Time: 46:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1982/2000
Styles: Chicago Blues, Juke Joint Blues
Art: Full
01. Whisky Headed Woman (5:19)
02. Poison Ivy (4:39)
03. Watermelon Man (3:37)
04. Poor Boy Blues (6:11)
05. Pretty Baby (4:10)
06. Whole Lotta Love (3:12)
07. Okee Dokee Stomp (3:18)
08. Woke Up This Morning (3:41)
09. Cleo (4:55)
10. Every Day I Have The Blues (2:51)
11. Just Pickin' (4:09)
Brewer Phillips is best remembered as a driving force behind Hound Dog Taylor’s Houserockers. Alongside his loud long-time drumming partner Ted Harvey, Brewer would keep a bass-line pounding on his guitar using a thumb-pick, while using his fingers to strum the heavy juke-joint boogies of his native Mississippi hill country. This potent rhythm section allowed Hound Dog to wail his slide guitar over this insanely insistent beat, and Brewer would sometimes contribute his shimmering single-string lead guitar lines to the mix too. After Hound Dog’s demise, Brewer continued to back other Chicago artists and issued a rare solo album when he was almost 60 years old.
Born in Coila MS in 1924, Brewer was a childhood friend of Eddie ‘Playboy’ Taylor whose guitar work was to become the rock on which Jimmy Reed‘s career rested. Both kids recognised the value of the heavy boogie beats coming out of the juke-joints all around the area. When Brewer moved to Memphis in the mid-50s, he did some session work with Memphis Minnie and Roosevelt Sykes before joining Bill Harvey’s band. Brewer lived the life of a working musician throughout the 60s and joined up with Hound Dog Taylor in Chicago towards the end of the decade. When Delmark producer Bruce Iglauer could not persuade owner Bob Koester to sign The Houserockers, he formed Alligator Records to get the music out there. The success of their first album got the band and the label off to a great start, and Brewer’s ‘sheet-metal tone’ had a lot to do with it. The Houserockers always put on a fantastic performance, as their many live albums show, but sadly Hound Dog passed away from cancer in 1976.
Born in Coila MS in 1924, Brewer was a childhood friend of Eddie ‘Playboy’ Taylor whose guitar work was to become the rock on which Jimmy Reed‘s career rested. Both kids recognised the value of the heavy boogie beats coming out of the juke-joints all around the area. When Brewer moved to Memphis in the mid-50s, he did some session work with Memphis Minnie and Roosevelt Sykes before joining Bill Harvey’s band. Brewer lived the life of a working musician throughout the 60s and joined up with Hound Dog Taylor in Chicago towards the end of the decade. When Delmark producer Bruce Iglauer could not persuade owner Bob Koester to sign The Houserockers, he formed Alligator Records to get the music out there. The success of their first album got the band and the label off to a great start, and Brewer’s ‘sheet-metal tone’ had a lot to do with it. The Houserockers always put on a fantastic performance, as their many live albums show, but sadly Hound Dog passed away from cancer in 1976.
Whole Lotta Blues
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