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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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Cave Man Blues - Elmore "Elmo" Nixon

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Elmore "Elmo" Nixon (* 17th November, 1933 in Crowley (Louisiana); † in June, 1975 in Houston, Texas) was an US-American Rhythm and blues singer and pianist. Elmore Nixon grew up in Houston where he did the first experiences as an accompanying musician with an admission session of Peppermint Harris already at the age of thirteen years. Later he worked than studio pianist and drummer for different other artists. He began his career as a soloist in 1950 with admissions for Peacock Records where he played in among other things the song composed by him „ If You'll Be micron Love “. In 1951 he took up for Mercury among other things „ playboy of blues “ and „ million dollars of blues “; next year he changed to the label Imperial. The last admissions under own name originated in 1955 for Savoy („ load of Nite “). His only commercial success was „ Alabama of blues “ which became later also from other interpreters gecovert. In the 1960s he belonged the volume of Clifton Chenie...