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“Down and Out Blues” Sonny Boy Willamson sings (1959) Checker Records Cover by Don Bronstein (No that’s not Rice Miller – aka Sonny Boy – on the cover!)
Sonny’s debut album, he was 60 years old when this was released by Chess Records. “Down and Out Blues” is full of songs that have become blues staples, including “Don’t Start Me to Talkin’,” “Fattening Frogs for Snakes and “Your Funeral and My Trial.” Chess Records’ crack regulars, spearheaded by Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Rogers, Fred Below, Otis Spann and Robert Jr. Lockwood provide suitably gritty support to Sonny Boy’s blues harp, helping to make this 12-song, 34 minute set some of the best electric blues ever recorded.
(56 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5)
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May 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Ain’t it the truth!
The New York Dolls did a kickin’ cover of “Don’t Start Me to Talkin’.”
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
I got that one on my wall, a proper classic cover and one of the best blues harmonica players ever!
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:02 am
My dad owns this LP. I used to ask him about the guy in the picture when I was a lad in the 70s. he says it looks like leprosy that the dude has. I’m not so sure loking at it now. that looks like some kind of pipe next to him. I doubt it was crack back in the 50s, but the drugs he’s on could be the cause for the loss of his extremities.
June 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Tired of the same old subject matter, Sonny Boy wanted to go in a different direction with his latest long-player. The original title was slated to be called “Reposed and Comfortable†until the marketing staff at Checker Records got their grubby little hands on this project.