Who was/is Willie Love ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Willie Love, (born November 4, 1906, Duncan, Miss.; died August 19, 1953, Jackson, Miss.) Piano player and singer Willie Love was a familiar figure on the Memphis, West Memphis, and Mississippi Delta blues scenes in the late 1940s and early 1950s, often working with guitarist JOE WILLIE WILKINS and drummer WILLIE NIX. Love, however, is also known for his work With SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (Rice Miller).
He played on some of Williamson's earliest recordings for the Trumpet label in 1951. Love learned how to play piano as a youth in the Delta. Like so many other musicians from the region, Love played out-of-the-way juke joints and house parties and lived the life of an itinerant bluesman. He eventually made his way to Helena, Arkansas, in 1942 and began performing on radio station KFFA's "King Biscuit Time" blues program with Williamson, whom Love had met ear-lier that year in a Greenville, Mississippi, juke. Love, Williamson, Nix, and Wil-kins often performed together in Delta jukes in the late 1940s as the Four Aces.
Love also continued his radio work; for a while in 1949 he even had his own show on KWEM out of West Memphis. In addition to recording with Williamson, Love recorded for Trumpet as a solo artist and as a member of the group that, without Williamson and the other Aces, was called nonetheless the Three Aces and often included saxophone player Otis Green, drummer Alex Wallace, and guitarist ELMORE JAMES. After a swing through the South working in Williamson's back-up band, Love contracted pneumonia. The disease killed him in 1953
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