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💿 ALBUM REVIEW: John Primer and Friends - Tribute To Theresa's Lounge

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John fell in love with the blues as a child when his father and an older cousin played guitar and sang at night after a hard day in the fields. His mother moved to Chicago to secure a job and support her family. She promised to bring John and his sister to the big city when they reached age 18, leaving them with family. Depressed and lonely, young Primer frequently went into the neighboring woods, where he cried his troubles away and began singing the blues in solitude. He eventually built himself a diddley bow on the side of his grandmother's house out of broom wire, two nails and a brick and began accompanying himself as he sang, eventually playing for dimes and quarters in his schoolyard. After listening to Jimmy Reed , Little Milton, B.B. King , Albert King and Muddy Waters on his grandmother's record player, his biggest dream was to play alongside Muddy Waters one day. 🎵 LISTEN & SUPPORT THE ALBUM ▶ Listen to Album Samples (Clic...

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Hoochie Coochie Man - Blues Boy Willie & The Wild Bills

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Blues Boy Willie was born William Daniel McFalls on November 28, 1946 in the cotton farming community of Memphis, TX. Willie's father, Gaines 'Tim' McFalls, played harmonica for the famous 'Ma' Rainey when he wasn't working in the cotton field. Willie was always interested in his father's talents and wanted to become a harmonica player too. As a boy, he would sneak the harmonica out of his father's pocket and play it. At five years old, his first performance was with his brother's band singing Little Richard's 'Lucille' for the high school prom. The blues bug had bit him, and he continued his love of singing in the local juke joints and roadhouses in Memphis, TX. Club owners and patrons all loved him and dubbed him the 'Juke Joint King'. Willie's first release was 'Strange Things Happening' under the Ichiban label in 1989. Willie's second release, 1990's 'Be Who?', topped the charts with the novelt...