Roosevelt Sykes Original Honeydripper

• First time re-issued on CD
• Recorded live at the Blind Pig Café, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April19 & 20, 1977
• Newly mixed and re-mastered recordings

Whene these recordings were made by the young Bling Pig crew, Roosevelt Sykes was looking back on a career that spanned more than five decades. He made his first recordings for OKeh in 1929. During the 1930s and '40s he led a 12-piece r&b bigband. Until his death in 1983, he was entertaining crowds on both sides of the Atlantic. These beautiful recordings are showing a mature but young sounding artist, one of the best boogie, and blues piano players, ever, in front of an enthusiastic audience.

Roosevelt Sykes

 Geboren am 31. Januar 1906 in Elmar, Arkansas USA, US-amerikanischer Blues Pianist. Gestorben 17. Juli 1983, auch bekannt als  The Honeydripper.