Blues for Aficionados

Snooky Pryor

IN THIS MESS UP TO MY CHEST

Antone's Records   1994

Wiki:  Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi, United States.[3] He developed a country blues style influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller). In the mid-1930s, in and around Vance, Mississippi, Pryor played in impromptu gatherings of three or four harmonica players, including Jimmy Rogers, who then lived nearby and had yet to take up playing the guitar.[5] Pryor moved to Chicago around 1940.

While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through a PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street Market, becoming a regular on the Chicago blues scene.

Born: September 15, 1921, Lambert, MS
Died: October 18, 2006, Cape Girardeau, MO

Bury You in a Paper Sack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLME5DJPL0

Pay for All Our Sins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJrDUqH3j4w

Take it Easy Greasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvfU1VmjGw

Slow Down Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcexOun5Xc

Judgement Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL44FiuiQEY


Cheers

Fred McDowell

MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL

Rounder  1995

Notes: What you hold here in this compact disc is an authentic document.  The real thing.  Recorded one day during Easter Week, 1962, in Como, Mississippi.  The studio: the living room of Fred's house.  The studio audience: Fred's wife, family and neighbors.  The ambient sounds: Fred's dog and a number of unidentified children.  Thirty-three Easters have passed since this session.  And the music remains as immediate and compelling as it was the day it was recorded.  For old friends and new, this collection is a wonderful testament to a man who has been called "the point of entry" into the Blues for a great many people.

Done Left Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJzwAQxH-U

All The Way From East St. Louis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLO5TRRy89U

Shake 'Em On Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7TuwWFWmk

John Henry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeOt19i_oRY

Cheers

Snooky Pryor

TOO COOL TO MOVE

Antone's Records   1992

Notes: At twenty he joined the army.  From 1943 to 1945 he was stationed in the South Pacific in Saipan, New Caledonia, Guam and other islands.  Here he pursued his music by playing bugle and entertaining the troops.  It was in New Caledonia, where, missing his new bride, he wrote "Telephone Blues", which was to be his first recording.  It would also mark the beginning of the great postwar era of Chicago Blues.
Married to Luella Pryor since 1941, he has raised seven children and eighteen grandchildren in the farm town of Ullin, Illinois.

Too Cool To Move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGTgI0sN64w

Keyhole in Your Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcoyIBaR6E

Bottle It Up and Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvOOJCDVB0g

Cheatin' and Lyin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYacNGDOTQ

Cheers

@rok2id

<< the great postwar era of Chicago Blues >> 

"Great" is an understatement.  Thanks for the Snooky.

My favorite Bukka White (sorry for saying "Bukka," Booker):

"1963 isn't 1962"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dSF0SKsSAw&list=PL6xp58Fk-rbmXh0Z9A_sMzwRsjAMwPFIk