Donnerstag, 17. März 2016

17.03. Hollywood Fats, Paul Kantner, John B. Sebastian,Lovie Lee, Brandon Niederauer * Sunnyland Slim, Bobby Mitchell, Lester Davenport, Lizzie Miles +






1909 Lovie Lee*
1941 Paul Kantner*
1944 John B. Sebastian*
1954 Hollywood Fats*
1963 Lizzie Miles+
1989 Bobby Mitchell+
1995 Sunnyland Slim+
2009 Lester Davenport+
Brandon Niederauer*






Happy Birthday

 

Hollywood Fats *17.03.1954

 

Hollywood Fats (* 17. Mai 1954, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, als Michael Leonard Mann; † 8. Dezember 1986) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesgitarrist.
Er begann im Alter von zehn Jahren mit dem Gitarrespiel. Nachdem er als Teenager den Blues entdeckt hatte, fuhr ihn seine Mutter in verschiedene Bluesclubs in South Central Los Angeles, wo er verschiedene Größen der Bluesmusik hörte und mit ihnen spielte. [1] Er trat mit Shakey Jake Harris, Magic Sam, Buddy Guy und Junior Wells auf. Nachdem er in den 1970ern mit dem Mundharmonikaspieler James Harman gearbeitet hatte und kurze Zeit bei Canned Heat spielte (Tondokument:Canned Heat in Concert)[2], gründete er mit dem Mundharmonikaspieler Al Blake, dem Pianisten Fred Kaplan, dem Schlagzeuger Richard Innes und dem Bassisten Larry Taylor die Hollywood Fats Band. 1979 veröffentlichte die Band ihr einziges Album. Nicht lange danach löste sich die Band auf, Mann spielte danach wieder mit James Harman und einer Band namens Dino´s Revenge, mit der er auch live spielte.
1986 trafen sich die Mitglieder der Hollywood Fats Band und spielten einen Gig, bei dem sie sich entschlossen, wieder gemeinsam aufzutreten. Nach der anschließenden Feier mit Freunden starb Hollywood Fats aber an einer Überdosis Heroin.

Hollywood Fats (March 17, 1954 – December 8, 1986)[1] was an American blues guitarist, active in Los Angeles, California.
Biography
Hollywood Fats was born Michael Leonard Mann in Los Angeles, and started playing guitar at the age of 10. While in his teens, his mother would drive him to various clubs in South Central Los Angeles to jam with well-known blues musicians when they came to town. Hollywood Fats' father was a doctor and his siblings went on to become doctors and lawyers. He met Buddy Guy and Junior Wells who gave him the nickname.[2] Hollywood Fats toured with James Harman, Jimmy Witherspoon, J. B. Hutto, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Albert King.
During the 1970s and 1980s he worked with the blues harmonica player and singer James Harman. He played on a number of his records including Extra Napkin's, Mo' Na'Kins, Please, Those Dangerous Gentlemans and Live in '85. Other guitarists with whom he played included Junior Watson, Kid Ramos and Dave Alvin.
Hollywood Fats was invited to be a sideman to Muddy Waters and later met the harmonica player Al Blake. Blake had just moved to Los Angeles from Oklahoma. In 1974, Hollywood Fats and Blake formed a band consisting of pianist Fred Kaplan, Richard Innes on drums and Canned Heat bassist Larry Taylor called the Hollywood Fats Band.[3]
For a King Biscuit Flower Hour concert on September 7, 1979, which was later to be released on record, Hollywood Fats played the lead guitar in Canned Heat.
The Hollywood Fats Band released a self-titled album in 1979, the only album under their name. The band broke up not long after and Hollywood Fats continued to play with Harman's band, and The Blasters in 1986 replacing Dave Alvin.
Hollywood Fats also played with a non-blues band called Dino's Revenge from 1985 through 1986. He recorded three songs with Dino's Revenge as well as playing several live performances.[4] The band consisted of Marshall Rohner of T.S.O.L. as well as Kevan Hill, Butch Azevedo and Steven Ameche all of The Twisters.[5]
Hollywood Fats died of a heroin overdose in 1986 in Los Angeles at the age of 32. At the time of his death, he was playing with the James Harman Band, the Blasters and Dino's Revenge.
The band reunion
Around 2002, the remaining original members of the Hollywood Fats Band were reunited with young Kirk Fletcher on guitar, and recorded some new material. The first of the recordings came out on Al Blake's solo album Dr. Blakes Magic Soul Elixir released in 2002. This new version of the band started calling themselves the Hollywood Blue Flames. They released two albums under their name from Delta Groove Productions. The second album Road To Rio came with a CD titled Larger Than Life which consisted of previously unreleased live recordings of the original Hollywood Fats Band.

Hollywood Fats - Rock This House 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Be0goMgI9g 


 

 

Paul Kantner  *17.03.1941

 



Paul Lorin Kantner (* 17. März 1941 in San Francisco, Kalifornien; † 28. Januar 2016) war ein amerikanischer Rockmusiker (Gitarre, Gesang) und Mitbegründer der Rockband Jefferson Airplane.

Biografie

Paul Kantner war der erste, den Marty Balin 1965 zum Projekt Jefferson Airplane einlud. Kantner schrieb etliche Songs für die Band, die sich häufig um Themen aus der Science-Fiction drehten: Der Text des Liedes Crown of Creation vom gleichnamigen Album aus dem Jahr 1968 besteht zum Beispiel nur aus Zitaten aus dem 1955 erschienenen Science-Fiction-Roman Wem gehört die Erde? von John Wyndham. Mit David Crosby und Stephen Stills schrieb er das Stück Wooden Ships, das auf dem Airplane-Album Volunteers erschien. Kantners Solo-Album Blows Against the Empire von 1970 – mit Beiträgen von Grace Slick, David Crosby, Jerry García und Graham Nash – handelt davon, dass um das Jahr 1990 herum siebentausend Hippies ein von der Regierung gebautes Raumschiff kapern, um damit ins All auszuwandern. Es wurde für den Hugo Award nominiert.

Die Airplane-Sängerin Grace Slick und Paul Kantner wurden ein Paar, ihre gemeinsame Tochter China wurde 1971 geboren. Sie nahmen die Alben Sunfighter (1971) und Baron Von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun (1973) auf, bevor sie 1974 Jefferson Airplane endgültig in Jefferson Starship umbenannten – den Namen hatte Kantner schon 1970 für Blows Against the Empire verwendet.

1980 erlitt Kantner eine Hirnblutung. 1983 erschien sein Soloalbum The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra. 1984 verließ Kantner Jefferson Starship und erreichte auf gerichtlichem Weg, dass die Band ihren Namen ändern musste und sich fortan Starship nannte. Mit Marty Balin und Jack Casady formierte er 1985 die KBC Band, die ein Album aufnahm.

1989 gab es eine kurzzeitige Wiedervereinigung von Jefferson Airplane. Danach belebte Kantner Jefferson Starship wieder – diese jüngste Inkarnation der Band wird allgemein als Jefferson Starship – The Next Generation bezeichnet.

Kantner starb am 28. Januar 2016 an Multiorganversagen und septischem Schock als Folgen eines Herzinfarkts, den er einige Tage zuvor erlitten hatte. Er hinterlässt zwei Söhne und eine Tochter.






Paul Lorin Kantner[1] (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, known for co-founding Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era, and its more commercial spin-off band Jefferson Starship. He was born in San Francisco, California.

Formed in 1965 when he and Marty Balin met, Kantner eventually became the leader of Jefferson Airplane and led the group through its highly successful late 1960s period. In 1970, while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded a one-off side project under the name "Paul Kantner and the Jefferson Starship."

Jefferson Airplane continued to record and perform until 1972. When the band officially broke up, Kantner revived the Jefferson Starship name and continued to record and perform with that band for the next five decades. Kantner had the longest continuous membership with the band; at times he was the only founding member still in the band from the original Jefferson Airplane lineup,[2] and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with other band members in 1996.

Early years

Kantner was born on March 17, 1941, in San Francisco, California,[1] the son of Cora Lee (Fortier) and Paul Schell Kantner. Kantner had a half-brother and a half-sister by his father's first marriage, both much older than he. His father was of German descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry.[3] His mother died when he was eight years old, and Kantner remembered that he was not allowed to attend her funeral. His father sent him to the circus instead.[2] After his mother's death, his father, who was a traveling salesman, sent young Kantner to Catholic military boarding school. At age eight or nine, in the school's library, he read his first science fiction book, finding an escape by immersing himself in science fiction and music from then on.[2][4][5] As a teenager he went into total revolt against all forms of authority, and he decided to become a protest folk singer in the manner of his musical hero, Pete Seeger.[5] He attended Saint Mary's College High School, Santa Clara University and San Jose State College, completing a total of three years of college before he dropped out to enter the music scene.[2][6]

1960s–1970s

During the summer of 1965, singer Marty Balin saw Kantner perform at the Drinking Gourd, a San Francisco folk club, and invited him to co-found a new band, Jefferson Airplane.[2][4][7] When the group needed a lead guitarist, Kantner recommended Jorma Kaukonen, whom he knew from his San Jose days.[2] As rhythm guitarist and one of the band's singers, Kantner was the only musician to appear on all albums recorded by Jefferson Airplane as well as Jefferson Starship. Kantner's songwriting often featured whimsical or political lyrics with a science-fiction or fantasy theme, usually set to music that had a hard rock, almost martial sound. Kantner wrote many of the Airplane's early songs, including the chart hits "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil", "Watch Her Ride", "Crown of Creation", and the controversial "We Can Be Together"; and, with Balin, co-wrote "Today" and "Volunteers".[8] He also wrote, with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, the song "Wooden Ships", though for contractual reasons he was not credited initially.[9]

With Jefferson Airplane, Kantner was among the performers at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Recalling Woodstock 40 years later, Kantner stated: “We were due to be on stage at 10pm on the Saturday night but we didn’t actually get on until 7.30am the following day.”[10] Later in 1969, the group also played at Altamont, where Marty Balin was knocked unconscious during their set by a Hells Angels member originally hired as security for the concert. Kantner appears in the documentary film about the Altamont concert, Gimme Shelter, in a tense on-stage confrontation with a Hell's Angel regarding the altercation.[11]

Despite its commercial success, the Airplane was plagued by intra-group fighting, causing the band to begin splintering at the height of its success.[12] Part of the problem was manager Bill Graham, who wanted the group to do more touring and more recording.[13][14] During the transitional period of the early 1970s, as the Airplane started to come apart, Kantner recorded Blows Against The Empire, a concept album featuring an ad hoc group of musicians whom he dubbed Jefferson Starship.[5][12][15][16] This earliest edition of Jefferson Starship included members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (David Crosby and Graham Nash), members of the Grateful Dead, (Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart), as well as some of the other members of Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick, Joey Covington and Jack Casady).

In Blows Against the Empire, Kantner and Slick sang about a group of people escaping Earth in a hijacked starship. The album was nominated in 1971 for the Hugo Award, the premiere award voted by science fiction fandom.[17] A sequel, The Empire Blows Back, was released in 1983 and included most of the same musicians, performing this time under the name The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra.[18]

Kantner had been in love with Grace Slick for some time, but she was involved in a relationship with the band's drummer, Spencer Dryden. After their two-year affair ended, he finally had a chance with Grace.[2][14][19] In 1969, Kantner and Grace Slick began living together publicly as a couple. Rolling Stone magazine called them "the psychedelic John and Yoko." Slick became pregnant, and a song about their child's impending birth, "A Child Is Coming," appeared on Blows Against the Empire. Kantner and Slick's daughter China Wing Kantner was born in 1971.[20][21][22]

Kantner and Slick released two follow-up albums. Sunfighter was an environmentalism-tinged album released in 1971 to celebrate China's birth. China appears on the album cover, and the track list includes "China," a song written and sung by Slick about her new baby. Kantner and Slick made news again in 1972, when they were accused of assaulting a policeman after their Akron, Ohio concert.[23][24] 1973's Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun was named after the nicknames David Crosby had given to the couple. Through a songwriter friend Kantner discovered teen-aged guitarist Craig Chaquico during this time, who first appeared on Sunfighter and went on to play with all of the incarnations of the Starship name through 1991. Slick left Kantner in the 1970s to marry Skip Johnson, a Jefferson Starship roadie.[4] Despite the split, Slick remained with the band through 1978.

After Kaukonen and Casady left the Airplane in 1973 to devote their full attention to Hot Tuna, the musicians on Baron von Tollbooth formed the core of a new Airplane lineup that was formally reborn as "Jefferson Starship" for a tour in 1974. Kantner, Slick, and David Freiberg were charter members along with late-Airplane holdovers – drummer John Barbata and fiddler Papa John Creach – plus Chaquico and Pete Sears, who played bass and keyboards. Marty Balin also joined Jefferson Starship while their first album, Dragonfly, was still in the works, co-writing with Kantner the album's biggest hit "Caroline."[16][25]

After the 1978 release of the album Earth – to which Kantner contributed just one song – Jefferson Starship saw major personnel changes. Slick took a leave of absence, and Balin quit the group to pursue a solo career. No attempt was made to replace Slick, but Balin was replaced by Mickey Thomas, who had previously achieved success as a member of the Elvin Bishop Group.[26][27] Freedom at Point Zero, an album dominated by Kantner compositions, was released to commercial success. Grace Slick returned for the follow-up album, Modern Times, which also featured Kantner's science fiction themes.[4]

1980s–1990s

In October 1980, Kantner was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in serious condition from a cerebral hemorrhage.[5] Kantner had been working in Los Angeles on an album when he became ill.[28] He was 39 years old at the time and beat considerable odds with a full recovery without surgery.[29] A year later, Kantner talked about the experience, saying, "If there was a Big Guy up there willing to talk to me, I was willing to listen. But nothing happened. It was all just like a small vacation." It was his second brush with serious illness or injury, having suffered a serious motorcycle accident in the early 1960s: "I hit a tree at 40 miles an hour head first and nearly shattered my skull. I had a plate in there for a while."[4] The injury from the motorcycle accident was credited with saving Kantner from serious complications from the cerebral hemorrhage; the hole left by the accident relieved the accompanying cranial pressure.[2]
Kantner in concert with Jefferson Starship, 1996.

In 1984, Kantner (the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane remaining) left Jefferson Starship, complaining that the band had become too commercial and strayed too far from its counterculture roots.[30] Kantner made his decision to leave in the middle of a tour.[26] Upon quitting Kantner took legal action against his former bandmates over the Jefferson name (the rest of the band wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship).[31] Kantner won his suit, and the group name was reduced to simply "Starship."[13] Under the terms of the settlement, no group can call itself Jefferson Starship without Paul Kantner as a member, and no group can call itself Jefferson Airplane unless Grace Slick is on board.[32][33] The legal battle had personal repercussions as well, permanently damaging Kantner's friendships with Mickey Thomas and Craig Chaquiço.

In 1985, following his departure from Jefferson Starship, Paul Kantner rejoined with Balin and Jack Casady to form the KBC Band, releasing their only album, KBC Band (which included Kantner's hit, "America"), in 1987 on Arista Records.[12][33] There was a video made for "America" as well as a national KBC tour.[34] In 1986, Kantner headed for court with Slick and her then husband, Skip Johnson, over the taping of some telephone conversations.[35]

With Kantner reunited with Balin and Casady, the KBC Band opened the door to a full-blown Jefferson Airplane reunion. In 1988, during a San Francisco Hot Tuna gig where Kantner was performing, they found themselves joined by Grace Slick. This led to a formal reunion of the original Jefferson Airplane (featuring nearly all the main members, including founder Marty Balin, but without Spencer Dryden, who left in 1970).[36][37] A self-titled album was released by Columbia Records. The accompanying tour was a success, but their revival was short-lived, although the band never formally disbanded.[38] According to Grace Slick, the reunion began as a joke: "We hadn't even talked for a year, and we were battling legally – in fact, there are still some standing lawsuits between me and Paul, something to do with the Airplane. Anyway, the idea was that I'd just sneak in, stand at the side of the stage and come out and sing 'White Rabbit' and see what Paul did. Paul never got the joke, but he liked it, the audience liked it, and that's how it started."[39]

1990s–2010s

Kantner and his Jefferson Airplane bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.[40] The performance at the induction ceremony was the first time original members Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Spencer Dryden and Kantner had played together since 1970.[41] Grace Slick had to miss the ceremonies because of a serious leg infection, but sent a message which was delivered by Kantner, "Grace sends her love."[42]

In 1991 Kantner and Balin reformed Jefferson Starship and Kantner continued to tour and record with the band through 2013. Jefferson Starship was primarily a Paul Kantner solo band, with various former Airplane and Starship members dropping in for tours or specific shows. With their latest female vocalist Cathy Richardson and Kantner's son Alexander Kantner on bass, Jefferson Starship released their first studio album in a decade, titled Jefferson's Tree of Liberty in September 2008.[43] The album was a return to Kantner's musical roots featuring covers of 1950s and 1960s protest songs.[44][45]

In late 2010 Kantner started to compile collections of "sonic art" performed by him and various artists, including a mix of cover songs, sound effects, and spoken word, releasing multiple volumes under the title "Paul Kantner Windowpane Collective".[46]

On March 25, 2015, it was reported that Kantner had suffered a heart-attack.“Paul’s health took a bad turn this week,” the members of Jefferson Starship said via a Facebook post. “He’s in the hospital, stable and undergoing tests to find out exactly what’s going on, but doctors suspect he had a heart attack. He is in the best possible care and we are sending him all of our best wishes, good thoughts and healing vibes." The band also stated that they're "continuing the tour without him, as most of the shows are sold out or close to it and we have to honor our contracts and our fans who bought tickets and put on the best show possible,” the band said in its official statement. “We will dedicate every show to Paul until he is well enough to rejoin us onstage.”[47] Kantner returned to the group later on in the year, in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jefferson Airplane with special shows that also featured Grateful Dead tribute group Jazz is Dead.

Personal life and death

Kantner had three children; sons Gareth (a restauranteur) and Alexander (a musician who sometimes played with Jefferson Starship), and daughter China (a former MTV VJ and actress.)[48]

A political anarchist, Kantner once advocated the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD for mind expansion and spiritual growth, and was a prominent advocate of the legalization of marijuana.[4][49] In a 1986 interview, Kantner shared his thoughts about cocaine and alcohol, saying, "Cocaine, particularly, is a bummer. It's a noxious drug that turns people into jerks. And alcohol is probably the worst drug of all. As you get older and accomplish more things in life in general, you realize that drugs don't help, particularly if you abuse them."[50] When Kantner suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1980, his attending physician at Cedars-Sinai, Stephen Levy, was quick to point out it was not a drug-related issue, saying: "There is zero relationship between Paul's illness and drugs. He doesn't use drugs."[51]

Kantner died in San Francisco at the age of 74 on January 28, 2016 from multiple organ failure and septic shock after he suffered a heart attack days earlier.[1] Shortly after Kantner's passing, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart reflected, "He was kind of the backbone of that band. It was always about Grace and Jack and Jorma (Kaukonen), I don’t think he got the credit he deserved." [52] He died on the same day as Airplane co-founder Signe Toly Anderson.

Paul Kantner's 72nd Birthday 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdvIfGdcXPE 


Paul Kantner - Somebody To Love - Jefferson Starship Live 2013 






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John B. Sebastian  *17.03.1944

 



John B. Sebastian (* 17. März 1944 in Greenwich Village, New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Rockmusiker, Songschreiber und Mundharmonikaspieler. Er war Gründer der Rockband The Lovin’ Spoonful.
Sebastian wuchs in einem musikalischen Umfeld auf und begegnete während seiner Kindheit und Jugend so bekannten Musikern wie Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt und Lightnin’ Hopkins. Er spielte in den Bands Even Dozen Jug Band und den Mugwumps - aus letzterer entstanden The Lovin’ Spoonful und The Mamas and the Papas. Mit den Doors nahm er 1969 den Song Roadhouse Blues auf.
1969 trat er beim Woodstock-Festival auf, obwohl er überhaupt nicht eingeladen war. Er war von Wavy Gravy hinter der Bühne entdeckt worden. Sebastian trug wilde Bindebatik-Kleidung und stand der Legende nach dermaßen unter Drogeneinfluss, dass er nicht in der Lage war, die Aufforderung abzulehnen. Zu Beginn seines Vortrags wies er die Menge an, „einfach jeden um sich herum zu lieben und auf dem Heimweg etwas Müll mitzunehmen“. Sein kurzer Auftritt mit einer Art Rap, der infolge seines psychedelischen Zustands beinahe einer Parodie einer Hippie-Unterhaltung gleichkam, wurde von der Menge begeistert aufgenommen.
Weitere Auftritte wie im Jahr 1970 beim Atlanta International Pop Festival oder auf dem dritten und größten Isle of Wight Festival folgten. 1976 hatte Sebastian in den USA einen Nummer-eins-Hit mit dem Titelsong zu der Fernsehserie Welcome Back, Kotter. In den frühen 1990er Jahren nahm er mit Musikern von NRBQ eine Platte auf mit dem Titel Tar Beach. In jener Zeit moderierte er auch eine Oldie-Sendung für den amerikanischen Fernsehsender NBC.
John Sebastian hatte einen Gastauftritt als Altrocker in einer Folge der Serie Eine schrecklich nette Familie. Er verkörperte dort sich selbst und traf auf weitere Altstars: Robby Krieger von den Doors, Woodstock-Bestreiter Richie Havens, Peter Noone von Herman's Hermits, Mark Lindsay von Paul Revere & the Raiders und Spencer Davis.
Auch in dem Film What's Up Tiger Lily? aus dem Jahr 1966 von Woody Allen ist John Sebastian mit seinen Bandkollegen zu sehen. Videosequenzen von The Lovin' Spoonful, die auch für den Soundtrack des Films verantwortlich zeichneten, wurden ohne Einwilligung des Regisseurs nach Fertigstellung des Films in diesen eingefügt.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian 

John Benson Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.[1] His tie-dyed denim jacket is prominently displayed there.
Life and early career
Sebastian was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. His father, John Sebastian, was a noted classical harmonica player and his mother was a radio script writer. He is the godson of Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz of I Love Lucy). He grew up surrounded by music and musicians, including Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie and hearing such players as Lead Belly and Mississippi John Hurt in his own neighborhood.[2][3]
One of his first recording gigs was playing guitar and harmonica for Billy Faier's 1964 album The Beast of Billy Faier.[4] He also recorded with Fred Neil on the Bleecker & MacDougal album and Tom Rush's self-titled album in 1965. He came up through the Even Dozen Jug Band and The Mugwumps, which split to form the Lovin' Spoonful and The Mamas & the Papas. Sebastian was joined by Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler in the Spoonful, which was named after "The Coffee Blues," a Mississippi John Hurt song. Sebastian also played autoharp on occasion.
The Lovin' Spoonful became part of the American response to the British Invasion and was noted for such folk-flavored hits as "Jug Band Music," "Do You Believe in Magic," "Summer in the City," "Daydream," "Nashville Cats," "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?," "Six O'Clock," "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" and "Younger Girl."[1] The band, however, began to implode after a 1967 marijuana bust in San Francisco involving Yanovsky, a Canadian citizen. Facing deportation, he revealed the name of his dealer, which caused a fan backlash and internal strife. Neither Sebastian nor Butler was involved in the matter, both being away from San Francisco at the time. Yanovsky subsequently left the band and was replaced by Jerry Yester.[5]
Solo career
Sebastian left the Lovin' Spoonful in 1968 although he and the original band reunited briefly to appear in the 1980 film One Trick Pony starring Paul Simon and Blair Brown.[1] In December 1968 a musical for which he composed the music and lyrics, Jimmy Shine, opened on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in the title role.[6]
He embarked on a moderately successful solo career after leaving the Lovin' Spoonful in 1968. Sebastian was popular among the rock festival circuits. He had a memorable, albeit unscheduled appearance at Woodstock, appearing after Country Joe McDonald's set, playing songs such as "I Had A Dream," "Rainbows All Over Your Blues," "Darling Be Home Soon" and "Younger Generation," which he dedicated to a newborn baby at the festival. Documentary remarks by festival organizers revealed that Sebastian was under the influence of marijuana[7] at the time, hence his spontaneity and casual, unplanned set. "By the time I got to Woodstock I remained a pot smoker, but there was a natural high there," says Sebastian.[7] "In an interview it is the easy thing to say 'yeah, I was really high,' but it was actually a very small part of the event. In fact, I had a small part of some pill that someone gave me before I went onstage, but it wasn't a real acid feeling."[7] Sebastian also returned for Woodstock '94, playing harmonica for Crosby, Stills and Nash. Sebastian released his eponymous LP John B. Sebastian in 1970, which featured him accompanied by various L.A. musicians.
Sebastian played harmonica with The Doors on the song "Roadhouse Blues" (which was featured on Morrison Hotel album), under the pseudonym G. Puglese to avoid problems with his contract[8] and to avoid association with Jim Morrison, who had been facing trial charges after the Miami concert incident at the time. He also played on "Little Red Rooster" on the live album Alive, She Cried and on seven songs on Live In Detroit.[9][10] (Both albums were later re-released, remastered, and repackaged into one single album, In Concert, and included Jim's introduction of Sebastian to the stage on the "Little Red Rooster" track.) He also is credited with playing harmonica on Crosby Stills Nash & Young's "Déjà Vu" from the album of the same name.
In 1976 Sebastian had a number one single with "Welcome Back," the theme song to the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.[2] His only top 40 solo hit, it found new life 28 years later when a sample from it became the hook for rapper Mase's 2004 hit "Welcome Back." More recently he played with John Sebastian and the J-Band, a jug band including Fritz Richmond from the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Yank Rachell, an original jug-band leader, and Geoff Muldaur.
Several modern musicians cite him as a large influence. Sebastian is a notable songwriter whose work has been covered by Elvis Costello ("The Room Nobody Lives In"), Dolly Parton, Del McCoury, Helen Reddy, Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, Bobby Darin, Slade and Joe Cocker; The Everly Brothers, Tom Petty and Jimmy Buffett have all covered "Stories We Could Tell".
Later career
Starting in 1978 John wrote the music for the animated special The Devil and Daniel Mouse, and provided the singing voice for the character of Daniel Mouse. In the 1980s Sebastian continued to write and perform music for several productions from Nelvana Limited Productions, a reputable Canada-based animation studio whose more recent output included the TV series Braceface, which starred—and was jointly produced by—Alicia Silverstone, and the same studio which produced The Devil and Daniel Mouse. John wrote and sang the theme song/narration for Nelvana's TV pilot The Get Along Gang. (None of it was kept, however, when DIC Entertainment took over the project thereafter.) Sebastian also composed and performed "Care Bear Countdown," the theme song for Nelvana's Care Bears TV series, along with numerous tunes for the The Care Bears Movie trilogy which preceded it; this consisted of Care Bears Movie 2: A New Generation and The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland.
In later years Sebastian hosted several television programs regarding '60s' music, including paid programs for compilations sets and a half-hour program called The Golden Age of Rock and Roll, which was usually composed of video footage of 1960s bands performing on variety shows. He also hosted a Spoonful retrospective broadcast over PBS in March 2007, talking about various Spoonful numbers in between vintage video clips of the band up to the time he left.
In 1992 Sebastian made a cameo appearance on the sitcom Married...with Children, together with other famous rockstars. In 2005 he appeared on Eels' Blinking Lights and Other Revelations.[11]
In 2007 Sebastian released a guitar instructional DVD for Homespun Video teaching solo guitar adaptations of eight of his Spoonful hits including "Daydream," "Nashville Cats," and his solo hit "Welcome Back." He has also released an instructional DVD teaching beginning level autoharp. (Sebastian played both harmonica and autoharp on Shanachie's 2002 compilation CD "Man of Constant Sorrow.")
Sebastian and the J Band appear in Chasin' Gus' Ghost, a documentary about the roots and influence of jug band music,[12][13] which screened in August 2007 at the San Francisco Jug Band Festival and made its film festival debut in October 2007 at the Woodstock Film Festival. In the film Sebastian humorously explains (with musical accompaniment) how his hit song, "Younger Girl", was inspired by Gus Cannon's "Prison Wall Blues." He also performed at the festival with other musicians featured in the film, including Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin and David Grisman.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.[2]
Stories We Could Tell, the title of a novel by British writer Tony Parsons, comes from the Sebastian song. On January 12, 2014, Sebastian appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to talk about his career with and without The Lovin' Spoonful, Eric Clapton, and the Martin guitar.







Lovie Lee  *17.03.1909

 

http://www.pastblues.com/view-action-89.html?en=Lovie+Lee

Lovie Lee (March 17, 1909 – May 23, 1997)[1][2] was an American electric blues pianist and singer. He is best known for his work accompanying Muddy Waters,[2] although he did record a solo album in 1992. He was the 'adoptive stepfather' of fellow bluesman, Carey Bell, and thus 'grandfather' to Lurrie Bell.
He was born Edward Lee Watson in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.[1] Lee grew up in Meridian, Mississippi, and was self taught on the piano, utilising his skills in various churches, and playing at rodeos and vaudeville.[3] He had already acquired his nickname, 'Lovie', from a doting aunt.[4] He found part time employment playing with the Swinging Cats in the early 1950s. The outfit included Carey Bell, who Lee took under his 'fatherly' protection, and they jointly relocated to Chicago, Illinois in September 1956.[3][4] Lee worked during the day in a woodworking factory, and for many years played in the evening in numerous Chicago blues nightclubs, including Porter's Lounge.[1][4] He was well known around Chicago for his blues piano playing.[1] Lee later worked as an upholsterer, but kept together his backing band, known as the Sensationals.[4]
After he retired from full-time day work, Lee joined Muddy Waters band in 1979, replacing Pinetop Perkins on the piano stool.[3] He was recommended to Muddy Waters by George "Mojo" Buford, after Lee had worked with Buford in North Dakota. Lee stayed in situ until Muddy's death in 1983, and then returned to playing in Chicago clubs.[4]
Lee made some private recordings in both 1984 and 1989, and this work plus later contemporary tracks, were released as the album Good Candy (1992).[1] His recording utilised musicians such as Eddie Taylor, Odie Payne, plus both Carey and Lurrie Bell.[5]
Lee died in Chicago in May 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovie_Lee 

Lovie Lee - Lovie's Boogie 






Brandon Niederauer   *17.03.

 


Brandon Niederauer is a 11-year-old guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist from Dix Hills, NY who plays as if he was born with the guitar in his hands. Brandon also has a very strong singing voice, proving that soul does not always come with age, and that sometimes you just have it. Brandon, known for his stinging guitar leads and his ability to jam note for note with the best guitarists around, had the opportunity to attend several Music Masters Camps (http://www.musicmasterscamps.com/) and played with Dweezil Zappa, Butch Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, Luther and Cody Dickinson, and Ron Holloway over the summer months of 2013. These camps were huge stepping stones for Brandon, as since, he has shown no fear to share the stage with musical greats, Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Eric Krasno, Gary Clark Jr.,Trombone Shorty, Russel Batiste, Robert Randolph, Lettuce, Soulive, Galactic, Devon Allman, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Ian Neville, Charles Neville, Billy Iuso, Anders Osborne, Steve Vai, Johnny Vidacovich, Chris Severin, Luther and Cody Dickinson, Billy Payne, George Porter Jr, Brian Stoltz, Colonel Bruce Hampton, Eric McFadden, Doug Wimbish, Roosevelt Collier and The Lee Boys, Benny Turner, Little Freddie King, Matt Schofield, The Revivalists, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Leftover Salmon, Dumpstaphunk, The Nth Power, The Main Squeeze amongst others. He shows a particular maturity on his instrument that shines well beyond his years, leaving the audience in disbelief of the experienced sound they hear coming from his youthful presence. Brandon’s musical influences are The Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Meters, Lettuce, Phish, The North Mississippi All Stars, The Revivalists, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Carlos Santana, Stone Temple Pilots, BB King, Rory Gallagher and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Brandon has played on Jam Cruise, at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Tampa Bay Blues Fest, Gathering of the Vibes, The Nantucket Music fest, The Big Blues Bender, Bear Creek Music fest, Great South Bay Music fest, and many, many more. Brandon was invited to jam with New Orleans great Little Freddie King Jr. at his home last July 2013 and it was filmed for the New Orleans Times Picayune on-line, which was later written up in the print paper. He has played at BB Kings, The Famous Red Lion, and The Brooklyn Bowl in New York and Las Vegas. He has also played at Tipitina’s with George Porter Jr. and Brian Stoltz and Dumpsterphunk closing out Jazz Fest 2014, The House of Blues NOLA, The Little Gem with the great bassist Benny Turner, The Chris Owens Club, D.B.A, D-Max, Kajun’s, Rock and Bowl and BMC in New Orleans, all by invitation. After his performance of Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” with the Lee Boys at the 2013 Crescent City Blues Festival, Brandon was asked to sit in with one of the hottest touring New Orleans band today, “The Revivalists” in NYC and had a blast rocking the house with one of his favorite contemporary rock bands in his own backyard at the Brooklyn Bowl.
A true bandleader with exceptional musical instincts, Brandon and his band BX2 has brought down the house at the International Blues Challenge—Youth Showcase in Memphis in January of 2014
Brandon has appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 12/4/2013. He has already appeared on the Fox News 5 New Orleans, Channel 7 New York Eyewitness News, Good Morning America, and ABCTV- NOLA “News with a Twist.” Other press: The Examiner, Roll Call Magazine, The New Orleans Times Picayune, Native Orleanian, several local Long Island newspapers, and a mention in Rolling Stone Magazine in an article about Gary Clark Jr. Brandon has also played on the field before a New York Mets professional baseball game at Citifield in Flushing, NY. Brandon was named Blues Kid of the Year 2014 by Fernando Jones.
In the spring of 2014, Brandon and his brother Dylan Niederauer were introduced to Nicky Dylan Winegardner by Col. Bruce Hampton. By the end of their first jam session together, they knew they had to keep the energy going, found drummer Henry Thomas, and started a band that is now known as LIONS ON THE MOON.
Lions On The Moon’s music is an original blend of rock, pop, funk and blues. They deliver a youthful, energetic and infectious new sound that is filled with optimism, emotion and intent. The band has already created a strong repertoire of original music and played at multiple music festivals including “Gathering of The Vibes.” The Lions' success begins with a genuine love of music, a passion for performing, and a burning desire to create original art.



Jam Cruise Superjam Voo Doo Child Brandon Niederauer Jan 5 2014 nunupics.com 


















R.I.P.

 

Sunnyland Slim  +17.03.1995



Sunnyland Slim (* 5. September 1907 in Vance, Mississippi; † 17. März 1995 in Chicago als Albert Luandrew) war ein einflussreicher US-amerikanischer Blues-Pianist und Sänger.
In den späten 1920er Jahren zog Sunnyland Slim nach Memphis, um dort als Pianist seinen Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen. In der Beale Street spielte er u. a. mit Little Brother Montgomery und Ma Rainey.
1939 ging er nach Chicago, wo er mit Sonny Boy Williamson I. auftrat. 1947 machte er Aufnahmen unter dem Namen „Doctor Clayton's Buddy“. Er nahm für J.O.B. Records auf und spielte auch auf Muddy Waters' Platten in den späten 1940er Jahren als Begleitmusiker, so für das kurzlebige Label Tempo-Tone. Sunnyland Slim wurde bei einer Messerstecherei an der Hand verletzt, so dass einige Finger etwas von der ursprünglichen Bewegungsfähigkeit einbüßten, aber er war dennoch ein begehrter Begleitpianist. 1962 veröffentlichte er auf Prestige Records eine LP. Es folgten im Laufe der Zeit zahlreiche Aufnahmen für verschiedene Plattenfirmen.
In den 1960er Jahren spielte er mit King Curtis, ging mit Otis Rush auf Tour und reiste mit dem American Folk Blues Festival 1964 und den Chicago All Stars 1968 durch Europa. Die Allstars bestanden aus Willie Dixon am Bass, Clifton James am Schlagzeug, Walter Horton an der Bluesharp und Johnnie Shines an der Gitarre. Diese Besetzung machte 1968 für BASF Aufnahmen, die als LP im gleichen Jahr veröffentlicht wurde. Die Allstars hatten in den USA weitaus weniger Erfolg als in Europa, was kurze Zeit später zur Auflösung dieser Band führte. 1970 trat er beim Ann Arbor Blues Festival auf. Zur gleichen Zeit nahm er für BEE & Baby Records in Chicago einige Singles auf: Entweder unter seinem Namen oder denen von Homesick James (voc & Slide-Gitarre) oder von Andrew McMahon (Voc & Bass). 1972 ist er als Begleitmusiker auf einer Live-Howling Wolf-LP der Firma Chess zu hören. 1980/81 tourte Sunnyland mit dem AFBF. Selbst im hohen Alter spielte Sunnyland Slim noch bei Konzerten in Chicago und gab jungen und alten Talenten so Auftrittsmöglichkeiten.
Sunnyland Slim starb 1995 nach einigen schweren Erkrankungen an Nierenversagen. 1991 war er in die Blues Hall of Fame aufgenommen worden.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyland_Slim 

Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995)[1] was an American blues pianist, who was born in the Mississippi Delta, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois, to contribute to that city's post-war scene as a center for blues music.[2] Chicago's broadcaster and writer, Studs Terkel, said Sunnyland Slim was "a living piece of our folk history, gallantly and eloquently carrying on in the old tradition."[3]
Biography
Sunnyland Slim was born on a farm in Quitman County, near Vance, Mississippi.[1][3] He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1925, where he performed with many of the popular blues musicians of the day. His stage name came from a song he composed about the Sunnyland train that ran between Memphis and St. Louis, Missouri.[3] In 1942 he followed the great migration of southern workers to the industrial north in Chicago.
At that time the electric blues was taking shape there, and through the years Sunnyland Slim played with such musicians as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf,[4] Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Little Walter.[3] His piano style is characterised by heavy basses or vamping chords in the left hand and tremolos with his right. His voice was loud and he sang in a declamatory style.[5]
Sunnyland Slim's first recording was as a singer with Jump Jackson's band on the Specialty label in September 1946. His first recordings as a leader were on the Hy-Tone and Aristocrat labels in late 1947.[6] Slim continued performing until his death in 1995.
He released one record on RCA Victor using the moniker 'Dr. Clayton's Buddy': "Illinois Central" b/w "Sweet Lucy Blues" (Victor 20-2733).
In the late 1960s, Slim became friends with Canned Heat and played piano on the track "Turpentine Moan" on the album Boogie with Canned Heat. In turn, members of Canned Heat - lead guitarist Henry Vestine, slide guitarist Alan Wilson and bassist Larry Taylor - guested on Sunnyland Slim's Liberty Records album Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On (1968), which also featured Mick Taylor.
In 1988 he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship.[3]
Sunnyland Slim died in March 1995 in Chicago, after complications from renal failure, at the age of 88.

Sunnyland Slim - Tin Pan Alley 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICd-fNX19jQ 






Bobby Mitchell  +17.03.1989 

 





Bobby Mitchell (16 August 1935 - March 17, 1989) was a New Orleans Rhythm & Blues singer and songwriter.
Mitchell was born in the Algiers section of New Orleans. He was a popular recording artist in the 1950s and early 1960s, making records for Imperial Records, Show Biz Records and Rip Records. He first recorded in his teens with the do-wop group "The Toppers", which was broken up as most of the members were drafted. Mitchell's single "Try Rock 'n Roll," hit the top 20 R&B charts 1956. Many of his sessions were arranged by Dave Bartholomew. His single I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday was a hit, predating the even more famous cover of the tune by Fats Domino and got Mitchell a spot on American Bandstand.
In the early 1980s he did radio shows at WWOZ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mitchell_%28singer%29

Bobby Mitchell & the Toppers were part of the wave of New Orleans rock & rollers who followed in the wake of Fats Domino and Lloyd Price. Although the group had limited success (their best known song, "Try Rock 'n Roll," climbed into the R&B Top 20 nationally, and "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" was a smash in numerous localities without ever charting nationally) and broke up in 1954, Mitchell remained a popular figure in New Orleans R&B for 35 years.

Bobby Mitchell (August 16, 1935-March 17, 1989) was born in Algiers, LA, the second oldest of what were eventually 17 children in a family that made its living fishing the Mississippi River -- Mitchell himself contributed to the family's well-being by cutting and selling wood. When he was ten years old, Mitchell got a job after school making deliveries for a liquor store, and it was while hanging around the store that he started singing -- he was good enough then that people gave him nickels and dimes for his performances.

Mitchell played football in school until an injury sidelined him permanently, after which he joined the school chorus. By the time he was done with school, the music teacher was giving him solos on numbers such as "Ol' Man River" and "You'll Never Walk Alone." At age 17, he was in his first singing group, the Louisiana Groovers. By that time, Mitchell was falling firmly under the influence of R&B, most especially the sound of Roy Brown.

Mitchell wrote his first original song, "One Friday Morning," a doo wop-style ballad, which he cut as a demo with help from a teacher with a tape recorder (still a relative rarity in 1952). That tape got auditioned at a local radio station, and this led to the formation of a backing group called the Toppers, consisting of Lloyd Bellaire (tenor), Joseph Butler (tenor), Willie Bridges (baritone), Frank Bocage (bass), and Gabriel Fleming (piano). Vocally, they were influenced by acts such as Clyde McPhatter and the Dominoes, although they also listened to the records of Roy Hamilton and Nat King Cole. One factor that prevented them from coming up with a firmer direction of their own at the time was their youth -- Mitchell was barely 17 at the time.

Eventually, they hooked up with producer Dave Bartholomew, and at his urging they cut some demos for Imperial Records. The group did as asked, but at the time it seemed as though it wasn't going to work out too well. The six of them were walking eight miles each day to the studio to practice with Bartholomew, and in the end Imperial only wanted Mitchell, until the singer insisted that it was all of them or nothing. Bartholomew relented, and in the meantime, the group had its first original song, "Rack 'Em Back," written by Joe Butler in response to the clowning on those long walks.

This became the B-side of their debut single, while a Lloyd Bellaire original, "I'm Crying," was the A-side. Released in May of 1953, it didn't sell well, although it was a beginning -- Mitchell's voice was powerful and extremely expressive but quirkily uneven in the beginning, which made recording him tricky; the Toppers' singing was smooth, and the backing, by Lee Allen on tenor sax, Earl Palmer on drums, and Red Taylor on baritone sax (with Bartholomew on trumpet), was as solid as any rock & roll cut in New Orleans during that era. On stage in those early days, however, the group's instrumental backing was Gabriel Fleming's piano.

"I'm Crying" sold well in places like Cincinnati and Houston, but Mitchell and his group were unable to appear there to push the record any further, largely because of their ages and the fact that they were still required to attend school. Additionally, they weren't able to play any nightclubs even locally because they were underage, so they played high school dances, parties, weddings, and events at places like the American Legion Hall. Their recording career continued with more sessions resulting in classics such as "4x11 Equals 44," a rock tune built around a set of popular lottery numbers.

Mitchell had trouble juggling the requirements of a career with school, and the Toppers endured until early 1954, when they finally split up after a session that included two hot songs, the raucous "School Boy Blues," with its killer guitar intro by Justin Adams, and "Sister Lucy," the latter highlighted by a Lee Allen solo. "Sister Lucy" ended up as the B-side of a local double-sided hit with Bellaire's "My Baby's Gone"; "Sister Lucy" pulled in white listeners, while Bellaire's song reached the black stations and clubs.

The Toppers' breakup came about because of the military draft, which claimed the members as they turned 18. Lloyd Bellaire joined the Army, while Frank Bocage joined the Navy, and Joseph Butler and Willie Bridges joined the Air Force. They did cut one more session late in the year but essentially ceased to exist in the spring of 1954. Ironically, just at that moment "My Baby's Gone" and "Sister Lucy" became local hits. Mitchell and the Toppers were suddenly in serious demand, and with Gabriel Fleming he organized a new group called the King Toppers.

The local success of "My Baby's Gone" was never repeated nationally, and his next record, "Nothing Sweet As You"/"I Wish I Knew," failed to chart. Mitchell was inactive in the studio for 1955. He returned to recording early in 1956 with a song tailor-made for the period, "Try Rock 'n Roll," one of those tunes meant to exploit the now-popular music style and name. That record made it to number 14 on the Billboard R&B chart, although it did far better than that in certain cities, and Mitchell was now getting booked onto all-star shows as far away as New York and Los Angeles.

In 1957 Bartholomew received a song by a Cajun writer named Roy Hayes called "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" and gave it to Mitchell to record. It became a hit locally in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Kansas City, among other places, and got Mitchell a spot on American Bandstand. Mitchell also proved something of a surprise to promoters and disc jockeys in those cities where he'd never played before, because they assumed, on the basis of that record, that he was white.

Mitchell's sporadic success on Imperial ended in 1958, as the label dropped most of its New Orleans acts except for Fats Domino. He continued performing and recording, now trying to support a wife and her three children by a previous marriage. He signed with a succession of smaller labels in the early '60s, along the way working with Dr. John. By the mid-'60s, the couple had eight children and Mitchell's career had stalled. He still played shows in Houston and Mobile, but his records weren't selling -- he was back with Imperial Records very briefly, and then returned to Rip Records, where he'd previously cut a couple of singles. Those sides for Rip and Sho-Biz were among the finest songs that Mitchell ever recorded, but were largely unheard.

I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday [Bear Family]
A heart attack in the early '60s brought an end to his career on the road. Mitchell continued performing in New Orleans, where he remained a music celebrity for the next 29 years, performing regularly and eventually finding new recognition. Toward the end of his life, he also saw the first money from his original Imperial recordings with the release of a reissue LP, I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday. Mitchell became one of New Orleans' most visible and forthcoming '50s veterans. He passed away in 1989 after years of worsening illnesses, including diabetes, kidney failure, and two further heart attacks.

Many of Mitchell's early recordings were influenced by the dominant musical personalities of his day, including Roy Brown, Roy Hamilton, and, especially, Fats Domino, which was understandable since he shared the same producer and was on the same label. His voice had a distinct quality all its own, however, which became recognizable once he became comfortable in the studio. The Toppers, who ceased working with Mitchell after mid-1954, were a somewhat unpredictable group musically, mostly owing to their ages, and their sound was consciously derivative of numerous vocal groups of the period, especially the early Drifters. With Bartholomew's top session men backing them up, however, their records were solid New Orleans R&B at its best, and many of the records are classics of the sound from that era, if not on a par with those of Fats Domino then certainly residing on the level just below his and Lloyd Price's.


Bobby Mitchell - I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday - [Domino-Bartholomew-Hayes] 










Lester Davenport  +17.03.2009

 




Lester "Mad Dog" Davenport (* 6. Januar 1932 in Tchula, Mississippi; † 17. März 2009 in Chicago, Illinois) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesmusiker, dessen Hauptinstrument die Mundharmonika war. Daneben spielte er noch Bass, Schlagzeug und Gitarre. [1]
Im Alter von 14 Jahren verließ er Mississippi und ging nach Chicago. Trotz seiner Jugend spielte er in den Bands von Arthur Spires, Snooky Pryor und Homesick James, der für ihn ein Mentor wurde.[2] 1955 war er als Studiomusiker bei Aufnahmen von Bo Diddley für Chess Records tätig, bei diesen Aufnahmen entstanden unter anderem Pretty Thing und Bring It to Jerome. Als Begleitmusiker spielte er auch mit Diddley im berühmten New Yorker Apollo Theatre. In den 1960er Jahren unterhielt er eine eigene Band, arbeitete aber tagsüber als Lackierer.[2] In den 1980er - Jahren spielte er in der Band Kinsey Report die Mundharmonika. Erst 1992 nahm er seine erstes eigenes Album auf (When the Blues Hit You, Earwig Records, 1992) und es dauerte zehn Jahre bis zu seinem zweiten (I Smell a Rat, Delmark Records, 2002). Seine Diskographie umfasst nur diese zwei Alben, doch ist er auf einigen Alben anderer Musiker wie Bo Diddley, Big Jack Johnson, Willie Kent, Aron Burton und Johnny B. Moore als Begleitmusiker zu hören.[3]
Seinen Spitznamen „Mad Dog“ erhielt er in jungen Jahren, da er gerne auf der Bühne herumwanderte und mit jedem Instrument einige Noten spielte, sein Mundharmonikaspiel trug ebenso dazu bei.[2]
Er gab auch seine Kenntnisse des Mundharmonikaspiels gerne an aufstrebende Musiker weiter.[1] Nach längerer Krankheit starb Lester Davenport in Chicago an Prostatakrebs.

Lester "Mad Dog" Davenport (January 16, 1932 – March 17, 2009),[1] was an American Chicago blues harmonica player and singer.
Born in Tchula, Mississippi, United States, Davenport moved from Mississippi to Chicago, Illinois, when he was 14. There he played with Arthur Spires, Snooky Pryor, and Homesick James, then worked with Bo Diddley, with whom he played harmonica on a 1955 Chess Records session.[2] He led his own group in the 1960s while he worked during the day as a paint sprayer. In the 1980s he was the harmonica player for the Indiana group The Kinsey Report.[2]
In July 1994, Wolf Records released the Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis album, Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 11, the tracks of which Davis had recorded in 1988 and 1989. The collection included Davenport on harmonica, and Kansas City Red playing the drums.[3]
Davenport released his first album under his own name in 1992 and recorded a follow-up in 2002.
Davenport died in March 2009 in Chicago, from prostate cancer, at the age of 77.


Lester Davenport - Chicago Blues Festival (1994) - Part 1 







Lizzie Miles  +17.03.1963

 

http://www.redhotjazz.com/lizziemiles.html

Lizzie Miles (* 31. März 1895 in New Orleans; † 17. März 1963 ebenda; auch Lizzy Miles geschrieben; eigentlicher Name Elizabeth Mary Landreaux) war eine US-amerikanische Sängerin vor allem von Blues und Jazz.
Miles wurde im Faubourg Marigny Stadtteil von New Orleans in eine französisch sprechende kreolische Familie geboren. Ihr Vater J.C.Miles leitete eine „Colored Show“ im Zirkus Cole Brothers, wo sie schon als Teenager auftrat, ebenso wie in Minstrel Shows. In New Orleans trat sie mit King Oliver, Kid Ory und Armand Piron auf. 1919 sang sie bei George Thomas, zog Anfang der 1920er Jahre nach Chicago, wo sie mit „Elgars Creole Orchestra“, Freddie Keppard und King Oliver´s Creole Jazz Band auftrat. 1922 zog sie nach New York City, wo sie mit dem Sam Wooding Orchestra und Pirons New Orleans Orchestra in Clubs auftrat und 1922 ihre ersten Aufnahmen machte. Ab 1924 war sie in Europa und trat eine Weile in Paris im Club von Louis Mitchell („Chez Mitchell“) auf. 1927 war sie wieder in New York. Nach einer schweren Krankheit spielte sie in den 1930er Jahren u.a. mit Fats Waller und Paul Barbarin. Ende der 1930er Jahre ging sie wieder nach New Orleans. Bei Auftritten mied sie aber die Bühne und sang von der Seite oder vor der Bühne, da sie das nach eigenen Worten in einem Gebet als Dank für ihre Genesung versprochen hatte. Anfang der 1950er Jahre ging sie nach San Francisco, bevor sie wieder nach New Orleans zurückkehrte und dort regelmäßiger mit Dixieland-Bands wie denen von Bob Scobey und George Lewis auftrat und auch aufnahm. Sie war regelmäßig im Radio und 1957 in der Fernsehshow „Crescendo“ zu hören. 1958 gastierte sie auf dem Monterey Jazz Festival. Ab 1959 gab sie den Gesang mit Ausnahme von Gospelmusik auf und begann Theologie zu studieren. Sie starb 1963 an einem Herzanfall.
Sie ist auch auf Aufnahmen mit King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton und Clarence Williams zu hören. Zu ihren Klavierbegleitern zählten neben Morton und Williams auch Joe Robichaux, Clarence Johnson und Cliff Jackson.
Ihre Halbschwester Edna Hicks war auch Blues-Sängerin und ihr Halbbruder Herb Morand Trompeter des New Orleans Jazz. Bei einigen ihrer Aufnahmen benutzte sie die Pseudonyme Mandy Smith und Jane Howard.

Lizzie Miles was the stage name taken by Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (March 31, 1895 – March 17, 1963),[1] an Creole African-American blues singer.[2]
Career
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in a dark-skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although she did not like to be referred to as a "blues singer", since she sang a wide repertoire of music.
In the mid-1920s Miles spent time performing in Paris, before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s.[2] Not before she recorded "My Man O' War", described by one music journalist as "a composition stuffed with rococo suggestiveness".[3] In the 1940s she returned to New Orleans, where Joe Mares encouraged her to sing again—which she did, but always from in front of, or beside the stage, since she said she had vowed in a prayer not to go on stage again if she recovered from her illness. Miles was based in San Francisco, California, in the early 1950s, then again returned to New Orleans where she recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands and made regular radio broadcasts, often performing with Bob Scobey or George Lewis.[1]
In 1958, Miles appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 she quit singing, except for gospel music. She died in New Orleans, from a heart attack, in March 1963.[4]
Woody Allen included her version of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" on the soundtrack of his 2013 film Blue Jasmine.[5]
Her half-sister Edna Hicks was also a blues singer.


Memphis Blues Lizzie Miles 







 

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