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How about a "Too Soon Forgotten List"?
How about a "Too Soon Forgotten List"?
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LSC
174 posts
Feb 17, 2012
4:46 PM
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All these lists made me think of some names you rarely hear anymore, I think with some because they died too soon.
Super influential on me personally, and certainly those north of North Dakota, was Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell. To me a complete package. He was both authentic and unique at the same time with a high energy style. He also wrote some pretty cool songs, check out "Biscuits Boogie" and was an excellent singer.
Then there is Lester Butler. There was a super nova. Burned very bright but blew out quickly. Not as much technique as some but tone for days and exciting as hell. Again, a very cool singer/frontman with his own twist on standards and a good songwriter. The Red Devils were big time in Europe.
Still alive and the best I ever heard solo with neck rack and guitar, John Hammond Jr. His version of I Wish You Would on Live at McCabe's is crazy good. He's got counter rhythms going on between harp and guitar that would twist my mind into pretzels.
Arguably not a really super great player but nonetheless both pretty damn good and very influential, both in terms of being a harp player as well as his influence on blues music, John Mayall. Think about it, Mayall was at the forefront of the British Blues explosion which brought the form to the cultural consciousness of the much of the US. The "Beano" album, that's the one with Clapton, influenced tens of thousands of white blues guitar players. And I first learned how to play the quick stuff by figuring out Mayall's "Room to Move".
Father of British Blues Harmonica , Cyril Davis. He teamed up with Alexis Korner, the unquestioned Godfather of British blues in opening the London Rhythm and Blues Club which provided exposure in London for Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and other US blues stars. It was a stomping ground for Clapton, Richards, Jagger, Rod Stewart, and loads of others.
Okay, somebody wade in here.
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Joe_L
1736 posts
Feb 17, 2012
9:20 PM
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Here are some of my favorites who are damn near forgotten:
1. Little Mac Simmons
2. Little Willie Anderson
3. Big Leon Brooks
4. Wild Child Butler
5. Louis Myers
6. Good Rockin' Charles
7. Snooky Pryor
All of them were bad ass.
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Keith R
26 posts
Feb 18, 2012
3:39 AM
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Well, Lester Butler has his own 'blog' - or to be accurate, The Red Devils do, so he's not forgotten.
I'd nominate Lester Davenport who played so well on Bo Diddley's 'Pretty Thing', so well that for some time I thought that it might have been The Man himself, Little Walter.
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joek18
13 posts
Feb 18, 2012
6:57 AM
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Three additions to the wildly-overlooked category:
Charlie McCoy - yes, a country player primarily (and perhaps the most-recorded harpist ever) but when he wants to play the blues, he can rip with anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKcUcYHRZ90
Corky Siegel - chamber blues is still very much the blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_BCb_zvT_A&feature=related
Delbert McClinton - western blues at its very finest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3493M_Lf-I
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Martin
29 posts
Feb 18, 2012
7:03 AM
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He´s been up in another contex, but let´s throw in David Burgin as well.
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Joe_L
1737 posts
Feb 18, 2012
8:41 AM
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Gods catch Keith! Lester was bad ass. Little Arthur Duncan was also very good at the Howlin Wolf style, too.
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