Please discuss Buster Brown. This is NYC blues, a form of the music that doesn't really get its due. Down home and urban--because NYC was a gathering point for many different down-home locations.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jul 24, 2017 7:55 PM
I first heard of Buster Brown when my landlord gave me his album - new king of the blues that had fannie mae on it. It blew my mind. She was dating Jimmy when it was recorded. I think this music is some great stuff harmonica and guitar wise. Jimmy also played guitar on Wilbert Harrison's hit Kansas City. Wilbert was the first real deal musician I played/hung around with back in Newark NJ. The fire label was out of harlem and also a big piece of this sound. Buster Brown played harp on some of Wilbert's stuff too if I remember correct. Wilbert also told me NYC/Newark was a hot bed for blues music back in the day. Walter
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Ah, Walter, you and I share the Wild Jimmy Spruill connection. I'll always treasure the one session I did with him. He had that "wild" name, but as a rhythm guitarist he was exactly the opposite: chunk-chunka-chunk, right on the downbeat. He taught me that lesson: sometimes simplest is best. I uploaded one track from that 1989 session, and here it is. He's straight fours, right on the beat. And he holds the entire track together:
The second guitarist, the guy playing the fancier stuff, was a French guy, Daniel, who was a part of that Dan Lynch scene.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jul 25, 2017 4:25 AM
Adam: Thanks for sharing that song - a good one for sure. It puts you in the documented history of this NYC sound :-) Times sure have changed. Walter ---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Sounds to me like a combination of Sonny Terry, Chubby Checker and Fats Domino. I can envision sitting at the soda shop in the 50s and 60s listening to this on the juke box.
You don’t Have to Go – loved it. It needs to have way more than 1200 plays.
Wild Jimmy was one of those unknown bad asses and those who know of him in the blues guitar community rave about him. My favorite tune of his is the KV+C March.
---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte