05.10.,Frank Craig, Roy Book Binder, Fillmore Slim, "Buddy" Griffin, Kelly Joe Phelps, George "Little Hat" Jones, Rick Estrin, Lee Brilleaux, Cathy Ponton King * Memphis Willie B. +

                          

1899 Little Hat Jones*
1919 Edward Ernest Griffin*
1934 Fillmore Slim*
1935 Left Hand Frank Craig*
1943 Roy Book Binder*
1947 Sydney Ellis*
1949 Rick Estrin*
1952 Lee Brilleaux*
1959 Kelly Joe Phelps*
1993 Memphis Willie B.+
Cathy Ponton King*

  Happy Birthday

Left Hand Frank Craig   *05.10.1935

 

 http://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/left-hand-frank/

Southpaw guitarist Frank Craig (like many of his peers, he played an axe strung for a right-hander, strapping it on upside down) never really transcended his reputation as a trusty sideman instead of a leader -- and that was just fine with him. But he stepped into the spotlight long enough to sing four fine tunes for Alligator's Living Chicago Blues anthologies in 1978.
Craig was already conversant with the guitar when he moved to Chicago at age 14. Too young to play inside the Club Zanzibar (where Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Wolf held forth), Frank and his teenaged pals, guitarist Eddie King and bassist Willie Black, played outside the joint for tips instead. Legit gigs with harpist Willie Cobbs, guitarist James Scott, Jr., Jimmy Dawkins, Junior Wells, Good Rockin' Charles, Jimmy Rogers, and Hound Dog Taylor kept Frank increasingly active on the Chicago circuit from the mid-'50s to the late '70s. He moved to Los Angeles not too long after the Alligator session, eventually hanging up his guitar altogether due to health problems

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/left-hand-frank-mn0000193773/biography 

Left Hand Frank ~ ''South Side Hop''(Electric Chicago Blues Live late 1970's) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9NNEtz_EAU#t=16 

 

 

 

Roy Book Binder  *05.10.1943 

 

 

Roy Book Binder (born October 5, 1943) is an American blues guitarist, singer songwriter and storyteller.[1] A student and friend of the Rev. Gary Davis, he is equally at home with blues and ragtime, he is known to shift from open tunings to slide arrangements to original compositions, with both traditional and self-styled licks. His storytelling emphasis is another characteristic that makes his style unique.
Binder was born in Queens, New York, United States.[1] Upon graduation from high school, he joined the Navy and undertook a tour of duty in Europe. He bought his first guitar at a military base in Italy. After his enlistment was up, he returned to New York where he met his guitar hero, and became friends with Dave Van Ronk. Binder soon sought out Davis who also lived in New York, and became first a student of Davis and later a chauffeur and tour companion.[1] Much of Binder's original material was based on his time on the road with Davis.
By the mid-to-late 1960s Binder was recording for both Kicking Mule and Blue Goose Records.[1] In 1969, he toured England with Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and Homesick James.
After meeting another of his life's influences, the bluesman Pink Anderson, Binder released his first album, Travelin' Man, on Adelphi.[1] The album was named after one of the songs that Binder learned from Anderson.
In 1973 he began a partnership with fiddler Fats Kaplin, and they recorded the Git Fiddle Shuffle in 1973.[1] Binder and Kaplin performed together for three years, playing numerous concerts and recording a second album, Ragtime Millionaire in 1977. After this partnership dissolved, Binder began touring the country, living in a motor home, and concentrating on live performances.[1]
Binder has been described as a guitar pickin' hillbilly bluesman, and has released 12 albums. He has performed at most major blues and folk festivals in the U.S. and Europe, including Merlefest. Notables that have shared the stage with Binder include Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, John Jackson, Sonny Terry, Doc Watson, Ray Charles, and Brownie McGhee. Binder has appeared regularly on Nashville Now, and has been included in Sheldon Harris' book, Blues Who's Who.
Binder is a veteran guitar instructor, and can often be found teaching at the Fur Peace Ranch with Jorma Kaukonen and others whose lives have been influenced by Davis. There he demonstrates songs, turnarounds, chord variations, right hand methods, and many of his own powerful adaptations and unique approaches to the blues.
Binder's album, Hillbilly Blues Cats (Rounder), was named as one of the ten most essential acoustic guitar albums of 1992. The 1992 category winners also included Eric Clapton's Unplugged, Lyle Lovett's Joshua Judges Ruth and Neil Young's Harvest Moon.  

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

 

http://www.roybookbinder.com/ 

 

  Roy Book Binder "police dog blues" 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t49Fnj7-CxE 

Fillmore Slim  *05.10.1934

 

 

Clarence Sims (born October 5th, 1934), best known by his stage name, Fillmore Slim, is a blues vocalist and guitarist with five albums to his credit. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was also a highly renowned pimp in San Francisco, often referred to as "The West Coast Godfather of the Game" and "The Pope of Pimping".
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Fillmore began learning about the blues at an early age. "I done lived the blues," he once said in an interview. "The blues is about picking cotton, working in the fields, living in the streets, and you know I did all these things."yy
In 1955, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career, playing by himself in the street and later starting a band called Eddy N & the Blues Slayers. During this time he had a relationship with Etta James before she achieved her fame as a blues singer and recorded a few 45 rpm records himself. His most successful record from this time was titled "You Got the Nerve of a Brass Monkey".
Pimping
Fillmore's life took a dramatic turn when one night, while playing a blues bar in Midland, Texas, he noticed a young woman who kept coming in and out of the bar. As he tells it, "Finally, she came up to me and said, "I like you. I want you to have this money." I asked her how she got all that money. She finally told me she was a hooker. I asked her what a hooker did, and she broke it on down for me." Upon returning to California, he relocated to San Francisco, bringing the girl along with him for extra income. He continued working as a musician, playing in Fillmore District clubs like the Trees Pool Hall and the old Fillmore Theater. He even scored gigs opening for B.B. King and Dinah Washington.
Eventually, however, Fillmore found the lure of pimping too strong and effectively left music behind. He built up a stable of prostitutes and had anywhere from ten to fifteen women working Fillmore Street every day. His wardrobe consisted of sharkskin suits, alligator shoes and diamond watches, and he could often be seen cruising up and down Fillmore Street in a new Cadillac. In the documentary American Pimp, Fillmore estimates that, in his entire career as a pimp, he had over 9,000 prostitutes. Fillmore is the great-uncle of the renowned New Orleans ex-pimp, turned author, Caleb Benn AKA Caleb Devine, author of Bona Fide Hustler: Based on a true story (Amazon.com) that resides in Texas.
Return to music
Fillmore Slim became friends with Eli's owner Troyce Key, who admired Slim's musical stylings and eventually recorded his first album called Born to Sing the Blues (as Clarence "Guitar" Sims), released in 1987. It was then that, in order to support the album, Fillmore put together a touring band and retired from pimping completely.[citation needed]
In 1996 Mountain Top Records and Fillmore Slim re-released, Born to Sing the Blues, on the Mountain Top label. Several years of touring and playing gigs followed, which led to a record deal in 1999 with Fedora Records and an album called "Other Side of the Road", released in 2000. Fillmore has released more CDs in the years since with a trilogy of CD's on Mountain Top Records: The Game', The Legend of Fillmore Slim and The Blue's Playa's Ball; that tell his story in his own words and music. Fillmore Slim's song writing talents, and musicianship have garnered several awards including being inducted into the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame in 2008, and the Lowell Fulson "Jus' Blues" Award in Memphis in 2011.[citation needed] Since his musical resurgence, Fillmore has found his largest fanbase to be in Europe, where he's played the Zurich Blues Festival and the Blues Estafette in Utrecht, Holland, and France, among others.[citation needed]
Fillmore Slim's life and times are currently in production for a film, The Legend of Fillmore Slim.

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

 FILLMORE SLIM King Boy cognac 2009 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v54P8w4JF1w 

Edward Ernest Griffin   *05.10.1919

"Buddy" Griffin
James Rudolph Griffin born ca. 1921
Griffin Brothers

 

http://www.allmusic.com/album/blues-with-a-beat-vol-2-mw0000774423

The Griffin Brothers were an American rhythm and blues band from Norfolk, Virginia, sometimes credited on record as the Griffin Brothers Orchestra. They made successful recordings with singer Margie Day, and had a no.1 hit on the Billboard R&B chart in 1951 with "Weepin' and Cryin'", featuring Tommy Brown.
The group was formed by brothers Jimmy (born James Rudolph Griffin, Virginia, c.1921) and "Buddy" Griffin (born Edward Ernest Griffin, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, October 5, 1919–October 22, 1981).[1]
By 1920, the family lived in Norfolk, Virginia.[1] Both Jimmy and Buddy studied music at the Juilliard School; another brother, Wilbur, was a member of the Progressive Four gospel group.[2][3] Jimmy played trombone, and Buddy played piano. The band was completed by Wilbur Dyer (alto saxophone), Virgil Wilson (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Reeves (bass), and Emmett "Nab" Shields (drums). In the late 1940s they played local clubs in Washington, DC, as well as Virginia and North Carolina, and added a singer, Margie Day. In early 1950 the band recorded as back-up to Roy Brown on the session for DeLuxe Records that yielded his no.1 R&B hit, "Hard Luck Blues".[4][5]
Local music promoter Lillian Clairborne won them a recording contract with the newly formed Dot Records, established by Randy Wood. Their first record, credited to Margie Day with the Griffin Brothers Orchestra, "Street Walkin' Daddy" / "Riffin' With Griffin", became a no.7 hit on the Billboard R&B chart in late 1950, with sales reportedly reaching over 15 thousand a week.[3][4] The follow-up record, "Little Red Rooster", not directly related to the Willie Dixon song but drawing on the same folk traditions, reached no.5 on the R&B chart in early 1951. Wilson, Reeves and Shields were replaced by Noble Watts (tenor sax), Wilbur Little (bass), and Belton Evans (drums).[2] The Griffin Brothers toured widely in 1951 and 1952 with Amos Milburn, Paul Williams and others, and continued to record both with Margie Day, and with singer Tommy Brown. They had two R&B hits with Brown, "Tra-La-La" which reached no.7, and "Weepin' and Cryin'" which reached no.1 in January 1952.[2][5]
Day left the band for a solo career in late 1952, and was replaced on some appearances by Claudia Swann (née Swanson). The Griffin Brothers continued to tour with such artistes as The Orioles, Chuck Willis, and Faye Adams, and recorded for the Dot label until early 1954 when their contract ended and Jimmy Griffin left to form his own band.[6] He later recorded briefly and unsuccessfully for Atco Records in New York.[4]
Buddy Griffin signed for Chess Records in Chicago, and had a minor R&B hit in 1955, "I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya", with Claudia Swann, credited as Buddy & Claudia with the Buddy Griffin Orchestra.[7] The band members were "Silly Willie" Wilson (trombone), Chuck Reeves (alto and baritone saxes), Earl Swanson (tenor sax), Lawrence Burgan (bass), and Courtney Brooks (drums). Griffin and Swann married; their later recordings were credited to Buddy and Claudia Griffin, and some featured The Moonglows as backing vocalists.[6] Buddy Griffin worked in real estate in New York for thirty years before his death in 1981.

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

the griffin brothers & margie day - little red rooster 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Ipvmp063k 

Kelly Joe Phelps   *05.10.1959 

 

Kelly Joe Phelps (born October 5, 1959 in Sumner, Washington, United States)[1] is an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.
Kelly Joe Phelps grew up in Sumner, Washington, a blue-collar and farming town. He learned country and folk songs, as well as drums and piano, from his father. He began playing guitar at age twelve.[3]
Phelps concentrated on free jazz and took his cues from musicians like Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. He spent 10 years playing jazz, mostly as a bass player.[4] He refers to his "conversion" to a blues musician when he began listening to acoustic blues masters like Fred McDowell and Robert Pete Williams.[3][5]
Initially gaining notice for his solo lapstyle slide guitar playing,[6] which he played by laying the instrument flat and fretting it with a heavy steel bar, he has incorporated more ensemble work in his later albums. Inspired by the birth of his daughter Rachel in 1990, Phelps began writing songs. He began singing and released his critically praised debut, Lead Me On, in 1995.[5] This album showcased Phelps' craft, and as well as his own songs, he tackled traditional numbers such as "Motherless Children" and "Fare Thee Well."
He released his second album, the gospel influenced Roll Away the Stone (1997) and followed it up with 1999's, Shine Eyed Mister Zen.
His fourth record, Sky Like a Broken Clock, appeared in 2001. This time he was joined by a bassist and a drummer - its companion piece, Beggar's Oil EP, was a critic's favourite in 2002.[citation needed] In order to achieve a richer, orchestrated sound on Slingshot Professionals, released in 2003, he collected a wider collection of musicians to play guitar, bass, drums, mandolin, violin, and accordion.
In 2005, Phelps released a live album, Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind, which was followed a year later by the studio album Tunesmith Retrofit. In 2009 he released an album of instrumentals titled Western Bell. Following the release of that CD, he began recording and touring with the American singer-songwriter Corinne West. In January 2013, he announced that he was taking a hiatus from touring due to ulnar neuropathy in his right hand and arm.[7]
Phelps is featured in the book I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt.

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

http://www.kellyjoephelps.net/news/index.htm

Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - Kelly Joe Phelps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eb0XlNbPjE 

 

  Little Hat Jones   *05.10.1899

 

 

 http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/nostalgia/Notables.html

 George "Little Hat" Jones (October 5, 1899 – March 7, 1981)[2] was an American Texas blues musician.
Jones, born in Bowie County, Texas, was a street busker in the 1920s in San Antonio, and he recorded one 78rpm for Okeh Records on June 15, 1929.[1] That same day, he played guitar on nine tracks by Alger "Texas" Alexander in the Okeh studio. On June 21, Okeh had Jones record four additional songs, and on June 14, 1930, Jones recorded six more. These three sessions represent the entirety of Jones's recorded output: ten songs of his own and nine with Texas Alexander.[1] Jones never recorded another song,[3] and died at the age of 81 in 1981, in Naples, Texas.[2]
Jones's style is marked by his tendency to start off songs quickly and then slow down once he began to sing.[1] Once a forgotten obscurity, Jones became better known later in the 20th century as historians began to explore the Okeh Records catalog, and his posthumous fame was boosted by the appearance of his song "Bye Bye Baby Blues" in the movie, Ghost World, in 2001.

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

 

 

bye bye baby blues........ George" little hat "Jones 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6mP_clD4rI 

 

 

Rick Estrin  *05.10.1949

 

 

Rick Estrin (* 5. Oktober 1949, Los Angeles, Kalifornien) ist ein amerikanischer Mundharmonikaspieler, Sänger und Songwriter.
Leben
Estrin begann mit dem Mundharmonikaspiel in den 1960er-Jahren. Im Alter von 18 Jahren traf er den Soulsänger Rodger Collin, der sein musikalischer Mentor wurde. Mit 20 ging er auf Einladung seines Freundes Jerry Portnoy nach Chicago, wo er mit vielen Größen des Chicago Blues auftrat beziehungsweise auf Tournee ging (Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Eddie Taylor, Sam Lay, John Littlejohn und Johnny Young). Muddy Waters wollte sogar, dass er mit ihm auf Tournee geht, doch ein nicht entgegengenommener Telefonanruf verhinderte das. [1]
Doch nicht nur die Musik, auch der Lifestyle seiner Mentoren wirkte ansteckend auf ihn. 1973, während seiner Zeit bei Luther Tucker, verletzte er Junior Watson in einem Streit. Die Stichwunde im Hals hatte nahezu fatale Folgen. Watson hat Estrin nie angezeigt. [2]
Nach Jahren des Reisens zwischen Kalifornien und Chicago gründete er 1976 in Berkeley mit dem Gitarristen Little Charlie Baty "Little Charlie & the Nightcats" , mit dieser Gruppe fand er eine große Anhängerschar. Seither sind sie mit ihrer Mischung aus Chicagoblues angereichert mit Elementen anderer Stile (Jump Blues, Surf ...) auf Tourneen in den gesamten Vereinigten Staaten unterwegs und spielten auch auf den wesentlichen Festivals. Nachdem sich Charlie Baty vom Tourneeleben zurückgezogen hat, wurde die Band in "Rick Estrin & The Nightcats" umbenannt und Baty durch den norwegischen Gitarristen Chris "Kid" Andersen ersetzt.
Auszeichnungen
1993 erhielt Estrin den Blues Music Award für "My next Ex-wife" als Best Blues Song of the
Year
2010 Vier Nominierungen Blues Music Award Rick Estrin: B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Bester Instrumentalist: Harmonica
Contemporary Blues Album Of The Year Twistet Rick Estrin and The Nightcats: Band Of The Year
Rick Estrin als Songwriter
Neben Willie Dixon und Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller nennt Estrin Sonny Boy Williamson II., Percy Mayfield und Baby Boy Warren als seine großen Vorbilder beim Schreiben von Songs. [3]
Drei seiner Songs fanden den Weg auf Grammy nominierte Alben: Don't Put Your Hands On
Me (Koko Taylor), I'm Just Lucky That Way (Robert Cray), Homely Girl (John Hammond)
Zahlreiche BluesmusikerInnen coverten Kompositionen von Rick Estrin, so zum Beispiel
Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, Little Milton, Rusty Zinn, Kid Ramos und Mark Hummel.

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

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Charlie_%26_the_Nightcats 

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats are an American four-piece electric blues band (formed in 2008 after the dissolution of Little Charlie & The Nightcats, of which three of the band were members), and consisting of harmonicist/lead vocalist and songwriter Rick Estrin, guitarist Kid Andersen, bassist Lorenzo Farrell and drummer and songwriter J. Hansen. Blues Revue magazine said, “The ‘Cats are one of modern blues’ most versatile bands.”[1] Living Blues said, “Estrin’s harp work is masterful” and their music is “intelligently conceived and executed and hugely entertaining.”[2]

The band’s newest album, You Asked For It—Live!, was released on the Chicago-based independent blues record label Alligator Records on July 8, 2014. The album featured original Estrin songs dating back to his days as lead singer, songwriter and harmonica player of Little Charlie & The Nightcats (featuring Little Charlie Baty on guitar). Rick Estrin & The Nightcats released their debut recording Twisted in 2009 and One Wrong Turn in 2012, both on Alligator Records.

Rick Estrin won the 2013 Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist–Harmonica in 2013.[3] He won the 1994 Blues Music Award for Song Of The Year for his composition "My Next Ex-Wife".[4] He has written songs for other musicians. Three of his songs appear on Grammy-nominated albums: “Don’t Put Your Hands On Me” (on Koko Taylor’s Force Of Nature), “I’m Just Lucky That Way” (on Robert Cray’s Shame + A Sin), and “Homely Girl” (on John Hammond’s Trouble No More).[4] The Philadelphia Inquirer said, “He’s one of the great characters in blues – a sharp-dressing, smooth talking harmonica-playing hep-cat. He’s also a deceptively subtle writer who can cloak pointed or sobering messages within the band’s good-time vibe.”[5]

Estrin was born in San Francisco, California in 1949, and fell in love with blues after his sister presented him with Ray Charles’ The Genius Sings The Blues when he was 12. He began playing harmonica at age 15, and by age 18 was beginning to work professionally. Early in his career he played with Lowell Fulson, Z.Z. Hill, Travis Phillips, and Fillmore Slim.[4]

Estrin names Sonny Boy Williamson II, Little Walter Jacobs and Baby Boy Warren as key inspirations.[4] He played with and was mentored by Rodger Collins (whose 45rpm recordings include "She’s Looking Good" and "Foxy Girls" In Oakland).[6] Estrin moved to Chicago when he was 19 and worked with bluesmen Sam Lay, Johnny Littlejohn, Eddie Taylor and Johnny Young.[7] He met and sat in with Muddy Waters at the Sutherland Hotel in Chicago. He told the Sacramento Bee, “Muddy started shaking his finger in my face and said, ‘You outta sight, boy! You play like a man! I know that sound. That’s my sound.’”[8] Muddy tried to hire Estrin as a sideman but Estrin did not receive the phone call, and moved back to the Bay Area. He met guitarist Charlie Baty in 1973 and they created Little Charlie & The Nightcats based in Sacramento, CA.[7]
J. Hansen (Drummer) 2007

Estrin fronted Little Charlie & The Nightcats for 30 years and performed around the world. They were nominated four times for the Blues Music Award for Band Of The Year.[7] In 2008, Baty retired from touring.[9] Guitarist Kid Andersen joined Estrin and previous band members Hansen and Farrell and they formed Rick Estrin & The Nightcats that same year.[10]

Since its inception, the band has played around the world, including the Notodden Blues Festivil in Norway, the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland, the Caxias de Soul Festival in Brazil, the Monaghan Blues Festival in Ireland, the Efes Pilsen Festival in Turkey, and the Moulon Blues Festival in the Netherlands. In the United States they’ve played the North Atlantic Blues Festival, the Magic City Blues Festival and the Bayfront Blues Festival. Estrin performed at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2011 as part of the Alligator Records 40th anniversary concert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Estrin_%26_The_Nightcats

http://rickestrin.com/

2013 Delta Blues Fest: Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d8ObF1QC_o#t=32

 

 

 

Lee Brilleaux *05.10.1952

 

Lee Brilleaux (eigentlich Lee Collinson, * 5. Oktober 1952 in Durban, Südafrika; † 7. April 1994 in Leigh on Sea, England) war ein Sänger, Mundharmonikaspieler und Mitbegründer der englischen Pub-Rock- und Rhythm-and-Blues-Band Dr. Feelgood.
Leben
Brilleaux kehrte 1955 mit seinen englischen Eltern nach Ealing, West London, von deren Arbeitsstelle in Südafrika zurück. 1965 zog die Familie nach Canvey Island, Essex. Nachdem er 1968 Anstellung bei einer Anwaltskanzlei gefunden hatte, spielte Brilleaux in ersten Bands, unter anderem bei der Gruppe Wild Bunch.
Im Jahr 1972 gründete Brilleaux zusammen mit Wilko Johnson (E-Gitarre, Gesang), John B. Sparks (E-Bass) und John „The Big Figure“ Martin (Schlagzeug) in Canvey Island die Band Dr. Feelgood. Zahlreiche Auftritte in Londoner Pubs weckten die Aufmerksamkeit der lokalen Musikpresse; das Resultat war der erste Plattenvertrag der Band im Jahr 1975 mit dem in Mono abgemischten Album Down by the Jetty. Noch im selben Jahr folgte das zweite Album Malpractice. Bekanntestes Lied Dr. Feelgoods neben Roxette vom Debütalbum, das dem gleichnamigen schwedischen Popduo als Namensgeber diente, ist das Stück Milk and Alcohol aus dem Jahr 1978. Bis zu seinem Krebstod am 7. April 1994 blieb Brilleaux Sänger und Kopf der Band Dr. Feelgood, die mit ihrem Rhythm ‘n’ Blues einige andere Bands beeinflusste.
Lee Brilleaux hatte an den Kompositionen der Band kaum Anteil, einzig die Single She’s a wind up aus dem Jahr 1977 weist ihn als Miturheber aus. Die raue Singstimme des Kettenrauchers wurde jedoch zum Markenzeichen der Band.

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

Lee Brilleaux (born Lee John Collinson, 10 May 1952 – 7 April 1994)[1] was an English rhythm-and-blues singer and musician with the British band Dr Feelgood.
Biography
He was born in Durban, South Africa, from English parents,[2] was brought up in Ealing, and moved to Canvey Island with his family when he was 13.[3]
He co-founded Dr Feelgood with Wilko Johnson in 1971 and was the band's lead singer, harmonica player and occasional guitarist. According to one obituary: "Brilleaux and Johnson developed a frantic act, often charismatically dressed in dark suits and loose ties, shabby rather than smart. The rough, and almost ruthless, edge which ran through his vocal and harmonica style reflected the character and philosophy of the band."[3]
In 1976, Brilleaux helped found Stiff Records, one of the driving forces of the "New Wave" of the mid- to late-1970s, with a loan from singer-songwriter John Hiatt.[3]
Johnson left Dr Feelgood in 1977. Brilleaux reformed the band with different musicians in the 80s and early 90s. By 1984 he was the only founder member remaining. In 1986, he recorded the album Brilleaux 86, featuring songs by Johnny Cash. His last performance was in January 1994, at the Dr Feelgood Music Bar in Canvey Island.[3]
He died on 7 April 1994 of lymphoma, at the age of 41, at his home in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Legacy
After a 1 year hiatus Dr. Feelgood appointed Pete Gage as their new vocalist.
In 2011, contemporary artist and Dr. Feelgood fan Scott King announced his intention to commemorate Lee Brilleaux by erecting a 300 ft gold-plated statue of the musician on the foreshore in Southend-on-Sea close to the legendary Kursaal where the band played some of their most important gigs. An e-petition was launched to collect signatures in support of the project.[4]
In 2014, music writer Zoë Howe announced her intention to write Roadrunner, a biography based on Brilleaux's life, including a collection of his life stories and memories, with classic and unseen images. The book reached 100% crowd-funding via Unbound on 18 May 2014, and is due in 2015. Howe is also the co-author of Looking back at me, an autobiography of Wilko Johnson, the original guitarist with Dr. Feelgood.

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

DR Feelgood .Lee Brilleaux 1977. Lucky Seven Live "most of the original line up" 

The group's original distinctively British R&B sound was centered on Wilko Johnson's choppy guitar style. Along with Johnson, the original band line-up comprised John B. Sparks (bass guitar), John Martin aka The Big Figure (drummer) and Lee Brilleaux (vocals) R.I.P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-DsOlQQHLw 

Cathy Ponton King  *05.10.

 

Cathy Ponton King plays Telecaster guitar, BLUES, ORIGINAL MUSIC, jazzy blues, 'Nawlin's music and SWING, Rock 'n Roll/rhythm and blues and sweet ballads. She was born in Washington DC and attended the University of Md. and earned her degree in Journalism, and subsequently worked at ABC news after college, before making the decision to put journalism on the back burner as the call to sing, write and perform music was overwhelming.

Over the years she has played at many events, clubs, outdoor concerts, great blues festivals, (such as Springing the Blues in Jacksonville Florida for 20,000 attendees, and the BlueBird Festival in Largo Maryland with such greats as Little Milton and the Holmes Brothers) -and the band plays all kinds of venues: festivals and clubs, receptions, corporate events, parties, city festivals, and many outdoor summer shows at theatres.

While a student at University of Maryland Cathy met Muddy Waters several times at his concerts backstage and Cathy learned to love his style of playing guitar and passionate vocals. Her friends the Nighthawks brought her backstage for many shows and she always enjoyed his warmth and friendliness and the way he performed so commandingly on stage with deep deep blues.

Later she got the chance to open for Albert King's band at the Wax Museum in Washington, once a large concert venue, and he called her on stage to sing with his band. She also opened for blues greats Koko Taylor, Albert Collins, Earl King, Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Son Seals, Paul Butterfield, Roomful of Blues(with Ronnie Earl on guitar),Marcia Ball, Sonny Landreth, the late Clarence Gatemouth Brown, and Buddy Guy. At the time Cathy was launching her own music career, many of these giants of blues were older and most of them have passed on now. Her education and learning in the style and family feeling and affection with these musicians, has left her with indelible memories and love for the musicians and their music and the sacrifices they made for the music, and she got to meet and socialize and learn and get to know this passing generation at a time when their
careers were ending, and hers was just beginning. Fortuitous timing.

Cathy performed a set at the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival , which was headlined by Mavis Staples and the Steve Cropper band. Her band has played the Kennedy Center "Open House" festival, the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage Series , she's played the Wolf Trap jazz and blues festival with Keb' Mo', and Richard Thompson Band; she's done concerts at Carter Barron Amphitheater, played the Cape Charles Blues Festival with Bobby Blue Bland and Bo Diddley, performed at ARTSCAPE Baltimore in fall 2001 -billed along with Ray Charles and Etta James; played the Merriweather Post Pavilion Wine Festival, the Tinner Hill Festival in Falls Church , Va., and many concerts with the late great guitarist Bobby Parker, whose last concert was with Cathy at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club before his untimely death in October of 2013.

Cathy has three CDs of original blues, swing, rockabilly and beautiful ballads.
World renowned Blues guitarist Jimmy Thackery played guitar on her first, "LOVIN' YOU RIGHT", and he returned again on her latest, "THE CRUX" which also features the great Ronnie Earl on lead guitar, as well as the late great legendary bassist Butch Warren (who played bass with Miles Davis,Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk) as a guest bassist on two of Cathy's original compositions. Her CDs are played from coast to coast on various radio stations such as WWOZ in New Orleans, WRFG in Atlanta, WMNF Tampa, and of course her hometown blues and jazz station WPFW in Washington DC. Many blues DJs around the world feature Cathy's music such as "Drivin' Home with the Blues" in Cairns, (northeast coast) of Australia with Irene Barrett, ROOTS General De Wittestraat 1, a blues program in Belgium-and 'Blues and Friends' www.baarnfm.nl, With BERTWIN, in the Netherlands, and Italy's Simon Bargelli - www.radiorcc.com


On each of her CDs, Cathy has written the songs along with her songwriter producer husband Jeff King. A new EP was released in 2013, which is also all original songs with Cathy harmonizing with four Washington DC blues women singers, on "THAT'S WHEN A WOMAN CALLS THE BLUES BY NAME", and a DUET with the great legendary singer Joe Triplett , on "FAMOUS LAST WORDS".

Cathy and her husband Jeff live in Vienna Virginia and continue to write and record and her band is in demand for all kinds of music festivals and events for the soulful and high energy show. Cathy's set features a mix of her love of traditional blues, mixed with her swing, and ballads and rock and roll upbeat songs which brings the dancers to their feet. 

http://www.cathypontonking.com/

Cathy Ponton King 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlej4riq4ds

 

R.I.P.

 

Memphis Willie B.    +05.10.1993

http://www.pastblues.com/view-action-89.html?en=Memphis+Willie+B.

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.

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

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/memphis-willie-b-mn0000421123/songs 

Memphis Willie B. Bad Girl Blues Introducing Memphis Willie B. 1961 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfkIbgaF2vo