuvre de Louisiana Red</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Gérard HERZHAFT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"><u><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/c6pouw9sa487kqu/LRed_disco.pdf/file">LOUISIANA RED/ Discography</a></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Like many true bluesmen, Red was a great storyteller and his early life as he told to his interviewers was not always the same and reflected first what they wanted to hear. Minter was probably born in Bessemer (Alabama) on March, 23d, 1932 (and not Vicksburg, Ms as he so often said) and he lost his parents at an early age. He also said he was boarded in a New Orleans orphanage but it's more probable that he was brought up by his grand parents in Pittsburgh (Ohio). Whatever, Minter went to seek work around 1949 in the automobile industry in Detroit, learning there how to play the guitar (listening to records by Lightnin' Hopkins and Muddy Waters), started to play in the early 1950's in local clubs and meeting John Lee Hooker (with whom he will record) and Eddie Burns who taught him the harmonica. Anyway, Minter started to record in 1952-53 thanks to the indefatigable Detroit producer Joe Von Battle and under the name, Rocky Fuller (given by Joe who thought he couldn't sell Iverson Minter). Those very early records show Minter's ability (he will always keep) to impersonate any other bluesman's style. In odd and unclear circumstances, Red also recorded one title for Chess backed by no one other than Little Walter!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> During the late 1950's, our man went to New York City to try his luck and meeting producer Bobby Robinson waxed a single for his Atlas label. Bobby gave him then a new nom de disque that would stick: Louisiana Red. But better things will appear for Red in fall 1962 when another African American ace producer, Henry Glover, searching talents for a new ambitious label, Morris Levy's Roulette, saw Red in a New York club and hurried him in the studios, backed only by bass and drums (the superlative Panama Francis), to record a long session from which Red's dream (a very clever adaptation of Broonzy's I had a dream with references to Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro, the UN and the Civic Rights) climbed in the R&B charts and stayed there for some weeks in the early 1963.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Then, Red met Atlantic's producer Herb Abramson who seemed to like him very much and recorded him quite regularly. But unfortunately only some tracks were issued as an album in the early 1970's. Those sessions stand probably as the very best of Red's recordings. He is at the peak of his talents, a strong and flexible voice, a wonderful guitarist able to play regular or slide guitar (he had met Elmore James in New York thanks to Bobby Robinson), backed by some of the best New York session blues players, varied and carefully chosen material, excellently produced... Certainly some of the best blues coming from those years.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> But those didn't bring too much to Red who decided to try his luck this time in Europe where he was cheerfully welcomed. Although he would live for a while in Phoenix (Az), his hectic European tour schedule and the meeting of his wife in Germany, persuaded him to settle there permanently. He will then constantly appear on stages, clubs, festivals, recording dozens of LPs and CDs... Although he was sometimes great, his performances tended to become often tedious and he seemed sometimes not involved. We even saw him stop abruptly his show and quit the stage to hurry to his hotel to watch a TV programme he wouldn't want to miss!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Red died in Hanover (Germany) on 26 February 2012.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> A lot of thanks to all those who made possible this "complete" compilation.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> <span> </span><span> Gérard HERZHAFT</span></span></i></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: #f0e9e1; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); color: #797465; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;"></div></div></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-89136145820524837962023-04-22T11:00:00.002+02:002023-04-22T11:02:13.164+02:00CLIFF BUTLER<p> </p><p align="center" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">CLIFF BUTLER<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p align="center" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZ14fj83aum2cLrniYAwcVLwYy1RCiCpQqt2gsPLDKB3jG_amDXTu6E-fgn0E-nr3phmV5mJeYDxZ7tkXMuCONZ3Mm9gMTLmY7mUpjq7DmU1EhyxOe9pDe-Modig_EFq3dqx7H5lNXfI5iw3r-vGoBzC7ynN-98t2hWZ8cz6w6-XM4ZhHitQs4TTdhg/s1500/Butler%20cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZ14fj83aum2cLrniYAwcVLwYy1RCiCpQqt2gsPLDKB3jG_amDXTu6E-fgn0E-nr3phmV5mJeYDxZ7tkXMuCONZ3Mm9gMTLmY7mUpjq7DmU1EhyxOe9pDe-Modig_EFq3dqx7H5lNXfI5iw3r-vGoBzC7ynN-98t2hWZ8cz6w6-XM4ZhHitQs4TTdhg/w400-h400/Butler%20cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></strong></div><strong><br /></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">R&B
and Gospel singer Cliff Butler is mainly known for a few tracks and only among
hardcore R&B buffs. He has nevertheless recorded substantially through
three decades and on several kinds of music.<o:p></o:p></span></strong><p></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cliff Butler was born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">KY</st1:state></st1:place>
on 17 October 1922. His mother died while he was a little boy, he never knew
his father and was raised by his Aunt Tobe. Cliff started music at an early age
playing in a local jug band. He also studied music at High School and entered
the Army before returning to <st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city> to
launch his musical career, leading a strong R&B band that played in local
clubs; private parties while <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Butler</st1:place></st1:city>
had his own radio show, The cliff Butler Show.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In 1947 he made his first records in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> with his long
time accompanist, piano player Ben Holton. Despite not selling in quantities,
those discs draw the attention of producer Henry Glover who took <st1:city w:st="on">Butler</st1:city>'s band to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:place></st1:city>
to record for the fledgling King Records with a great John Woods on guitar.
While keeping his <st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city> base, Cliff managed
to record subsequently for many labels whether in Chicago (wonderful States
45s) or <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nashville</st1:place></st1:city>,
sometimes with a doo-woop group like the Doves. At the end of the 50's, the
kind of R&B played by <st1:city w:st="on">Butler</st1:city> being less
favored by audiences, Cliff stayed in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Louisville</st1:place></st1:city>,
recording for local small labels, playing in clubs but having to make a better
living working outside music.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV6vBJig1iKuClyu1kOhN0xn6tjA2aLQTgOYEo7pYJvVQ5BKXQZeF2Ws90ZWuZf2euobaAu9WhleKbUFxw302SaF14ZXDXdqlJdRrBrBabHE_j1uxds0pVN9fZ4Da9y_3xx2WsZky-cUBfF2ZwJDXYCp1zb-h95FxXY9t9himGB-bu-g1IDXqUr_1gwQ/s1400/BUTLERCliff%20band.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="1400" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV6vBJig1iKuClyu1kOhN0xn6tjA2aLQTgOYEo7pYJvVQ5BKXQZeF2Ws90ZWuZf2euobaAu9WhleKbUFxw302SaF14ZXDXdqlJdRrBrBabHE_j1uxds0pVN9fZ4Da9y_3xx2WsZky-cUBfF2ZwJDXYCp1zb-h95FxXY9t9himGB-bu-g1IDXqUr_1gwQ/w400-h265/BUTLERCliff%20band.jpg" title="Cliff Butler band c. 1947. Courtesy of Lamont Butler and Blues & Rhythm magazine" width="400" /></a></strong></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cliff Butler band c. 1947. Courtesy of Lamont Butler and Blues & Rhythm magazine<br /></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When he suffered an heart attack,
Cliff Butler decided to drop the R&B to turn into church. He became a
esteemed bishop and recorded an excellent Gospel album in 1971. He died January
13<sup>th</sup> <st1:metricconverter productid="1982 in" w:st="on">1982 in</st1:metricconverter>
his <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Louisville</st1:place></st1:city>
home.</span></strong></p><p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Most of those infos come from the
Keith Clements's work published in the excellent British blues magazine <a href="http://www.bluesandrhythm.co.uk">Blues
& Rhythm</a> n°195.</span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thanks to the friends who provided me
some of the rarest tracks here. Several are still missing. If anyone who would
own them would like to send a .mp3 copy, it'd fill those gapes.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #993300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Ben Holton, pno;
t-sax; g. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
1947<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01.
Benny's boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02.
Please don't say we're through<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03.
She's really sweet to me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04.
You bring happiness to me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #993300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl;t-sax; Ben Holton,
pno; John Woods, g; Ben Ingram, bs; dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:place></st1:city>,
Oh. 27 june 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05.
Crying blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06.
Gold diggin' baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07.
When you love you'd love from the heart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08.
Shame on you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09.
I dream such foolish dreams<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10.
Hearts only ache<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #993300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nashville</st1:place></st1:city>,
Tn. december 1951</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lucky me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I love so much it hurts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Can't get her off my mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Boogie with Lou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #993300; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Leon Washington,
t-sax; Ben Holton, pno; g; bs; Red Saunders, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
17 november 1952<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. You're my honey but the bees
don't know it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. Adam's rib<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Benny's blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Dick Davis, t-sax; Ben
Holton, pno; g; Jimmy Richardson, bs; The Doves, vcls; Red Saunders, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
29 june 1953</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13.
People will talk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14.
Jealous hearted woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15.
When you love<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Ben Holton, pno; Dick
Davis, t-sax; Eggie Porter, g; bs; dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> april 1956</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16.
No faith in you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17.
You name it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18.
Bennies boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19.
Listen to me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Don Q. Pullen, pno;
Stanley Hemphill, g; John Palmer, bs; Sid King, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nashville</st1:place></st1:city>, Tn. november 1956</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20.
Rent's too high<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21.
Fool<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Ben Holton, org/pno;
band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ky.</st1:state></st1:place> february 1957</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22.
My mood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23.
On my mind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Andy Jackson, t-sax;
band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ky.</st1:state></st1:place> may 1957</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24.
Andy jumps<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Beer mash blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Ben Holton, pno; band.
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nashville</st1:place></st1:city>, Tn.
may 1958</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25.
Devoted to you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26.
That's how I go for you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27.
Love one another<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28.
Let us break bread together<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; Ben Holton, pno;
band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nashville</st1:place></st1:city>, Tn. september 1958</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29.
Lover's plea<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30.
Shame on you n°2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; The Lovers, band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ky.</st1:state></st1:place>
1959</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31.
Everybody needs somebody<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32.
I can't believe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cliff Butler, vcl; The Sun-Rays, vcls;
band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ky.</st1:state></st1:place> 1960</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33.
No treason in my heart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lucky me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bishop Cliff Butler, vcl; Congregation
& band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Louisville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ky.</st1:state></st1:place> 1971</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34.
Love one another<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35.
He is God<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36.
Everybody's doing their thing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">37.
When I've done my best<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">38.
Jesus on my mind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">39.
No one ever cared for me like Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">40.
Smile<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYH9mtjv164SLcp8c6ne6aUS7B3w0ybrHKFVQ0Ql5IepiVa8KRiAtgCcG1Lbn5Wu23fQArqnLQ_tFtmNfPwMbi8Eou3XgfM7TqtQOOP2gUOzRaYYo-3Bn2PvNlWIkyd3I-fTPmF_TOGfynDryvMgC8ioW_IIWHAOXDILfdlvdYcszPMRzMe3bDEzE8nA/s599/Bishop%20Cliff%20Butler%201.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="597" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYH9mtjv164SLcp8c6ne6aUS7B3w0ybrHKFVQ0Ql5IepiVa8KRiAtgCcG1Lbn5Wu23fQArqnLQ_tFtmNfPwMbi8Eou3XgfM7TqtQOOP2gUOzRaYYo-3Bn2PvNlWIkyd3I-fTPmF_TOGfynDryvMgC8ioW_IIWHAOXDILfdlvdYcszPMRzMe3bDEzE8nA/w318-h320/Bishop%20Cliff%20Butler%201.jpg" width="318" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinVCOBWnM93dJgGBTpxJoh_HagnEW8FQRZsTu56RVNHqCKxkjnL4omYYYU6Qd9EueweFpww0hE6-YJ-P-fxSmccnWf4_7m2EIlLh7bV5fy_59X63RHhX1yyqIFmGYDR7LgHpudkGCi5MGsUd2TuNz6IzcMMuJPy8E_uzJPH2ZKcJr3MWXyphOKLCZRA/s600/Bishop%20Cliff%20Butler%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="600" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinVCOBWnM93dJgGBTpxJoh_HagnEW8FQRZsTu56RVNHqCKxkjnL4omYYYU6Qd9EueweFpww0hE6-YJ-P-fxSmccnWf4_7m2EIlLh7bV5fy_59X63RHhX1yyqIFmGYDR7LgHpudkGCi5MGsUd2TuNz6IzcMMuJPy8E_uzJPH2ZKcJr3MWXyphOKLCZRA/s320/Bishop%20Cliff%20Butler%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b><p></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-64910191084682254282023-04-06T11:23:00.003+02:002023-04-06T11:25:09.346+02:00LADIES SING THE BLUES/ Volumes 1-3 / New Links<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> LADIES SING THE BLUES</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Volumes 1-3/ New Links</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Beaucoup de problèmes désormais avec Zippy (qui n'est plus actif), Mediafire etc... Par demande de plusieurs lecteurs, voici les trois premiers volumes de la série </span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: red;"> A lot of troubles nowadays with Zippy (which has stopped), Mediafire and such... To answer queries, here are new links of our series about Ladies. The links are in the comments section. Grab them while it lasts! The articles and the discographies on each volume are still on the initial place on this blog.</span></span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> LADIES SING THE BLUES/ Vol. 1-3</span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Avec de nouveaux liens qui, espérons le, existeront un peu plus longtemps (cf la partie commentaires). 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SING THE BLUES Volume 6<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.35pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPAsPuYqu7j4JtjHuxpWXOe75hdZSyTCsbpLK56l_l_JIccOKw4PbwJYw8HS1fiej8gcwTVWD9BhUNcbVRtBbGxO6FwOY7EWmzT7fhyNeSmx2y4UDmiymLnCEmZLm5bwFMGu4oE82LkURHWIhsQraY-BtqRWiTwXAsT-LYpt6kAT5kAvsTzkGWL7b5A/s1500/ladies%20Blue%20Eye%206.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPAsPuYqu7j4JtjHuxpWXOe75hdZSyTCsbpLK56l_l_JIccOKw4PbwJYw8HS1fiej8gcwTVWD9BhUNcbVRtBbGxO6FwOY7EWmzT7fhyNeSmx2y4UDmiymLnCEmZLm5bwFMGu4oE82LkURHWIhsQraY-BtqRWiTwXAsT-LYpt6kAT5kAvsTzkGWL7b5A/w400-h400/ladies%20Blue%20Eye%206.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Our
6<sup>th</sup> volume of our <b>Ladies sing
the blues series</b> start with the (almost) complete work of <b>Bea Booze</b> (or Wea Bea Booze). Beatrice
Booze was born 23 March <st1:metricconverter productid="1912 in" w:st="on">1912
in</st1:metricconverter> <st1:city w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:city>, started to
sing and play guitar at an early age, appeared in several <st1:place w:st="on">Harlem</st1:place>
clubs before being signed by Decca in 1942 to emulate Lil Green's success. Her <i>See see rider blues</i> climbed to n°1 on
Billboard. She recorded again after the war with Sammy Price, Andy Kirk, George
Kelly. Bea died 11 November <st1:metricconverter productid="1986 in" w:st="on">1986
in</st1:metricconverter> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Scottsville</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">KY.</st1:state></st1:place> Although she has recorded
once under the name of Muriel Nichols, she has no relationship with the jazz
singer of the same name. We are missing her 1962 odd two tracks she recorded
with her friend Sammy Price for Stardust.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1w3ea4ArHkeWuJF2TGDefI0yTrT3nwgkO6qA_DGI17ljy3zcIo0sVIR8KEFCy3lufSiWjgQGSVNN3-wHBiF9bxO-icplR1dGxCR85XQLWuj5vSz0na4FnZbzY-KSXfsqIklSadbDudhAXdjBVqJ_nKQpHPK0dovwPW42_V5b7cxQ29DuXZqWGq_c1Q/s1600/s-l1600.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1247" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1w3ea4ArHkeWuJF2TGDefI0yTrT3nwgkO6qA_DGI17ljy3zcIo0sVIR8KEFCy3lufSiWjgQGSVNN3-wHBiF9bxO-icplR1dGxCR85XQLWuj5vSz0na4FnZbzY-KSXfsqIklSadbDudhAXdjBVqJ_nKQpHPK0dovwPW42_V5b7cxQ29DuXZqWGq_c1Q/w156-h200/s-l1600.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">Singer
</span><b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">Ramona Hicks</b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> who recorded six nice
tracks in </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
is still largely an unknown. Her real name seems to have been Lillie Mae
Kirkman.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: justify;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Little Tiny Kennedy</b> is generally confused with Tiny Kennedy, the
male blues shouter who recorded for Trumpet (and even so in Blues
Discography!), she is a good female singer of her own who seems to have been
for a short time Tiny Bradshaw band's vocalist. She recorded only two tracks
that are featured there.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6zy72VfCT_MBsDQW4mMrqqRFsodun7tZ4IWU6d1QVUhF34UgX3tfQwtLKUMYZO_4XRD2MOZzULMay1uuEWvfQ_4WX_BBuoh7UxIfCyAEgUCKOa327cBwGn5-JeKKzBhGMgYbSRFdeNaFJQkdALbdO2gvMxDqWX4OuBjijf5dOX9tVsYwAnA4nS8hOeQ/s640/Betty%20Lou%20grave.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6zy72VfCT_MBsDQW4mMrqqRFsodun7tZ4IWU6d1QVUhF34UgX3tfQwtLKUMYZO_4XRD2MOZzULMay1uuEWvfQ_4WX_BBuoh7UxIfCyAEgUCKOa327cBwGn5-JeKKzBhGMgYbSRFdeNaFJQkdALbdO2gvMxDqWX4OuBjijf5dOX9tVsYwAnA4nS8hOeQ/w200-h150/Betty%20Lou%20grave.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;">At
last we have the delicious </span><b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;">Betty Lou
DeMorrow</b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;">. Her ten very bluesy tracks are witty double-entendre bawdy
numbers that she recorded with Western Swing veteran and guitarist Dick Hartman
under the band's name of Hartman's Heartbreakers. Betty was born Carrie
Beatrice Clontz on 27 April </span><st1:metricconverter productid="1898 in" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;" w:st="on">1898
in</st1:metricconverter><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;"> </span><st1:place style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Gaston</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-align: left;">. She married Ernest Goodman in
1914 and she died in Rowan, NC on 9 April 1982. It seems she didn't recorded
elsewhere although she seems to have been involved in Carolina Country Music
scene most of her lifetime. One of her daughter Hope Powell was one of the prominent
photographer of Country stars like Dolly Parton.<br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WEE BEA
BOOZE</span></u></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
(Beatrice Booze aka Muriel Nichols)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,
vcl/g; Sammy Price, pno: bs; dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 19-27 march 1942<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01.
If I'm a fool<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02.
I love to Georgia Brown so slow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03.
Uncle Sam come and get me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04.
If I didn't love you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05.
See see rider blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06.
Let's be friends<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07.
Catching as catch can<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08.
War rationing papa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bea Booze, vcl; Sammy Price, pno; Abe Bolar, bs; Doc
West, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
3 march 1944<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09.
Mr Freddie blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Gulf</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Coast</st1:placetype></st1:place> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11.
So good<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bea Booze, vcl; Floyd Smith, g; Hank Jones, pno; Andy
Kirk Orchestra. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
1946<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12.
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alabama</st1:place></st1:state> bound<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13.
Doggin' man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bea Booze, vcl; Her Dixielanders, band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>, 1946</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14.
See see rider<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Wee Bea Booze, vcl; Larry Johnson, pno/og; George
Kelly, t-sax; Chris Powell, bs; <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Panama</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Francis, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>,
2 march 1951<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15.
Don't tell me nothing about my man<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16.
Easy riding blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17.
I just ain't feeling right<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18.
I'm gonna put you down<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">RAMONA
HICKS </span></u></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Lillie Mae
Kirkman)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>,</u> vcl; Buster Bennett,
a-sax; Jimmy Adams, vb; Aletha Dickerson, pno; Leroy Brown, bs. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
15 may 1939<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19.
Ramona blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20.
Where the eagle builds his nest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21.
Evil and blue<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22.
Don't be like me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23.
Tell my mama on you </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl:
Reavely Randall)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24.
I must have it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">LITTLE
TINY KENNEDY</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, vcl;
Leslie Ayres, tpt; Jimmy Coe, a-sax; Rufus Gore, t-sax; Alexander Nelson,
b-sax; Jimmy Robinson, pno; Willie Gaddy, g; Clarence Mack, bs; Calvin Shields,
dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:place></st1:city>,
Oh. 27 february 1952</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">25. Rippin' and runnin'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">26. Newspaper boy blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(This
Tiny Kennedy is a female singer and absolutely not Jess "Tiny"
Kennedy the male black shouter)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">BETTY LOU
DEMORROW</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl; Dick Hartman, g; Harry
Blair, g; Cecil Campbell, bjo; Elmer Warren, fdl; Fred "Happy"
Morris, bs; Pappy Wolfe, saw/wbd/perc. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>. 22 june 1936</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27. Fetch it on down to my house<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28. Give it to me daddy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29. Let me play with it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30. Oh sweet daddy oo pshaw!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31. Please Mr Moon don't tell on
me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32. Grandma and Grandpa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33. Feels good<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34. No hugging or kissing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Betty Lou De Morrow, vcl; Dick Hartman, g; Harry
Blair, g; Cecil Campbell, bjo; Garnett Warren, fdl; Fred "Happy"
Morris, bs; Pappy Wolfe, saw/wbd/perc. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>. 11 october 1936</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:metricconverter productid="35. A" w:st="on"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35. A</span></b></st1:metricconverter><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
night in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Carolina</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36. My Southern movements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-43078444905251292312023-02-20T13:35:00.003+01:002023-02-20T13:35:24.449+01:00TEXAS BLUES YESTERDAY/ Volume 11<p> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TEXAS</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> BLUES YESTERDAY/ Volume 11<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqypecwd-iaHWHfUnJQOpM3k3q03ktw3THBQJAm9HwS7syyamz7wy3py5Ffv1OfB6CKRymXJxP9dhQzLawYCfMS3mmVLZ90bMdH_ZLZr0pngUx9UZ-_lrdlspSPOz95k9yiBgOc45WasMlOhBspVRWC39hA_9vzxo5zv7ud3miP2v3JQAjaCSOmmIYQ/s1500/Texas%20blues%2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqypecwd-iaHWHfUnJQOpM3k3q03ktw3THBQJAm9HwS7syyamz7wy3py5Ffv1OfB6CKRymXJxP9dhQzLawYCfMS3mmVLZ90bMdH_ZLZr0pngUx9UZ-_lrdlspSPOz95k9yiBgOc45WasMlOhBspVRWC39hA_9vzxo5zv7ud3miP2v3JQAjaCSOmmIYQ/w400-h400/Texas%20blues%2011.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> This
post brings to the fore the Texas piano blues school, a big amount of piano
players generally labelled as "Santa Fe piano blues" because the
pioneers of the genre were playing in the juke joints scattered along the
railway stations of the ATSF (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe), a line that
starting in Kansas brought travellers and goods to Santa Fe in New Mexico
through Texas.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of
the pioneer of this style is the enigmatic <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andy
Boy </b>(probably Anthony Boyd), born in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Galveston</st1:place></st1:city>
on 10<sup>th</sup> November 1904. His playing has touches of older ragtime and
he recorded behind Joe Pullum and Walter Cowboy <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state>
as well as eight beautiful titles in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San
Antonio</st1:place></st1:city> in 1937. One don't know when and where he
died. He was heard in the 50's in the juke joints of <st1:city w:st="on">Kansas
City</st1:city> although <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blues/ A
regional experience</i> gives <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York</st1:place></st1:state> as the possible place of his death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtUnGlBzekSQFZYwEAN5vj5CosfGaAVkjDIkfGDfZS_AjbTkx-f0l3uYdITx2eb3M7UW1LAhMVz-gMilV3PqQn4K1X3TN3Tui7h-x-ZdoqFarUpv3EJ4J6A_Ib3T5wyGtN7RreAJU6EvhCFLaTHN1Hwyf4zHTYwXFGlybqMXP3MUxQ8KR9mXAWOPKwQ/s760/Gilliam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="760" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtUnGlBzekSQFZYwEAN5vj5CosfGaAVkjDIkfGDfZS_AjbTkx-f0l3uYdITx2eb3M7UW1LAhMVz-gMilV3PqQn4K1X3TN3Tui7h-x-ZdoqFarUpv3EJ4J6A_Ib3T5wyGtN7RreAJU6EvhCFLaTHN1Hwyf4zHTYwXFGlybqMXP3MUxQ8KR9mXAWOPKwQ/w320-h319/Gilliam.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Earl Gilliam</b> was born at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lafayette</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place>
on 13 January 1930. But he was raised at New Waverly, Tx. where he started to
play the piano in his local church at an early age. Trying to make a living
with his music, Earl went to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city>
and found quickly a job as the piano man of Gatemouth Brown's band. He stayed
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city>
almost all his life, playing constantly in local venues, bars and joints. He
played as a solo act as well as an accompanist for many bluesmen like Albert
Collins, Albert King, Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Big Mama Thornton. He
also played with Western Swing bands like the famous Light Crust Doughboys
which allowed him to make his debut recordings under his name on the Sarg
label, mostly a Western Swing and Hillbilly Music label. He only recorded a
handful of numbers between 1955 and 1968 (all are here). This is while backing
Joe Hughes that he as "rediscovered" and recorded at last a whole excellent
album in 2004 for the Dialtone label. Gilliam died <span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">19
october 2011 at his home of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tomball</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Tx</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Connie Mack Booker</b> is the pianist of
dozens of sessions throughout the years behind a big amount of artists (B.B.
King, Jr Parker, Blues Boy Jones, Johnny Copeland etc...) he has not been very
well documented. Born on 2 May 1931 at <st1:city w:st="on">Edinburg</st1:city>,
Tx. Connie was raised at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city>,
starting to play a deep and bluesy style of piano in the clubs as soon as 1948.
He recorded under his name a small amount of tracks that we have been able to
gather here, I guess for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A lot
of thanks to Tom Thumb and Jose Yraberra for their help, sharing some of the
rarest tracks on this collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ANDY BOY</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/pno. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:place></st1:city>, Tx. 24 February
1937</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01. Evil blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02. House raid
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03. Too late
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04. Church Street</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05. Out o'line
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. Lonesome
with the blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. Jive blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. Yellow gal
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EARL GILLIAM</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, vcl/pno;
Lucian Davis, a-sax; Gene Burke, t-sax; Russell Willis, g; Donald Cooks, bs;
Leo Hopkins, dms. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city>,
Tx. may 1955<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. Don't make
me late baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. Nobody's
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. Wrong doing
woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. Petite baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Earl
Gilliam, vcl/pno; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">B.J.</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Brooks</st1:placetype></st1:place>, t-sax; g; bs;
Ivory Lee Semier, dms. Houston, Tx. 1962</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Just you
and I<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earl Gilliam, vcl/pno;
band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:city>,
Tx. c. 1968<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14. Funky twist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. Going back home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CONNIE MACK BOOKER</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, pno; Eddie
Green, dms; L.C. Williams, vcl. Houston, Tx. june 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. Shout baby
boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17. Rich women
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Connie
Mack Booker, vcl/pno; Goree Carter, g; band. Houston, Tx. 1949<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18. Loretta<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19. You're
trying to bring me down<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20. Rich woman
blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. My baby
left me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Connie
Mack Booker, vcl/pno; Henry Hayes, a-sax; Ed Wiley, t-sax; Goree Carter, g;
Donald Cooks, bs; Ben Turner, dms. Houston, Tx. 1950<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22. Trouble
making woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. Dolphin Street</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> stomp<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Connie
Mack Booker, vcl/pno; Cal Green, g; band. Houston, Tx. 8 december 1953<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24. Love me
pretty baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25. All alone<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26. Freight
train rollings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-70877153698930442642023-02-01T10:40:00.000+01:002023-02-01T10:40:03.673+01:00CHARLES SHEFFIELD Voodoo is still working<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4545903083070055015" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #fff8f4; color: #545454; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14pt;">CHARLES "MAD DOG" SHEFFIELD</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pTviWJPnC2Y/ViDXFc0DAnI/AAAAAAAAC7A/O1diYngzSwA/s1600/Louisiana%2BSwamp%2BMusic%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #c81a00; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pTviWJPnC2Y/ViDXFc0DAnI/AAAAAAAAC7A/O1diYngzSwA/s320/Louisiana%2BSwamp%2BMusic%2B2.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></b></div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Artiste important de la musique louisianaise, certains de ses titres étant même devenus "titres-cultes"!, Charles "Mad Dog" Sheffield n'en demeure pas moins très largement inconnu et, malgré tous nos efforts, nous n'avons pu recueillir que peu d'informations sur lui.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Dans son ouvrage essentiel"South to Louisiana" sur les musiques du Sud de la Louisiane paru en 1983, John Broven n'est pas particulièrement disert sur Charles Sheffield qu'il situe esentiellement comme étant un chanteur "originaire de Lake Charles".</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">En fait, grâce à la ténacité du regretté Eric Le Blanc, nous savons que Charles Richard Sheffield est né le 16 février 1931 à Houston (Tx). Mais c'est effectivement pour le producteur de Lake Charles, Eddie Shuler et son label Goldband, que Sheffield enregistre en 1955-56, accompagné de</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wdJfWmgCP9o/ViDXNHYA9YI/AAAAAAAAC7I/7ZiWNkH3nTM/s1600/SHEFFIELDCharles45t1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #c81a00; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wdJfWmgCP9o/ViDXNHYA9YI/AAAAAAAAC7I/7ZiWNkH3nTM/s200/SHEFFIELDCharles45t1.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="198" /></a></div>l'orchestre du superbe guitariste Clarence Garlow avec en plus Lionel Torrence au saxophone ténor! Mais ce sont les séances suivantes, cette fois puissamment produites par l'incontournable Jay Miller et réalisées dans ses studios de Crowley qui vont faire la réputation de Charles Sheffield. Pratiquement tout est exceptionnel de l'endiablé <i>Shoo shoo chicken</i> au morceau de danse très néo-orléanais <i>The Kangaroo </i>en passant bien sûr par le sublime <i>It's your voodoo working</i>, certainement un des meilleurs morceaux louisianais des années 60.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Le succès a cependant été modeste et malgré deux séances plus tradives à La Nouvelle Orléans en 1965-66 sous le sobriquet de Prince Charles, Charles Sheffield disparaît de la scène musicale. Il décède dans l'anonymat le 27 mars 2010 à Beaumont (Tx).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Pour envelopper encore plus de mystère cet artiste, plusieurs anthologies lui ont attribué des titres dans lesquels il n'est nullement présent et que nous avons donc signalés dans la discographie. Il manque encore deux morceaux (en rouge) pour pouvoir compléter cette petite mais importante oeuvre. Comme toujours, toute copie est la bienvenue.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Merci à Benoit Blue Boy, Marc D. et Robert Wingfield pour leur aide.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Gérard HERZHAFT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> An important and influential musical figure from South Louisiana with some records still revered in many circles, Charles "Mad Dog" Sheffield remains nevertheless and despite all our efforts to unearth any clue, a very elusive artist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> In his essential book, "South to Louisiana" from 1983, John Broven writes some facts about Charles Sheffield, particularly about his sessions and him being from Lake Charles. And those lines have been reproduced again and again through the years without unearthing further facts! But thanks to the late Eric Le Blanc we know that our man was in fact born in Houston (Tx) on February 16, 1931.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I10AIH1LDN4/VG8ZMg8J1AI/AAAAAAAACRc/TxJlCInCx-8/s1600/Broven%2BSouth%2Bto%2BLa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #c81a00; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I10AIH1LDN4/VG8ZMg8J1AI/AAAAAAAACRc/TxJlCInCx-8/s200/Broven%2BSouth%2Bto%2BLa.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="130" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> But in 1955-56, Charles recorded a dozen titles in Lake Charles for local producer and Goldband label owner Eddie Shuler. Good sides backed by a top-notch band with Clarence Garlow playing the guitar and the great Lionel Torrence blowing his saxophone. But these are the following sessions in 1959-61 - this time for the ubiquitous J.D. Miller in his Crowley studios - that will launch Sheffield's reputation. Everything here is exceptionnal from the boisterous <i>Shoe shoe chicken</i> to the New Orleans type dance tune <i>The Kangaroo </i>through the masterpiece <i>It's your voodoo working</i>, still highly praised everywhere and certainly one of the very best track coming from South Louisiana during the 1960's.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> But the success must have been modest. Charles would record only twice in New Orleans in 1965-66 before vanishing completely. He died in Beaumont (Tx) on March, 27, 2010.</span></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> To add to the mystery, Sheffield has been credited on several anthologies of titles in which he is not present at all! We have put those in the discography. Two titles are still missing to give a complete collection of Charles' works and any copy of it would be welcomed and fully credited.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Thanks to Benoit Blue Boy, MarcD and Robert Wingfield for their help.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> Gérard HERZHAFT</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwTAkTKvg7w/ViOtmU4zxaI/AAAAAAAAC8I/6ZQboek__gg/s1600/SHEFFIELD%2BCharles%2BObituary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #c81a00; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwTAkTKvg7w/ViOtmU4zxaI/AAAAAAAAC8I/6ZQboek__gg/s320/SHEFFIELD%2BCharles%2BObituary.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #CCCCCC; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CHARLES <st1:place w:st="on">SHEFFIELD</st1:place>/
Complete Recordings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield, vcl; Lionel Torrence, t-sax; Boogie
Joe Joseph, pno; Clarence Garlow, g; James Williams, bs; Little Brother
Griffin, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lake Charles</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place> 1955<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01. Ooh! Wee baby! Ooh! Wee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02. Isabella<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cry baby cry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield, vcl; Lionel Torrence, t-sax; tpt;
tb; Boogie Joe Joseph, pno; Clarence Garlow, g; James Williams, bs; Little
Brother Griffin, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lake Charles</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place> 1956<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03. Cool Cat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04. Mad dog </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Goldband)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05. Mad dog </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:city></st1:place>)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. Clear my nights of misery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. I got a fever<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. Wicked old fever<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. You move me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. Nights of misery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. One hour thirty minutes too
long<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. Ball game<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Boogie
Chidren (in fact by Tabby Thomas)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I
love you so (in fact I love her so by Alonzo Smith)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing
can keep my love from you (by Alonzo Smith)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield, vcl; Big Sambo's Swingsters, band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crowley</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place>
1959<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Is it because I love you?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14. Never no more<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I've gotta love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15. Shoo Shoo Chicken<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield, vcl; Lionel Torrence, t-sax; Harry
Simoneaux, t-sax; Peter Gosch, b-sax; Katie Webster, pno; Bobby Mc Bride, bs;
Warren Storm, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crowley</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place> janvier 1961</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. It's your voodoo working<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17. Rock'n'roll train<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield, vcl; same band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crowley</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place>
juin 1961<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18. I would be a sinner<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19. The Kangaroo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Give it up
(in fact by Vince Monroe/ Mr Calhoun)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20. You're gonna need somebody<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield, vcl; Doctor John, pno; Joey long,
g; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place> 1965</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. Come on home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22. Only you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charles Sheffield </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as Prince Charles)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, vcl; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place> 1966<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. Sick<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24. Get down on your knees and
pray<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /></div></div></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-32156666332658179302022-12-20T13:33:00.000+01:002022-12-20T13:33:14.287+01:00CHICAGO/ The Blues Yesterday/ Volume 27<p style="text-align: center;"> <st1:place style="text-align: center;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CHICAGO</span></b></st1:city></st1:place><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/ The Blues Yesterday/
Volume 27</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 35.4pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFB0GJg27s4wYhlm8XjksH4NnOd2eCtL6d6pyDIkTNQRaOT_n0gpb7ck9zmWQQVaCk2AaBKPy9oD07pgdNBmXTmWOSGIAqmbZDo3AFY8CcsotxI6REq62DNwVBDhdFJN1hmXbklaGubYr27aVFh_tjJxrBouhIbOcDhLSCH5QNOk9QoJ_vgfyrzIm7cw/s1500/ChicagoTheblYy%20BlEye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFB0GJg27s4wYhlm8XjksH4NnOd2eCtL6d6pyDIkTNQRaOT_n0gpb7ck9zmWQQVaCk2AaBKPy9oD07pgdNBmXTmWOSGIAqmbZDo3AFY8CcsotxI6REq62DNwVBDhdFJN1hmXbklaGubYr27aVFh_tjJxrBouhIbOcDhLSCH5QNOk9QoJ_vgfyrzIm7cw/w400-h400/ChicagoTheblYy%20BlEye.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This 27<sup>th</sup> Volume of our popular
"Chicago/ The blues Yesterday" series brings to the limelight three
jazz and rock artists who in their career performed and recorded <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> blues.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">This is particularly the case to </span><b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">Donna Hightower</b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> (1926-2013). Donna, born in </span><st1:place style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Caruthersville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Missouri</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
into a sharecroppers family, sang in the local church while listening to Ella
Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday records. While singing for a dinner in </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">, she was
</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBjazJPufI0slP2GD1EDK_PYSNvHT1KupJtnQ9NRvm2lzLeAtRQoLCt2D3JcfT53CZs_jUVE_uGIwn1zV-YmkWsncg0PxYy6Og0rEym4l4eTt8ldbUJGSYxD3xf3PZyzOcTfEaPVfNfa__aklf7ZYf28XM2OjEgyi2VCMmMfEhskQiqn-JygOZG3PBpw/s1000/HIGHTOWERDonna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="557" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBjazJPufI0slP2GD1EDK_PYSNvHT1KupJtnQ9NRvm2lzLeAtRQoLCt2D3JcfT53CZs_jUVE_uGIwn1zV-YmkWsncg0PxYy6Og0rEym4l4eTt8ldbUJGSYxD3xf3PZyzOcTfEaPVfNfa__aklf7ZYf28XM2OjEgyi2VCMmMfEhskQiqn-JygOZG3PBpw/s320/HIGHTOWERDonna.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><br />instantly signed by Bob Tillman, a well known columnist with the Chicago
Defender newspaper. She got a gig daily at the Strand Hotel and started to
record in <st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> a handful of tunes, some of
them being clearly rooted into the </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
blues of the era. </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">I ain't in the mood</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
would climb to the Top 50 Race Records. Donna went to the West Coast, recording
again for RPM with Maxwell Davis and for Capitol but made the most of her successful
career in Europe, recording jazz, pop, Gospel for numerous labels and appearing
on the biggest jazz festivals.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOmJ7qDzT3zWMmgMioVGjFkiItBtSJAVKQX3X_PsQnBBfTGnb-xoL5c6wJzYj-ngLT0_qEmeBWfc9cCZCPETdYGdmroo4khms1DFZ4w8KIc6EwGe7N8QIPS8FutZQqbD04C4_UC-BOpYRNVmSNDnJQBE_6LuqF1wPDjUcf0SFz_-Ni3ou1mpM1KJDgA/s645/GIPSONWildChild.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="493" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOmJ7qDzT3zWMmgMioVGjFkiItBtSJAVKQX3X_PsQnBBfTGnb-xoL5c6wJzYj-ngLT0_qEmeBWfc9cCZCPETdYGdmroo4khms1DFZ4w8KIc6EwGe7N8QIPS8FutZQqbD04C4_UC-BOpYRNVmSNDnJQBE_6LuqF1wPDjUcf0SFz_-Ni3ou1mpM1KJDgA/s320/GIPSONWildChild.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br />On the other hand, <b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">Wild
Child Gipson</b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> (Byron Everett Gipson Jr) (1930-1994) was a true pioneer of
Rock'n'roll. Born in </span><st1:place style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Gulfport</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">, Gipson learned bass and
guitar and was a true fan of Lloyd Price. He started his career as a doo-woop
singer with the Sliders. During the mid-50's, Gipson became the road manager,
car driver and bodyguard of Little Richard (!), also arranging some of his
songs and writing some tunes for his leader. Wild Child Gipson also recorded
some tracks under his name, </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">Uncle John</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
(an answer to Richard's </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">Long Tall Sally</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">)
gaining some commercial success. After an incident where he was shot on the
leg, Gipson gave up the road and relocated to </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on">Quincy</st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
(</span><st1:state style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">)
where he mostly made a living outside the music.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaU4PE9iPBv5VwWsnaM6fi2qzUx0zvIWHvKAmO9TS_qU9Wu806Z1qyQYqhJh6jOY1loNkAiMsVEQkVTesC6LD1qEnH1Xxv_5etKoClnzxjBuaDROpMFNjvsQy8FneWq3IkNeP4IY1AxL8gmHAnXyXrM_T1onozudVuqhmNfm25IHrB9yAN1JsjIGl7Fg/s1117/DEANTommy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1117" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaU4PE9iPBv5VwWsnaM6fi2qzUx0zvIWHvKAmO9TS_qU9Wu806Z1qyQYqhJh6jOY1loNkAiMsVEQkVTesC6LD1qEnH1Xxv_5etKoClnzxjBuaDROpMFNjvsQy8FneWq3IkNeP4IY1AxL8gmHAnXyXrM_T1onozudVuqhmNfm25IHrB9yAN1JsjIGl7Fg/s320/DEANTommy.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />Tommy Dean</b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> was
a pianist born in </span><st1:place style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Franklin</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">La.</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> in 1909. He played and
recorded first in </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on">Saint Louis</st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> before taking his
chance to </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
after 1945 where he would play in clubs and record as a studio musician as well
as under his name for Miracle, States, King, Federal and Vee Jay labels. Most
of his records are in a jazzy blues vein and are very good with great singers
like Joe Buckner or Jewell Belle. He died in </span><st1:city style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Saint Louis</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> in the fall of 1964. (cf </span><a href="http://campber.people.clemson.edu/deanie.html" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">http://campber.people.clemson.edu/deanie.html</a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
for a in-depth study of Tommy Dean's life and career)</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DONNA HIGHTOWER</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, vcl; Gail Brocklan, tpt;
Poerter Kilbert, a-sax; Riley Hampton, a-sax; Walter Leonard, b-sax; Horace
Henderson, pno; Floyd Smith, g; Arthur Edwards, bs; George Reid, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
9 october 1951<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">01. I ain't in the mood<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">02. Cry<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Donna Hightower, vcl; Gail
Brocklan, tpt; Poerter Kilbert, a-sax; Riley Hampton, a-sax; Walter Leonard,
b-sax; Horace Henderson, pno; Floyd Smith, g; Arthur Edwards, bs; George Reid,
dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 3 february 1952<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">03. Honest and truly<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">04. I found a new love<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Donna Hightower, vcl; prob.
same band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 4 avril 1952<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">05. Kiss me baby<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">06. Don't you think I oughta know<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">07. Farewell blues<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WILD CHILD GIPSON</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Byron Gipson)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,
vcl/g The Sliders, band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ca. 1955<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">08. Honey dew<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">09. The one I love<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wild Child Gipson, vcl/g;
The Sliders, band. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
Ca. 1956</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10. Footloose and fancy free<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">11. Etta Mae<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12. I want cha baby<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wild Child Gipson,
vcl/kbds; Freddie Tieken, t-sax; John Moorman, g; The Rockers, band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
1958</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">13. Uncle John<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">14. Lost control<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">15. Sittin' here cryin'<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16. Kool<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wild Child Gipson,
vcl/kbds; Freddie Tieken, t-sax; Johnny Pisano, g; Freddie Katz & The
Jammers, band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Quincy</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 1965</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">17. Sweet roll'n stone<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My kinduva blues<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wild Child Gipson, vcl/org;
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peoria</st1:place></st1:city> Soul
Merchants, band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Peoria</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 1966</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18. Boogaloo train to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Peoria</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">19. Coal mine n°2<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TOMMY DEAN</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, pno; Gene
Easton, a-sax; James Taylor, t-sax; Chris Woods, clt. Buck Underwood, bs; Pee
Wee Jernigan, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Saint Louis</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Mo.</st1:state></st1:place> 1947<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">20. Rock easy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just before day<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tommy Dean, pno;
Chris Woods, a-sax; Edgar Hayes, t-sax; Gene Eatson, b-sax; bs; Pee Wee
Jernigan, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Saint Louis</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Mo.</st1:state></st1:place> avril 1949<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jump for joy (vcl: Pee Wee Jernigan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dean's theme<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tommy
Dean, pno; Chris Woods, a-sax; Edgar Hayes, t-sax; Gene Easton, b-sax; Eugene
Thomas, bs; Pee Wee Jernigan, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> july 1949<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. Hours past
midnight </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Pee Wee Jernigan)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22. Scamon
boogie<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. Sweet and
lovely </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Pee Wee Jernigan)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24. Just about
right<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tommy
Dean, pno; Chris Woods, a-sax; Edgar Hayes, t-sax; Gene Easton, b-sax; Eugene
Thomas, bs; Pee Wee Jernigan, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 4 juin 1952<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25. Rainin'
(It rains) </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Jewel Belle)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26. Foolish </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Jewel Belle)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">27. Cool one
groove two<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28. Lonely
Monday </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Jewel Belle)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tommy Dean, pno;
Chris Woods, a-sax; Edgar Hayes, t-sax; Gene Easton, b-sax; Eugene Thomas, bs;
Pee Wee Jernigan, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 19 november 1952<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Scammon boogie<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How can I let you go </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Jewel Belle)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tommy
Dean, pno/og; Oliver Nelson, a-sax; Chuck Tillman, t-sax; Archie Burnside, bs;
Edgar Plaes, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 20 december 1954<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">29. Deanie boy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">30. Just before
day<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31. How can I
let you go</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Joe
Buckner)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32. Why don't
chu</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Joe
Buckner)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">33. 221 Rock<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34. Even time </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Joe Buckner)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tommy
Dean, pno; Oliver Nelson, a-sax; Archie Burnside, bs; Edgar Plaes, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
17 february 1955<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">35. The Gold
Coast<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tommy
Dean, pno/org; Oliver Nelson, a-sax; Chuck Tillman, t-sax; Joe Whitfield,
t-sax; Archie Burnside, bs; Edgar Plaes, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place>
11 july 1955</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36. One more
mile </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(vcl: Joe Buckner)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">37. Skid row<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">38. Straight
and ready<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tommy
Dean, org; Charles Williams, a-sax; Fred Lee, t-sax; Haffuch Alexander, pno;
Lefty Bates, g; Milton Wilson, dms/perc. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Ill.</st1:state></st1:place> 27 may 1958</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">39. Recession<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p><p></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-49680582553127417872022-12-03T18:33:00.002+01:002022-12-03T18:33:48.422+01:00A.C. REED/ Early Recordings (Re-post)<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">A.C. REED/ Early Recordings</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K99VtfAgmCM/XQ5JJzpBbOI/AAAAAAAAEZQ/jZehkHMJj0UjySzmaR56mXAcewOveBPVgCLcBGAs/s1600/Reed%2Bcouv.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1143" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K99VtfAgmCM/XQ5JJzpBbOI/AAAAAAAAEZQ/jZehkHMJj0UjySzmaR56mXAcewOveBPVgCLcBGAs/s400/Reed%2Bcouv.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Aaron Corthens dit A.C. Reed (ceci afin de se faire passer pour le cousin du célèbre Jimmy Reed, une parenté guère prouvée) est né à Wardell dans le Missouri le 9 mai 1926. Après des tâtonnements à la guitare et aux claviers, Aaron, un grand fan des big bands, a opté pour le saxophone. Venu jeune à Chicago, il commence sa carrière auprès de Willie Mabon et de Earl Hooker (avec qui il enregistrera substantiellement), gagnant au passage un "saxophone d'or" et un titre de "Roi du Chicago blues, version saxophone"! Durant les années 60, il multiplie les 45t pour une nuée de petits labels, collant le plus possible au style vocal de son cousin présumé, le célèbre Jimmy Reed. Le paresseux <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This little voice</i> évoque bien Jimmy, mais <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I stay mad</i> et surtout l'excellent <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My buddy buddy friends</i> sont des pièces débordant de cet humour désabusé et décapant qui est la marque de la plume d'A.C. Entre 1970 et 1983, Reed est surtout le sideman attitré de Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Son Seals puis Albert Collins, ornant leurs concerts et leurs disques de ses sonorités râpeuses et carrées. Cet style simple mais essentiel au vrai Chicago blues amène nombre de musiciens de rock à utiliser ses talents pour certains de leurs enregistrements, tels Eric Clapton ou les Rolling Stones. Tout cela permet enfin à A.C. Reed d'entreprendre une carrière de leader à l'âge de la retraite. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am fed up with music</i>, un 45t sorti en 1983 en deux versions, l'une "hard", l'autre plus chaste pour les oreilles sensibles est d'une irrésistible drôlerie. Aaron Corthens récolte même un W.C. Handy Award pour le microsillon correspondant: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Take these blues and shove'em (Ice Cube</i>)</b>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I'm in the wrong business (Alligator</i>)</b> dans lequel A.C. regrette de n'avoir pas embrassé la carrière de boxeur comme Rocky ou Mr T. est dans la même veine, avec le soutien de Stevie Ray Vaughan et Bonnie Raitt. A.C. Reed a enregistré d'autres disques pour Wolf ou Black & Blue, a excellemment figuré dans la célèbre anthologie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living Chicago blues (Alligator</i>)</b>. Juste avant son décès (le 25 février 2004 à Chicago), A.C. a signé sans doute son meilleur album pour Delmark, le décapant <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Junk Food</i></b>.<o:p></o:p><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nous proposons ici l'intégrale des 45t enregistrés par cet intéressant bluesman de Chicago entre 1961 et 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6M0tM8sahLJ4RDXWo-dhO_DkW_B5q3j1xITYRfWCZRxI1JDfPL9SYqoRWu8t76YCmK2KZATFszfTrPQEaZJZ-8TVs68T6kZBghvQwfBNUDlclPPttu0cwjRj8I5Dvc_Lr9FMlULz_SyR_BO1wzVFHRSJPWDt41DFoZKmmGrYvtirCXnvb73RoUrVz7A/s791/ReedAC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6M0tM8sahLJ4RDXWo-dhO_DkW_B5q3j1xITYRfWCZRxI1JDfPL9SYqoRWu8t76YCmK2KZATFszfTrPQEaZJZ-8TVs68T6kZBghvQwfBNUDlclPPttu0cwjRj8I5Dvc_Lr9FMlULz_SyR_BO1wzVFHRSJPWDt41DFoZKmmGrYvtirCXnvb73RoUrVz7A/s320/ReedAC.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br />Born Aaron Corthen (Warden, Missouri; May 9th 1926), this honking saxophone player has been a mainstay of the Chicago blues clubs and the recording studios. He began his career with Willie Mabon, then Earl Hooker which whom he worked and recorded during most of the 1960's. He always said he was a real cousin to the then famous Jimmy Reed, thus taking' the name A.C. Reed but it is unsure the fact is true!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anyway, A.C. Reed started to record a string of excellent 45's in 1961 with the minor hit <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This little voice</b> in which he emulates the lazy phrasing of Jimmy Reed. All his records are full of humour, particularly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I stay mad</b> and the superb <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My buddy buddy friends</b> that will enter the Top 100 R&B.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After Earl Hooker's death, A.C. played in the bands of Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Son Seals and Albert Collins, demonstrating all over the world his forceful sax playing. This collaboration earned him a strong reputation among the blues fans everywhere and he was asked to record with British stars Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. He then finally launched his career as a leader in the 1980's, fronting his own band and recording several excellent LP's (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Take these blues and shove it)</b> and CD's for Alligator (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Living Chicago blues</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I'm in the wrong business</b> with Stevie Ray Vaughan), Wolf or Delmark (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Junk Food</b>, maybe his best album).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.C. died in Chicago on February 25th 2004, leaving a strong recorded legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This compilation gathers all his early 45s.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. REED<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Early Recordings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax; Pinetop Perkins, pno; Earl Hooker, g; Earnest Johnson, bs; Bobby Little, dms. Chicago, Ill. juin 1961<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01. This little voice<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax; Little Ray Charles, pno; Reggie Boyd, g; Earnest Johnson, bs; Bill Stepney, dms. Chicago, novembre 1961</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02. I wanna be free<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03. Come on home<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax;Earl Hooker, g; Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, pno; Reggie Boyd, g; Earnest Johnson, bs; Bill Stepney, dms. Chicago, Ill, 1962<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04. Mean cop<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05. That ain't right<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. Crying blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax; Dusty Draper, a-sax; Bobby Fields, t-sax; Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, pno/og; Ivory Parker, g; Earnest Johnson, bs; Frank Swan, dms. Chicago, Ill. 1963</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. I stay mad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. Lotta lovin'</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax; Detroit Junior, pno; Ivory Parker, g; Earnest Johnson, bs; Buddy Ray, dms. Chicago, Ill. 1965</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. I'd rather light than switch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. I got money to burn<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax; horns; Lafayette Leake, pno; M.T. Murphy, g; Ivory Parker, g; Leroy Stewart, bs; Tyrone Harris, dms/perc. Chicago, Ill. 1966</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. My baby is fine<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. My baby's been cheating<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Talking about my friend<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14. Boogaloo tramp<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A.C. Reed, vcl/t-sax; Pinetop Perkins, kbds; Johnny Twist Williams, g; Earnest Johnson, bs; Charles Hicks, dms. Chicago, Ill. 1970</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15. Things I want you to do<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. Three short two<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-16001013350184609192022-11-22T12:55:00.003+01:002022-11-22T12:55:24.226+01:00WILLIE MABON/ Complete Recordings 1949-69<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">WILLIE MABON/ Complete Recordings 1949-69<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-REwehz2uiVjUd8ecdMRaTdjD-n_dlX0B8z_okkS5p1_SBoWN-crwpKRQQxVvv_JV6TTlMM3yXGgM5EM1qTJlwGpLjUFKTFWLjVJiWCPqiGX9BhxqQ6Q6-sOsKoZHLgdaoljG6gFRcGR8LHBG7Rbv279gPv2MHFktEuQO-ugCAcCrFmGKroDxnzYbQ/s1500/Mabon%20couv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-REwehz2uiVjUd8ecdMRaTdjD-n_dlX0B8z_okkS5p1_SBoWN-crwpKRQQxVvv_JV6TTlMM3yXGgM5EM1qTJlwGpLjUFKTFWLjVJiWCPqiGX9BhxqQ6Q6-sOsKoZHLgdaoljG6gFRcGR8LHBG7Rbv279gPv2MHFktEuQO-ugCAcCrFmGKroDxnzYbQ/w400-h400/Mabon%20couv.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;">I guess
everybody following this blog knows for sure that the post war </span><st1:city style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;" w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city><span style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;">
blues was not only Muddy Waters-Howlin' Wolf and such Delta blues transplanted
in the </span><st1:place style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Windy</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;">. </span><st1:place style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11pt;"> had its own burgeoning R&B scene,
jazz inflected blues and cocktail lounges bluesy music.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Willie
Mabon (born in <st1:city w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Tn</st1:state>,
near <st1:city w:st="on">Memphis</st1:city> 24th October 1925) is certainly, in
his look as well as in his music, closer to Charles Brown and the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> blues than to
the Delta-Chicago style. His laid back manners, his soft insinuating voice, his
halftones blues with humorous lyrics put Willie Mabon apart from the other
Chess artists of the 1950's. After his service in the Marines, Willie came to
live permanently in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>
and embarked himself in a musical career. Influenced by Cripple Clarence
Lofton, Roosevelt Sykes, Big Maceo and Sunnyland Sim, he developed a brilliant,
classy piano style, also sometimes blowing a harmonica (his first instrument) on
a rack. After being the pianist and sometimes vocalist of The Blues Rockers,
Mabon waxed many records under his name and enjoyed some good hits (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poison Ivy, I'm mad, The seventh son, I
don't know; I'm a fixer</i>). But as so many bluesmen, he couldn't cope with
the new Soul trends of the 60's and almost disappeared from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> blues scene.
Thanks to French Black & Blue's Chicago Blues Festival tours, Mabon resumed
his career in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> after 1972, touring
extensively and recording very good albums for French, British and German
labels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He died
of illness in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>, on 19<sup>th</sup> April
1985.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We have
been able to gather all his <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
recordings from his Blues Rockers' beginnings in 1949 to his last Checker
session in 1969. Thanks a lot to Jose Yraberra, Marc D. and Tom Thumb for
providing some rare records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The complete Mabon's 1949-69 discography is on the comments' links</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWj1HVoNZrZRAVNUZjKti0eMGl7P-cBmLTCmfA7Jnfb60C9NRpV1W-xhuEOlU9D6XpnHoRf5_0M633xjfTJlYc5LV2LQYQ16whQkYmuMp7eqnEC6ohZYlwaRzMhaepsO6CF9nuRDZ8fs7Q-AF1eXUu5BdAw9Af20n3sfNngZg-b0p9S6pI_TECqwUIg/s628/MabonW1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="628" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWj1HVoNZrZRAVNUZjKti0eMGl7P-cBmLTCmfA7Jnfb60C9NRpV1W-xhuEOlU9D6XpnHoRf5_0M633xjfTJlYc5LV2LQYQ16whQkYmuMp7eqnEC6ohZYlwaRzMhaepsO6CF9nuRDZ8fs7Q-AF1eXUu5BdAw9Af20n3sfNngZg-b0p9S6pI_TECqwUIg/s320/MabonW1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Univers; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p>Gerard Herzhafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02847006282160108348noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397344573389990556.post-70289037351123449142022-11-14T12:58:00.000+01:002022-11-14T12:58:07.540+01:00DRIFTING SLIM/ Complete Recordings<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #CCCCCC; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">DRIFTING SLIM (Elmon Mickle) </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">Complete Recordings</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;">(as: Drifting Slim, Harmonica Harry, T-Model Slim,
Elmon Mickle)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpEb669nILR_J8x2DhLbP_WmL4QFY3GUmw_rI2EPCSFKnok5YnCtwqmTVyAlcZtXsQLtaakAnpb5Yi3-tdfH_W04XhwlwY0XWLq0Gme3_cYVg3TBU5SZfYrdbJcKIPuyEQcpDdIAHKyw7Ob-YnpqwBtqhDJpHhSKUHnmnlnjafJLwCgiPQUw_r0ynuA/s1500/Drifting%20Slim%20Blue%20Eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpEb669nILR_J8x2DhLbP_WmL4QFY3GUmw_rI2EPCSFKnok5YnCtwqmTVyAlcZtXsQLtaakAnpb5Yi3-tdfH_W04XhwlwY0XWLq0Gme3_cYVg3TBU5SZfYrdbJcKIPuyEQcpDdIAHKyw7Ob-YnpqwBtqhDJpHhSKUHnmnlnjafJLwCgiPQUw_r0ynuA/w400-h400/Drifting%20Slim%20Blue%20Eye.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Aujourd'hui bien oublié sauf des habituels cercles
d'amateurs de blues, Driftin' Slim nous laisse cependant une oeuvre
relativement étoffée et de grande qualité. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Né Elmon Mickle à Keo dans l'Arkansas le 24 février 1919,
il a appris très jeune la guitare et l'harmonica, favorisant surtout ce dernier
instrument sous l'influence de John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson qu'il
rencontre à plusieurs reprises, qui lui montre comment souffler dans un
harmonica et qui restera d'ailleurs son maître tout au long de sa carrière et
dont il reprendra nombre de compositions. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Installé à Little Rock, Elmon joue avec les bluesmen
locaux comme Robert Nighthawk, Rice Miller tout en travaillant aux chemins de
fer de l'Arkansas. Il participe aussi à plusieurs émissions de radio, notamment
avec les excellents harmonicistes de Country Music Lonnie Glosson et Wayne
Raney dont il s'inspirera aussi. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">En 1952, Mickle forme son propre blues band local avec
Junior Brooks, Baby Face Turner et Sunny Blair. Chargé par Joe Bihari et Sam
Phillips de trouver des bluesmen de talent, c'est le tout jeune Ike Turner qui
débusque Mickle et le fait enregistrer sous le nom bien plus évocateur de Drifting
Slim. Les disques semblent s'être vendus modérément mais permettent cependant à
Elmon d'élargir son audience et de se produire un peu partout dans le Sud. Pour
avoir de meilleures conditions de vie et de travail, Mickle s'installe à Los
Angeles en 1957</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWpKaog7Uikp5kH0Ykr1Rq79sCD6KQHwC0WbhwiHpPPjDxS3T97hGUU4GwnUogoByjJP1Q0oyPOfAA1PHrfHA1BUrvJ9P8CskbOZ4Gp4GcTqviwviMpkslSIQaOweOVqEn4U94gKLMFDSMb89TjSZlagOD9HvNfe5L3vpt4CwUjdU0mwkDIi4bXA-81A/s750/DriftingSlim3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="750" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWpKaog7Uikp5kH0Ykr1Rq79sCD6KQHwC0WbhwiHpPPjDxS3T97hGUU4GwnUogoByjJP1Q0oyPOfAA1PHrfHA1BUrvJ9P8CskbOZ4Gp4GcTqviwviMpkslSIQaOweOVqEn4U94gKLMFDSMb89TjSZlagOD9HvNfe5L3vpt4CwUjdU0mwkDIi4bXA-81A/s320/DriftingSlim3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Là, il enregistre sporadiquement sous son nom ou celui de
T-Model Slim, en particulier une version de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flat
foot Sam</i> de T.V. Slim qui a un certain succès local. Mais pour l'essentiel,
il grave des 45t pour de petits labels locaux, parfois sa propre compagnie
fondée avec son amie Ernie Pruitt. Pour des raisons économiques, Slim joue
essentiellement en solo, s'accompagnant lui-même à la guitare, à l'harmonica et
à la batterie actionnée par les pieds et ne se produit guère que dans des
réunions privées. C</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">'est grâce à la ténacité de Bruce Bromberg, Henry
Vestine, Bob Hite (des Canned Heat) ainsi que de Frank Scott que Elmon Mickle/
T-Model Slim/ Driftin' Slim est retrouvé, un peu abasourdi de l'intérêt que lui
portent ces jeunes gens blancs. M</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ais cette "redécouverte" lui permet de
relancer sa carrière, de se produire sur scène et d'enregistrer un album entier
pour le producteur Pete Welding. Plusieurs projets afin de le faire tourner en
Europe sont échafaudés mais atteint d'un cancer, Elmon Mickle doit y renoncer
et décède le 17 septembre 1977 à Los Angeles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nous avons réuni ici la quasi-totalité des excellents
enregistrements réalisés par Slim-Mickle sous ses différents pseudonymes, à
l'exception d'un titre <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good morning
little school girl</i> (en rouge dans la discographie)... Si quelque lecteur
les possède, une copie serait grandement appréciée.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cet article
s'appuie largement sur celui de Frank Scott paru dans le n° 40 de Blues
Unlimited (janvier 1967). Toutes les photos sont de Frank Scott<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gérard HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3rhKoTysn0jQd0LNb6kVLeVNQHeg0h0-hcxXKxl9KmaqZmgl3t1VxwgZ3VNVomuufYgbvdPiS17WVp51hWyLdn4QmHBbK1tU3ZUFvhcdkTqEfkOM4QU3skeItjVfRYDBYkdJ9Stg-etnCb8z_1xg17xxFFpWMHSG6DBnm7U_BmGgZOxM55IZlfmcEw/s850/DriftingSlim1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="579" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3rhKoTysn0jQd0LNb6kVLeVNQHeg0h0-hcxXKxl9KmaqZmgl3t1VxwgZ3VNVomuufYgbvdPiS17WVp51hWyLdn4QmHBbK1tU3ZUFvhcdkTqEfkOM4QU3skeItjVfRYDBYkdJ9Stg-etnCb8z_1xg17xxFFpWMHSG6DBnm7U_BmGgZOxM55IZlfmcEw/s320/DriftingSlim1.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
little bit forgotten today outside the usual blues buffs, Driftin' Slim leaves
anyway a substantial enough recording works and certainly one of a high blues
quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Born
Elmon Mickle on February, 24th 1919, he learned at a young age the guitar and
the harmonica, his main instrument, under the very strong influence of John Lee
"Sonny Boy" Williamson whom he met several times. This influence is
particularly prevalent in his playing and his repertoire (many titles come from
Sonny Boy's songbook). </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">Living
in </span><st1:city style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Little Rock</st1:city><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;"> and working for the local
railroad company, Elmon formed his own blues band with such great musicians
like </span><st1:place style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Junior</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Brooks</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">, Baby Face Turner, Sunny Blair...
and appeared quite often in local radio programmes, sometime alongside Country
Music harp masters Lonnie Glosson and Wayne Raney. </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">In
1952, Ike Turner, then a young talent scout for Joe Bihari and Sam Phillips
went to Little Rock and decided to record Mickle, giving him the nickname
Driftin' Slim. The records have gained a worldwide reputation today but at that
time they went almost nowhere and Mickle/ Slim moved to </span><st1:state style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;"> in 1957, seeking better paid job
opportunities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
he will record sporadically for small outfits, sometimes his own and very often
paying himself the studio fares and under different names like his own and
T-Model Slim. One title, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flatfoot Sam </i>that
he borrowed to T.V. Slim enjoyed a small local airplay. But for the most part
Mickle played for private parties and rarely appeared in clubs. And for
economical reasons, he performed mostly as a one-man band, playing harp with a
rack, guitar and a kit drums with his feet. </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">It
will take the interest of a bunch of young local blues fans, Henry Vestine and
Bob Hite (from the blues-rock band Canned Heat), Bruce Bromberg and Frank Scott
for Elmon to be "rediscovered" in 1966. He then appeared in several
venues, recorded a whole album for Pete Welding. He had to tour </span><st1:place style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Europe</st1:place><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;"> but a bad cancer prevented him to be able to do
so. He died in </span><st1:city style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">
on September 17th, 1977.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have gathered here (thanks to all who shared their records for that purpose)
almost all his recording works. One title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good
morning little school girl </i>(in red in the discography) is still missing.
Any copy would be strongly appreciated and would receive full credits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This article is largely based upon Frank
Scott's excellent rendition of Slim career (Blues Unlimited n°40/ January 1967). All photos are by Frank Scott.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Gérard
HERZHAFT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Junior</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Brooks</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
g; Baby Face Turner, g; Bill Russell, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Little Rock</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ark.</st1:state></st1:place>
novembre 1951<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">01. My little machine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">02. Down South blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; Sunny Blair, hca; Ike Turner,
pno; Baby Face Turner, g; Bill Russell, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Little Rock</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ark.</st1:state></st1:place>
mars 1952</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">03. Good morning baby (blues)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">04. My sweet woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">05. Shout sister shout<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">06. You're an old Lady<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">07. I feel so good<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; Phillip Walker, g; Bobby
Tinsley, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. novembre 1959</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">08. Flat foot Sam<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">09. I got to get some money<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10. Lonesome highway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">11. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jackson</st1:city></st1:place> blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca/g; Ernie Pruitt, vcl; dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1960</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">12. Whatever you're doing, keep
on doing to me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">13. Short'n'fat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, hca; Ernie Pruitt, vcl; band. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1962</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">14. Short and fat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">AC-DC Current Swingers & The Hooks Brothers, band;
Elmon Mickle, hca on *. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. 1964<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15. Natural blues*<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; Jack Wall, g; bs; dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 1966</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">16. Shake your boogie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Good morning little schoolgirl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jackson</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">18. T-Model Ford<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">19. Burnt out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; Philip Walker, g; Adolph
Jacobs, g; bs; Jesse Price, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, mai 1966</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20. Somebody voodooed the
hoodoo man<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21. You're growing old Lady<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; Little Boyd, hca; poss; Philip
Walker, g; Ken Walk, g; bs; Jesse Price, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. juin 1966</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22. Short and Fat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23. Woman's the glory of a man <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24. 15 years my love was in
vain<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25. Take my hand<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">26. Flat Foot Sam always in a
jam I<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27. Flat Foot Sam always in a
jam II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">28. Oh baby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">29. Sit there mama<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">30. Sir C Lee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31. Black gal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">32. Whose mule is that in my
stable?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca/g/dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 3 décembre 1966<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">33. Jonah<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">34. How many more years?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">35. Mama blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36. I'm hunting somebody<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">37. Standing around crying<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">38. Jack o'Diamonds<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">39. This world is none of my
home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:metricconverter productid="40. A" w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">40. A</span></b></st1:metricconverter><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> drip of snuff and a narrow escape<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">41. Till I got sixteen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">42. My little machine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 13 janvier 1967</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">43. Slow train to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Arkansas</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">44. T-Model and the train<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting Slim, vcl/hca; Jack Wall, g; Ike Parker, bs;
Guy Jones, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>,
Ca. 26 juin 1967</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">45. Hoodoo man blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">46. Give an account<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">47. Mama don't tear my clothes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">48. Christine blues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">49. <st1:city w:st="on">Jackson</st1:city>
blues (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jackson</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:state></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drifting
Slim, vcl/hca; J.D. Nicholson, pno; Buddy Reed, g; Greg Schaefer, g; Jerry
Smith, bs; Dick Innes, dms. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, Ca. 16 novembre 1969</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Rockwell Condensed"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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