Nice! Never heard it. Thanks Adam. SBW II is a P.I.M.P. His style is great and instantly recognizable. I never get tired of listening to him play. ---------- "Trust Those Who Seek The Truth. Doubt Those Who Say They Have Found It."
So cool. As Killa_Hertz said, I can listen to him all day long - wait often I do. Just so much to learn about groove and timing and space. Love it. Thanks Adam.
In the early 70's I worked in a record store---I had been a blues enthusiast for say 6 years- at 20 despite finger injuries started playin guitar again----- also started to play harp--- ALL OF WHICH WAS 95% BLUES ORIENTATED --- i got to buy many Jimmy Reed-- Butterfield---little walter-- sonny boy ---James Cotton—Sonny Terry—junior wells on n on and even Charley Mccoy—I practiced all thos guys and because I could bend draw4 thought “ man Im getting it”----------ONE OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THAT TIME WAS AN ALBUM OF ‘The Animals with Sonny Boy’’ it was the sonny boy in the picture provided by adam-----Song I think was “Fattening Snakes with Frogs’ sonny boy was hammred a true bluesman---u could barely make the words out, he was so drunk--------But it was real blues sung by probably the son or grandson of a slave—or sharecropper – those guys lived, sang it and played it--- may history never forget where blues started ‘ mistreated human beings ---workin in cotton fields, railroad tracks etc but their music helped them pull together and gave us what we love “THE BLUES’-----didn’t mean to be heavy, the picture brought me back to the 70”s when I first saw the picture—I wasn’t born old---im just one of the lucky ones. a 63 yr old,who is able to still be around, ya thanks Adam, u brought me back
This was part of a collection of sides he did on Trumpet and a lot of the stuff he did there swings much more than what he did while he was on Chess. I believe the guitar player here is Joe Willie Wilkins and the drummer was James "Peck" Curtis. I'm more of a fan of his Trumpet stuff than his Chess stuff. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
I've always loved Sonny but lately I've grown to appreciate how unique and out of the box some of his stuff was. I don't hear any of his contemporaries-the Walters,Cotton,anyone- approach a song like this.There's another one with a solo harp intro,that's even more out of the box,but I'll be damned if I can remember the title.Not to mention Bye Bye Birdie
His stuff throughout the years always grooved and his time was always excellent, which was why Robert Junior Lockwood much preferred playing behind him than he did behind Little Walter. That solo harp stuff doesn't work if your time sucks. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
HEY, correct me if I'm wrong (I'm pretty good at it) but I do believe that's Sonny Boy OBing that bad ass riff at 1:19-21 on Chicken (link above). And, if yes, I think it would establish a new arrival in the recorded history of OB. Yes?
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Sorry, Littoral, but he didn't overblow at all and overblows actually go back to the 1920's and I believe Winslow Yerxa posted a video a while back with the very first recording of an overblow. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
I agree that sonny boy had far better timing than Little Walter did. Some things Walter did were great, but a lot of it showed how half ass he was! Sonny Boy play acoustically witch isn't my thing, but he knew how to play musically! Little Walter was a great innovator and played amped harp far better than anyone else on the planet in the early fifties, but he was capable and recorded crap also. Honestly I think it was just because he went into recording sessions unprepared. How was he to know that people years latter would care so much about what he did? That being said I listen to LW 20 times more than SB!
Our band struggled for a while with a guitar player whose rhythm was not very good. To compound things it was his band. I always felt that we should play some of Sonny Boy's songs as close as possible to the originals to help him and all of us really find that laid back groove. We did play "Ninety-Nine" but, despite my protestations, we played it in a more upbeat style. Our problem got solved when the band leader offended our other (really good) blues guitarist who quit. Then everyone else quit and formed a new band with that guy.
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From years of personal experience, any guitar player who sucks at rhythm also has lousy time and for me, regardless of what instrument anyone plays, if your time is crap, you're horrible musician, period. When you surround yourself with musicians with horrible time, you'll always put out horrible music, plain and simple. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
