Category Archives: Trix Notes

3319: David “Honeyboy” Edwards – “I’ve Been Around”   Original LP and CD re-release       When David “Honeyboy” Edwards finally decided to settle in Chicago, he’d had a good twenty years on the road as an itinerant blues musician. He has travelled … Continue reading →

3317: Robert Jr. Lockwood – “…Does 12”       Robert Lockwood is different. He is different from many of his contemporaries because he is into musical evolution. He is entirely unlike many bluesmen who, for years, played the same songs In … Continue reading →

3316: Big Chief Ellis – “Big Chief Ellis”    Those who seek after music often remind me of anthropologists. We rarely consider an area ripe for research unless it is geographically and culturally remote. How else to explain the fact … Continue reading →

3315: HOMESICK JAMES – “Goin’ Back Home” LP, CD & digital release         In the articles that have been written about Homesick James, here and especially abroad, much has been made of the uncertainty of has “true” name and actual … Continue reading →

3314: Dan DelSanto – “White Feathers in the Coop”   SIDE ONE –  FROM GREENVILLE TO RICHMOND – see the last tune. THE C.M. JORDAN BLUES – I ran across the guitar this song is played on while employed at … Continue reading →

3312: Roy Dunn – “Know’d Them All” Original LP and CD re-release Atlanta, Georgia was always a major blues center, starting with Barbecue Bob or Peg Leg Howell in the ’20s, on to Curley Weaver, Blind Willie McTe|l, or Buddy Moss in … Continue reading →

3311: Various Artists – “Detroit After Hours”              This album of piano blues from Detroit is truly “underground music”. Even by the time that demolition for the Chrysler freeway had inflicted wounds of a mortal nature in Detroit’s Black Bottom, … Continue reading →

3310: Tarheel Slim – “No Time at All” Original LP and CD re-release Success for a black musician is very often a fleeting thing, though a single hit can often carry an artist for some period of time. In 1959 there was … Continue reading →

 3309: Pernell Charity – “The Virginian” Original LP and CD re-release The phonograph record has had an important effect in shaping the song repertoire of many blues musicians and this is especially true of those who reside in a community with no … Continue reading →

3308: Eddie Kirkland – “The Devil (and other blues demons)”     * Original LP and CD re-release Eddie Kirkland . . . the Hawg man… Eddie Kirkland . . . with John Lee Hooker five years . . . Eddie Kirkland . . … Continue reading →