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kudzurunner
6304 posts
Jul 24, 2017
7:54 PM
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
kudzurunner
6305 posts
Jul 24, 2017
7:57 PM
#1 hit in 1960:

kudzurunner
6306 posts
Jul 24, 2017
7:58 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown_(musician)
waltertore
2999 posts
Jul 24, 2017
10:05 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




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Last Edited by waltertore on Jul 24, 2017 10:31 PM
kudzurunner
6307 posts
Jul 25, 2017
4:23 AM
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
waltertore
3000 posts
Jul 25, 2017
8:30 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
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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

Smiling With Hope Pizza-pizza with a social cause

my videos

florida-trader
1171 posts
Jul 26, 2017
12:05 PM
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.

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barbequebob
3435 posts
Jul 26, 2017
12:26 PM
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.


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hvyj
3389 posts
Jul 26, 2017
2:20 PM
FANNIE MAE was the first tune I ever learned on harmonica. Sounds like simple stuff, but the groove is more subtle than you realize at first.


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