Warner Williams & Jay Summerour with Eric Selby - The Best of Little Bit a Blues Live B.B. King's

Styles : Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues
Released : 2013
Label : Soul Stew Records

01 - Step It Up & Go (Live)
02 - Hey Bartender, There's a Big Bug in My Beer (Live)
03 - Rocks Is My Pillow (Live)
04 - Greyhound Bus Blues (Live)
05 - I've Got a Woman (Live)
06 - Whiskey Headed Woman (Live)
07 - I've Had My Fun (Going Down Slow) [Live]
08 - Key to the Highway (Live)
09 - I Feel so Good (Live)
10 - Worried Life Blues (Live)
11 - I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (Live)
12 - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton (Live)
13 - Black Cat Bone Blues (Live)
14 - Good Mornin' Little School Girl (Live)
15 - C.C. Rider (Live)
16 - Little Bit a Blues Theme (Live)


 Warner Williams and Jay Summerour have been playing music together under the name of Little Bit A Blues for nearly 30 years. During their tenure together, they have recorded several albums, including one under the Smithsonian Folkways label. Eric Selby joined up with Warner and Jay several years ago, completing the current trio heard on this new and exciting release. Little Bit A Blues have played concert venues and blues festivals across the country?too many to name.

Icons in the genre of piedmont-style, acoustic blues, Little Bit A Blues has become a fan favorite nationwide. Often shying away from the media spotlight, they have continued their musical journey together while gaining a large and loyal following. Individually and as a group, they have received numerous awards and recognitions in honor of their commitment to delivering real-deal, acoustic blues. Just in 2012 alone, Eric Selby was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Jay Summerour received a WAMMIE Lifetime Achievement Award and 83-year-old Warner Williams was inducted by the National Endowment of the Arts as a Lifetime Heritage Fellow for his contribution to American music.

From the coaxing of Bill Wax of B.B. King’s Bluesville, Little Bit A Blues got together and completed a live recording at SiriusXM Studios in the Fall of 2012. This amazing recording session has become the latest release from Soul Stew Records, 'The Best of Little Bit a Blues Live B.B. King's'.

This new release was recorded in a similar manner to how they perform their concerts: live, no musical edits and no overdubs. Whether it’s the beat-tapping of Warner’s boot or a much needed cough in between verses to belt out the blues, on this CD, you hear it all in its raw and honest form. Just like the real-deal acoustic blues they deliver.

Patricia Wilder - Lay Down Daddy

Styles : Blues-Rock, Funky, Soul Blues
Released : 2007
Label : Patricia Wilder

01 - Love Me Like You Say
02 - Be Your Fool
03 - Lay Down Daddy
04 - Ooh Pah Doo
05 - Rock Me Baby
06 - I'm Proud
07 - Change
09 - Heart of Mine


 Pat Wilder is the premiere performer of blues and gospel guitarist and singer in the entire Northern California music scene. Her live show exudes a raw magnetism
that draws her audience in to her inescapable rhythms and hues.

 She sings like an angel on some tunes and a hot howl'n woman on others in her recent cd Lay Down Daddy. Pat Wilder is a virtuoso guitarist who's skills will satisfy the most demanding listener.

 Ms Wilder is also a skilled composer who's compositions can be heard on the music samples. See and hear for yourself why Pat Wilder is a top draw act wherever she goes. Ms Wilder has been a guest performer
worldwide and continues to tour on a regular basis.

 Plans are in the makings for an upcoming tour of southern United States in the spring that includes stops in Louisianna, Mississippi and Arkansas. Our own local/national celebrity blues writer/critic, Ms Dorothy Hill, has written a first person accounting of last year's tour through the same area and reported it in "Blues Art" magazine.

 Patricia Wilder is LIVE every time she steps onstage. Catch up and listen to blues played by a modern master with her band, Serious Business.
Ms Wilder performs regularly in her home city of San Francisco where lucky bluesfans regularly get their fill of that special blend of Wilder magic.

Warner Williams - Christian Jubilee

Styles : Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues
Released : 2008
Label : Patuxent Music

01 - Sign Me Up for the Christian Jubilee
02 - Amazing Grace
03 - Just a Little Talk with Jesus
04 - What a Friend we Have in Jesus
05 - Last Mile of the Way
06 - I Shall Get Home Some Day
07 - Farther Along
08 - I'll Fly Away
09 - Pass Me Not
10 - Precious Lord Take My Hand
11 - The Old Rugged Cross


 Warner Williams has been plying his musical wares in and around the Maryland-Washington, D.C. area for the past sixtyfive years. Over the last two decades he has partnered with harmonica player and percussionist Jay Summerour. They have established themselves as master musicians equally at home on the festival circuit or at a friend’s fish fry.

 Drawing on an endless repertory of blues, county, jazz, pop, gospel, rock, and even old-time classics, Williams imprints each piece with his own style, the mark of a true songster. Over the course of his life he’s picked up lots of songs and as long as it’s good music, he doesn’t discriminate between genres. He grew up in a profoundly musical family, performing as a youngster at home, church, and on the streets. When he was old enough, he played in jooks and taverns, at times working with various bands. But for the most part, music has been a pleasure and a hobby secondary to a day job and raising his own musical family. Recently retired from the Montgomery County Park and Planning Commission, he can now dedicate more time to playing and expanding his musical reputation.

 Three generations of family-based music provide context for his superb musicianship. His skills and musical choices provide a unique blend of rural and urban and black and white traditions. He admits a preference for older songs that date back as far as the country breakdown
his father once played, but most stem from blues, jazz, country, pop, and rhythm and blues of the late 1940’s and 1950’s. A musician’s musician, his playing and singing appear so effortless that it takes a moment or two to realize just how good he is. With his outsized cowboy hat, boots, jeans and shades, he’s hard to miss; and when he starts to play, whether it’s Blind Boy Fuller, Fats Waller, or Fats Domino, he’s impossible to ignore. Together with Jay Summerour, they are outstanding examples of the East Coast guitar/harmonica duet tradition, and their music reminds us that there are more blues highways than the Delta’s 61 or 49.

George Mcconkey - Tin & Bone

lStyles : Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues
Released : 2008
Label : George McConkey

01 - West Dawson
02 - Mariposa
03 - Up On The Dempster
04 - Saint Anne's Reel
05 - Something Sent Me An Angel
06 - Mystery Train
07 - Trouble No More
08 - Summer People
09 - Swallow Tail Jig
10 - Sitting On Top Of The World
11 - Lost John
12 - Tin & Bone


George McConkey is a northern institution. Fondly nicknamed Harmonica George by his myriad of Yukon fans, he is a founding member of the Undertakin’ Daddies (Juno nominated for Post Atomic Hillbilly in 2002) (West Coast Music Awards nominee for Devil in the Rearview 2004) and has toured Europe, the US and across Canada.

Known as a musician’s musician, Harmonica George has let his lyrical style of improvisation bedazzle and amaze all who listen, performing with the likes of Calvin Vollrath, Lester Quitzau, Carolyn Mark, Hawk Walsh, Gordie Johnson, David Essig, Wyckham Porteous, Cardella De Milo, Dino Spells, Teresa Doyle, Rick Scott, Ray Condo, Gary Comeau, Rawlin’s Cross, Kenny Wayne, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Phil Dwyer, and Phil Lloyd to name a few.

A sought after session musician in the Yukon, Harmonica George has played on many renowned Yukon projects including CDs for Jerry Alfred and The Medicine Beat (Juno winner Best Aboriginal Recording 1996 , Juno nominee 1997), The Pointer Brothers, Anne Louise Genest, Joe Bishop and Kendall Sullivan, Deering and Down. He has opened for John Hammond Jr., Blue Rodeo, Prairie Oyster and Tom Russell, performed by invitation for Prince Charles, and been an invited guest at Vancouver’s prestigious Harmonica Blast.

Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein - Blues Session

Styles : Country Blues, Diatonic Harp
Released : 1979
Label : Mediaphon Records

01 - I Am Your Hoochie Coochie Man
02 - J & K Rag
03 - Pistol Slappin' Mama
04 - Johnny Mae
05 - One For Pee Wee
06 - Frankie
07 - Boogie In The Rough
08 - Trouble In Mind
09 - Mezz And Tommy
10 - Special Agent
11 - Stuttgart Rag
12 - Sittin' On The Top Of The World
13 - Ain't She Sweet


"Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks has taken the art of blues guitar to new levels with his two groundbreaking releases for the Rooster Blues label. Raised in the City of Brotherly Love, Ricks has been splitting his time between Philadelphia and parts north during summer and Mississippi during the winter in recent years. Ricks got his master's degree in acoustic blues by hanging out with the likes of Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and other 1960s blues revival folk-blues musicians when they came to coffeehouses and small bars in Philadelphia. These were artists who were both great names and great personalities: Son House, Jesse Fuller, Libba Cotten, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, and others who were around for the 1960s folk and blues revival. In his capacity as booking manager for the Second Fret Coffee House in Philadelphia from 1960 to 1966, he had the chance to learn and practice "hangout-ology" with all the above-mentioned bluesmen and Cotten and other blueswomen.

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Cadillac John Nolden & The Cornlickers - Red's Joint Sessions

Styles : Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Gospel
Released : 2012
Label : Right Coast Recordings

01 - Sugar Momma
02 - Seems Like a Dream
03 - Two Trains
04 - Big Legged Woman
05 - Too Many Drivers
06 - Good Morning
07 - Maried Woman
08 - Vicksburg Blues
09 - Big Fat Woman
10 - Crazy 'bout You
11 - Still a Fool

Moved by the old spirituals he heard in the Baptist Church as a child and the country blues he heard Charlie Booker play, Cadillac John Nolden brings his long-standing passion for spiritual music and the blues to his performances today.

 Recorded live at Red's Lounge in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 'Cadillac' John Nolden-Vocals and Harmonica, The Cornlickers: Dale Wise-Drums, Dave Groninger-Guitar, Bobby Gentilo-Guitar, Tony Ryder-Bass, Produced by Bobby Gentilo & Dave Groninger, Executive Producer Dale Wise, Engineered by Bobby Gentilo, Recorded at Right Coast Recording

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Al Cook - Mississippi 1930

Styles : Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Released : 2013
Label : Wolf Records

01 - Al Cook - Mississippi 1930 (Intro)
02 - Al Cook - Comment 01
03 - Al Cook - Mississippi Blues (Part 1)
04 - Al Cook - Race Horse Blues
05 - Al Cook - Comment 02
06 - Al Cook - Cannonball Blues
07 - Al Cook - Comment 03
08 - Al Cook - Jake Liquor Blues
09 - Al Cook - Comment 04
10 - Al Cook - Mississippi Women Blues
11 - Al Cook - Mississippi Blues (Part 2)
12 - Al Cook - Comment 05
13 - Al Cook - Death Bell Blues
14 - Al Cook - Comment 06
15 - Al Cook - Hard Delta Blues
16 - Al Cook - Comment 07
17 - Al Cook - Magnolia Blues
18 - Al Cook - Comment 08
19 - Al Cook - Magnum 45 Blues
20 - Al Cook - Comment 09
21 - Al Cook - I'm Wild About You Baby
22 - Al Cook - Comment 10
23 - Al Cook - Black Hearted Woman Blues
24 - Al Cook - Comment 11
25 - Al Cook - Reckless Woman Blues
26 - Al Cook - Comment 12
27 - Al Cook - Southbound Train Blues
28 - Al Cook - Comment 13
29 - Al Cook - That's Allright
30 - Al Cook - Comment 14
31 - Al Cook - Piney Wood Blues
32 - Al Cook - Comment 15
33 - Al Cook - No More Good Water
34 - Al Cook - Farewell


Al Cook is the dean of Austrian blues singer/guitarists. He figured it all out at the start over fifty years ago, learning from the best of the American artists. A lot of people marvel that someone from Central Europe with English as a second language can get such an authentic sound, but Al Cook proves it can be done. I’m sure it took some hard work on top of his innate talent, but he did it. For me the most amazing thing is that he can write songs that have the ring of old blues from the 1920s and 1930s. The lyrics, melodies, and guitar parts are all true to the idiom. Mississippi 1930 has a fine selection of Al Cook’s original songs, woven together by his charming narrative. The listeners become time-travelers back to the environment of Papa Charley Patton, Son House and their buddies.~ Prof. David Evans, University Of Mississippi

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