Blues for Aficionados

Houston Stackhouse

CRYIN' WON'T HELP YOU

Genes   1994

Notes:  Houston Stackhouse never attained the position he rightly deserved among Bluesmen, probably because of the sparsity of his recordings.  Never a hard Delta musician, nor a composer of great note, he gleaned his repertoire from his fellow musician friends and relatives, and favorite records.

Born September 28, 1910 Wesson, Mississippi
Died September 23, 1980 (aged 69) Helena, Arkansas
wiki

Excellent Booklet with many stories of his life and career.

Kind Hearted Woman Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdqWbIfJh8

Bricks In My Pillow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWTGH-eVBk

My Babe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIagfNUNzM

Cryin' won't Help You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcG-4Ir9-0

Cheers

Hubert Sumlin

HEART & SOUL

with / James Cotton(harmonica) 
Blind Pig Records  1989

Notes require a mircoscope.
Long time member of Howlin' Wolf's band.

Wiki:
Hubert Charles Sumlin was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band. 
Born: November 16, 1931, Greenwood, MS
Died: December 4, 2011, Wayne, NJ

Chunky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuopW_6AJ50

Sitting on Top of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTe67h-1Ds

The Red Rooster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_8kHH91Cj4

Your Foxy Self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRc0QJ7rPg

Cheers

Has anyone mentioned The Best Of Little Walter Volumes 1 & 2 on Chess Records?

Has anyone mentioned The Best Of Little Walter Volumes 1 & 2 on Chess Records?

I will later.  I'm going through my CDs in alphabetic order.  Still in the S's.

Cheers

Hubert Sumlin

MY GUITAR AND ME

Evidence    1994

Notes: Hubert Sumlin was born on November 16, 1931 in Greenwood, Mississippi, one of 13 kids in a closeknit sharecropping family.  He began to develop his musical by plunking on a string of baling wire nailed to the wall by his older brother.  Around age 11, Sumlin's mother bought him a guitar.  He subsequently played in the Baptist church and teamed up with another local boy who played the harmonica, James Cotton.  As teens, Cotton and Sumlin worked local fish frys and local spots.  Both also later worked at various times with Howlin' Wolf and were ultimately reunited in Chicago as members of Muddy Waters' Band.


My Guitar and Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wkto5Uq9LM

Broke and Hungry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rne85zs2LwI

The Last Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcpIQIhBosk

Easy, Hubert, Easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dA49cocqY

Cheers