I have found that postings music is a good way to listen to all the music in your collection. I have neglected the ultimate source of much of the music I post. This tread corrects that oversight. All Blues post are welcome. I will concentrate on the Delta.
Wikipedia: Samuel McClain, billed as Mighty Sam McClain, was an American soul blues singer and songwriter. Born: April 15, 1943, Monroe, LA Died: June 15, 2015, New Hampshire
Wikipedia: Percy Mayfield was an American rhythm-and-blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for the songs "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road Jack", a song popularized by Ray Charles.
Notes: "Samuel Maghett was born February 14, 1937 on a farm in central Mississippi, eight miles east of Granada. Bt the time he was thirteen, like most other kids his age, he was doing a full day's work, but found time to start learning how to play the guitar by stretching strings tied to nails driven into a wall in a manner similar to Big Joe Williams' primitive one-string guitar. The Maghett family got its first taste of big-city life when the moved to Chicago in 1950."
Notes: "Robert Jr. Lockwood's music shows the influence of not only his stepfather Robert Johnson but also that of Jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Eddie Durham. By the mid-50s he found himself in the enviable position of being THE studio guitar player in Chicago. He can be heard on classic blues songs like Little Walter's "My Babe" and "Boom, Boom, Out go the lights"; Sonny Boy Williamson's "Nine Below Zero" and "Eyesight to the Blind." He also recorded with Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Eddie Boyd, Willie Mabon, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes and others. This 1970 session was Robert's first album as a leader!"
Notes: "Little "Whitt" Wells was born on a small farm in Ralph, Alabama on Feb 19th, 1931. "Big Bo" McGee was born on October 9th, 1928 in Mississippi and Alabama!! His house was built on the state-line between Emelle, Alabama, and Porterville, Mississippi: "We would eat breakfast in Alabama and sleep in Mississippi!" he quipped."
There is no more impressive Blues Credential than to be Born in, die in, or be Buried in two or more different places.
with / The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet: (Willie Johnson, William Langford, Henry Owens and Arlandus Wilson) RCA Heritage Series 1940 / 1989
Notes:"Huddie William Ledbetter was born on January 29, 1885 on Jeter plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana, the only child of farmer Wesley and part-Cherokee Indian Sally Ledbetter. When Huddie was five, his family moved to nearby Leigh, Texas, and it was while growing up there that the young boy's interest in music began to develop under the encouraging eye of his uncle Terrell, who bought Huddie his first instrument, an accordion."
Notes: "Everybody who hears this music will buy this record," he says matter-of-factly. Lots 'em wants to play the Blues now, lot of them can't play, down there playing, wishing the could play."
Wiki: Lawrence Laury was an American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer. Laury worked with Memphis Slim and Mose Vinson but did not record his debut album until he was in his late sixties. Born: September 2, 1914, Memphis, TN Died: September 23, 1995, Memphis, TN
Notes: " I grew up in a little town called Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was close to the Delta, Greenville, where B.B., Robert Johnson and all the famous cats came up. I was raised up in the church. My family thought it was a good idea for me to go to church. I was in the junior/senior choir. I used to sing tenor, baritone, bass. We weren't allowed to sing what they called the rough stuff, you know, the rock and roll stuff. We weren't allowed to sing that in those days. All we could sing was gospel songs, so we had to slip away to sing some of the secular type songs."
The older blues musicians recordings sound great on LPs’, while the cd versions have massive hiss, weak bass, and sound terrible. so many of my favorites, I ripped to my computer, then burned to CDs. I love the little ticks & pops when playing the cd.
Notes:"Bobby King is from Lake Charles, Louisiana. From early childhood he sang in his father's church--the Pleasant Valley Congregation-- with his twelve brothers and sisters." "Terry had arrived in L.A. from Vicksburg, Mississippi and was writing rhythm and blues songs for Louis Jordan and others." "Bobby and Terry are veterans of the soul highway--they never got rich or famous, but experience has deepened and strengthened their music."
Gene Harris(piano, conductor), Kenny Burrell(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Harry "Sweets" Edison(trumpet), Urbie Green(trombone), and the Philip Morris Super Band GRP Records 1991
If you've ever wanted to hear BB stretch out on Lucille a little bit, here’s your chance. An album of instrumentals that puts Lucille out front for extended solos.
HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET: CLASSIC LIVE PERFORMANCES 1964-94
MCA 1996 2CD set
Notes:"I grew up singing gospel songs and church was really my thing," King once told Robert Gordon. He gleaned his first professional experience in the St. John Gospel Singers, a quartet based in King's hometown of Indianola, Mississippi. Comprised of plantation field hands, the ventured as far away as Greenwood and Greenville, where they performed on radio stations WGRM and WJPJ in 1945-46." After a couple years of this, Riley reckoned the St. John Gospel Singers were ready for the metropolis of Memphis. The other members of the group, who would all one day become preachers, lacked his conviction. When he set out hitchhiking towards the river city, Riley was alone."
Notes: "This compact disc derives from the two volumes of B.B. King's rare recordings featured on the Ace albums CHD 201 "One Nighter Blues" and CHD 230 "Across the Tracks". The recordings stem from B.B.'s most productive years during the 50s and are of exceptional sound quality for recordings from that period."
Minimum packaging. Just track listing. Not even date of CD.
Wiki: Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. Wikipedia Born: September 16, 1925, Berclair, MS Died: May 14, 2015, Las Vegas, NV
Notes: "This album was captured on my 2015 tour. It is a mix of my song catalog from the past 21 years recorded in big venues, small venues, lively clubs, symphony halls and outdoor festivals. People often ask me what my favorite venue is and o that I say, "The one I'm playing in"."
He makes a point of listing the location of each performance.
Notes: "The Kelly brothers were formed in Chicago in 1948. One Bishop William Adeair discovered three teenage young men just up from Shelby, Mississippi --Andrew(baritone), Robert(tenor), and Curtis Kelly(high tenor) -- and teamed them up with a 20-year-old former resident of Hernando, Mississippi, Offe Reese(tenor) to found a spiritual group."
No Notes. Wiki: "Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and five-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America.... The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name."
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