Exploring The Places The Blues Came From
As part of Our Recommendations and Recommended Recordings, we are recommending Blue Shadows by Lowell Fulson.
This album was recorded at Blue Wave Studios in Vancouver, B.C. in 1982 and features Lowell Fulson backed by the Powder Blues Band.
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As one of Our Recommendations and Recommended Recordings, we recommend All Your Love I Miss Loving: Live At The Wise Fools Pub Chicago by Otis Rush, released on Delmark Records.
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As one of Our Recommendations and Recommended Recordings, we recommend So Many Roads: Live In Concert by Otis Rush, released on Delmark Records. This is a live 1970’s recording of Otis Rush performing in Japan.
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The !!!! Beat was an American TV show in 1966, hosted by legendary DJ Hoss Allen (1922-1997).
Here are some episodes of The !!!!Beat which blues fans may be interested in seeing:
Episode 15 featuring Louis Jordan and Freddie King:
Episode 16, featuring Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry, Gatemouth Brown
Episode 25, featuring Little Milton and Freddie King
We came across this video of Joe Bonamassa covering Albert King’s Cadillac Assembly Line in 2016.
Here is a video of Albert King doing Cadillac Assembly Line in 1980:
The Mississippi Blues Trail marker for Albert King is in downtown Indianola, Mississippi:
We have been contacted by one of our readers, Teddy Wells, who is compiling a family history and is requesting assistance in locating ancestors and relatives.
Teddy says his great grandfather was Tom Stovall, a former slave who later worked at Stovall Farms outside Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi. Muddy Waters was working and living at Stovall Farm when he was first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1941-42.
Here is Teddy Wells’ request:
“My name is Teddy Wells,
I’m the grandson of Tommie Lee Stovall. I’m trying to locate Glen Stovall.
I have been tracing my family history and it lead me to Tom Stovall (my great grandfather) which he was a former slave for this plantation [Stovall Farms]. It would be an honor to connect with him to give me a tour of the plantation upon my visit in the near future. My phone number is 808.228.0181. I’m currently living in Hawaii.”
If anyone can help Teddy with any information he can be contacted at 808.228.0181, his work number Text/Voice 808.971.1553 or via the Hawaii Actors Network website: www.hawaiiactorsnetwork.com
As one of Our Recommendations and Recommended Recordings, we recommend You’re Gonna Miss Me: Complete Singles Collection As & Bs 1951-1958 by Guitar Slim, released on Jasmine Records.
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Here’s a video of Buddy Guy talking about Guitar Slim:
Here is a video of Guitar Slim’s best known recording, The Things I Used To Do, released in 1953, which has been covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others.
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As one of Our Recommendations and Recommended Recordings, we recommend I’m A Lover Not A Fighter: Complete Excello Singles 1958-1962 by Lazy Lester, released on Jasmine Records.
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Here is a video of Lazy Lester performing in 2011:
Here is a video of Lazy Lester performing in 2014:
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We have had a request for assistance from Monty Deane, whose father, Wally Deane, recorded for Lillian McMurry at Trumpet Records in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1950s.
He is working on a history of his father’s recording career and is looking for photos of Trumpet Records and/or any other information about his father and Trumpet Records during the 1950s.
If you can help Monty Deane in this project, please contact him directly by email: tecboy696@yahoo.com
Here is the email Monty Deane sent us:
“My father Wally Deane (http://www.wallydeane.com) recorded for Lillian McMurry at Trumpet/Globe. I have been blessed to see all the great info donated to the U of Miss. I am wondering if anyone might have pictures of Trumpet Records back in the 50’s? There had to be some pictures, stories of the happenings going on at Trumpet Records. But pictures are the most memorable. Please, if there are, please let me know where. Thank you!
Monty Deane”
Here are some photos of the former Trumpet Records studio on N. Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi.
Here are some Wally Deane recordings on YouTube:
This 4 CD box set on JSP Records contains the 1951-1954 recordings from Trumpet Records but does not include any Wally Deane recordings.
We came across this video of a New Musical Express concert in 1965. It’s not all blues but there are some great examples of 1960’s British bands doing blues covers.
Performers, in order of appearance are the Moody Blues (pre- Justin Hayward and John Lodge, when they were doing blues covers like Bo Diddley), Freddy and the Dreamers, Georgie Fame (covering Rufus Thomas‘ Walking The Dog), The Seekers, Herman’s Hermits, The Ivy League,