WILLIE MABON/ Complete Recordings 1949-69
I guess
everybody following this blog knows for sure that the post war Chicago
blues was not only Muddy Waters-Howlin' Wolf and such Delta blues transplanted
in the Windy City. Chicago had its own burgeoning R&B scene,
jazz inflected blues and cocktail lounges bluesy music.
Willie
Mabon (born in Hollywood, Tn,
near Memphis 24th October 1925) is certainly, in
his look as well as in his music, closer to Charles Brown and the California 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 Chicago
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 (Poison Ivy, I'm mad, The seventh son, I
don't know; I'm a fixer). But as so many bluesmen, he couldn't cope with
the new Soul trends of the 60's and almost disappeared from the US blues scene.
Thanks to French Black & Blue's Chicago Blues Festival tours, Mabon resumed
his career in Europe after 1972, touring
extensively and recording very good albums for French, British and German
labels.
He died
of illness in Paris, France, on 19th April
1985.
We have
been able to gather all his US
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.
Gérard
HERZHAFT
The complete Mabon's 1949-69 discography is on the comments' links
WILLIE MABON/ Complete Recordings 1949-69 (with discography)
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Con todo mi respeto y admiración debo decirle "Muchas gracias amigo Gerard por todo lo que usted me ha enseñado en todos estos años".
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RépondreSupprimerThanks you for this complete collection. Very good!!
RépondreSupprimerLooking forward to listening to this ! Thanks
RépondreSupprimerMany thanks Gerard. Good to have all these tracks gathered together.
RépondreSupprimerTYVM Gerard for this excellent post. I missed a few of the tracks from this period of Willie Mabon which you have now completed.
RépondreSupprimerMerci, Gerard! Another excellent curation!
RépondreSupprimerBest dressed musician, he was so cool behind the piano.
RépondreSupprimerOtra gran aportación señor Gerard Herzhaft, muchas gracias
RépondreSupprimerMerci, Gérard!
RépondreSupprimerThanks Mr Herzhaft, the music I hear here helps my mind enormously.
RépondreSupprimerSo Good , So Nice ! Big Thanks.
RépondreSupprimerMerci beaucoup !
RépondreSupprimerSuperb. Thank you.
RépondreSupprimerThank You. I admires Willie Mabon. All his music. And in 1979 he recorded one of my favorites Chicago Blues Album: "Chicago Blues Session", with H.Sumlin , A. Burton, C. Jones and Eddie Taylor.
RépondreSupprimerSplendid! Merci Beaucoup, Gerard!
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Thanks, Gerard!
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