Chicago - The Blues Yesterday Volume 9

01. Looking for my baby
02. Easy lovin'
03. Groan my blues away
04. I feel so all alone

Jody Williams – vocals, guitar
Harold Ashby – tenor saxophone
Lafayette Leake – piano
Willie Dixon – bass
Clifton James – drums
Chicago, 5-9 December 1955

05. You may
06. What kind of gal is that?
07. Lucky Lou
08. Hooked on love

Jody Williams – vocals, guitar
Harold Ashby – tenor saxophone
Red Holloway – tenor saxophone
Lafayette Leake – piano, organ
Willie Dixon – bass
Phil Thomas – drums
Chicago,  January 1957

09. Moanin' for molasses
10. Hideout

Jody Williams – vocals, guitar
Bernard Barkson – tenor & baritone saxophone
Lafayette Leake – piano
Bob Walter – bass, drums
Chicago, 1962

11. Shotgun rider
12. Coast to coast

Bo Dud (or Bo Dudley) – vocals, guitar
Johnny Big Moose Walker – piano
Fred Roulette – steel guitar
Mack Thompson – bass, drums
Chicago, January 1968

13. Soul election
14. Sure is fun
15. The get it

Bo Dud – vocals, guitar
Johnny Twist Williams – guitar, vocals
John Bubbles – tenor saxophone
Abb Locke – tenor saxophone, piano
Calvin Jones – bass
Bill Warren – drums
Harvey, June 1968

16. I am back home
17. Why I sing the blues
18. Honky Tonk

Bo Dud – vocals, guitar
Johnny Twist Williams – guitar, harmonica
Bobby Davis – piano, bass, drums
Chicago, c. 1969

19. Love me or let me be
20. Get ready to meet your man
21. Who but you

James “Bealestreet” Clark – vocals, piano
J.T. Brown – clarinet
Ransom Knowling – bass
Chicago, 24 October 1945

22. Drifting

James Clark – vocals
Leonard Caston – piano
Ollie Crawford – guitar
Alfred Elkins – bass
Chicago, 22 February 1946

23. Come to me baby
24. You can't make the grade

James Clark – vocals, piano
Muddy Waters – guitar
Leroy Foster – guitar
Ransome Knowling – bass
Judge Riley – drums
Chicago, 27 September 1946

This ninth volume of our Chicago/ The Blues Yesterday series starts with one of the leading Chicago blues guitarists, the legendary Jody Williams. Born Joseph Leon Williams in Mobile, Alabama, on February 3th 1935 and coming to Chicago very early, Jody has been instrumental in forging the so-called West Side Sound with a precise, scathing and ultra bluesy guitar style. Through his numerous sessions behind a lot of artists like Howlin' Wolf, Billy Stewart, Bo Diddley, Billy Boy Arnold, Otis Rush etc... he has strongly influenced most of the upcoming Chicago blues guitarists. Thinking himself not as a singer, he has waxed only a handful of tracks, mostly instrumental pieces like Lucky Lou that has been copied by almost every Chicago guitar player. Unable to really make a decent living with his music, Jody has embarked in a career as a technician at Xerox. However, once retired from his job, he resumed his musical career and recorded several very good CDs and can be heard playing blues festivals around the world.

Bo Dud/ Bo Dudley was born Oscar Coleman in Mississippi in 1941. The first single (Shotgun rider/ Coast to coast) he recorded in 1968 gained rave reviews, mostly because of Freddie Roulette's steel guitar pyrotechnics. After that he has recorded several 45 on his own label Dud Sound, less in the Bo Diddley mould than his beginnings, and generally backed by the excellent guitar player Johnny Twist that we have featured on a previous volume of that series. Making a living mostly as a cab driver, Bo has resumed his musical career after a fire had almost taken his life and destroyed his home. He is still playing in Chicago and has even recorded a CD (Oscar boogie).

James "Beale Street" Clark (born January 12th, 1911 in Memphis) is a pianist and singer who came to Chicago during the 1930's. Although James is mostly known for the two tracks he made for Columbia backed by a young Muddy Waters, he has recorded several others 78s in 1945-47 under his name or the Memphis Jimmy moniker. Get ready to meet your man might be the very original of the blues standard Look over yonder's wall generally attributed to Jazz Gillum. We have been able to gather all his recordings minus his last Victor 78 for which a .mp3 copy would be a nice add. --- Gérard Herzhaft, jukegh.blogspot.com

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