Time: 29:16
File: Flac
Released: 1978
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, back
1. Doing Some Serious Living (4:15)
2. I Got You On My Mind (3:15)
3. Who's The Fool (5:09)
4. Been Nowhere And Don't Care (2:46)
5. Lonesome Feeling (3:24)
6. Wasn't Born Yesterday (3:00)
7. Shopping Instead (4:04)
8. You Got To Come To Me (3:23)
The clincher that puts Little Joe Blue a notch above most B.B. King imitators is the fact
that he took the former’s mannerisms and affectations and added a few twists of his
own. This made him an extremely emotive original, aside from the fact that he
possessed the skills to write uniquely infectious lyrics like the anguished “Dirty work
going on” (Movin 1966), the urgent “Standing on the threshold” (Jewel 1968) and the
poetic “Give me an hour in your garden” (Miles Ahead 1974).
He was born Joseph Valery Jnr. in Vicksburg, Miss. on September 23, 1934 to
Abraham Fields and Willie Hodges. He was raised across the Mississippi River in
Tallulah, La. through the 1940s then moved to Detroit. As a youngster in Tallulah,
Joseph came to be called “Little Joe Blue” because he constantly played Eugene
Field’s traditional “Little boy blue” on his harmonica. His first encounters with the blues
were in Vicksburg at the Green Lantern dance hall where he snuck around the back
and peeked in the door. Jimmy Liggins and T-Bone Walker, among others, played
there.
From 1951-53 he served in the U.S. Army and was posted out to the Korean
front. With a natural propensity to use his hands, he worked on auto assembly lines
before he started (at the urging of his hero B.B. King) entering talent shows and sit-in
gigs with local bands as a stand-up singer. One of these gigs involved the great
“Bobo” Jenkins from Forkland, Alabama. Around 1958 he formed the Midnighters and
worked local niteries like the Apex. After touring clubs and bars in the Reno, Nevada
area he moved out to California where he settled in Los Angeles. Now and then he
would work clubs like the Tropicana and Skylock.
Blue And The Blues Are Back FLAC (vinyl)
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