Detroit Blues Masters Vol.4 - Eddie Kirkland 2

01. I tried
02. Man of stone
03. Train done gone
04. I'm going to keep lovin' you
05. Something's gone wrong in my life
06. Baby you know it's true

Eddie Kirkland – vocals, guitar, harmonica
King Curtis – tenor saxophone
Oliver Nelson – tenor saxophone
Herman Foster – piano
Billy Butler – guitar
Jimmy Lewis – bass
Ray Lucas – drums
Englefield Cliffs, NJ. 8 december 1961

07. Saturday night stomp
08. I'm gonna forget you
09. Down on my knees
10. Don't take my heart
11. Daddy please don't cry
12. Have mercy on me baby

Eddie Kirkland – vocals, guitar
George Stubbs – piano
Elise Shoulder – vocals (11)
Englefield Cliffs, NJ. 9 march 1962

13. Let me walk with you
14. Monkey tonight

Eddie Kirkland – vocals, harmonica
Bobby Cash – piano, guitar
Sonny Galse – tenor saxophone
Sam Stokes – tenor  saxophone
Wayne Cochran – bass, drums
The Angelos – vocals (13)
Macon, Ga. 17 march 1964

15. Hog killing time
16. Treat me the way you want me

Eddie Kirkland – vocals, harmonica
+ band
Macon, Ga. 9 september 1964

17. The Hawg I
18. The Hawg II
19. Them bones
20. I found a brand new love

Eddie Kirkland – vocals, harmonica
Steve Cropper – guitar
Donald Dunn – bass
Al Jackson – drums
The Memphis Horns
Memphis, Tn. 1965

21. Every hour every minute (I wanna be with you)
22. The grunt

Eddie Kirkland – vocals, harmonica
+ band
Detroit, Mi. 1968

How many Jamaican-born bluesmen recorded with John Lee Hooker and toured with Otis Redding? It's a safe bet there was only one: Eddie Kirkland, who engaged in some astonishing on-stage acrobatics over the decades (like standing on his head while playing guitar on TV's Don Kirshner's Rock Concert). But you would never find any ersatz reggae grooves cluttering Kirkland's work. He was brought up around Dothan, Alabama before heading north to Detroit in 1943. There he hooked up with Hooker five years later, recording with him for several labels as well as under his own name for RPM in 1952, King in 1953, and Fortune in 1959. Tru-Sound Records, a Prestige subsidiary, invited Kirkland to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in 1961-1962 to wax his first album, It's the Blues Man! The polished R&B band of saxophonist King Curtis intersected with Kirkland's intense vocals, raucous guitar, and harmonica throughout the exciting set. Exiting the Motor City for Macon, Georgia in 1962, Kirkland signed on with Otis Redding as a sideman and show opener not long thereafter. Redding introduced Kirkland to Stax/Volt co-owner Jim Stewart, who flipped over Eddie's primal dance workout "The Hawg." It was issued on Volt in 1963, billed to Eddie Kirk. By the dawn of the '70s, Kirkland was recording for Pete Lowry's Trix label; he also waxed several CDs for Deluge in the '90s. Kirkland remained active into the 21st century, and was in Florida to perform at a show in the Gulf Coast community of Dunedin when he died from injuries sustained when the automobile he was driving collided with a Greyhound bus in Crystal River on February 27, 2011. Eddie Kirkland was 87 years old. ---Bill Dahl, Rovi

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