1906 Willie Love*
1911 Memphis Willie B.*
1937 James Peterson*
1940 Delbert McClinton*
1943 Boo Boo Davis*
1998 Sonny Boy Nelson+
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Delbert McClinton *04.11.1940
Delbert McClinton wuchs in Fort Worth auf und entdeckte in seinen Teenagerjahren den Blues. Seine Mutter war Kosmetikerin und sein Vater arbeitete als Weichensteller bei der „Rock Island Railroad“, die von vielen texanischen Musikern besungen wurde.[2] Nachdem er zum ersten Mal mit dem Blues in Berührung gekommen war, gründete er seine erste Band „The Mellow Fellows“, eine Gruppe von begeisterten, aber wenig talentierten Teenagern.[2]. Seine ersten musikalischen Erfahrungen sammelte er an der Mundharmonika.
Später wurde er Mitglied der Band „The Straitjackets“, die Hausband eines Bluesclubs, die durchreisende Bluesgrößen wie etwa Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson II. und Bobby Blue Bland begleitete. McClinton spielte auch Harmonika auf dem Hit Bruce Channels Hey Baby!. Ihn begleitete er auf einer Englandtournee. Hier entstand die Legende, dass er dem jungen John Lennon Mundharmonika beigebracht habe, was aber nicht stimmt, da Lennon bereits Mundharmonika spielte. Richtig jedoch ist, dass sich die beiden kennenlernten. Nachdem er in die USA zurückgekehrt war, gründete er die Band „Rondells“, mit denen er 1965 einen kleineren Hit hatte.
1972 ging er nach Los Angeles, wo er mit Glen Clark das Duo „Delbert & Glen“ gründete, das auch zwei Alben aufnahm. Nachdem er 1974 nach Texas zurückging, widmete er sich dem Songschreiben, unter anderen Two More Bottles of Wine, das für Emmylou Harris ein Tophit wurde und B Movie Boxcar Blues, das die Blues Brothers John Belushi und Dan Ackroyd in ihr Repertoire aufnahmen. Auch eigene Platten nahm er für ABC und Muscle Shoals Sound Studio auf. Nachdem diese Firma aber in Konkurs ging, nahm er Anfang der 1980er-Jahre eine Auszeit. Im Jahr 1986 kehrte er als Sänger auf Roy Buchanans Dancing on the Edge zurück. Seine nächstes eigenes - und von seinem Saxophonisten Don Wise co-produziertes - Album, Live from Austin, brachte ihm seine erste Grammy Nominierung ein (Best Contemporary Blues Album).
1990 ging er nach Nashville, wo er ein gesuchter Songwriter (oft mit seinem Partner Gary Nicholson) wurde. Auf dem Feld zeitgenössischer Countrymusik schrieb er Material unter anderen für Wynonna Judd, Vince Gill, Lee Roy Parnell und Martina McBride. Sein großer Durchbruch kam aber erst, als er 1991 das Duett Good Man, Good Woman mit Bonnie Raitt aufnahm. Es erschien auf Luck of the Draw und erhielt den Grammy (Best Rock Vocal, Duo or Group). 1993 nahm er den Titelsong Weather für die Komödie „Groundhog Day“ (Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier) auf.
Auch in den 2000er-Jahren kam er mit neuen Aufnahmen auf den Markt. Das Album aus dem Jahr 2001 Nothing Personal hielt sich monatelang in den Billboard Charts, brachte ihm nationale Fernsehauftritte und ließ ihn nach 40 Jahren einen Höhepunkt in seiner Karriere erreichen. 2004 war er Juror bei den 4. Independent Music Awards. 2006 wurde sein Album The Cost of Living als (Best Contemporary Blues Album) mit dem Grammy ausgezeichnet.
McClinton ist auch der Star des 1998 entstanden Dokumentarfilms „Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey“ von Jay Curlee. Die Dokumentation enthält Interviews und Auftritte von McClinton, Marcia Ball, Rodney Crowell, Stephen Bruton, Wayne Toups, Jimmy Hall, Paul Thorn, Jeffrey Steele, Mel Fitzmundson und Teresa James. 2008 wurde der Film auf DVD veröffentlicht.
Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940)[2] is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.[1]
Active as a side-man since 1962 and as a band leader since 1972, he has recorded several major record label albums, and charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Rock Tracks, and Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-peaking single was "Tell Me About It", a 1992 duet with Tanya Tucker which reached No. 4 on the Country chart. He has also had four albums that made it to No. 1 on the U.S. Blues chart, and another that reached No. 2.
He was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame,[3] in March 2011, along with Lee Roy Parnell, Bruce Channel, Gary Nicholson, and Cindy Walker.
Career
Early years
Delbert McClinton was born in Lubbock, Texas, United States, but relocated with his family to Fort Worth, Texas when he was age 11.[2] He worked in a bar band, The Straitjackets, who played backing to Sonny Boy Williamson II, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed. McClinton recorded several regional singles before hitting the national chart in 1962, playing harmonica on Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby."[2] On a subsequent package tour to the United Kingdom, McClinton instructed John Lennon on the finer points of blues harmonica playing.[4]
McClinton formed the Ron-Dels, sometimes called Rondells with Ronnie Kelly and Billy Ray Sanders.[5][6][7] The band had a chart single in 1965 with "If You Really Want Me to I'll Go."[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
1970s
Relocating to Los Angeles in 1972, McClinton partnered with fellow Texan, Glen Clark, to perform a combination of country and soul music. They achieved a degree of artistic success, releasing two albums before splitting and McClinton embarked on a solo career.[2]
Emmylou Harris had a No. 1 hit in 1978 with McClinton's composition "Two More Bottles of Wine," and his "B Movie Boxcar Blues" was covered on the first The Blues Brothers album, Briefcase Full of Blues.[2]
1980s and 1990s
McClinton's 1980 album, The Jealous Kind, contained his only Top 40 hit single, "Givin' It Up for Your Love", which peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. After an inactive period during much of the 1980s, McClinton made a return in 1989 with the Grammy nominated Live From Austin album, recorded during an Austin City Limits appearance and co-produced by saxophonist Don Wise.[2]
He won a 1991 Grammy Award for his duet with Bonnie Raitt, "Good Man, Good Woman", and reached the Top 5 of the Country chart with the Tanya Tucker duet, "Tell Me About It."[2] McClinton recorded the opening title song "Weatherman" for the Bill Murray film Groundhog Day. The fledgling label Rising Tide released One of the Fortunate Few in 1997, before the label went out of business.[2]
2000–present
In addition to releasing two new studio albums in the early 2000s, New West Records issued Delbert McClinton Live in 2003, a compilation album of songs from throughout his career. In 2006, McClinton won a Grammy Award for his album The Cost of Living in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category.[2]
McClinton was a judge for the fourth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[17]
McClinton is the feature of the musical documentary, Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey, by the film maker Jay Curlee. In December 2011, McClinton is still active and appeared on the Fox Business Network Channel.
James Peterson *04.11.1937
Alabama-born and Florida-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter James Peterson played a gritty style of Southern-fried blues at times reminiscent of Howlin' Wolf and other times more along the lines of Freddie King. He formed his first band while he was living in Buffalo, New York and running the Governor's Inn House of Blues in the 1960s. He and his band would back up the traveling musicians who came through, including blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, Freddie King, Lowell Fulson, and Koko Taylor.
Peterson was born November 4, 1937 in Russell County, Alabama. Peterson was strongly influenced by gospel music in the rural area he grew up in, and he began singing in church as a child. Thanks to his father's juke joint, he was exposed to blues at an early age, and later followed in his footsteps in upstate New York. After leaving home at age 14, he headed to Gary, Indiana, where he sang with his friend John Scott. While still a teen, he began playing guitar, entirely self-taught. Peterson cited musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett), Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King as his early role models. After moving to Buffalo in 1955, he continued playing with various area blues bands, and ten years later he opened his own blues club.
In 1970, Peterson recorded his first album, The Father, the Son, the Blues on the Perception/Today label. While he ran his blues club at night, he supplemented his income by running a used-car lot during the day. Peterson's debut album was produced and co-written with Willie Dixon, and it featured a then-five-year-old Lucky Peterson on keyboards. Peterson followed it up with Tryin' to Keep the Blues Alive a few years later. Peterson's other albums included Rough and Ready and Too Many Knots for the Kingsnake and Ichiban labels in 1990 and 1991, respectively.
The album that put Peterson back on the road as a national touring act was 1995's Don't Let the Devil Ride for the Jackson, Mississippi-based Waldoxy Records. Throughout the '90s and up to the mid-2000s, Peterson was also an active live presence on the Tampa, Florida blues scene, and the 2000s also saw Peterson record another duo album with son Lucky, 2004's If You Can't Fix It on the JSP label. Peterson returned to Alabama in the mid-2000s, and died of a heart attack there on December 12, 2010. A master showman who learned from the best and knew how to work an audience, James Peterson left a legacy not only as an accomplished blues guitarist, but also as a crafty songwriter endowed with a deep, gospel-drenched singing style.
Willie Love *04.11.1906
Willie Love (* 4. November 1906 in Duncan, Bolivar County, Mississippi; † 19. August 1953 in Jackson, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluespianist.
Der wichtigste Einfluss auf Loves Klavierstil war Leroy Carr.[1]1942 traf er in Greenville Sonny Boy Williamson II., wo sie gemeinsam auf der Nelson Street, dem Zentrum der schwarzen Community der Stadt, spielten. Williamson war es auch, der Love zu Trumpet Records mitnahm. Dort spielte Love bei den ersten Aufnahmen Klavier.
Zwischen 1951 und 1953 nahm Love bei Trumpet unter eigenem Namen Platten auf. Bei der Aufnahme von Everybody's Fishing, seinem erfolgreichsten Titel, spielte Elmore James die Gitarre. Bei späteren Aufnahmen spielte Little Milton. Seine letzte Aufnahmesession war im April 1953. Bei dieser Session spielte er mit einem weißen Bassisten, was zur damaligen Zeit in Mississippi, dem Staat mit der strengsten Segregation, eine Seltenheit war.[2] Im August 1953 starb er an den Folgen seiner langanhaltenden Trunksucht. Er liegt auf dem Elmwood Cemetery in Jackson begraben.
Auf der CD Greenville Smokin' wurden im Jahr 2000 die noch vorhandenen Aufnahmen Loves veröffentlicht.
Willie Love (November 4, 1906 – August 19, 1953)[1] was an American Delta blues pianist. He is best known for his association with, and accompaniment of Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Biography
Love was born in Duncan, Mississippi, and in 1942, he met Sonny Boy Williamson II in Greenville, Mississippi.[2] They played regularly together at juke joints throughout the Mississippi Delta.[3] Love was influenced by the piano playing of Leroy Carr, and adept at both standard blues and boogie-woogie styling.[2]
In 1947 Charley Booker moved to Greenville, where he worked with Love.[4] Two years later, Oliver Sain also relocated to Greenville to join his stepfather, Love, as the drummer in a band fronted by Williamson. When Williamson recorded for Trumpet Records in March 1951, Love played the piano on the recordings. Trumpet's owner, Lillian McMurray, had Love return the following month, and again in July 1951, when Love recorded his best-known number, the self-penned, "Everybody's Fishing." Love played piano and sang, while the accompanying guitar come from Elmore James and Joe Willie Wilkins. His backing band was known as the Three Aces. A studio session in December 1951 had Love backed by Little Milton (guitar), T.J. Green (fiddle), and Junior Blackman (drums).[3] In his teenage years, Eddie Shaw played tenor saxophone with both Milton and Love.[5]
Under his own name, Love did not return to the studio until March 1953, when he cut "Worried Blues" and "Lonesome World Blues." Despite the friendship between them, Love did not utilise Williamson's playing on any of his own material.[2] In April 1953, Love and Williamson recorded in Houston, Texas, but it was Love's final recording session.[2][3]
Love played piano on Williamson's albums, I Ain't Beggin' Nobody and Clownin' With The World (1953).[3][6] All of Love's own recordings appeared on the compilation album, Greenville Smokin', issued in 2000.
After suffering the effects of years of heavy drinking,[3] Love died of bronchopneumonia, in August 1953, at the age of 46.[1] He was interred at the Elmwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.
Biography
Love was born in Duncan, Mississippi, and in 1942, he met Sonny Boy Williamson II in Greenville, Mississippi.[2] They played regularly together at juke joints throughout the Mississippi Delta.[3] Love was influenced by the piano playing of Leroy Carr, and adept at both standard blues and boogie-woogie styling.[2]
In 1947 Charley Booker moved to Greenville, where he worked with Love.[4] Two years later, Oliver Sain also relocated to Greenville to join his stepfather, Love, as the drummer in a band fronted by Williamson. When Williamson recorded for Trumpet Records in March 1951, Love played the piano on the recordings. Trumpet's owner, Lillian McMurray, had Love return the following month, and again in July 1951, when Love recorded his best-known number, the self-penned, "Everybody's Fishing." Love played piano and sang, while the accompanying guitar come from Elmore James and Joe Willie Wilkins. His backing band was known as the Three Aces. A studio session in December 1951 had Love backed by Little Milton (guitar), T.J. Green (fiddle), and Junior Blackman (drums).[3] In his teenage years, Eddie Shaw played tenor saxophone with both Milton and Love.[5]
Under his own name, Love did not return to the studio until March 1953, when he cut "Worried Blues" and "Lonesome World Blues." Despite the friendship between them, Love did not utilise Williamson's playing on any of his own material.[2] In April 1953, Love and Williamson recorded in Houston, Texas, but it was Love's final recording session.[2][3]
Love played piano on Williamson's albums, I Ain't Beggin' Nobody and Clownin' With The World (1953).[3][6] All of Love's own recordings appeared on the compilation album, Greenville Smokin', issued in 2000.
After suffering the effects of years of heavy drinking,[3] Love died of bronchopneumonia, in August 1953, at the age of 46.[1] He was interred at the Elmwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.
Boo Boo Davis is a survivor and belongs to the last generations of musicians that write and play the blues based on first hand experience of a hard life in the Mississippi Delta. He was born and raised in Drew, Mississippi in the heart of Delta. It was the richest cotton land in the South and the large amounts of field workers attracted the best musicians from the surrounding areas. The entire Delta region was rich with blues, but the town of Drew was a particularly fertile one. Charley Patton stayed near Drew for many years and several legendary performers spent time there. Sharecroppers sang loudly to help pass the grueling hours of work and without a doubt Boo Boo developed his loud, bellowing voice based on the singing he heard in the fields as a young boy. In fact, that voice, through the years has demolished many amps and speaker cabinets.
Boo Boo's father, Sylvester Davis farmed cotton and played several instruments. Musicians who he played with include John Lee Hooker, Elmore James and Robert Pete Williams. Boo Boo remembers these and other musicians dropping by and rehearsing at their house. At the age of five Boo Boo was playing the harmonica and singing in church with his mother. By thirteen he was playing guitar, and by eighteen he was playing out with his father and older brothers under the name of The Lard Can Band. This band travelled all throughout the Delta. In the early sixties he went north to St Louis and was around during the heyday of the St Louis music scene (Albert King, Ike Turner, Chuck Berry and many others). Together with his brothers they were the weekend house band in Tabby's Red Room in East St Louis for eighteen years.
Even though Boo Boo moved north to St. Louis, he will always be a southerner at heart. When he is at home (and not performing) his favorite pastimes are hunting with his dogs and fishing. During Boo Boo's childhood there was no time or money for him to go to school so he never learned to read and write. However that did not prevent him to travel all over the world. Following his guiding spirit (that he calls Dave) Boo Boo has found a way to deal with modern society. The blues helps him to keep his spirit high and survive day-to-day life. It deals with all the basic raw elements of life; good and bad, plain and simple.
His first European tour took place in April 2000 and since then Boo Boo is touring Europe at least twice a year. So far Boo Boo has released 5 CD's on Black and Tan Records and all of them were very well received. Number 4 (DREW, MISSISSIPPI) was listed with the 10 best blues records of 2006 by MOJO Magazine (UK). In 2007 Boo Boo was invited to perform on the POCONO BLUES FESTIVAL, one of the biggest blues festivals in the USA and in March 2007 Boo Boo performed live on CBC Radio One, national radio in Canada.
What started as a crazy idea after the European tour of Boo Boo in October 2007 has turned out to be not too crazy at all. On the Spring Tour of 2008 they decided to leave out the bass and tour as a trio: Boo Boo Davis on vocals & harmonica, John Gerritse on drums and Jan Mittendorp on guitar. This trio has been touring Europe extensively; the last few years they did over three hundred shows in twenty different countries including a lot of the big blues & jazz festivals (Montreux, Peer, Juan les Pins, Amal, Olstzyn)
Memphis Willie B. *04.11.1911
Memphis Willie B. (November 4, 1911[1] – October 5, 1993)[2] was an American Memphis blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter.[1]
He was known for his work with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters, the Memphis Jug Band, and his resurgence in the 1960s after years away from the music industry.[1] He recorded "The Stuff Is Here" and "Stop Cryin' Blues".[2] His 1961 song, "Overseas Blues", retrospectively expressed the fear of World War II servicemen who had survived the conflict in Europe, of joining the Pacific War.
William Borum was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.[1][2] He was taught to play the guitar by his father, and busked with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters in his teenage years. He quickly moved on to work with the Memphis Jug Band, who played both locally and at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. He extended his repertoire after being taught to play the harmonica by Noah Lewis.[4]
Willie B. slowly developed away from a disciplined jug band style, and played at various locations with Robert Johnson, Garfield Akers, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Willie Brown, who periodically travelled up from the Delta to play.[1] Willie B. first recorded at the age of 23, in September 1934 in New York, for Vocalion Records.[5] However, that part of his career was brief as he returned to working locally, in the company of Little Son Joe, Will Shade and Joe Hill Louis.[1][4] He signed up with the U.S. Army in January 1942, and served in the North African invasion (Operation Torch) in December 1942, and later in Italy.[6]
When demobilized he discovered musician's work hard to find, and eventually took up regular paid employment. He only returned to the music industry in the early 1960s, and recorded sufficient material for two albums for Bluesville Records in Memphis in 1961.[1][5] This provided the impetus for a resurgence in his musical career, and Willie B. played at various music festivals and in coffeehouses. Often he worked alongside Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, reliving their mutual early Memphis days.[1][7]
Willie B. once stated, "A blues is about something that's real. It's about what a man feels when his wife leaves him, or about some disappointment that happens to him that he can't do anything about. That's why none of these young boys can really sing the blues. They don't know about the things that go into a blues".[8]
However, Willie B. abruptly stopped playing in the late 1960s, and little was heard of him prior to his death in 1993.
He was known for his work with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters, the Memphis Jug Band, and his resurgence in the 1960s after years away from the music industry.[1] He recorded "The Stuff Is Here" and "Stop Cryin' Blues".[2] His 1961 song, "Overseas Blues", retrospectively expressed the fear of World War II servicemen who had survived the conflict in Europe, of joining the Pacific War.
William Borum was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.[1][2] He was taught to play the guitar by his father, and busked with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters in his teenage years. He quickly moved on to work with the Memphis Jug Band, who played both locally and at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. He extended his repertoire after being taught to play the harmonica by Noah Lewis.[4]
Willie B. slowly developed away from a disciplined jug band style, and played at various locations with Robert Johnson, Garfield Akers, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Willie Brown, who periodically travelled up from the Delta to play.[1] Willie B. first recorded at the age of 23, in September 1934 in New York, for Vocalion Records.[5] However, that part of his career was brief as he returned to working locally, in the company of Little Son Joe, Will Shade and Joe Hill Louis.[1][4] He signed up with the U.S. Army in January 1942, and served in the North African invasion (Operation Torch) in December 1942, and later in Italy.[6]
When demobilized he discovered musician's work hard to find, and eventually took up regular paid employment. He only returned to the music industry in the early 1960s, and recorded sufficient material for two albums for Bluesville Records in Memphis in 1961.[1][5] This provided the impetus for a resurgence in his musical career, and Willie B. played at various music festivals and in coffeehouses. Often he worked alongside Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, reliving their mutual early Memphis days.[1][7]
Willie B. once stated, "A blues is about something that's real. It's about what a man feels when his wife leaves him, or about some disappointment that happens to him that he can't do anything about. That's why none of these young boys can really sing the blues. They don't know about the things that go into a blues".[8]
However, Willie B. abruptly stopped playing in the late 1960s, and little was heard of him prior to his death in 1993.
Memphis Willie B. Bad Girl Blues Introducing Memphis Willie B. 1961
Sonny Boy Nelson (December 23, 1908 – November 4, 1998)[1] was an American blues musician.
He was born Eugene Powell, in Utica, Mississippi, United States, the child of an interracial affair and his white father soon abandoned the family.[2] His family soon moved to a plantation at Lombardy, near Shelby, Mississippi. Nelson learned to play the guitar by the age of seven. Together with his half brother Ben on a mandolin, Nelson began to play as a novelty act at picnics and suppers, and for prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. In 1915, his half brother, Bennie "Sugar" Wilson, may have been the inspiration for Nelson to learn the banjo-mandolin. Nelson became friends with the Chatmon family (see Sam Chatmon), as both families worked together on the Kelly Drew Plantation in Hollandale, Mississippi.
He later married fellow singer, Mississippi Matilda.[1]
Nelson played many musical instruments, including banjo, guitar, harmonica, horn, mandolin, violin, and played lead most of the time when accompanied with another musician. Nelson's guitar was a Silvertone and he inserted an aluminium resonator into it similar to those found on the National guitar. He also fitted a seventh string, using the 12 string models as his inspiration. The extra string was a 'C' an octave higher than the conventional string. Later electric styles overhadowed his fame, and he went on to live a quiet life until his death.[3]
Nelson died in November 1998, in Greenville, Mississippi, at the age of 89.[1]
He was born Eugene Powell, in Utica, Mississippi, United States, the child of an interracial affair and his white father soon abandoned the family.[2] His family soon moved to a plantation at Lombardy, near Shelby, Mississippi. Nelson learned to play the guitar by the age of seven. Together with his half brother Ben on a mandolin, Nelson began to play as a novelty act at picnics and suppers, and for prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. In 1915, his half brother, Bennie "Sugar" Wilson, may have been the inspiration for Nelson to learn the banjo-mandolin. Nelson became friends with the Chatmon family (see Sam Chatmon), as both families worked together on the Kelly Drew Plantation in Hollandale, Mississippi.
He later married fellow singer, Mississippi Matilda.[1]
Nelson played many musical instruments, including banjo, guitar, harmonica, horn, mandolin, violin, and played lead most of the time when accompanied with another musician. Nelson's guitar was a Silvertone and he inserted an aluminium resonator into it similar to those found on the National guitar. He also fitted a seventh string, using the 12 string models as his inspiration. The extra string was a 'C' an octave higher than the conventional string. Later electric styles overhadowed his fame, and he went on to live a quiet life until his death.[3]
Nelson died in November 1998, in Greenville, Mississippi, at the age of 89.[1]
Sonny Boy Nelson: How You Want Your Rolling Done? (1978)
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