PERFORMERS:

6 = LEGENDARY....... " COOL VINTAGE HOMESTYLE ORIGINAL... BLUESMEN "

BUKKA WHITE - - - HOUSTON STACKHOUSE - - - PIANO RED

FURRY LEWIS - - - SAM CHATMON - - - JOE WILLIE WILKINS

Original First Printing - 1974 - Austin Texas - 34 Year Old - Blues Concert Poster

BUKKA WHITE..... got his initial start in music learning fiddle tunes from his father. Guitar instruction soon  followed, and eventually bought him a guitar. When Bukka White was 14 he spent some time with an uncle in Clarksdale, Mississippi and passed himself off as a 21-year-old, using his guitar playing as a way to attract women. Somewhere along the line, White came in contact with Delta blues legend Charley Patton, who no doubt was able to give Bukka White instruction on how to improve his skills in both areas of endeavor. In addition to music, White pursued careers in sport, playing in Negro Leagues baseball and, for a time, taking up boxing.

In 1930 Bukka White met furniture salesman Ralph Limbo, who was also a talent scout for Victor. White traveled to Memphis where he made his first recordings, singing a mixture of blues and gospel material under the name of Washington White. Victor only saw fit to release four of the 14 songs Bukka White recorded that day. As the Depression set in, opportunity to record didn't knock again for Bukka White until 1937, when Big Bill Broonzy asked him to come to Chicago and record for Lester Melrose. By this time, Bukka White had gotten into some trouble — he later claimed he and a friend had been "ambushed" by a man along a highway, and White shot the man in the thigh in self defense. While awaiting trial, White jumped bail and headed for Chicago, making two sides before being apprehended and sent back to Mississippi to do a three-year stretch at Parchman Farm. While he was serving time, White's record "Shake 'Em on Down" became a hit.

Bukka White proved a model prisoner, popular with inmates and prison guards alike and earning the nickname "Barrelhouse." It was as "Washington Barrelhouse White" that White recorded two numbers for John and Alan Lomax at Parchman Farm in 1939. After earning his release in 1940, he returned to Chicago with 12 newly minted songs to record for Lester Melrose. These became the backbone of his lifelong repertoire, and the Melrose session today is regarded as the pinnacle of Bukka White's achievements on record. Among the songs he recorded on that occasion were "Parchman Farm Blues",  "Good Gin Blues," "Bukka's Jitterbug Swing," "Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues," and "Fixin' to Die Blues," all timeless classics of the Delta blues.

White was an incredibly compelling performer who gave up of more of himself in his work than many artists in any musical discipline. The Sky Songs albums for Arhoolie are an eminently rewarding document of Bukka's charm and candor, particularly in the long monologue "Mixed Water." "Big Daddy," recorded in 1974 for Arnold S. Caplin's  Biograph label, likewise is a classic of its kind and should not be neglected. BOB  DYLAN... recorded "Fixin' to Die Blues" on his 1961 debut Columbia album

BUKKA WHITE -

Born = on Nov 12, 1906 in Houston, MS
Passed Away = Feb 26, 1977 in Memphis, TN

PIANO RED ... Willie Perryman went by two nicknames during his lengthy career, both of them thoroughly apt. He was known as Piano Red because of his albino skin pigmentation for most of his performing life. But they called him Doctor Feelgood during the '60s, and that's precisely what his raucous, barrelhouse-styled vocals and piano were guaranteed to do: cure anyone's ills and make them feel good.

PIANO RED -

Born =  on Oct 19, 1911 in Hampton, GA
Passed Away = Jul 25, 1985 in Decatur, GA

FURRY LEWIS ... was the only blues singer of the 1920s to achieve major media attention in the 1960s and '70s. One of the most recorded of Memphis-based guitarists of the late '20s, Lewis's subsequent fame 40 years later was based largely on the strength of those early sides. One of the very best blues storytellers, and an extremely nimble-fingered guitarist right into his seventies, he was equally adept at blues and ragtime, and made the most out of an understated, rather than an overtly flamboyant style.

FURRY LEWIS -

Born = on Mar 6, 1893 in Greenwood, MS
Passed Away = Sep 14, 1981 in Memphis, TN

SAM CHATMON ... A product of the prodigious Chatmon family that included not only Lonnie of the famous Mississippi Sheiks but also the prolific Bo Carter and several other blues-playing brothers, Sam Chatmon survived to be hailed as a modern-day blues guru when he began performing and recording again in the '60s. Sam continued brother Bo's tradition of sly double-entendre blues to entertain a new generation of aficionados, but he also showed a more serious side on songs like the title track of the early Arhoolie anthology I Have to Paint My Face

SAM CHATMON -

Born = on Jan 10, 1897 in Boltmon, MS
Passed Away = Feb 2, 1983 in Hollandale, MS

HOUSTON STACKHOUSE ... The mentor of Delta slide virtuoso Robert Nighthawk, Houston Stackhouse never achieved the same commercial or artistic success as his famed pupil, and remained little known outside of his native Mississippi. Born in the small town of Wesson on September 28, 1910, he was a devotee of Tommy Johnson, whose songs he frequently covered; neither an especially gifted singer nor guitarist, he was quickly surpassed by the young Nighthawk, although the student repaid his debts by backing Stackhouse on a series of sessions cut during the mid- to late '60s. Outside of the rare European tour, Stackhouse was primarily confined to playing Delta border towns throughout the majority of his career.

H. STACKHOUSE -

Born = Sep 28, 1910 in Wesson, MS
Passed Away = Sep 23, 1980 in Houston, TX

JOE WILLIE WILKINS ... Rebellion against his parents was certainly not part of the scenario with this bluesman, who was mostly known as a sideman, but was a major influence as a guitarist all the same. He was born in the heart of the Mississippi Delta and his father was the bluesman Papa Frank Wilkins, a friend of the great country bluesman Charley Patton. Joe Willie Wilkins was already picking pretty good blues guitar at an early age, after also learning both harmonica and accordion. He picked up the nickname of "the Walkin' Seeburg," a reference to the brand name of a popular jukebox in the '30s, for his knack at learning songs, resulting in a unique ability to perform almost any request.

JOE WILLIE WILKINS -

Born = Jan 7, 1923 in Davenport, MS
Passed Away = 1981 in Memphis, TN

VENUE: " RITZ "..in Austin.TX
DATE: JAN.19.1974 - and is an Original 1st Printing
ARTIST: SCHON PRODUCTIONS
SIZE: 11 x 17 
CONDITION: EXCELLENT SHAPE : No Rips, Tears or Folds ... VERY FRAMABLE

VALUE: $ 125.oo - Starting Bid Only .. 24.00

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