Released : 1960
Lable : Folkways Records
01 - Longing Blues
02 - John Henry
03 - I Will Turn Your Money Green
04 - Early Recording Career
05 - Pearlee Blues
06 - Judge Boushay Blues
07 - I'm Going To Brownsville
08 - The Medicine Shows
09 - Casey Jones
10 - East St. Louis Blues
American Country/Delta blues guitarist, singer & songwriter, who began recording on the Vocalion label in 1927.
His stamping ground - despite the fact he had lost a leg - was in & around the Memphis scene, such as Pee Wee's near his home on Beale street, with a day job as a street-sweeper until his retirement in 1966.
In 1972 he was part of the renowned Memphis Blues Caravan, along with artists such as Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes & Sam Chatmon. He twice opened for The Rolling Stones and even acquired a profile in Playboy magazine. He died of heart-failure aged 88, shortly after contracting pneumonia, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, South Memphis.
Notes:
Includes booklet with liner notes and discography.All titles recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, October 3, 1959, except B2, recorded in Memphis on February 18, 1959.
original LP from sussex
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