Blueskalender: 15.09., Snooky Pryor, Silas Hogan,Charles M. Mailer *

Donnerstag, 15. September 2016

15.09., Snooky Pryor, Silas Hogan,Charles M. Mailer *

1911 Silas Hogan*
1921 Snooky Pryor*
Charles M. Mailer*

Happy Birthday

Snooky Pryor *15.09.1921

James Edward „Snooky“ Pryor (* 15. September 1921 in Lambert, Mississippi; † 18. Oktober 2006 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri) war ein einflussreicher afroamerikanischer Blues-Sänger und Mundharmonikaspieler.
Pryor war – neben Little Walter – einer der Pioniere der 'fetten', verstärkten Spielweise der 'Bluesharp'. Während er in der Army diente, blies er zunächst auf einer Militärtrompete Signale durch ein Verstärkersystem, was ihn darauf brachte, das gleiche mit seiner Mundharmonika auszuprobieren. Nach der Entlassung aus der Army erwarb er einen eigenen Verstärker und begann, in Chicago auf der Maxwell Street, aber auch in Clubs zu spielen und nahm bis Ende der 1950er Jahre eine Reihe von Schellack-Schallplatten auf verschiedenen Plattenlabeln auf, so auch für das Label J.O.B..
Pryor zählte Sonny Boy Williamson I. und Sonny Boy Williamson II. zu seinen musikalischen Vorbildern.
Nine Below Zero, Judgement Day, Crazy 'Bout My Baby, How'd You Learn to Shake It Like That und Shake My Hand sind seine bekanntesten Songs.
Snooky Pryor starb am 18. Oktober 2006 in einem Krankenhaus in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, im Alter von 85 Jahren.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor

Snooky Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was a Chicago blues harmonica player.[1][2] He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records in the late 1940s and early '50s he did not utilize this method.

Career

James Edward Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller). He moved to Chicago around 1940.

While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through the powerful PA system which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street market, becoming a regular on the Chicago blues scene.

Pryor recorded some of the first postwar Chicago blues records in 1948,[1] including "Telephone Blues" and "Snooky & Moody's Boogie" with guitarist Moody Jones, and "Stockyard Blues" and "Keep What You Got" with singer/guitarist Floyd Jones. "Snooky & Moody's Boogie" is of considerable historical significance: Pryor claimed that harmonica ace Little Walter directly copied the signature riff of Pryor's song into the opening eight bars of his own blues harmonica instrumental, "Juke," an R&B hit in 1952.[3] In 1967, Pryor moved south to Ullin, Illinois. He quit music for carpentry in the late 1960s but was persuaded to make a comeback.[4] After he dropped out of sight, Pryor was later re-discovered and resumed periodic recording until his death in nearby Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 85.

In January 1973 he appeared with the American Blues Legends tour which played throughout Europe alongside Homesick James. Whilst on this tour they recorded an album in London, Homesick James & Snooky Pryor, on Jim Simpson's label Big Bear Records.

Some of his better known songs include "Judgement Day" (1956), and "Crazy 'Bout My Baby" from Snooky (1989), "How'd You Learn to Shake It Like That" from Tenth Anniversary Anthology (1989) and "Shake My Hand" (1999).

Pryor's son Richard "Rip Lee" Pryor is also a blues musician, and performs in and around his residential city of Carbondale, Illinois.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor

Snooky Pryor, Telephone Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GN5AkKvZ9U#t=23

Snooky Pryor & Mel Brown - Dirty Rat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oU6ZDH4Zo

Silas Hogan *15.09.1911

http://www.wirz.de/music/hoganfrm.htm

Silas Hogan (September 15, 1911 – January 9, 1994)[2] was an American blues musician. Hogan most notably recorded "Airport Blues" and "Lonesome La La", was the front man of the Rhythm Ramblers, and became an inductee in the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame.[2]
Hogan learned guitar playing as a teenager and was performing on a regular basis by the late 1930s. Similar to Lazy Lester and Slim Harpo, Hogan was influenced by Jimmy Reed.[3] He had relocated to Baton Rouge, Louisiana by the early 1950s, and equipped with a Fender electric guitar, Hogan put together the Rhythm Ramblers.[1] They assisted in the development of the Baton Rouge Blues sound, and with band members Hogan (guitar), Isaiah Chapman (lead guitar), Jimmy Dotson (drums), plus Sylvester Buckley (harmonica), they stayed together for almost ten years.
In 1962, by which time he was aged 51, Hogan was belatedly introduced by Harpo to the Crowley, Louisiana based record producer, J. D. "Jay" Miller. Miller, via the offices of Excello Records, started Hogan's recording career, at a time when interest in variations of swamp blues was starting to wane. Hogan did nevertheless see the issue of several singles up to 1965, when Miller's disagreement with the record label's new owners brought the recording contract to a swift finale. On some of his recordings, Hogan was backed by the harmonica player, Moses "Whispering" Smith.[4] Hogan had to disband the group, and returned to his full-time job at the Exxon oil refinery. In the late 1970s, Hogan recorded further tracks with both Arhoolie and Blue Horizon.[1]
Hogan died in January 1994 of heart disease, at the age of 82.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Hogan

Airport Blues - Silas Hogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdU5yGOYv4Y

Charles M. Mailer *15.09.

http://www.charles-mailer.com/

Charles M. Mailer

Wohnort: Kürnach b. Würzburg

Geboren: Im Tierzeichen Schlange/ Element Wasser/ Ausprägung Yin

Beruf: Musiker

Musikalischer Werdegang:

Eines Tages, es war wohl irgendwann im letzten Jahrhundert haben mich meine beiden älteren Brüder Jake und Elwood während Ihrer Deutschlandtour einfach am Hauptbahnhof Würzburg bei der Bahnhofsmission abgegeben. Aufgepäppelt wurde ich von den barmherzigen Schwestern zur roten Laterne im Pleicher Viertel mit Steckrübensuppe, Schmalzler, Lebertran, Buerlecithin flüssig und Karo Instant Kaffee. An unzähligen langen und einsamen Abenden heulte ich mit dem Wind um die Wette und versuchte die Geräusche quietschender Bettfedern und das Stöhnen der barmherzigen Schwestern aus den Nebenzimmern zu übertönen. Dazu lief im Transistorradio die Musik des Senders AFN. Derart gerüstet fürs wahre Leben schwor ich mir, eines Tages – wenn ich groß und stark genug geworden sei – es meinen Brüdern heimzuzahlen und sie in Chicago zu besuchen.

Meine musikalischen Lehr- und Wanderjahre führten mich vom Piano zu den Drums und wieder zurück ans Piano. Von Coburg meiner Heimatstadt ging die Reise in hunderten von Konzerten quer durch Deutschland und sogar in die Schweiz, Tchechien, Italien, Niederlande, Dänemark, Schweden und Großbritannien. Immer neugierig habe ich von Melodic Rock über Funk, Southern-Rock, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Blues-Rock, Jazz, Blues und Country fast sämtliche musikalischen Genres kennen- und spielen gelernt und schließlich in meinen Songs zu meinem eigenen Stilmix Blu:Soul oder RhythmSoul vereinigt.

Seit 2012 toure ich mit eigenen Stücken und einem Programm in dem auch handverlesene Perlen der Blues- und Soulhistorie enthalten sind – sowohl Solo, als auch im Duo, Trio oder mit meiner Sunhill Palace Band bzw. als tourneebegleitender Sideman durch die Lande.

Seit dem ersten Kontakt Ende der 60er Jahre mit der Musik der Blues Heroes Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Champion Jack Duprees, Alexis Korner, John Mayall u.a.m. hat mich der Blues nie wirklich losgelassen. Umso schöner ist es jetzt dass sich der Kreis schließt und ich auf meinem persönlichen Highway 61 mit den Main Isar Bloozeboyz „back-to-the-roots“ cruise.

•Seit 2016 Sänger und Keyboarder der Main Isar Bloozeboyz

    Charles M. Mailer (vocals + keyboard)
    Wolfgang Iden (bluesharps + backing vocals)
    Mario Bollinger (guitars + backing vocals)

http://www.mainisarbloozeboyz.de/charles-m-mailer/

"Long enough I've done different kinds of music and covers. During that time I gathered many ideas for my own pieces. Now it's time to publish 'em! "
Charles M. Mailer is known as a percussionist and drummer in various bands (including XMas-Gala-Big-Band Würzburg; Blues Surprise Band and Elvis Project Band). With his own songs - self accompanied on EPiano - he proposes a new, previously unknown side of his musical activity. Songs before - between - behind and beyond the Blues - authentic - partially autobiographical - from life on the road and the ordinary daily mess between humans.
Mailer shows that blues is not always a three-chord-twelve-bar music. He takes up influences from blues, soul, country, rock, jazz and many more and added personal experiences of his nearly 40 years of being a musician. Therefore he created his unique and creative stylemix called Blu:Soul or RhythmSoul.
In October 2014 he released his first CD-production "Live @ The Studio Lounge". A Mix between his own stuff and "pearls" of Rhythm& Blues/ Blues history like "Help The Poor" or "I don't need no Doctor". Some pieces were created in collaboration with the American free-lance lyricist and blues poet Freida W. Gantt from South Carolina who has contributed lyrics. The release oif the first Studio Album "Covered Up With Blues" is planed for spring/ summer 2015.
Charles M. Mailer is building together a lineup of diverse musical surprise guests for the recording sessions and bigger live performances. The cast ranges from a quartet (guitar-bass-drums-piano) to a XL-band with solo instruments such as blues harp, sax or violin.

http://www.reverbnation.com/charlesmmailerthesunhillpalaceband