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Samstag, 15. Oktober 2016

15.10. Nellie Lutcher, Victoria Spivey, Robert Ward, Mickey „Guitar“ Baker, Lamar Chase * Gus Cannon +









1906 Victoria Spivey*
1912 Nellie Lutcher*
1925 Mickey „Guitar“ Baker*
1938 Robert Ward*
1953 Lamar Chase*
1979 Gus Cannon+





Happy Birthday


Nellie Lutcher  *15.10.1912

 

 

Nellie Lutcher (* 15. Oktober 1912 (oftmals fälschlicherweise mit 1915 angegeben) in Lake Charles, Louisiana; † 8. Juni 2007 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Pianistin im Bereich von Swing und Rhythm and Blues.
Nellie Lutcher stammte aus einer kinderreichen Familie, ihr Vater, Isaac Lutcher, war Bassist und arbeitete mit Bunk Johnson, und ihre Mutter Susie war Kirchenorganistin. Ihr Bruder war der Saxophonist Joe Lutcher und ihr Neffe der Latin Jazz-Perkussionist Daryl „Munyungo“ Jackson. Als Kind erhielt sie, nachdem die Mutter ihr Talent erkannte, Unterricht auf Gitarre, Geige, Mandoline und Klavier. Bereits im Alter von zwölf Jahren begleitete sie Ma Rainey bei einem Auftritt, als deren regulärer Pianist erkrankte. Mit 14 Jahren schloss sie sich nach Genehmigung durch ihren Vater Clarence Harts Imperial Jazz Band an, in der sie fünf oder sechs Jahre spielte. Angeblich führte sie auch eine kurze Ehe mit dem Trompeter der Band.[1] 1933 wurde sie Mitglied der von Paul Barnes geleiteten Southern Rhythm Boys, mit denen sie durch das Land tourte und für die sie einige Arrangements schrieb.
1935 zog sie nach Los Angeles, wo sie Leonel Lewis heiratete, mit dem sie einen Sohn hatte.[2] Dort spielte sie Swing-Piano und trat regelmäßig im Club Alabam auf der Central Avenue auf. Auch begleitete sie als Studiomusikerin u. a. Lena Horne und Ivie Anderson[3] und begann selbst zu singen. Im Raum Los Angeles trat sie mit kleinen Combos auf und entwickelte, beeinflusst von Earl Hines, Duke Ellington und ihrem Freund Nat King Cole, langsam ihren eigenen Gesangsstil. Sie hielt sich selbst nicht für eine Sängerin; die Nachfrage nach ihr stieg aber, als sie zu singen begann.[4] Auch fing sie an, eigene Songs wie He's a Real Gone Guy oder Hurry On Down zu schreiben.[5]
Einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit war sie kaum bekannt, als sie 1947 bei einer Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung für March of Dimes in Hollywood auftrat. Diese Show wurde im Radio gesendet, wodurch Capitol Records auf sie aufmerksam wurde und ihr einen Plattenvertrag anbot. Ihr fälschlich angegebenes Geburtsjahr wird oftmals damit erklärt, dass die Manager von Capitol der Meinung waren, Nellie Lutcher sei mit 35 Jahren zu alt für den Beginn einer Musikkarriere und daraufhin 1915 als ihr Geburtsjahr lancierten, womit sie 3 Jahre jünger gemacht worden wäre. Dieser Darstellung widersprach Nellie Lutcher in einem Interview und erklärte die Abweichung mit einem „Irrtum oder Druckfehler“. Nellie Lutcher spielte für Capitol einige Titel ein, darunter „The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else“ und ihren ersten Hit „Hurry on Down“, der bis auf Platz 2 der Rhythm and Blues-Charts stieg. Auch der nachfolgende Song „He's a Real Gone Guy“ erreichte den zweiten Platz und war zudem in den Pop-Charts auf Platz 15 erfolgreich.
1948 hatte sie eine Reihe weiterer Hits in den R&B-Charts, am höchsten konnte sich „Fine Brown Frame“ bis auf Position 2 platzieren. Landesweit bekannt wurde sie durch mehrere Tourneen, und so landeten ihre Songs regelmäßig in den US-Pop-, Jazz- und R&B-Hitparaden.[6] 1950 brachte Capitol eine Platte von Nat King Cole und Nellie Lutcher heraus, auf welcher sie die Duette „For You My Love“ und „Can I Come in for a Second“ sangen. Durch diese Zusammenarbeit mit Nat King Cole wurde Nellie Lutcher auch in Europa bekannt, es folgten Anfang der 1950er Jahre zwei Europatourneen, wo sie besonders in London großen Erfolg hatte. 1951 nahm sie mit Orchester-Begleitung „The Birth of the Blues“ und „I Want to Be Near You“ auf, die Schallplatte war jedoch wenig erfolgreich, sodass Capitol ihren Vertrag im Jahr 1952 nicht mehr verlängerte.
1953 wurde ihre Lebensgeschichte in einem TV-Special vorgestellt, was kurzfristig eine erhöhte Nachfrage nach ihren frühen Capitol-Hits generierte. Sie spielte einige weitere Schallplatten für Labels wie Okeh, Decca und Liberty ein, konnte aber bei weitem nicht mehr an ihre früheren Erfolge anknüpfen. Das nachlassende Publikumsinteresse und die Erziehung ihres Sohnes veranlasste sie dann schließlich, bei der Musikergewerkschaft in Los Angeles eine Stellung anzunehmen.[7] Ab und zu ging Nellie Lutcher doch noch ins Tonstudio und nahm Platten auf, so z. B. 1957 ein Remake ihres Erkennungslieds „Hurry On Down“ für das Label Imperial, mit „I Never Got Tired“ auf der Rückseite. 1973 und dann wieder 1980 trat sie in New York City auf.[8] Mitte der 1980er Jahre stellte Marian McPartland sie in ihrer Radio-Sendung Piano Jazz vor.[9] Sie hatte bis in die späten 1990er Jahre zudem unregelmäßig Auftritte in Clubs oder Fernsehsendungen; 1994 spielte sie sich selbst in der deutschen Komödie „Sunny Side Up“ der Regisseurin Bettina Speer.
Im Jahr 1992 wurde sie mit dem Pioneer Award der Rhythm and Blues Foundation ausgezeichnet.
Gesangsstil
Ihr Gesangsstil, den sie mit ihrem vom Swing beeinflussten Klavierspiel begleitete, war durch exaltierten Scat und übertriebene Betonung einzelner Worte geprägt. Typisch für sie und den frühen Rhythm & Blues dieser Jahre war zudem die Beschäftigung mit erotischen Themen, die aufgrund der amerikanischen Zensurbestimmungen mit teilweise stark verklausulierten Texten besungen wurden.
Musikalische Wirkung
Obwohl Nellie Lutcher nicht viele Platten veröffentlicht hat und nur wenige dieser Aufnahmen überhaupt eine größere Bekanntheit erreichten, hat sie mit ihrem ungewöhnlichen, expressiven Stil viele Künstler nachhaltig beeinflusst, dabei ist besonders Nina Simone zu nennen. Als sich Nellie Lutcher Ende der 1950 Jahre aus dem Musikgeschäft zurückzog, begann gleichzeitig die Karriere von Nina Simone, die viele Elemente von Nellie Lutchers Gesangs- und Pianostil übernommen hatte.


Nellie Lutcher (October 15, 1912 – June 8, 2007) was an African-American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who gained prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was the sister of saxophonist Joe "Woodman" Lutcher and aunt of Latin jazz percussionist Daryl "Munyungo" Jackson and singer Jacqueline Levy. Lutcher was most recognizable for her diction and exaggerated pronunciation, and was credited as an influence by Nina Simone among others.

Childhood

She was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the eldest daughter of the 15 children of Isaac and Suzie Lutcher. Her father was a bass player, and her mother a church organist. She received piano lessons, and her father formed a family band with Nellie playing piano. At age 12, she played with Ma Rainey, when Rainey's regular pianist fell ill and had to be left behind in the previous town. Searching for a temporary replacement in Lake Charles, one of the neighbors told her there was a little girl who played in church who might be able to do it.

Career

Aged 14, Lutcher joined her father in Clarence Hart's Imperial Jazz Band, and in her mid-teens also briefly married the band's trumpet player. In 1933, she joined the Southern Rhythm Boys, writing their arrangements and touring widely. In 1935, she moved to Los Angeles, where she married Leonel Lewis and had a son. She began to play swing piano, and also to sing, in small combos throughout the area, and began developing her own style, influenced by Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and her friend Nat "King" Cole.

She was not widely known until 1947 when she learned of the March of Dimes talent show at Hollywood High School, and performed. The show was broadcast on the radio and her performance caught the ear of Dave Dexter, a scout for Capitol Records. She was signed by Capitol and made several records, including "The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else" and her first hit single, the risqué "Hurry On Down", which went to # 2 on the rhythm and blues chart. This was followed by her equally successful composition "He's A Real Gone Guy", which also made # 2 on the R&B chart and crossed over to the pop charts where it reached # 15.

In 1948 she had a string of further R&B chart hits, the most successful being "Fine Brown Frame", her third # 2 R&B hit. Her songs charted on the pop, jazz, and R&B charts, she toured widely and became widely known. She wrote many of her own songs and, unlike many other African-American artists of the period, retained the valuable publishing rights to them.

In 1950, Lutcher duetted with Nat "King" Cole on "For You My Love" and "Can I Come in for a Second". The same year, her records began to be released in the UK and were actively promoted by radio DJ Jack Jackson. She headlined a UK variety tour, compered by Jackson, with great success, later returning there to tour on her own.

With an orchestra for the first time, Lutcher recorded "The Birth of the Blues" and "I Want to Be Near You" in 1951, but she was losing her appeal with the record-buying public and Capitol dropped her the following year. She went on to record, much less successfully, for other labels including Okeh, Decca and Liberty, and gradually wound down her performance schedule.

In 1952 Lucther was contacted to perform on first a "happy new years" television special, however after she finished her song, it was revealed that she was on the set of, and the honoree of a "This Is Your Life" episode.[1]

By 1957, she had joined the board of the Los Angeles Musicians Union, but continued to perform occasionally until the 1990s under the management of Alan Eichler, with many successful engagements including the Cookery and Michael's Pub in New York, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Cinegrill in Los Angeles and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. She also starred in her own TV special "Nellie" on PBS and recorded a one-hour concert with Marian McPartland for the NPR series Piano Jazz. She invested successfully in property and managed her own apartment building in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles.

 
Nellie Lutcher Lake Charles Boogie 1948 






Victoria Spivey  *15.10.1906

 

 




Victoria Regina Spivey (* 15. Oktober 1906 in Houston, Texas; † 3. Oktober 1976 in New York City, New York) war eine US-amerikanische Blues-Sängerin, Pianospielerin und Komponistin.
Spiveys Vater hatte eine Band in Houston, Texas. Sehr früh schon spielte sie Klavier auf Partys, bald auch in Bars und Clubs, bisweilen mit so bekannten Blues-Größen wie Blind Lemon Jefferson.
1926 ging sie nach St. Louis, Missouri, wo sie mit dem Black Snake Blues ihre erste Aufnahme machte. Es folgten weitere Hits, bei denen sie von Stars wie Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Johnson und Henry „Red“ Allen begleitet wurde.
1929 spielte Spivey „Missy Rose“ in dem Musicalfilm Hallelujah (Regie: King Vidor) und nahm mit J. C. Higginbotham und George „Pops“ Foster auf. In den 1930ern und 1940er Jahren war sie als Schauspielerin und in Bühnenshows erfolgreich. Oft trat sie zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann, dem Vaudeville-Tänzer Billy Adams, auf.
1951 zog Spivey sich von der Bühne zurück und leitete einen Kirchenchor. Im Zuge des Blues-Revivals der 1960er hatte sie ein Comeback. Mit Len Kunstadt gründete sie die Plattenfirma „Spivey Records“. Sie machte Aufnahmen mit ihren Freundinnen Sippie Wallace, Lucille Hegamin und Hannah Sylvester, aber auch mit jungen Künstlern wie Luther Johnson, Sugar Blue und Bob Dylan. 1973 trat sie mit Roosevelt Sykes beim „Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival“ auf.

Victoria Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976)[1][2] was an American blues singer and songwriter. During a recording career that spanned forty years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Luis Russell, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Dylan.[3] She also performed in vaudeville and clubs, sometimes with her sister, Addie "Sweet Pease" Spivey. Among her compositions are "Black Snake Blues", "Dope Head Blues" and "Organ Grinder Blues". In 1962 she initiated her own recording label, Spivey Records.

Life and career

She was born Victoria Regina Spivey in Houston, Texas, United States,[4] the daughter of Grant and Addie (Smith) Spivey. Her father was a part-time musician and a flagman for the railroad; her mother was a nurse. Her sisters were Addie "Sweet Peas" Spivey (1910–1943), also a singer and musician, who recorded for several major record labels between 1929 and 1937; and Elton Island Spivey (1900–1971), who also sang professionally.[5]

Spivey's first professional experience was in a family string band led by her father in Houston. After Grant Spivey died, the seven-year-old Victoria played on her own at local parties and, in 1918, was hired to accompany films at the Lincoln Theater in Dallas.[6] As a teenager, she worked in local bars, nightclubs, and buffet flats, mostly alone, but occasionally with singer-guitarists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson.[4] In 1926, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where she was signed by Okeh Records. Her first recording, "Black Snake Blues" (1926),[7] did well, and her association with the record label continued. She made numerous Okeh sides in New York until 1929, then switched to the RCA Victor label. Between 1931 and 1937, more recordings followed on the Vocalion and Decca labels,[4] and, working out of New York, she maintained an active performance schedule. Spivey's recorded accompanists included King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Johnson, and Red Allen.[5]

The Depression did not put an end to Spivey's musical career; she found a new outlet for her talent in the year of the crash, when film director King Vidor cast her to play "Missy Rose" in his first sound film, Hallelujah! (1929).[8] Through the 1930s and 1940s, Spivey continued to work in musical films and stage shows, often with her husband, vaudeville dancer Billy Adams, including the Hellzapoppin' Revue.[4]

In 1951, Spivey retired from show business to play the pipe organ and lead a church choir, but she returned to secular music in 1961, when she was reunited with an old singing partner, Lonnie Johnson, to appear on four tracks on his Prestige Bluesville album, Idle Hours. The folk music revival of the 1960s gave her further opportunities to make at least a semblance of a comeback. She recorded again for Prestige Bluesville, sharing an album Songs We Taught Your Mother with fellow veterans Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin and began making personal appearances at festivals and clubs, including the 1963 European tour of the American Folk Blues Festival.

In 1962, Spivey and jazz historian Len Kunstadt launched Spivey Records, a low-budget label dedicated to blues and related music. They recorded prolifically such performers as Sippie Wallace, Lucille Hegamin, Otis Rush, Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Turner, Buddy Tate and Hannah Sylvester, as well as newer artists including Luther Johnson, Brenda Bell, Washboard Doc, Bill Dicey, Robert Ross, Sugar Blue, Paul Oscher, Danny Russo and Larry Johnson.[4]

In March 1962, Bob Dylan contributed harmonica and back-up vocals, accompanying Victoria Spivey and Big Joe Williams on a recording for Spivey Records. The recordings were released on Three Kings And The Queen (Spivey LP 1004) and Kings And The Queen Volume Two (Spivey LP 1014). (Dylan was listed under his own name on the record covers.)[9] In 1964 Spivey made her only recording with an all-white band: the Connecticut based Easy Riders Jazz Band, led by trombonist Big Bill Bissonnette. It was released first on an LP and later re-released on compact disc.

Spivey married four times; her husbands included Ruben Floyd and Billy Adams.[1]

Victoria Spivey died in New York on October 3, 1976, at the age of 69, from an internal haemorrhage.

 
Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson - Dope Head Blues (1927) 






Robert Ward  *15.10.1938

 

Robert Jeryl Ward (* 15. Oktober 1938 in Luthersville, Georgia, USA; † 25. Dezember 2008 in Dry Branch) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluessänger und -gitarrist. Er war von 1959 bis 1965 Frontmann der Band Ohio Players.
Ward zog mit seinen Eltern 1960 nach Daytown, Ohio, wo er dann mit Marshal Jones (Bass), Clarence Satchell (Saxophon, Gitarre), Cornelius Johnson (Schlagzeug) und Ralph Middlebrooks (Trompete, Posaune) die Ohio Players gründete. Ward schrieb viele Songs für die Band, unter anderem Your Love is amazing. 1965 verließ er die Gruppe, um eine Solokarriere zu starten.
Später zog er in die Gegend von Detroit mit einem Wohnsitz in Toledo, Ohio und veröffentlichte einige Singles nach seinem Namen aus den 1960er Jahren. In den 1970er Jahren arbeitete er als Session-Musiker für Motown.
In den frühen 1990er Jahren kam er zurück ins Rampenlicht. Er wurde von Black Top Records entdeckt und veröffentlichte Fear no evil, sein erstes Album in voller Länge.
Am 25. Dezember 2008 starb Robert Ward im Alter von 70 Jahren. 

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ward_%28Bluesmusiker%29  

Robert Ward (October 15, 1938[1] – December 25, 2008)[2] was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players. He played the guitar with a unique tone soaked in vibrato coming from the Magnatone amplifier.

Biography

Born Robert Jeryl Ward in Luthersville, Georgia,[3] he moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1960 and formed the Ohio Untouchables. The group released series of singles from LuPine label[1] including "Your Love Is Amazing" which would become one of Ward's signature songs. Ward left the group in 1965.[2]

Then he moved to the Detroit area, actually residing in Toledo, Ohio and released some single under his name in the late 60's. He disappeared from the music scene sometime in the 70's after working as a session player for Motown.[1][2]

It was in the early 1990s that he came back into the spotlight. He was "rediscovered" by Black Top Records and released his first full-length album Fear No Evil in 1991. He released two more albums in the next four years for the label. In the mid-1990s he did limited touring, including a date in Minneapolis with Curtis Obeda and "The Butanes", and several dates in Michigan including Kalamazoo, Three Rivers and Grand Rapids. After the label folded in the late 1990s, WRKR Kalamazoo blues DJ Marty Spaulding, who Robert had appointed his manager, arranged a recording contract with Delmark Records to release New Role Soul in 2000. In his last years he faced a series of health problems, including two strokes, which prevented him from performing or recording.

He died at his home in Dry Branch, Georgia, about six miles from Macon, on December 25, 2008.

Robert Ward-Blessings 



 

 

 

 

 

Mickey „Guitar“ Baker  *15.10.1925

 

Mickey „Guitar“ Baker (gebürtig McHouston Baker; * 15. Oktober 1925 in Louisville, Kentucky; † 27. November 2012 bei Toulouse, Frankreich[1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues- und Jazz-Gitarrist.
Jugend
Als Jugendlicher riss Mickey Baker von zu Hause aus und verbrachte seine restliche Teenagerzeit in verschiedenen Waisenhäusern. In einer dieser Institutionen lernte er zwischen 1937 und 1940 Notenlesen und das Gitarrespiel. Mit 15 Jahren trampte er in Richtung Norden nach New York City. Eine andere Quelle besagt, dass er erst in New York mit Musik und der Gitarre in Berührung kam und über keinerlei musikalische Vorkenntnisse verfügte. Da er noch zu jung war, um in den Clubs zu spielen und in New York City die Musiker-Gewerkschaft straff organisiert war und Minderjährigen den Zugang zu Clubs auch als Künstler untersagte, musste Baker seinen Lebensunterhalt mit Jobs, die nichts mit Musik zu tun hatten, verdienen. Ab 1945 widmete er sich dem Erlernen der Jazzgitarre und war nach wenigen Jahren gut genug, um seinen Lebensunterhalt unter anderem mit Gitarrenunterricht bestreiten zu können. Eine andere Einnahmequelle waren Auftritte mit einer Calypso-Band (etwa um 1948). Darüber hinaus nahm er so gut wie jeden halbwegs lukrativen Gig an, was zur Folge hatte, dass er seinen Radius als Musiker über die Grenzen von New York City ausweitete.
Die 1950er Jahre – ein vielseitiger Musiker
Mickey Baker war, was Stilrichtungen betraf, vom Beginn seiner Karriere an ein vielseitiger Musiker: So spielte er Jazz bei Live-Auftritten mit dem Altsaxophonisten Earle Warren, der unter anderem schon mit Count Basie, dem Trompeter Buck Clayton und später mit dem Jazzgitarristen Kenny Burrell Platten aufgenommen hatte, Rhythm and Blues mit den Sängern Nappy Brown, Ruth Brown und Big Maybelle, mit den Pianisten Amos Milburn, Little Willie John (Lead-Gitarre auf I’ll need your love so bad von 1956) und Ray Charles; Blues mit dem Pianisten Champion Jack Dupree und dem Mundharmonikaspieler Sonny Terry; Rock ’n’ Roll mit dem Sänger, Gitarristen und Songschreiber Earl King (bekannt zum Beispiel durch das Original von Come on baby let the good times roll, gecovert von Jimi Hendrix) und mit dem Sänger Joe Clay (Ducktail); Doo Wop mit den Gesangsgruppen The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter und den Cardinals; Pop mit der Sängerin Connie Francis (Lead-Gitarre auf Lipstick on your Collar).
So unterschiedlich die Stile waren, so vielfältig waren auch die Plattenfirmen, für die Baker Titel als Sideman oder Hauptinterpret einspielte: Savoy, Victor, King, Aladdin, Atlantic, Rainbow, Groove sowie sein eigenes Label Willow (1961 gegründet mit Sitz in New York City). Während Mickey Baker seit ca. 1953 Teil der Studioband von Atlantic Records unter Leitung von Jesse Stone (mit Musikern wie Panama Francis und King Curtis) war, spielte er Live-Auftritte unter anderem mit der Band des Tenorsaxophonisten Red Prysock.
Mickey Baker war die eine Hälfte des Duos Mickey & Sylvia, die 1957 einen Hit mit Love Is Strange landeten. Dieser kommerzielle Erfolg hatte zur Folge, dass das Duo Teil von sogenannten „Rock and Roll Package Tourneen“ wurde wie zum Beispiel der Alan Freed Rock And Roll Extravaganza und der Ray Charles and Joe Turner Universal Attraction Show. Obwohl das Duo über einige Jahre immer wieder Platten aufnahm, blieb Love Is Strange der einzige Hit. Viele Folgeplatten waren zu nahe am Original angelehnt, ohne dessen Originalität zu erreichen. Auch ein anderes Duo, Mickey & Kitty (Kitty Noble), konnte daran nichts ändern. Insgeheim hatte Mickey Baker kurioserweise doch noch kommerziellen Erfolg mit einem anderen Duo: Auf der Aufnahme des Lieds It’s Gonna Work Out Fine von Ike & Tina Turner aus dem Jahr 1961 singt/spricht nicht Ike Turner, sondern Mickey Baker den männlichen Part.
In den USA veröffentlichte Mickey Baker nur ein einziges Album, The Wildest Guitar mit instrumentalen Coverversionen bekannter Musikstücke. Dazu zählen Versionen der Jazzstandards Autumn Leaves und Night and Day, eine E-Gitarren-Version des Liedes Gloomy Sunday sowie eine Version der Filmmelodie Der dritte Mann von Anton Karas aus dem gleichnamigen Kinofilm von Orson Welles.[2]
Emigration nach Europa
Anfang der 1960er Jahre wanderte Mickey Baker nach Paris aus und tourte von dort aus durch große Teile Europas. Er nahm weiterhin Platten mit einer großen Bandbreite von Künstlern auf und ließ sich weiterhin stilistisch nicht festlegen. Sehr häufig trat er mit ebenfalls immigrierten US-Musikern auf beziehungsweise spielte auf deren Veröffentlichungen wie denen von Champion Jack Dupree (auf Vogue 1968, auf Crescendo 1971), Memphis Slim (auf Polydor 1967), Willie Mabon (auf Big Bear 1973) und mit US-Musikern, die auf Tournee durch Europa waren, wie Jimmy Dawkins (auf Vogue 1971). 1961 wirkte er in einem Kurzfilm über den ebenfalls nach Europa immigrierten Tenorsaxophonisten Coleman Hawkins mit (Coleman Hawkins Quartett). Er selbst nahm für folgende Label in den 1960er- und 70er-Jahren unter eigenem Namen auf: Big Bear, Black And Blue, Roots, Kicking Mule, Versailles. 1973 nahm er eine Platte mit dem Fingerpicking-Spezialisten Stefan Grossman (und anderen Musikern) in London auf. Hier waren neben Coverversionen von Charley Patton, J. B. Lenoir und Robert Johnson auch Originale zu hören. Für einige Lieder wurden Streicherarrangements geschrieben.
1969 schrieb Mickey Baker die Filmmusik für den Film Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, der sich mit der Karriere des Boxers und politischen Aktivisten Muhammad Ali auseinandersetzte. Der Schwerpunkt lag dabei nicht so sehr auf den sportlichen Aspekten, sondern auf dem Konflikt zwischen den Rassen. Bei der Musik handelt es sich nicht um Songs, sondern um Filmmusik, die versuchte, diese Konflikte musikalisch darzustellen. Da Baker genau wie Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky geboren wurde, kannte er die sozialen Bedingungen, unter denen Schwarze zu dieser Zeit leben mussten, aus eigener Erfahrung.
Über den Werdegang Mickey Bakers nach Ende der 1970er-/Anfang der 1980er-Jahre liegen kaum Informationen vor: 1978 spielte er auf dem Groninger Blues Festival in den Niederlanden und trat einige Jahre später mit Champion Jack Dupree live in einer westdeutschen Talkshow (Drittes Programm) auf. Vermutlich hat er sich etwas später ganz aus dem Musikgeschäft zurückgezogen.
Bedeutung
1999 erhielt Baker den Pioneer Award der Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Er ist seit 2003 in der Liste des Magazins Rolling Stone Rolling Stone’s List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time eingetragen.[3] Er wird – zusammen mit Bo Diddley und Chuck Berry – als musikalisches Bindeglied zwischen Rhythm and Blues und Rock ’n’ Roll angesehen. Er hat eine Reihe von Lehrbüchern geschrieben, wie zum Beispiel eine Anleitung zum Gitarrespiel, Complete Course in Jazz Guitar, sowie ein Handbuch für Arrangeure, das Complete Handbook For The Music Arranger. Zusammen mit Les Paul ist Mickey Baker ein wichtiger früher Vertreter des Spiels auf der elektrischen Gitarre ohne Resonanzkörper (Solidbody guitar) in Jazz und populärer Musik.
Verschiedenes
Baker spielte aber nicht nur Solidbody-Gitarren wie die Gibson Les Paul, sondern auch Archtop- und Westerngitarren. Seine meist verwendete Technik war das Spiel mit einem Plektrum.

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

  MacHouston Baker[1] (October 15, 1925 – November 27, 2012), known as Mickey Baker and Mickey "Guitar" Baker, was an American guitarist. He is widely held to be a critical force in the bridging of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, along with Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, and Chuck Berry.[2]

Early life

Baker was born in Louisville, Kentucky.[3] His mother was black, and his father, whom he had never met, was believed to be white.[4] His dark complexion and red hair supports this theory.

In 1936, at the age of 11, Baker was put into an orphanage. He ran away frequently, and had to be retrieved by the staff from St. Louis, New York City, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Eventually the orphanage quit looking for him, and at the age of 16 he stayed in New York City. He found work as a laborer and then a dishwasher. But after hanging out in the pool halls of 26th Street, he gave up work to become a full-time pool shark.

At 19, Baker decided to make a change in his life. He went back to dishwashing, and was determined to become a jazz musician. The trumpet was his first choice for an instrument, but with only $14 saved up, he could not find a pawnshop with anything but guitars for that price.[5]

He enrolled at The New York School of Music, but found the learning pace too slow. He dropped out and resolved to teach himself, but gave up shortly afterwards. Six months later he met a street guitarist who inspired him to start playing again. He continued taking private lessons from different teachers over the next few years. His musical style was influenced by saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Career

By 1949, Baker had his own combo, and a few paying jobs. He decided to move west, but found that audiences there were not receptive to progressive jazz music. Baker was stranded without work in California when he saw a show by blues guitarist Pee Wee Crayton.[6] Baker said of the encounter:

"I asked Pee Wee, 'You mean you can make money playing that stuff on guitar?' Here he was driving a big white Eldorado and had a huge bus for his band. So I started bending strings. I was starving to death, and the blues was just a financial thing for me then."

He found a few jobs in Richmond, California, and made enough money to return to New York.[5]

After returning east, Baker began recording for Savoy, King and Atlantic Records. He did sessions with Doc Pomus, The Drifters, Ray Charles, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Coleman Hawkins, and numerous other artists.[7] During this time, Baker (along with either Paramour Crampton or Connie Kay on drums, Sam "The Man" Taylor on tenor, and Lloyd Trotman on bass) played on numerous hit records on the Atlantic, Savoy, and King labels.

Inspired by the success of Les Paul & Mary Ford, he formed the pop duo Mickey & Sylvia (with Sylvia Robinson, one of his guitar students) in the mid-1950s.[6] Together, they had a hit single with "Love Is Strange" in 1956.[6] The duo split up in the late 1950s, but sporadically worked together on additional tracks until the mid-1960s.[2]

It was around this time that he moved to France, where he worked with Ronnie Bird and Chantal Goya and made a few solo records.[2] He would remain in France for the rest of his life. Up until the end of his life, Baker was rarely without work.

Baker appeared at the 1975 version of the Roskilde Festival.

Because Baker revealed very few details about his private life, reasons for his move to France were never made completely clear. Some media sources claimed that Baker had grown tired of the business aspects of the commercial music industry in the United States, while others stated that the bi-racial Baker was angered by the growing rate of hate crimes in the southern United States during the burgeoning civil rights movement.

In 1999, Baker received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

In 2003, he was listed at #53 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[8]

Books

His self-tuition method book series, the Complete Course in Jazz Guitar is a mainstay for introducing students of guitar to the world of jazz. They have remained in print for over 50 years.

Personal life

Baker guarded his personal life as much as possible, giving few interviews and only making sporadic public appearances. After moving to France, he rarely left the country, and made very few trips to the United States.

Baker was married six times. Among his wives were Barbara Castellano from the mid-1950s to the mid-70s, and Marie France-Drei, a singer with whom he stayed from the early 1980s until his death.

Baker had two children: a son, MacHouston, Jr., and a daughter, Bonita Lee.

Death

Baker died on November 27, 2012 near Toulouse, France, aged 87.[9][10] His wife Marie, said he died of heart and kidney failure.

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



McHouston (Mickey) Baker with Coleman Hawkins Quintet South Of France Blues.mp4 





 

 

 


Lamar Chase *15.10.1953

 

 https://fandalism.com/kingbee1

Der farbige, aus Kalifornien stammende Lamar Chase hat den Blues-Rhythmus im Blut. Chase, vom amerikanischen Blues-Sänger Haskell Robert „Papa“ Sadler liebevoll „King Bee“ genannt, stand in seiner jahrzehntelangen Musikkarriere schon mit Größen wie John Lee Hooker, J. J. Malone, Sly and the Family Stone sowie Lowell Folson auf der Bühne. Zudem spielte er unter anderem mit bekannten Musikern wie Carlos Santana und den Pointer Sisters.

Musikalisch beeinflusst ist Lamar Chase von Gitarristenlegende Jimi Hendrix, US-Countrysänger und Songwriter Willie Nelson und allem, „was musikalisch dazwischen liegt“, schreibt Chase.

http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Region/Garbsen/Nachrichten/Lamar-Chase-hat-den-Rhythmus-im-Blut 


Lamar(King Bee)Chase plays and sings and sings and plays till you surrender

Lamar Chase is originally from Oakland, California. He has played with John Lee Hooker, J.J.Malone and members of Santana, Tower of Power, Sly and the Family Stone and many other Bay Area greats.

Lamar's musical influences are everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Willy Nelson and everything in between!

Lamar Chase Band - Sitting on the dock of the bay @ Bourbon Street 





Lamar Chase, Castle Rock Festival, 07.09.2013 





 

 

 

 

 

 

R.I.P. 

 

Gus Cannon  +15.10.1979

 

 

 Gus Cannon (links) und seine Jug Stompers

Gus Cannon (* 12. September 1883 in Red Banks, Mississippi; † 15. Oktober 1979 in Memphis, Tennessee) war ein amerikanischer Blues-Musiker, der vor allem mit seiner Band Cannon’s Jug Stompers Ende der 1920er bekannt wurde.
Cannon wurde 1883 als der jüngste von zehn Söhnen der Sharecropper John und Ellen Cannon geboren. Mit zwölf Jahren arbeitete er in Clarksdale, Mississippi auf den Baumwollfeldern. Hier kam er mit dem Blues in Berührung. Er brachte sich das Musizieren selbst bei, wobei er zunächst auf einem Banjo spielte, das er sich aus einer Pfanne und einem Gitarrenhals gebaut hatte.
Karriere
Um 1900 spielte Cannon in verschiedenen Bands in der Gegend von Clarksdale. Er gründete seine erste Jugband, als er für die Eisenbahn in Greenville arbeitete. Er lernte den Mundharmonikaspieler Noah Lewis und den jungen Gitarristen Ashley Thompson kennen, mit denen er häufig zusammen spielte. 1910 heiratete Cannon. Ab 1914 trat er regelmäßig bei Medicine Shows auf. In den 1920er Jahren hielt er sich in der Gegend von Memphis (Tennessee) auf und trat auch in der berüchtigten Beale Street auf. In dieser Zeit kam die Memphis Jug Band zu einigem Ruhm. 1927 begann seine professionelle Karriere als Musiker. Seine ersten Platten spielte er 1927 als „Banjo Joe“ bei den Paramount Records ein, wobei er von Blind Blake an der Gitarre begleitet wurde. 1928 machte Gus Cannon mit Lewis und Thompson unter dem Namen Cannon’s Jug Stompers erste Aufnahmen. Später spielten unter anderem auch Hosea Wood und Elijah Avery in der Gruppe. Weitere Aufnahmen, auch solo, folgten bis 1930. Danach ließ der Erfolg rasch nach. Cannon wohnte weiterhin in Memphis, wo er Anfang der 1950er-Jahre den jungen Johnny Cash kennenlernte, der zu der damaligen Zeit noch Haushaltswarenvertreter war.
Erst in den späten 1950er-Jahren wurde Gus Cannon wieder „entdeckt“. Mit Will Shade und Milton Ruby nahm er 1963 ein Album bei Stax Records auf. Nach seinem Tod 1979 gaben die The Lovin’ Spoonful ein Benefizkonzert, um Geld für Gus Cannons Grabstein zu sammeln. 2010 wurde Gus Cannon, gemeinsam mit den Cannon’s Jug Stompers in die Blues Hall of Fame aufgenommen.


Gus Cannon (September 12, 1883 – October 15, 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is doubt about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874.[1]
Career

Born on a plantation at Red Banks, Mississippi, Cannon moved a hundred miles to Clarksdale, then the home of W. C. Handy, at the age of 12. Cannon's musical skills came without training; he taught himself to play using a banjo that he made from a frying pan and raccoon skin. He ran away from home at the age of fifteen and began his career entertaining at sawmills and levee and railroad camps in the Mississippi Delta around the turn of the century.

While in Clarksdale, Cannon was influenced by local musicians Jim Turner and Alec Lee. Turner's fiddle playing in W. C. Handy’s band so impressed Cannon that he decided to learn the fiddle himself. Lee, a guitarist, taught Cannon his first folk blues, "Po' Boy, Long Ways from Home", and showed him how to use a knife blade as a slide, a technique that Cannon adapted to his banjo playing.[2]

Cannon left Clarksdale around 1907. He soon settled near Memphis, Tennessee and played in a jug band led by Jim Guffin.[2] He began playing in Memphis with Jim Jackson. He met harmonica player Noah Lewis, who introduced him to a young guitar player named Ashley Thompson. Both Lewis and Thompson would eventually become members of Cannon's Jug Stompers. The three of them formed a band to play parties and dances. In 1914 Cannon began touring in medicine shows.[2] He supported his family through a variety of jobs, including sharecropping, ditch digging, and yard work, but supplemented his income with music.

Cannon began recording as "Banjo Joe" for Paramount Records in 1927. At that session he was backed up by Blind Blake.[2] After the success of the Memphis Jug Band's first records, he quickly assembled a jug band featuring Noah Lewis and Ashley Thompson (later replaced by Elijah Avery).[3] Cannon's Jug Stompers first recorded at the Memphis Auditorium for the Victor record label in January 1928.[4] Hosea Woods joined the Jug Stompers in the late 1920s, playing guitar, banjo and kazoo, and also providing some vocals. Modern listeners can hear Cannon's Jug Stompers recording of "Big Railroad Blues" on the compilation album The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead.

Although their last recordings were made in 1930, Cannon's Jug Stompers were one of Beale Street's most popular jug bands through the 1930s. A few songs Cannon recorded with Cannon's Jug Stompers are "Minglewood Blues", "Pig Ankle Strut", "Wolf River Blues", "Viola Lee Blues", "White House Station" and "Walk Right In" (later made into a pop hit by The Rooftop Singers[3] in the 1960s, and later a hit rock/pop version by Dr. Hook in the 1970s). By the end of the 1930s, Cannon had effectively retired, although he occasionally performed as a solo musician.

He returned in 1956 to make a few recordings for Folkways Records. In the "blues revival" of the 1960s, he made some college and coffee house appearances with Furry Lewis and Bukka White,[3] but he had to pawn his banjo to pay his heating bill the winter before the Rooftop Singers had a hit with "Walk Right In".[5]

In the wake of becoming a hit composer, he recorded an album for Stax Records in 1963, with fellow Memphis musicians Will Shade, the former leader of the Memphis Jug Band, on jug and Milton Roby on washboard. Cannon performs a series of traditional songs, including "Kill It," "Salty Dog," "Going Around," "The Mountain," "Ol' Hen", "Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight," "Ain't Gonna Rain No More," "Boll-Weevil," "Come On Down To My House," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," "Get Up In The Morning Soon," and "Crawdad Hole" along with his own "Walk Right In," plus various stories and introductions between the songs.[6]

Cannon can be seen in the King Vidor produced film, Hallelujah! (1929), during the late night wedding scene.


'Viola Lee Blues' GUS CANNON (1928) Banjo Blues Legend 


 

Montag, 12. September 2016

12.09., Steve Guyger * Frank Stokes + Algernon "Texas" Alexander, Gus Cannon, Maria Muldaur, Bill Jennings, J.T. Ross, Christian Peters, Dickie Peterson *





1883 Gus Cannon*
1900 Texas Alexander*
1919 Bill Jennings*
1943 Maria Muldaur*
1946 Dickie Peterson*
1952 Steve Guyger*
1955 Frank Stokes+
1976 J.T. Ross*
Christian Peters*

 

 

Happy Birthday

 

Steve Guyger  *12.09.1952

 

 



Der Harper und Sänger aus Philadelphia gilt als Maestro seines Fachs. Musikalisches Können eignete er sich im Chicago der Sechzigerjahre an. Er lernte Paul Butterfield kennen und war mit der Legende Jimmy Rogers unterwegs. Darüber hinaus spielte er mit Charlie Musselwhite, Litte Sammy Davis oder Mark Hummel.

Steve Guygers aktuelles Album, „Radio Blues“, bestätigt erneut seinen exzellenten Ruf und macht klar, weshalb ihn Kollege Mark Hummel einen „Monster-Player“ nannte. Steve Guyger wird in Luzern die Fans mit der diatonischen und chromatischen Harp ebenso überzeugen, wie mit seiner ausdrucksstarken Stimme.

Steve Guyger (born September 12, 1952) is an American Chicago blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. He has recorded five albums since 1997,[1] having previously backed Jimmy Rogers for almost fifteen years.[2]
Rick Estrin, from Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, referred to Guyger in the liner notes of one of the latter's albums as "a true master of the blues harmonica."[2] Guyger has played with Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Sammy Davis and Mark Hummel, and is proficient in both diatonic and chromatic instruments.[3]
Guyger was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and initially studied guitar for five years before his future sister-in-law gave him a harmonica as a gift. Inspired by watching various blues musicians following trips to both New York and Chicago, Guyger formed his own band in the late 1970s. Personnel came and went and he changed the name of the band to the Excellos in 1980, who steadily built up a growing reputation playing in both Philadelphia and New York.[2] Guyger started backing Jimmy Rogers in 1980, and played with him until just before Rogers' death in 1997.[4][5] That same year Guyger's debut album, Last Train to Dover, was released.[1]
In 1999, Severn Records released Guyger's third album, Past Life Blues.[1][6]
In 2008, Guyger performed at the Lucerne Blues Festival.[7] His most recent album, Radio Blues was released in March the same year to critical acclaim.[4][8][9] His guest musicians included Johnny Moeller.[10] The following year his work saw Guyger nominated for a Blues Music Award.[11]
In 2010, he issued an instructional DVD, entitled Blues Harmonica, published by the Hal Leonard Corporation. He currently endorses Hohner harmonicas.[11]


Steve Guyger - Louis X, Terra Blues 










Bill Jennings   *12.09.1919

 


Jenning's sound has been compared to Tiny Grimes with a hint of early Charlie Christian. A peer of Billy Butler, Jennings played with Louis Jordan in the late '40s and early '50s. He also recorded R&B sides with Leo Parker and Bill Doggett.


R.I.P. 

 

Frank Stokes   +12.09.1955

 


Frank Stokes (* 1. Januar 1888 in Whitehaven, Tennessee; † 12. September 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Gitarrist.
Geboren in Tennessee, wuchs Stokes nach dem Tod seiner Eltern in Tutwiler in Mississippi auf. Hier lernte er das Gitarrespielen. Später lebte er als Hufschmied in Hernando, ebenfalls in Mississippi. An den Wochenenden ging er nach Memphis, um dort Musik zu machen.
Zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges zog Stokes gemeinsam mit Garfield Akers mit einer Medizinshow umher. Danach blieb er in Oakville, Tennessee, wo er wieder seine Tätigkeit als Hufschmied aufnahm.
1927 formierte er gemeinsam mit Dan Sane das Duo Beale Street Sheiks, mit denen er in Memphis auftrat und erste Aufnahmen machte. 1928 nahm er für Victor Records in vier Sitzungen als Solist auf. 1929 endete mit den letzten Einspielungen als Beale Street Sheiks seine kurze Aufnahmekarriere, doch trat er weiterhin erfolgreich auf.
In den 1940ern zog Stokes nach Clarksdale in Mississippi und spielte gelegentlich mit Bukka White. Frank Stokes starb 1955 in Memphis.

Frank Stokes (January 1, 1888 – September 12, 1955)[1] was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style.[2]

Biography

Stokes was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in the largest southern vicinity Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi line.[2] He was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents.[3] Stokes learned to play guitar as a youth in Tutwiler, and, after 1895, in Hernando, Mississippi, which was home to such African American guitarists as Jim Jackson, Dan Sane, Elijah Avery (of Cannon's Jug Stompers), and Robert Wilkins.[4] By the turn of the century, at the age of 12, Stokes worked as a blacksmith, traveling the 25 miles to Memphis on the weekends to sing and play guitar with Sane, with whom he developed a long-term musical partnership. Together, they busked on the streets and in Church's Park (now W. C. Handy Park) on Memphis' Beale Street.[4]

In the mid 1910s, Stokes joined forces with fellow Mississippian Garfield Akers as a blackface songster, comedian, and buck dancer in the Doc Watts Medicine Show, a tent show that toured the South. During this period of touring, Stokes developed a sense of show business professionalism that set him apart from many of the more rural, less polished blues musicians of that time and place. It is said that his performances on the southern minstrel and vaudeville circuit around this time influenced Jimmie Rodgers, who played the same circuit. Rodgers borrowed songs and song fragments from Stokes and was influenced stylistically as well.[5]

Around 1920, Stokes settled in Oakville, Tennessee, where he went back to work as a blacksmith.[2] Stokes teamed up again with Sane and went to work playing dances, picnics, fish fries, saloons, and parties in his free time. Stokes and Sane joined Jack Kelly's Jug Busters to play white country clubs, parties and dances, and to play Beale Street together as the Beale Street Sheiks, first recording under that name for Paramount Records in August 1927.[2] All told, Stokes was to cut 38 sides for Paramount and Victor Records. "The fluid guitar interplay between Stokes and Sane, combined with a propulsive beat, witty lyrics, and Stokes's stentorian voice, make their recordings irresistible."[6] Their duet style influenced the young Memphis Minnie in her duets with husband Kansas Joe McCoy.[4]

The Sheiks next recorded at a session for Victor Records where Furry Lewis also recorded.[4] At this session, in February 1928, the emphasis was on blues, rather than the older songs that were also part of Stokes' repertoire. Stokes recorded again for Victor that August, playing "I Got Mine", one of a body of pre-blues songs about gambling, stealing and living high. He also recorded the more modern "Nehi Mamma Blues", which puns on the Nehi soft drink and the "knee-high" skirts that were fashionable at the time. Sane rejoined Stokes for the second day of the August 1928 session, and they produced a two-part version of "Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do", a song well known in later versions by Bessie Smith and Jimmy Witherspoon, but whose origin lies somewhere in the pre-blues era.[7] The Sheiks also continued to busk the streets, and play informally at parties.[4]

In 1929, Stokes and Sane recorded again for Paramount, resuming their 'Beale Street Sheiks' billing for a few cuts. In September, Stokes was back on Victor to make what were to be his last recordings, this time without Sane, but with Will Batts on fiddle.[2] Stokes and Batts were a team as evidenced by these records, which are both traditional and wildly original, but their style had fallen out of favor with the blues record buying public. Stokes was still a popular live performer, however, appearing in medicine shows, the Ringling Brothers Circus, and other tent shows and similar venues during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1940s, Stokes moved to Clarksdale, and occasionally worked with Bukka White in local juke joints.[2]

Stokes died of a stroke in Memphis on September 12, 1955.[1][4] He is buried there in Hollywood Cemetery.

Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues 








Happy Birthday



Gus Cannon   *12.09.1883

 

 Gus Cannon (links) und seine Jug Stompers

Gus Cannon (* 12. September 1883 in Red Banks, Mississippi; † 15. Oktober 1979 in Memphis, Tennessee) war ein amerikanischer Blues-Musiker, der vor allem mit seiner Band Cannon’s Jug Stompers Ende der 1920er bekannt wurde.
Cannon wurde 1883 als der jüngste von zehn Söhnen der Sharecropper John und Ellen Cannon geboren. Mit zwölf Jahren arbeitete er in Clarksdale, Mississippi auf den Baumwollfeldern. Hier kam er mit dem Blues in Berührung. Er brachte sich das Musizieren selbst bei, wobei er zunächst auf einem Banjo spielte, das er sich aus einer Pfanne und einem Gitarrenhals gebaut hatte.
Karriere
Um 1900 spielte Cannon in verschiedenen Bands in der Gegend von Clarksdale. Er gründete seine erste Jugband, als er für die Eisenbahn in Greenville arbeitete. Er lernte den Mundharmonikaspieler Noah Lewis und den jungen Gitarristen Ashley Thompson kennen, mit denen er häufig zusammen spielte. 1910 heiratete Cannon. Ab 1914 trat er regelmäßig bei Medicine Shows auf. In den 1920er Jahren hielt er sich in der Gegend von Memphis (Tennessee) auf und trat auch in der berüchtigten Beale Street auf. In dieser Zeit kam die Memphis Jug Band zu einigem Ruhm. 1927 begann seine professionelle Karriere als Musiker. Seine ersten Platten spielte er 1927 als „Banjo Joe“ bei den Paramount Records ein, wobei er von Blind Blake an der Gitarre begleitet wurde. 1928 machte Gus Cannon mit Lewis und Thompson unter dem Namen Cannon’s Jug Stompers erste Aufnahmen. Später spielten unter anderem auch Hosea Wood und Elijah Avery in der Gruppe. Weitere Aufnahmen, auch solo, folgten bis 1930. Danach ließ der Erfolg rasch nach. Cannon wohnte weiterhin in Memphis, wo er Anfang der 1950er-Jahre den jungen Johnny Cash kennenlernte, der zu der damaligen Zeit noch Haushaltswarenvertreter war.
Erst in den späten 1950er-Jahren wurde Gus Cannon wieder „entdeckt“. Mit Will Shade und Milton Ruby nahm er 1963 ein Album bei Stax Records auf. Nach seinem Tod 1979 gaben die The Lovin’ Spoonful ein Benefizkonzert, um Geld für Gus Cannons Grabstein zu sammeln. 2010 wurde Gus Cannon, gemeinsam mit den Cannon’s Jug Stompers in die Blues Hall of Fame aufgenommen.


Gus Cannon (September 12, 1883 – October 15, 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is doubt about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874.[1]
Career

Born on a plantation at Red Banks, Mississippi, Cannon moved a hundred miles to Clarksdale, then the home of W. C. Handy, at the age of 12. Cannon's musical skills came without training; he taught himself to play using a banjo that he made from a frying pan and raccoon skin. He ran away from home at the age of fifteen and began his career entertaining at sawmills and levee and railroad camps in the Mississippi Delta around the turn of the century.

While in Clarksdale, Cannon was influenced by local musicians Jim Turner and Alec Lee. Turner's fiddle playing in W. C. Handy’s band so impressed Cannon that he decided to learn the fiddle himself. Lee, a guitarist, taught Cannon his first folk blues, "Po' Boy, Long Ways from Home", and showed him how to use a knife blade as a slide, a technique that Cannon adapted to his banjo playing.[2]

Cannon left Clarksdale around 1907. He soon settled near Memphis, Tennessee and played in a jug band led by Jim Guffin.[2] He began playing in Memphis with Jim Jackson. He met harmonica player Noah Lewis, who introduced him to a young guitar player named Ashley Thompson. Both Lewis and Thompson would eventually become members of Cannon's Jug Stompers. The three of them formed a band to play parties and dances. In 1914 Cannon began touring in medicine shows.[2] He supported his family through a variety of jobs, including sharecropping, ditch digging, and yard work, but supplemented his income with music.

Cannon began recording as "Banjo Joe" for Paramount Records in 1927. At that session he was backed up by Blind Blake.[2] After the success of the Memphis Jug Band's first records, he quickly assembled a jug band featuring Noah Lewis and Ashley Thompson (later replaced by Elijah Avery).[3] Cannon's Jug Stompers first recorded at the Memphis Auditorium for the Victor record label in January 1928.[4] Hosea Woods joined the Jug Stompers in the late 1920s, playing guitar, banjo and kazoo, and also providing some vocals. Modern listeners can hear Cannon's Jug Stompers recording of "Big Railroad Blues" on the compilation album The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead.

Although their last recordings were made in 1930, Cannon's Jug Stompers were one of Beale Street's most popular jug bands through the 1930s. A few songs Cannon recorded with Cannon's Jug Stompers are "Minglewood Blues", "Pig Ankle Strut", "Wolf River Blues", "Viola Lee Blues", "White House Station" and "Walk Right In" (later made into a pop hit by The Rooftop Singers[3] in the 1960s, and later a hit rock/pop version by Dr. Hook in the 1970s). By the end of the 1930s, Cannon had effectively retired, although he occasionally performed as a solo musician.

He returned in 1956 to make a few recordings for Folkways Records. In the "blues revival" of the 1960s, he made some college and coffee house appearances with Furry Lewis and Bukka White,[3] but he had to pawn his banjo to pay his heating bill the winter before the Rooftop Singers had a hit with "Walk Right In".[5]

In the wake of becoming a hit composer, he recorded an album for Stax Records in 1963, with fellow Memphis musicians Will Shade, the former leader of the Memphis Jug Band, on jug and Milton Roby on washboard. Cannon performs a series of traditional songs, including "Kill It," "Salty Dog," "Going Around," "The Mountain," "Ol' Hen", "Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight," "Ain't Gonna Rain No More," "Boll-Weevil," "Come On Down To My House," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," "Get Up In The Morning Soon," and "Crawdad Hole" along with his own "Walk Right In," plus various stories and introductions between the songs.[6]

Cannon can be seen in the King Vidor produced film, Hallelujah! (1929), during the late night wedding scene.


'Minglewood Blues' GUS CANNON (1927) Banjo Blues Legend 








 Texas Alexander  *12.09.1900

 


Algernon "Texas" Alexander (* 12. September 1900 in Jewett, Texas; † 18. April 1954 in Richards, Texas[1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Sänger.
Alexander, der selbst kein Instrument spielte, machte seine ersten Aufnahmen 1927 für Okeh Records. Für seine musikalische Begleitung sorgten im Laufe der Zeit Gitarristen wie Little Hat Jones, Lonnie Johnson und Lowell Fulson, aber auch bekannte Gruppen wie die The Mississippi Sheiks, King Oliver's New Orleans Band und Clarence Williams.
Neben seiner musikalischen Tätigkeit arbeitete er als Baumwollpflücker oder im Gleisbau. Um 1940 wurde seine Karriere unterbrochen, da er wegen Mordes ins Gefängnis musste. Nach seiner Freilassung trat er wieder auf, oft gemeinsam mit Lightnin’ Hopkins, der gelegentlich als sein Cousin bezeichnet wird, wofür es aber keinen Beleg gibt.[2] Mit ihm machte er 1947 auch einige Aufnahmen für Aladdin Records. Auch mit dem Pianisten Buster Pickens machte er Aufnahmen. Seine letzten Aufnahmen stammen aus dem Jahr 1950, sie waren weitgehend erfolglos. 1954 starb Texas Alexander an Syphilis.
Insgesamt nahm Alexander über 60 Titel auf, die Mehrzahl davon vor 1930. Sein Gesangsstil war eng angelehnt an die Field Hollers. Zu seinen bekanntesten Stücken gehören Corn Bread Blues und Frisco Train.


Alger "Texas" Alexander (September 12, 1900 – April 18, 1954)[1] was an American blues singer from Jewett, Texas.[2] Some sources claim that he was the cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, but no direct kinship has ever been established.[3] It was also claimed that he was the uncle of Texas country blues guitarist Frankie Lee Sims.[4]

Career

A short man with a big, deep voice, Alexander started his career performing on the streets and at local parties and picnics in the Brazos River bottomlands, where he sometimes worked with Blind Lemon Jefferson.[5] In 1927 he began a recording career that continued into the 1930s,[6] recording sides for the Okeh and Vocalion record labels in New York, San Antonio, and Fort Worth.

Songs he recorded include "Mama's Bad Luck Child," "Sittin' on a Log," "Texas Special," "Broken Yo Yo" and "Don't You Wish Your Baby was Built Up Like Mine?"[2]

His early records for Okeh are notable not only for the personal originality of his songs, but for the musical motifs against which they are set.[7] On April 9, 1934, Alexander recorded backed by the Mississippi Sheiks. Their line-up featured Bo Carter on violin, plus Sam Chatman and Walter Vinson on guitar. The eight tracks recorded included "Seen Better Days", and "Frost Texas Tornado Blues", the latter of which spoke of the tornado which destroyed Frost, Texas on May 6, 1930, leaving 41 dead.[8]

Alexander did not play a musical instrument himself, and over the years he worked with a number of other artists including King Oliver, Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson, Little Hat Jones, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Lightnin' Hopkins. He sang in the free rhythm of work songs, such as the migrant cotton pickers he performed for might have sung, which posed a challenge for those accompanying him. Indeed, his singing is difficult to follow, and on his gramophone records his accompanists can often be heard resetting their watches to 'Alexander Time'.[9] Lonnie Johnson devised free-form guitar melodies in counterpoint to his vocal lines.[9]

In 1939, Alexander allegedly murdered his wife, resulting in a stay in the state penitentiary in Paris, Texas from 1940 to 1945.[7] Research by writer Coy Prather in the Spring 2014 issue of Texas Music Magazine revealed that the often printed prison stay by Alexander may be a myth. There are no records of Alexander ever serving a sentence in a Texas prison, and there was never a prison in Paris, Texas. Prather believes Alexander may have served time on a county work farm for playing lewd music in public. After that he returned to performing and recording, and Alexander made his last recording in 1950 with Benton's Busy Bees[2] (Leon Benton, guitar and Buster Pickens, piano), before dying at the age of 53 of syphilis in 1954.[10]

Alexander's body is buried in Longstreet Cemetery, Montgomery County, Texas.

TEXAS ALEXANDER WITH JOE KING OLIVER AND EDDIE LANG


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVC0GCAMto 








Maria Muldaur   *12.09.1943 

 




Maria Muldaur (* 12. September 1943 als Maria d'Amato in Greenwich Village, New York, New York, USA), ist eine US-amerikanische Folk-, Jazz- und Blues-Sängerin.
Die in eine musikalische Familie italienischer Herkunft geborene Maria Muldaur war schon früh vielen musikalischen Einflüssen ausgesetzt, die sie nach einer frühen Rock'n'Roll-Phase in der Schulzeit zur Folkmusik im Greenwich Village der frühen 1960er Jahre führten. Nach ersten Auftritten mit lokalen Gruppen wie der Even Dozen Jug Band und Geigenunterricht bei Doc Watson in North Carolina zog die Sängerin nach Cambridge, Massachusetts, eine andere Folk- und Protest-Hochburg der damaligen Zeit. Dort traf sie ihren künftigen Ehemann, den Folk-Sänger Geoff Muldaur, der Mitglied der Jim Kweskin Jug Band war. Eine gemeinsame Tochter, Jenni, wurde geboren, außerdem entstanden mehrere gemeinsame LPs.
Doch 1972 endete die Zusammenarbeit und auch die Ehe, und Maria Muldaur begann ihre Solokarriere. Sie wurde eine vielseitige Folk-, Country-, Jazz- und Blues-Sängerin, die im Lauf ihrer Karriere Einflüsse zahlreicher bedeutender Musiker verarbeitet hat. Maria Muldaurs erste Solo-LP, Maria Muldaur, wurde 1973 zu einem Erfolg mit dem Hit Midnight At The Oasis.

Maria Muldaur (born September 12, 1943) is an American folk-blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1974 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis", and continues to record albums in the folk traditions.[1]

Biography

Muldaur was born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato in Greenwich Village, New York City, where she attended Hunter College High School.[2]

Muldaur began her career in the early 1960s as Maria D'Amato, performing with John Sebastian, David Grisman, and Stefan Grossman as a member of the Even Dozen Jug Band. She then joined Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band as a featured vocalist and occasional violinist. During this time, she was part of the Greenwich Village scene that included Bob Dylan, and some of her recollections of the period, particularly with respect to Dylan, appear in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary film, No Direction Home.

She married fellow Jug Band member Geoff Muldaur, and after the Kweskin outfit broke up the two of them produced two albums. She began her solo career when their marriage ended in 1972, but retained her married name.[3]

Her first solo album Maria Muldaur, released in 1973, contained her hit single "Midnight at the Oasis", which reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. It also peaked at number 21 in the UK Singles Chart.[4] Later that year, she released her second album Waitress In A Donut Shop. This included a re-recording of "I'm a Woman", the Leiber and Stoller number first associated with Peggy Lee and a standout feature from her Jug Band days. The title of this album is taken from a line in another song on the album, "Sweetheart" by Ken Burgan.

Around this time, Muldaur established a relationship with the Grateful Dead. Opening for some Grateful Dead shows in the summer of 1974 with John Kahn, bassist of the Jerry Garcia Band, which would eventually earn her a seat in that group as a backing vocalist in the late 1970s. Around the same time Muldaur met and eventually collaborated with bluegrass icon Peter Rowan. The two became close, and she was chosen to be his daughter Amanda Rowan's godmother. She appeared on Super Jam (1989), the live recording of the German TV series Villa Fantastica with Brian Auger on piano, Pete York on drums, Dick Morrissey on tenor saxophone, Roy Williams on trombone, Harvey Weston on bass and Zoot Money, also on vocals.[citation needed]

Muldaur continued to perform, tour, and record after her success in the mid-1970s, including a turn at the Teatro ZinZanni in 2001.[5][6]

Her 2005 release Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul was nominated for both a Blues Music Award (formerly a W.C. Handy Award) and a Grammy Award in the Traditional Blues Category. In 2013, she was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)' category.


 Maria Muldaur / Richland Woman Blues 


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


Maria Muldaur - Cajun Moon - Live 













J.T. Ross   *12.09.1976

 


JT Ross was born on September 12th 1976 in downtown Chicago. The son of a German born artist and a Chicago born stage actress. As a child in Chicago, JT's family didn't have much. Lucky for JT, a family friend gave him a $2.00 harmonica when he was just a baby and little JT took to it like a fish to water. JT's father was thoroughly immersed in the Chicago Blues scene of the seventies - giving him the chance to make friends and jam with the likes of Howlin Wolf and Hound Dog Taylor and Brit Rockers Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. This, is how the young lad received his pre-eminent Blues experience.
JT Ross has been playing Harmonica since he was just two years old and is entirely self taught. As a boy JTs Father would accompany him on guitar and had the 4 year old Ross sitting in with legendary Chicago blues acts. It was in the famed Checkerboard Lounge on the South Side of Chicago where JT learned many of his tricks -- first hand -- at the feet of such legends as Buddy Scott, James Cotton and Junior Wells. Since then Ross has done numerous acclaimed recordings, played shows all over the world and worked with countless Blues Legends. As one journalist put it ..."It sounds as if JT was born with the Harmonica in his mouth".
Aside From JT's blues accomplishments he has also done many Rock, Jazz, Folk & Country recordings - working with such luminary producers as Glen Ballard.
JT's got a style all his own -- part Chicago and part West Coast . His friend and mentor [the late] William Clarke (LA's leading Blues Harmonica strongman) encouraged JT to find his own sound. Careful not to copy-cat his Chicago mentors or Clarke -- JT's fresh and unique sound has listeners wondering how he gets the harmonica tones he does. His live performances pay tribute to the greats and are dazzling displays of amazing Harmonica wizardry which leave audiences stunned.
JT Ross now lives in Venice California. He plays Hohner Marine Band and Hohner Super Chromonica Chromatic Harmonicas exclusively. JT's Singing and Harmonica Microphones are made by SHURE and his Harmonica microphones are modified by Tom Austin he uses Fender and Victoria Amplifiers. JT's Custom Harmonica Microphone cables are made by Tom Austin. JT has a four octave singing range and plays: Drums & Percussion, Sax, Guitar, Jaw Harp, Piano and more.
http://www.jtross.com/soundbio.html   

JT Ross, AKA the "Harmonica Boss", is an american Blues singer and harmonia virtuoso. he was born on September 12th 1974 in downtown Chicago. The son of a German born artist and a Chicago born stage actress. As a child in Chicago, JT's family didn't have much. Lucky for JT, a family friend gave him a $2.00 harmonica when he was just a baby and little JT took to it like a fish to water. JT's father was thoroughly immersed in the Chicago Blues scene of the seventies - giving him the chance to make friends and jam with the likes of Howlin Wolf and Hound Dog Taylor and Brit Rockers Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. This, is how the young lad received his pre-eminent Blues experience.

JT Ross has been playing Harmonica since he was just two years old and is entirely self taught. As a boy JTs Father would accompany him on guitar and had the 4 year old Ross sitting in with legendary Chicago blues acts. It was in the famed Checkerboard Lounge on the South Side of Chicago where JT learned many of his tricks -- first hand -- at the feet of such legends as Buddy Scott, James Cotton and Junior Wells. Since then Ross has done numerous acclaimed recordings, played shows all over the world and worked with countless Blues Legends. As one journalist put it ..."It sounds as if JT was born with the Harmonica in his mouth".

Aside From JT's blues accomplishments he has also done many Rock, Jazz, Folk & Country recordings - working with such luminary producers as Glen Ballard.

JT's got a style all his own -- part Chicago and part West Coast . His friend and mentor [the late] William Clarke (LA's leading Blues Harmonica strongman) encouraged JT to find his own sound. Careful not to copy-cat his Chicago mentors or Clarke -- JT's fresh and unique sound has listeners wondering how he gets the harmonica tones he does. His live performances pay tribute to the greats and are dazzling displays of amazing Harmonica wizardry which leave audiences stunned.

JT Ross now lives in Venice California. He plays Hohner Marine Band and Hohner Super Chromonica Chromatic Harmonicas exclusively. JT's Singing and Harmonica Microphones are made by SHURE and his Harmonica microphones are modified by Tom Austin he uses Fender and Victoria Amplifiers. JT's Custom Harmonica Microphone cables are made by Tom Austin. JT has a four octave singing range and plays: Drums & Percussion, Sax, Guitar, Jaw Harp, Piano and more.
J.T. Ross the Harmonica Boss performs at Santa Monica's B.A.M. Fest! II








Christian Peters *12.09.





Samsara Blues Experiment ist eine deutsche Band, die im Sommer 2007 von Christian Peters, nach dessen Ausstieg als Gitarrist bei Terraplane, gegründet wurde.

Im Herbst 2008 fand sich in Berlin die aktuelle Besetzung mit Hans Eiselt an der zweiten Gitarre, Richard Behrens am Bass und dem Schlagzeuger Thomas Vedder, die alle bereits in zahlreichen Untergrund-Bands spielten bzw. immer noch aktiv sind. Der Musikstil des Samsara Blues Experiments besteht aus einer Mischung von Stonerrock, Psychedelic Rock und folkloristischen Einflüssen, wobei hier vor allem der Einfluss indischer Raga-Musik zu erwähnen ist.

Nach Veröffentlichung des ersten Demos spielte die Band etliche Konzerte in Deutschland, an der Westküste der USA[1][2][3], in Italien[4], Österreich, den Niederlanden und Belgien[5][6], so z.B. auf dem Yellowstock-Festival 2009 in Geel.[7] Im März 2010 wurde schließlich das Debütalbum "Long Distance Trip" bei World In Sound Records/Rough Trade veröffentlicht.[8][9][10] Im Jahr 2010 war die Band unter anderem auf Szenefestivals wie dem Burg-Herzberg-Festival[11], dem Yellowstock[12] und dem Stoned From The Underground-Festival[13] zu sehen.

2011 folgte nach weiteren Europatouren und einem weiteren Auftritt beim Roadburn Festival mit "Revelation & Mystery" der zweite Longplayer. Ebenfalls bei World In Sound/Rough Trade erschienen, ging die Band damit eine etwas geradlinigere, weniger psychedelische Richtung ein und wurde in der nationalen Fachpresse wie u.a. Rock Hard lobend erwähnt. 2012 kam es zu einer Wiederveröffentlichung der „USA-Demo“ CD mit neuaufbereitetem Coverdesign bei dem von Christian Peters neugegründeten Label Electric Magic Records. Es folgten weitere Konzerte im Süden und Osten Europas, u. a. als Headliner beim Robustfest in Kiev. Im Oktober desselben Jahres spielten Samsara Blues Experiment auf dem WDR Rockpalast-Crossroads Festival in Bonn.

Im Frühjahr 2013 veröffentlichte die Band das Rockpalast-Konzert auf CD bei Electric Magic Records. Am 14. November 2013 legte die Band ihr drittes Studioalbum "Waiting For The Flood" nach, das ebenfalls wieder auf Electric Magic Records veröffentlicht wurde. Wie beide Vorgänger wurde das Album, das vier Longtracks auf einer Gesamtlänge von knapp 50 Minuten hat, im Big-Snuff-Studio in Berlin von dem Bassisten Richard Behrens aufgenommen und produziert. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von dem polnischen Künstler Zdzislaw Beksinski.

Im Mai 2014 stieg Bassist Richard Behrens aus der Band aus, nachdem er bereits seit Anfang des Jahres durch Hans Eiselt am Bass ersetzt wurde.



For more than five years now, Berlin-based guitarist/vocalist Christian Peters has been working ceaselessly to bring his band Samsara Blues Experiment to the forefront of heavy psychedelic consciousness. From touring the West Coast of the US before they even had an album released to graphic design work to founding his own label, Electric Magic Records in order to bolster other acts — having an outlet for a collection of solo recordings released under the name Soulitude didn’t hurt either — to playing fests like Roadburn, the Desertfests, Freak Valley and many more, as well as touring, SBE has taken the harder road of getting their name out. At the same time, Peters has been at the fore of Samsara Blues Experiment‘s creative development since the start, their three albums — 2013’s Waiting for the Flood (review here), 2011’s Revelation and Mystery (review here) and 2009’s Long Distance Trip (review here) — showcasing a fluid psychedelia both creatively open and propelled by rich tonality. On both levels, the work of Peters and his bandmates has begun to pay off.

When I sent him the Questionnaire to fill out, Peters was on a well-earned vacation — no computer — but back to the grind, he wasted no time in sending back his answers, which I think you’ll enjoy reading:
The Obelisk Questionnaire: Christian Peters

How did you come to do what you do?

I started playing guitar at the age of 10. My father, more or less, forced me to learn an instrument at that time, so you can imagine how “happy” I was back then with playing Folk and Classical guitar. Every day at least one half-hour was my torment as a kid, really. I didn’t touch my guitar for one year when I was around 15 or 16, but then got finally addicted to music and so started to teach myself E-Guitar and all (or most of) the other instruments I play today.

Describe your first musical memory.

Singing tradional German Folk songs in the car with my Mom and Dad, all together. I may have been around 4 or 5 years old.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

First rehearsal with my first band, back in 1999. First professional recording, later then. Releasing a first LP record with Terraplane in 2007. Playing in San Francisco with SBE in 2009. Well, there seem to be plenty of good memories, but these are the best up to date.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

All the time, somehow.

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

Happiness perhaps? For instance I am seldomly really happy with recordings. But then sometimes I am not even sure if there´s much progression left for me, haha. Then I sometimes feel like being trapped in that certain picture, even if the frame seems pretty wide.

How do you define success?

Being happy with what I do.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

All the things I´ve seen make me who I am, not all was pretty. I have seen sickness, poverty, lethargy, loneliness and death and more. It´s what most of us see in their fair share — some more, some less, some earlier and some later. Life isn´t always pretty, so let´s deal with it and write some songs about it to ease the pain. That´s how I try to get along.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

Much better albums. So let´s progress!

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

NFL season 2014 and of course my next meal ;-).



Samsara Blues Experiment - Into the Black - Leipzig/UT Connewitz
Samsara Blues Experiment
Leipzig - UT Connewitz
Christian Peters - guitar, vocals, synthesizers
Hans Eiselt - bass
Thomas Vedder - drums




Samsara Blues Experiment - Midnight Boogie / Revelation & Mystery (live ) 








Dickie Peterson  *12.09.1946






Richard Allan "Dickie" Peterson war der Bassist und Sänger für Blue Cheer. Er nahm zwei Solo-Alben: Kind der Dunkelheit und Tramp.
Biographie

Geboren in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Peterson spielte Bass seit dem Alter von dreizehn, und wusste, dass im Alter von acht Jahren, die er ein professioneller Musiker werden wollte. Er stammte aus einer musikalischen Familie: Sein Vater spielte Posaune, seine Mutter spielte Klavier und sein Bruder, Jerre Peterson, zunächst spielte Flöte. Drums waren Petersons erste Instrument.

Peterson verbrachte einen Großteil seiner Jugend in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, der Partnerstadt nach Grand Forks, North Dakota, wo er geboren wurde. Er besuchte Grand Forks Central High School von der Besoldungsgruppe 10 bis 12. Klasse Seine Eltern starben als er jung war, was in ihm lebt mit seiner Tante und Onkel auf einer Farm in North Dakota, für einen Teil seiner Jugend.

Peterson zitiert Otis Redding als wesentlichen Einfluss. Er schrieb seinen Bruder, den späten Jerre Peterson, als seinen lebenslangen musikalischen Einfluss. Jerre Peterson war einer der Lead-Gitarristen in der Anfangsformation der Blue Cheer und spielte mit verschiedenen Formationen der Band in späteren Jahren.

Peterson verbrachte einen Großteil der vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnte in Deutschland, spielen mit Blue Cheer und anderen Gruppen bei Gelegenheit. In 1998 und 1999 hatte er verschiedene Termine spielte in Deutschland mit dem Hank Davison Band und als akustisches Duo mit Hank Davison unter dem Namen "Dos Hombres". Er erschien auf dem Album, Hank Davison and Friends - Real Live. In 2001 und 2002, Peterson gespielt, vor allem in Deutschland, mit Mutter Ozean, einer Gruppe, die er ausgebildet, dass der ehemalige Blue Cheer Gitarrist Tony Rainier sowie Bruder Jerre Peterson enthalten. Es hat keine öffentlichen Ausgabe von Aufnahmen von dieser Gruppe gewesen.

Sein ganzes Leben lang hatte Peterson Beziehung zur Musik alles verzehr gewesen. Peterson, sofern die folgenden Selbstbeschreibung: "Ich habe zweimal verheiratet, ich habe viele Freundinnen gehabt, und sie werden alle sagen, dass, wenn ich nicht spielen Musik Ich bin ein Tier zu leben .... Musik ist ein Ort, an dem ich mit vielen meiner Emotionen und Vertriebenen Energie umzugehen. Ich habe immer nur wollte, Musik zu spielen, und das ist alles was ich will immer noch zu tun ist. "

In seinem früheren Leben war Peterson ein Benutzer der verschiedenen Drogen und war ein Heroinsüchtiger für eine Reihe von Jahren. Im Jahr 2007, sagte Peterson er glaubte, LSD und andere ähnliche Medikamente können positive Auswirkungen haben, sondern dass er und andere Mitglieder der Blue Cheer "übernahm sie die Spitze". Er war von Mitte der 1970er Jahre einen Großteil seines Drogenkonsums aufgehört, und aufgehört zu trinken zehn Jahre vor seinem Tod.

Blue Cheer hat in vielen Genres wurde als bahnbrechende Band. Peterson nicht der Ansicht, dass die Band gehörte zu einem bestimmten Genre:. "Die Leute halten versucht zu sagen, dass wir Schwermetall oder Grunge oder Punk, oder wir dies oder das sind Die Realität ist, sind wir nur ein Power-Trio, und wir spielen extrem Blues, und es ist Rock 'n Roll. Es ist wirklich einfach, was wir tun. "

Am 12. Oktober 2009 starb Peterson in Erkelenz, Deutschland im Alter von 63 an Leberkrebs, nach Prostata-Krebs im ganzen Körper verteilt. Er wurde von seiner zweiten Frau, seiner Ex-Frau, eine Tochter aus erster Ehe, und ein sechs Jahre alter Enkel überlebt.

Peterson wurde eingeäschert und seine Asche an seine Tochter, Corrina gegeben. Peterson wollte seine Asche in den Rhein in Deutschland und in den Redwoods von Nord-Kalifornien verteilt werden, an einer Stelle, die von seiner Tochter bestimmt werden.

Richard Allan "Dickie" Peterson[1] (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)[2] was the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer. He also recorded two solo albums: Child of the Darkness and Tramp.

Biography

Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Peterson played bass since the age of thirteen, and knew at the age of eight that he wanted to become a professional musician. He came from a musical family: his father played trombone, his mother played piano and his brother, Jerre Peterson, initially played flute. Drums were Peterson's first instrument.

Peterson spent much of his youth in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, the twin city to Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he was born.[3][4] He attended Grand Forks Central High School from Grade 10 to Grade 12.[5] His parents died when he was young, resulting in him living with his aunt and uncle on a farm in North Dakota, for part of his youth.[4]

Peterson cited Otis Redding as a significant influence.[6] He credited his brother, the late Jerre Peterson,[7] as being his lifelong musical influence.[8] Jerre Peterson was one of the lead guitarists in the initial lineup of Blue Cheer (the other being Leigh Stephens) and played with various formations of the band in later years.[9]

Peterson spent much of the past two decades based in Germany, playing with Blue Cheer and other groups on occasion. In 1998 and 1999, he played various dates in Germany with the Hank Davison Band and as an acoustic duo with Hank Davison under the name "Dos Hombres."[10] He appeared on the album, Hank Davison and Friends - Real Live. In 2001 and 2002, Peterson played, principally in Germany, with Mother Ocean, a group he formed that included former Blue Cheer guitarist Tony Rainier, as well as brother Jerre Peterson.[11] There are 4 tracks by Mother Ocean available for listening through their Myspace page.[12]

Throughout his life, Peterson's relationship to music had been all-consuming. Peterson provided the following self-description: "I've been married twice, I’ve had numerous girlfriends, and they’ll all tell you that if I’m not playing music I am an animal to live with. ...Music is a place where I get to deal with a lot of my emotion and displaced energy. I always only wanted to play music, and that’s all I still want to do."[8]

In his early life Peterson was a user of various drugs and was a heroin addict for a number of years. In 2007, Peterson said he believed LSD and other similar drugs can have positive effects, but that he and other members of Blue Cheer "took it over the top".[13] He had ceased much of his drug use by the mid-1970s, and stopped drinking ten years before his death.[14]

Blue Cheer has been considered a pioneering band in many genres. Peterson did not consider that the band belonged to any particular genre: "People keep trying to say that we’re heavy metal or grunge or punk, or we’re this or that. The reality is, we’re just a power trio, and we play ultra blues, and it’s rock ‘n roll. It’s really simple what we do."[8]

On October 12, 2009, Peterson died[2] in Erkelenz, Germany at the age of 63 from liver cancer, after prostate cancer spread throughout his body.[13][15] He was survived by his second wife,[16] his former wife,[17] a daughter from his first marriage,[18] and a six-year-old grandson.[1][15][19][20]

Peterson was cremated and his ashes given to his daughter, Corrina. Peterson wished his ashes to be spread in the Rhine River in Germany and in the Redwoods of Northern California, at a site to be determined by his daughter.[21]

    Dickie Peterson was present at the creation — stood at the roaring heart of the creation, a primal scream through wild hair, bass hung low, in an aural apocalypse of defiant energy. His music left deafening echoes in a thousand other bands in the following decades, thrilling some, angering others, and disturbing everything — like art is supposed to do.

        Neil Peart, drummer for Rush; Tribute to Dickie Peterson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickie_Peterson
BLUE CHEER Out of Focus Dickie Peterson live in NYC 2007 shot by Bill Baker 




BLUE CHEER Summertime Blues 2005