Blues for Aficionados

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

Sonny Boy Williamson

THE BLUEBIRD RECORDINGS  1937-1938

BlueBird / BMG    1937-38  /  1997

Excellent and informative booklet.  Wiki explains why there are two Blues players named Sonny Boy Williamson.  This is Sonny Boy ll.
Born December 5, 1912 Tutwiler, Mississippi
Died May 24, 1965 (aged 52) Helena, Arkansas

Good Morning School Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyF9IG2WAVw

Sugar Mama Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syTmBusAXw

Got The Bottle Up And Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXTtMYA0Xag

Sunny Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_nmQghqHhg

Cheers

Sonny Boy Williamson

THE ESSENTIAL SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON

MCA Chess  2CD Set   1993

Excellent Booklet.   CD 1

All My Love In Vain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rfY__yAC8

You Killing Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elr0xxmNas4

Your Imagination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lC_Ib0Y-A

Don't Start Me To Talkin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJM8Vymj9k

Cheers

Howlin' Wolf

THE LONDON SESSIONS (Deluxe Edition)

MCA Chess   2CD Set      1970 / 2002

Extensive booklet that gives a blow by blow account of the recording session.  Big time names from the world of Rock, but as I would have predicted, guitars too much and too loud.  If its the Blues, its all about the singer.

Red Rooster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JCfuWaaGE

I Ain't Superstitious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHWiypJOAY

Highway 49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DqNKXNsTBM

Built For Comfort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMKwzB7tdKk

Cheers