Blues for Aficionados

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

WHITE WINDOWS

Evidence Records    1993

wiki:
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi.  He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist.  At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with the famed blues musician Robert Johnson, with whom he developed a close friendship. Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that killed him, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines."


West Helena Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjiLY6GbOec

Build Myself a Cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBKPwQ0E6k

61 Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtNBzKz-mc

Drop Down Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8aGBFMTe8g

Cheers

Big Joe Williams

CLASSIC DELTA BLUES

Milestone / Original Blues Classics    1964 / 1991

Notes: "Despite it being a music of intense individuality, of strong personal expression, the Blues is also a communal music...The creation of one particularly gifted Blues poet may even be assimilated into the body of traditional Blues, becoming a kind of cultural common property.  (Big Joe Williams' well known "Baby, Please Don't Go", for example, has found its way into the repertoire of virtually every Blues singer who has been active since Big Joe first recorded it!)"

Blues artists have taken what the Jazz folks call "quoting", to another level.   Same with Gospel.

Rollin' And Tumblin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIaGF_zps94

Terraplane Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAanLVzUrP0

Banty Rooster Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHIbQOv4eqo

Pea Vine Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoH69CWnuzg

Crossroads Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_bbGsIA3Q

Cheers

Joe Williams

NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES

Red Holloway(leader & tenor sax), Eddie Cleanhead Vinson(vocal & alto sax), Jack McDuff(organ & piano), Phil Upchurch(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Gerryck King(drums)
Delos Records   1983

Notes: "Overseas, Jazz is looked on and respected as part of our classical presentation.  So, recordings the first Jazz album on a prestigious American classical label like Delos is a giant step toward broadening our audience here in this country."

The Blues with Jazz band backing.  And, a guy who can sing.

Who She Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jOiIxnEDs

Just a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5_RVF9gMY

Going to Chicago Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcn3DsNTudA

Alright, Okay, You Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGOvLtkmX0

Sent For You Yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niE9YjJlVE4

Cheers

Lee Shot Williams

COLD SHOT

Black Magic     1995

Wiki:  Henry Lee "Shot" Williams was an American blues singer. He got the nickname "Shot" from his mother at a young age, owing to his fondness for wearing suits and dressing up as a "big shot."
Born: May 21, 1938, Lexington, MS
Died: November 25, 2011, Chicago, IL

If It Wasn't For Bad Luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxAJkk6hTk

Drowning On Dry Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgTtHgfcx6M

Cheers

Sonny Boy Williamson / Willie Love

CLOWNIN’ WITH THE WORLD

Alligator Records / Trumpet Records 1953-1954

Notes: "Since the earliest years of the century, Nelson Street has served the black community of Greenville, Mississippi as its social and commercial mainstream. Its many cafes, saloons, barbershops, juke joints and dives have played host to some of the best musicians in the Delta. It was here in 1942 that Aleck "Rice" Miller, one of the most extraordinary of all Blues artists, first met and gigged with Willie Love Jr., a Greenville resident whose rolling, swinging piano playing kept him steady demand on Nelson Street and beyond."

In most Southern States there was always one place that was a little different from the rest of the state. In Mississippi, that place was Greenville / Washington County.  In it’s heyday, the third largest city in the state.

Sonny Boy Williamson: (Aleck ’Rice’ Miller)

She’s Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_G9HleBUk

309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVQNJTU1N7I

Clownin’ with the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQyZAK4SAg

Willie Love:

Take It Easy, Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVgtr0tUwk

Nelson Street Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSfv4X7f2E

Worried Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB79aVOB7Rk

Cheers