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Thanks for your understanding and your well-wishes. This cold or whatever it is is just dragging on, and while it is, I’m moving slowly. For a little while, I had a backlog of things to post but time caught up with me. I’m just going to post some of my favorite playlists from my YouTube channel.
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This is the first person who occurred to me, meaning I’ve been thinking about doing a Blues Roots about him (just because you see them here doesn’t mean there won’t be a full feature soon). Lowell Fulson (and sometimes spelled Fulsom, which he used to accommodate the publicity department of one of his labels) was a peer of T-Bone Walker, Gatemouth Brown and Pee Wee Crayton.
Author of one of my favorite blues tunes ever, “Reconsider Baby” (Checker [for Chess], 1954 [the Chess Lowell Fulson album I have it on says it was recorded in 1953]), and “Tramp” (co-written with Jimmy McCracklin; it was a hit for Otis Redding with Carla Thomas, lots of people have recorded it since). He wrote most of the songs he performed, and check out the connections he had! He’s someone who followed the current trends and set some of his own. Among other things he incorporated rock into his Heavy Bag (1969), including covering the Beatles “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?”
Lowell Fulson
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Eddie Taylor made his name playing rhythm guitar with Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker and Elmore James and also as a solo artist. Mighty Joe Young (“blues with a twist of soul” is how he described his music) made his name backing up Billy Boy Arnold, he played on both of Magic Sam’s classics West Side Soul and Black Magic (1967 and 1968, both on Delmark), and on Otis Rush’s classic Cold Day In Hell (1975, Delmark), as well as with Koko Taylor, and on his many fine soul-infused solo albums, on this Jimmy Reeve’s sleeper.
The main section devoted to Eddie Taylor starts around number 178 on the playlist.
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It’s my intention that each of the people on this playlist (and the others mentioned above) will someday have a Blues Roots episode about them.
Don D.
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Thanks Mark, I love that one; it’s number 19 on the playlist and when I was listening to the playlist, I was thinking, “I hope people get this far.”
I butchered a sentence up in the Mighty Joe Young section. Going to sort it out here (just a little punctuation and a couple “and”s make all the difference):
Mighty Joe Young (“blues with a twist of soul” is how he described his music) made his name backing up Billy Boy Arnold, he played on both of Magic Sam’s classics West Side Soul and Black Magic (1967 and 1968, both on Delmark), and on Otis Rush’s classic Cold Day In Hell (1975, Delmark), as well as with Koko Taylor, on his many fine soul-infused solo albums, and on this Jimmy Reeves sleeper [album in original post and also below].Jimmy Reeves was someone who literally lived in the shadow of Jimmy Reed, following him from city to city without pay to sometimes be asked to join in with the band. Far-fetched but true story, which I’ll try to put together one of these days—I really want to find out how it turned out. He really sounds good to me (the band doesn’t hurt).
Born to Love Me was produced by Willie Dixon in 1966; Jimmy Reeves sang, harmonica by Big Walter Horton, Willie Dixon also played guitar and bass on it. The other guitarists were Matt Guitar Murphy and Mighty Joe Young, piano was covered by both Lafayette Leake, Sunnyland Slim. For some reason the drummer wasn’t credited. Here it is again.
All aboard!
Don D.
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Below is the correct date and personnel including drummer for Jimmy Reeves Born to Love Me (directly from the discography above, in Mighty Joe Young’s name!).
rec. August 1970 at Ter-Mar Studios in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Reeves Jr., voc; Big Walter Horton, hca; Lafayette Leake, p; Sunnyland Slim, p; Matt Murphy, lead g; Mighty Joe Young, 2nd g; Willie Dixon, Sylvester “Bowen” (Boines), b; Morris Jennings, dr; backing voc, The Pick-Ups; arr. & prod. by Willie Dixon.
Don D.
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