1914 Eddie Boyd*
1928 Jimmy Johnson (James Earl Thompson)*
1931 Johnny Embry*
1943 Jerry Portnoy*
1987 Little Willie Foster+
1997 Fenton Robinson+
2011 Henry Lee "Shot" Williams+
2011 Coco Robicheaux+
Eric Demmer*
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Eddie Boyd Geb. 25.11.1914
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Eddie Boyd (* als Edward Riley 25. November 1914 in Clarksdale, Mississippi; † 13. Juli 1994 in Helsinki, Finnland) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesmusiker.
Eddie Boyd wurde auf einer Plantage im Coahoma County bei Clarksdale (Mississippi), geboren. Als sein Geburtsdatum wird bisweilen auch der 13. November 1914 angegeben.
Mit 15 Jahren musste Boyd fliehen, da er im Streit den Plantagenbesitzer mit der Mistgabel gestochen hatte. Er brachte sich zuerst das Gitarrespielen bei, wechselte dann zum Klavier und verdiente seinen Lebensunterhalt als Musiker im Mississippi-Delta. 1936 zog er nach Memphis, wo er fünf Jahre mit den Dixie Rhythm Boys spielte.
1941 folgte Boyd seinem Halbbruder Memphis Slim und seinem Vetter Muddy Waters nach Chicago, um sich nach besseren Bedingungen umzusehen. Er arbeitete in einem Stahlwerk und spielte abends in den Clubs mit Kollegen wie Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines und Sonny Boy Williamson I. Mit Letzterem machte er 1945 erste Plattenaufnahmen.
1952 hatte Boyd mit Five Long Years und 24 Hours für das Label J.O.B. die ersten Hits in den Rhythm&Blues-Charts; die Aufnahmen hatte er selbst finanziert. 1953 folgte der dritte Hit Third Degree. 1957 hatte Boyd einen schweren Autounfall, der ihn für drei Monate ans Bett fesselt. Zu dieser Zeit ließ seine Popularität nach.
1965 trat Boyd beim American Folk Blues Festival in Europa auf. Der Erfolg veranlasste ihn, in Europa zu bleiben. 1968 nahm er mit Fleetwood Mac das Album 7936 South Rhodes auf. Er ging mit John Mayall auf Tour und machte Aufnahmen mit Buddy Guy und Eric Clapton.
1970 heiratete Boyd eine Finnin und blieb mit ihr in Finnland, wo er unter anderem mit Jukka Tolonen zusammenarbeitete. Eddie Boyd nahm in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren mit vielen europäischen Blues Bands LPs auf, mit bekannten wie Cuby & Blizzards (Niederlande) oder unbekannten wie Ulli’s Bluesband (BRD). 1980 hatte er eine Herzoperation. 1986 trat er noch einmal beim Chicago Blues Festival auf.
Eddie Boyd starb 1994 im Meilahti-Krankenhaus in Helsinki.
Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd (November 25, 1914 – July 13, 1994)[1] was an American blues pianist. He was born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi.[2]
Life and career
Boyd moved to the Beale Street district of Memphis, Tennessee in 1936 where he played piano and guitar with his group, the Dixie Rhythm Boys. Boyd followed the great migration northward to the factories of Chicago in 1941.[2]
He wrote and recorded the songs "Five Long Years" (1952), "24 Hours" (1953), and the "Third Degree" (co-written by Willie Dixon, also 1953).[2] Boyd toured Europe with Buddy Guy's band in 1965 as part of the American Folk Blues Festival.[2] He later toured and recorded with Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.
Tired of the racial discrimination he experienced in the United States, he first moved to Belgium[1] where he recorded with the Dutch band Cuby and the Blizzards. He settled in Helsinki, Finland in 1970,[2] where he recorded ten blues records, the first being Praise to Helsinki (1970). He married his wife, Leila, in 1977.
Boyd died in 1994 in Helsinki, Finland, just a few months before Eric Clapton released the chart-topping blues album, From the Cradle that included Boyd's "Five Long Years" and "Third Degree".
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years
Jerry Portnoy *25.11.1943
Jerry Portnoy (* 25. November 1943 in Evanston, Illinois) ist ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Musiker, ein Virtuose auf der Mundharmonika.
Jerry Portnoy wurde in Evanston geboren, wuchs aber in der bluesgeschwängerten Umgebung von Chicagos Maxwell Street auf. Ende der 1960er-Jahre begann er seine Karriere als professioneller Musiker. In den 1970ern spielte Portnoy in der Band von Muddy Waters. 1980 gründete er zusammen mit Calvin „Fuzz“ Jones (Bass), Pinetop Perkins (Piano) und Willie „Big Eyes“ Smith (Schlagzeug), alle aus der Band von Muddy Waters, die Legendary Blues Band.
Im Jahre 1986 zog sich Portnoy vorübergehend aus dem Musikgeschäft zurück. 1987 gründete er mit Ronnie Earl die Broadcasters. Ab 1989 hatte er seine eigene Band, die Streamliners. Von 1991 bis 1993 spielte Portnoy in Eric Claptons Blues Band. Gelegentlich ist Jerry Portnoy, neben eigenen Auftritten, mit der „Muddy Waters Tribute Band“ unterwegs.
Portnoy fasste sein Können auf der Mundharmonika in Jerry Portnoy’s Blues Harmonica Masterclass zusammen, einem Lehrbuch mit drei CDs.
Jerry Portnoy (born November 25, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American harmonica blues musician, who has toured with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.
Biography
Portnoy grew up in Chicago. He first heard the blues played outside his father’s carpet store in the Maxwell Street market in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Maxwell Street was a mecca for blues musicians, who would play on the street for tips. Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Young, Big Walter Horton and many others all played on Maxwell Street.
Portnoy began to perform professionally in 1970, touring the Midwest with the band of Johnny Young (guitar/mandolin). Two years later, he left Johnny Young, but continued to perform around the Midwest in the bands of guitarist Johnny Littlejohn and, later, drummer Sam Lay. For a time, he was also a member of the house band at Buddy Guy's Checkerboard Lounge. He joined the Muddy Waters Blues Band in May 1974 and appeared on the albums I'm Ready, Muddy's "Mississippi" Waters Live, and King Bee. He remained until June 1980 when he and other members of Waters' band (pianist Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones) formed The Legendary Blues Band, where he remained until 1986.
Life of Ease was released in 1981 and Red Hot and Blue two years later. After a brief hiatus from touring and the music business, he returned to music in 1987 when Ronnie Earl asked him to help start a band which became the Broadcasters. He formed his own band, called the Streamliners, in 1989. They released the CD Poison Kisses in 1991 (later re-issued as Home Run Hitter with three extra tracks). That same year Eric Clapton invited Portnoy to join an all-star blues band for the six blues shows at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of Clapton's 24-night stand. In 1993, he joined Clapton's band and remained with it through 1996. During this time, the band recorded Clapton's blues album From the Cradle.
Portnoy has performed in twenty-eight foreign countries on six continents, including performances at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Smithsonian, the Newport Jazz Festival and other major jazz and blues festivals worldwide. He was a Grammy Award nominee in 1996 for his work with the Muddy Waters Tribute Band on their recording You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Dead and Gone, and released an instructional package, Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harmonica Masterclass, in 1997. In 2001, he released his second solo album, Down in the Mood Room.
Known for his dark, amplified tone, he has long been a favorite of both critics and peers. The New York Times (1987) said, "Mr. Portnoy crests like an alto saxophone." Down Beat Magazine (2002) said, "Portnoy has few equals as a harmonica player, blues or otherwise." Rick Estrin, a leading professional player as well, was quoted in Blues Revue (2002) as saying, "He can get so much sound out of that harp—such a beautiful, just enormous, fat, rich tone."[citation needed]
He currently has available an online harmonica playing tutorial.
Jimmy Johnson (James Earl Thompson) *25.11.1928
Jimmy Johnson (born James Earl Thompson,[1] November 25, 1928) is an American blues guitarist and singer.
Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, several of Johnson's brothers had careers in music; among them are soul musician Syl Johnson and Magic Sam bassist Mack Thompson. In his younger years he played piano and sang in gospel groups. He and his family moved to Chicago in 1950, where he worked as a welder and played guitar in his spare time. He began playing professionally with Slim Willis in 1959, changing his last name to Johnson like his brother Syl. As a guitarist he was influenced by both Buddy Guy and Otis Rush and he played with Freddy King, Albert King, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and Eddy Clearwater among others.
In the 1960s he played more R&B music, working with Otis Clay, Denise LaSalle, and Garland Green. He also had his own group from the early 1960s, and by the mid 1960s he had released his first single. In 1965, he released the original version of "Don't Answer the Door" which was his only chart single reaching #16 on the Billboard R&B chart.[2] A year later, it became a #2 R&B hit for B. B. King[3] who featured it in his live shows and albums throughout the 1970s. By 1974, Johnson had returned to blues playing, working with Jimmy Dawkins and touring Japan with Otis Rush in 1975.[4]
His first solo material appeared on Alligator Records and Delmark Records in 1978-79, when he was fifty years old. He was an award-winner at the first Blues Music Awards held in Memphis in November 1980. His career continued to pick up until December 2, 1988, when his touring van crashed in Indiana, killing his keyboardist St. James Bryant and bassist Larry Exum.[4] Johnson was injured and took an extended hiatus from the music industry, but returned to record for Verve Records in 1994. In 2002, he recorded with his brother, Syl. He remained active and among other things toured Europe in 2009, playing both the UK as well as Copenhagen Blues Festival in Denmark.
He collaborated in 2014 Persian traditional music album Beyond Any Form.
Eric Demmer *25.11.
At the age of 10, ERIC found a saxophone under the Christmas tree. So began the journey of a natural-born musician, playing anywhere at any time with anyone. He grew up steeped in the blues and rock and roll of the 70's and 80's. He absorbed the sounds of The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, B.B. King, and fellow Texan, Stevie Ray Vaughn. One night, ERIC was invited to perform onstage with the legendary Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. From that night forward, ERIC joined Gate's band and traveled all over the world for the next 12 years, until Gate's death in 2005. The journey with "Gate's" band led them to tour extensively as the opening act for Eric Clapton during his "From The Cradle" tour.
ERIC has performed with many well-known and respected musicians: Carlos Santana, B.B. King, George Duke, Joe Sample, David Sanborn, Todd Rundgren, Shamika Copeland, Johnnie "Clyde" Copeland, Johnnie "Be Good" Johnson (pianist with Chuck Berry), Duke Robillard, Buddy Guy, Delbert McClinton, The Allman Brothers, Dr. John, Kim Wilson, and many others.
ERIC describes his style of music as, "high energy, funky blues with a mix of jazz" and combines a variety of influences while reminding everyone that, "The real thing comes from the heart and soul".
ERIC has performed with many well-known and respected musicians: Carlos Santana, B.B. King, George Duke, Joe Sample, David Sanborn, Todd Rundgren, Shamika Copeland, Johnnie "Clyde" Copeland, Johnnie "Be Good" Johnson (pianist with Chuck Berry), Duke Robillard, Buddy Guy, Delbert McClinton, The Allman Brothers, Dr. John, Kim Wilson, and many others.
ERIC describes his style of music as, "high energy, funky blues with a mix of jazz" and combines a variety of influences while reminding everyone that, "The real thing comes from the heart and soul".
http://www.greenparrot.com/coco-robicheaux-new-orleans-hoodoo-bluesman-has-died/
Curtis John Arceneaux (October 25, 1947 – November 25, 2011)[1] better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.
He was born in Merced, California, the son of Herman Arceneaux from Ascension Parish in Louisiana and Virginia Grant of Waushara County, Wisconsin. His father was of Acadian (Cajun) descent, while on his mother's side his ancestry included English, Norwegian, Scottish, German, Dutch, Welsh, and Native American (Mohawk). Also on his mother's side he was a direct descendent of accused Salem witch Sarah Cloyce. He spent some of his preteen/early teens in France where his Air Force father was stationed for 3 years. The accent and other Cajun flails were manufactured. Curtis was a genius with an extremely high IQ. He could master and did master every musical instrument he tried. He was also an accomplished artist. He was a master story teller who could and did embellish every story he told. [2] He spent some of his childhood in the French countryside.[3] Arceneaux took his stage name from a Louisiana legend, in which a naughty child called Coco Robicheaux, is abducted by a werewolf (Loup Garou or Rougarou). Also, the name 'Coco Robicheaux' is repeated in the song "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" from Dr. John the Night Tripper's 1968 album, Gris-Gris.[4]
Robicheaux appeared in the episode "Hotshots", of the USA Network series Big Easy, playing a New Orleans musician named "Coco", who had sold his soul to the devil. Two of Robicheaux's songs were also featured in the episode, "Broken String" and "Spiritland". Coco Robicheaux appeared as himself in the second episode of HBO's Treme, first broadcast in the US on April 18, 2010.
Coco Robicheaux died in November 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of 64.[1]
One of his last recordings were for the Danish singer Naja Rosa Koppel´s album "The Place I Call Home" (2012)
His very last recording took place on his 64th birthday, one month before his death, with singer Frenchie Moe. Mike Hood, Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, Jimmy Carpenter and Jack Cruz also contributed to the song.
Henry Lee "Shot" Williams +25.11.2011
Henry
Lee "Shot" Williams (May 21, 1938 – November 25, 2011) was an American
blues singer. He got the nickname "Shot" from his mother at a young age,
owing to his fondness for wearing suits and dressing up as a "big
shot."
Williams grew up in the country close to his cousin and fellow blues man, Little Smokey Smothers. "Shot" moved to Detroit in 1954 and to Chicago in 1958. He joined Smothers there and began singing with Smokey's band in 1960 and a few years later joined Magic Sam's band as a vocalist. In 1962, Williams recorded his first singles for Chicago's Foxy label, "Hello Baby" and "I'm Trying." He recorded a series of singles for other labels, including King/Federal, Palos, Gamma, Shama and Tchula. His 1964 recording "Welcome to the Club" was a hit in Chicago, and was later covered by guitarist/singer Little Milton for Checker Records in 1965. Another regional hit, "I Like Your Style," came out in 1969 and was later covered by Junior Parker. Several more singles followed including the very popular "Drop Your Laundry Baby". His first album under his own name, "Country Disco", was released on the Roots label in 1977. In the 1980s, Williams released a slew of singles on labels like Tchula, 4-Way, True & Dis-Muke. He released an album on cassette with many of these cuts called "I Like Your Style". In 1994 the Japanese label Vivid Sound released an album called "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" containing tracks Williams recorded in Memphis apparently for (but not released by) Quinton Claunch's SoulTrax imprint. The Black Magic label decided to give Lee a "Shot" behind his own band. The result, "Cold Shot" was released in 1995 and was voted the Best Blues Album of 1995 (New Recording - Soul/Blues) by the Living Blues readers' poll.[citation needed]
His debut for the Memphis-based Ecko Records, "Hot Shot", brought Williams home to the "Southern Soul Blues" world with the hit "I'll Take The Risk". In 2000 Williams scored another hit with "She Made A Freak Out Of Me", followed by "Somebody's After My Freak". Williams left the label again and recorded one disc for Charles Wilson's label called "Let The Good Times Roll" before returning to Ecko for four more successful albums, establishing him as one of the icons of the genre.[citation needed]
In 2008 Williams signed with CDS Records. His first CD for the label was released in 2008 and produced the hits "It's Friday (Time To Get Paid)" and "Wrong Bed". Two more albums were released by CDS Records, "I'm The Man For The Job" & "The First Rule Of Cheating" in 2010.
Williams grew up in the country close to his cousin and fellow blues man, Little Smokey Smothers. "Shot" moved to Detroit in 1954 and to Chicago in 1958. He joined Smothers there and began singing with Smokey's band in 1960 and a few years later joined Magic Sam's band as a vocalist. In 1962, Williams recorded his first singles for Chicago's Foxy label, "Hello Baby" and "I'm Trying." He recorded a series of singles for other labels, including King/Federal, Palos, Gamma, Shama and Tchula. His 1964 recording "Welcome to the Club" was a hit in Chicago, and was later covered by guitarist/singer Little Milton for Checker Records in 1965. Another regional hit, "I Like Your Style," came out in 1969 and was later covered by Junior Parker. Several more singles followed including the very popular "Drop Your Laundry Baby". His first album under his own name, "Country Disco", was released on the Roots label in 1977. In the 1980s, Williams released a slew of singles on labels like Tchula, 4-Way, True & Dis-Muke. He released an album on cassette with many of these cuts called "I Like Your Style". In 1994 the Japanese label Vivid Sound released an album called "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" containing tracks Williams recorded in Memphis apparently for (but not released by) Quinton Claunch's SoulTrax imprint. The Black Magic label decided to give Lee a "Shot" behind his own band. The result, "Cold Shot" was released in 1995 and was voted the Best Blues Album of 1995 (New Recording - Soul/Blues) by the Living Blues readers' poll.[citation needed]
His debut for the Memphis-based Ecko Records, "Hot Shot", brought Williams home to the "Southern Soul Blues" world with the hit "I'll Take The Risk". In 2000 Williams scored another hit with "She Made A Freak Out Of Me", followed by "Somebody's After My Freak". Williams left the label again and recorded one disc for Charles Wilson's label called "Let The Good Times Roll" before returning to Ecko for four more successful albums, establishing him as one of the icons of the genre.[citation needed]
In 2008 Williams signed with CDS Records. His first CD for the label was released in 2008 and produced the hits "It's Friday (Time To Get Paid)" and "Wrong Bed". Two more albums were released by CDS Records, "I'm The Man For The Job" & "The First Rule Of Cheating" in 2010.
Little Willie Foster +25.11.1987
Little
Willy Foster or Little Willie Foster (April 20, 1922[nb 1] – November
25, 1987)[4] was an American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer, and
songwriter.
Biography
Foster was born in Dublin,
Mississippi, United States.[2] Born to Major Foster and Rosie Brown,
Willy was raised on a plantation, around ten miles south of Clarksdale.
His mother died when Willy was aged five and he was raised by his
father, who was a local musician. Willy worked the fields from a young
age and had little by way of a formal education. His father taught him
to play the family's piano, although Willy later taught himself to
master both the guitar and harmonica. By 1942, Foster worked briefly in
Clarksdale itself. Around 1943, Foster relocated to Chicago.[2] He
played the blues round the city, originally teaming up with Floyd Jones,
Lazy Bill Lucas, and the latter's cousin, Leroy Foster. Having
befriended Big Walter Horton, Little Willy Foster learned to play the
harmonica in Horton's Chicago blues style. From the mid 1940s, this led
to periodic work for Foster on Maxwell Street, and around the city's
clubs, for over a decade.[1][2] Foster also worked during this time in a
band comprising himself, Homesick James, Moody Jones and Floyd
Jones.[1]
In January 1955, Foster recorded two sides for Parrot.
These were his own compositions, "Falling Rain Blues" and "Four Day
Jump". His accompaniment included playing from Lucas, Jones and Eddie
Taylor.[1][2][4] Foster reportedly incurred the displeasure of the
record label owner, Al Benson, for reporting him to the American
Federation of Musicians, over underpaid dues on the recordings.[5] In
March 1957, Foster was back in a recording studio in Chicago, where he
waxed two more of his songs, "Crying the Blues" and "Little Girl".[2]
Regarding the former title, AllMusic noted that it "reflected both his
emotional singing and his wailing, swooping harmonica".[1]
From
this point onwards, his personal life started to degenerate. Attending a
house party, Foster was accidentally shot in the head by a woman
playing with a hand gun. This led to semi-paralysis for Foster and
seriously affected his ability to speak.[2] Although he made a slow
recovery, Foster rarely played in public thereafter.[1] In January 1974,
Foster voluntarily surrendered himself to the local police after he had
shot dead his room mate. Pleading self-defense, his impaired judgement
due to his previous brain injury, led to a verdict of not guilty due to
insanity and Foster was sent to a state hospital in 1975.[2]
In November 1987, Foster died in Chicago from cancer, aged 65.[2][3]
In 1996, an album produced by Bobby Mack, who also played guitar on the work, was released.[1]
Foster's four released tracks have variously appeared on numerous compilation albums, issued both before and after his death.[4]
Confusion
The anomaly surrounding the spelling of his first name arises from the differences used on his two single releases.[4]
He
is not to be confused, although often is in both literature and record
listings etc., with another blues harmonica player, Willie James Foster
(September 19, 1921 – May 20, 2001).
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