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Sonny Boy Williamson

Added on 12/01/2003
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Galomorro
11/25/2001

Sonny Boy Williamson 5

WHICH Sonny Boy Williamson did you mean here? There were two of them. I had one 78 RPM by the original but lots by the second Sonny Boy who recorded on Chess such songs as "Your Funeral and My Trial," "The Key," "The Goat," "Wake up Baby," "Sad to be alone," "Down Child," "Checkin' up on my Baby," "Don't Start me to Talkin'," "Fattening Frogs for Snakes," "Nine Below Zero," "Decoration Day," "My Younger Days," "One Way Out," "Born Blind," "Ninety-Nine," "My Younger Days" -- is THIS latter the Sonny Boy you're talking about? My favorite was the second Sonny Boy. But I'd give both of 'em a "5" anyway...

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Sonny Boy
03/20/2001

Sonny Boy Williamson 5

Rice Miller aka "Sonny Boy Williamson" was one of the most interesting,creative and original artists in modern blues...his recording debut was in 1929 continuing into the next decade...he was real well known in the South with regular broadcasts over radio station KFFA in Helena,Arkansas,sponsored by the Interstate Grocery Co. Sonny Boy was quickly identified with the firm's KING BISCUIT brand of flour,billing his group as the King Biscuit Entertainers...In 1948 he recorded for Trumpet in Jackson,Miss. and signed with Chess in 1951...moved to Chicago but continued wide tours thru the South. His recordings for Chess were significant: ironic,devastatingly witty songs...laconic wry singing...dry,spare harmonica solos...all played with a simplicity of means and an understated approach with the highest levels of artistry. The world of blues was deprived of one of it's finest,most original voices ever in his death in Helena,Arkansas,May 25,1965.

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