Sonny Boy Williamson was one of the most influential of the early blues harmonica players. KING BISCUIT TIME refers to his popular 15-minute radio show broadcast which, beginning in 1938, was sponsored by the Interstate Grocery Company, and originated out of Helena, Arkansas every afternoon at 12:45 p.m. over radio station KFFA.Recorded in 1951, many of the selections on KING BISCUIT TIME were ...
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With his unerring slur and direct wit, Sonny Boy II, born Rice Miller circa 1897 and dead some 68 years later, is Chicago's third W: his great Chess albums stand with Wolf or Muddy. These 1963 recordings, culled from two much sparer purist LPs on a Danish label, are late-night visits to the Delta where he saw the light and kicked the bucket, and what they show off above all is his sexy, long-su...
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Moving on from the Top Eleven that I posted at the weekend , here are my ten least popular posts ever. This list is, I accept, not wholly fair, as most of these posts are either by performers whose names do not register on the MOG Artist Search database, or weere written in the weekend in May 2008 when MOG ate all the posts. Although they came back to life, they do NOT appear when you check out...
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This, however, is a different Sonny Boy Williamson - after the "original" SBW was murdered in 1947, Aleck Ford, who was already nearly 50 and had been performing as "Rice Miller", took on the same name and began recording for Chess. He was about 57 when he had his first hits, and carried on playing till his death ten years later in 1965.This is one of his wittier numbers
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Sonny Boy's from my hometown of Jackson, Tennesse (also the hometown of Casey Jones, Carl Perkins, Gil Scott Heron, and that dude that wrote "Silence of the Lambs"). The first widely recognized bluesman of the day to play harmonica as a lead instrument, he released a handful of recordings between 1937 and his death in the late 40's. Sonny Boy lived the life he sang about, to the extent that hi...
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