Who was/is Clayton Love ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Clayton Love, (born November 15, 1927, Mattson, Miss.) A St. Louis—based pianist and singer, Clayton Love bridged rhythm & blues and rock & roll in the 1950s as the singer and keyboard player in IKE TURNER'S Kings of Rhythm.
He also led his own group, Clayton Love & the Shufflers, and recorded for a variety of labels, including Trumpet, Aladdin, and Modern. Love was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Mattson, but when he was twelve moved with his family to Clarksdale. There he met and became friends with Turner. Love sang and got started playing piano in local churches before serving in the navy. After being discharged, he attended Alcorn A&M College, planning on becoming a teacher. In the early 1950s Love worked Delta clubs with the Shufflers.
He landed a recording contract with the Jackson, Mississippi—based Trumpet label, which yielded the song "Shuffling with Love." Love also did session work with Aladdin and Modern before joining Turner's Kings of Rhythm, which brought him from the Delta to St. Louis. Love's tenure with the Kings of Rhythm lasted into the mid-'60s, at which point he became a teacher in the St. Louis school district. Love continued to play piano in hotel lounges and bars on weekends until the late 1980s, when he retired from teaching and resumed his music career. An album he made with fellow St. Louis pianists JOHNNIE JOHNSON and JIMMY VAUGHN, called Rockin' Eighty-Eights, was released by Modern Blues Recordings in 1991.
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