Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best
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Artist: Sonny Boy WilliamsonBrand: WILLIAMSON,SONNY BOY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-05-20
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
- Good Evening Everybody
- Don't Start Me to Talkin'
- All My Love in Vain
- Keep It to Yourself
- Fattening Frogs for Snakes
- I Don't Know
- Cross My Heart
- Born Blind
- Ninety Nine
- Your Funeral and My Trial
- Keep Your Hands Out of My Pockets
- Sad to Be Alone
- Checkin' up on My Baby
- Down Child
- Nine Below Zero
- Bye Bye Bird
- Help Me
- Bring It on Home
- My Younger Days
- One Way Out
Music reviews of His Best
Music Review: The Master Harmonica Man At Work
Rating: 5 Stars
I hope I never get tired of reviewing the various blues greats that I have spent the better part of the last couple of years trying to highlight. And I probably won't. However, one little problem tends to keep creeping up. Just when I think that I have hit all the blues highbinders that are possible to mention without just running out into the street and reviewing some itinerant street player along comes another one that it would be a sin, a mortal sin, not to mention. That is the case here with the work of Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Carter version, for those who want to get into that controversy over who the real Sonny Boy is, or was), master harmonica player, no, make that harmonica wizard.
One of the things that got added, significantly, when the blues went north to Chicago (and other such environs) and went electric in the post-World War II period was the increased use of the harmonica to drive the beat, or act as counter-point to it, as the case may be on any particular song . We all know, or should know, of the key role that Muddy Walters and his various bands played in this with the emergence of Little Walter and later James Cotton. Note should also be taken of Howlin' Wolf's role when he was in his prime, and drove everyone crazy with that voice and THAT harmonica he practically inhaled on things like "How Many More Years". Well, how do you think these guys learned the tricks of the harmonica trade? One way or another at the feet of Sonny Boy.
And the proof? Well just take about ten out of the twenty selections in this 50th Anniversary of Chess Records edition. Perhaps any ten will do but here are my stick outs. Keep in mind that most of the lyrics are monstrously "politically incorrect" but "Keep It To Yourself," "Your Funeral And Mine," Down Child," and, the well-known "Help Yourself" are a good sampler.
Description of His Best
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.This is Sonny Boy Williamson II, whose 1940s Mississippi Delta radio broadcasts for King Biscuit Time made him one of the most influential of all blues musicians. A master harmonica player, he created relaxed songs, often humorous, that reminded urban listeners of their country roots. These tracks are from his years at Chess, beginning in the mid-1950s until his death in 1965. His recording bands feature Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Robert Lockwood Jr., among others. Perhaps his best-known track here is "Don't Start Me to Talkin' (I'll Tell You Everything I Know)," but his signature sound is evident on every high trill he played. --Robert Gordon
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