Louisiana Red & Carey Bell CD: Having Fun (CD)

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(JSP) 13 tracks Touring and promoting shows for any kind of roots music is a perilous business... more

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Louisiana Red & Carey Bell: Having Fun (CD)

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Touring and promoting shows for any kind of roots music is a perilous business both logistically and financially. But sometimes events align and the opportunity to bring together an amazing set of talents and people in one place with a sufficient budget and the facilities to properly showcase them comes together. The Easter Weekend of 1990 was one such time and place. These recordings were originally made for a compilation CD released which promoted the Burnley Mechanics Blues Festival. Thirty two years later what we have here is a set of superb real blues. These are talents that we will not see the like of again. All professionally recorded and now given a top class remastering to make the sound even more powerful.

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Louisiana Red can genuinely be thought of as the youngest of the 'first generation' of post war electric bluesmen. At a very young age he was playing with the likes of Elmore James and Muddy Waters. Familiarity with Red's years living in Europe, when he played and toured regularly, should not blind us to the magnitude of his talent. Here he plays and sings in that rocking Electric Delta/Chicago style. He mangles the words a bit a couple of times and we could have tidied that up with the scalpel of the editing suite (which we did on some of the other tracks, but that's a trade secret). But I find it rather endearing, this is enthusiasm and raw energy!

Carey Bell was simply a blues harmonica maestro. Beautiful tone and great ideas. A sharp witted guy too - he had to be - given life then in the Chicago ghetto and the profession of freelance musician. I spent a lot of time with Carey on his solo tours for me, and working together he never put on a less than top notch show. He had a real knack of getting an audience to adore him without in any way adding spurious showmanship or playing to the gallery.

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Interpret: Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
Album titlle: Having Fun (CD)
Genre Blues
Label JSP Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0788065302627
weight in Kg 0.1

Louisiana Red - Having Fun (CD) CD 1
01	Locked Up So Long	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
02	I Wish I Could Lead My Life Again	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
03	No Luck	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
04	Running Shoes	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
05	Boogie Chillun	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
06	Lurrie's Shuffle	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
07	Ghetto Woman	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
08	1215 W Belmont	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
09	I'm Going Upstairs	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
10	It's So Easy to Love You	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
11	Leaving in the Morning	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
12	Sweet Little Angel	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
13	Harmonica Meltdown	Louisiana Red & Carey Bell

Louisiana Red (born Iverson Minter, March 23, 1936, Vicksburg, Miss.) A journeyman Mississippi... more

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"Louisiana Red & Carey Bell"

Louisiana Red
(born Iverson Minter, March 23, 1936, Vicksburg, Miss.) A journeyman Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, Louisiana Red built his performing and recording style from a variety of sources, including JIMMY REED, MUDDY WATERS, and LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS.

Born in Mississippi, Red's early life was not an easy one; his mother died shortly after giving birth and his father was reputedly lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. Red taught himself how to play harmonica and guitar. After migrating to Pittsburgh around 1945, where he played on street corners for spare change, Red moved to Chicago in 1949 and recorded briefly for the Checker (Chess) label. Despite his inroads into the Chicago blues scene, Red spent most of the 1950s in the air force.

Upon his discharge in 1958, Red bounced from gig to gig. He recorded his debut album, Lowdown Back Porch Blues, in the early '60s for the RouletteNogue label. Throughout the '60s, uncertainty over his career led Red to work as much outside of music as he did as a blues performer. In 1971 he recorded the album Louisiana Red Sings the Blues for Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco, but the album failed to sell and Red was dropped from the label's roster. In the years since, Red has performed in small blues bars and at occasional festivals and has recorded for labels such as L+R. He lives in Europe, where he continues to record and perform

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