Walter 'Lightnin' Bug' Rhodes - Now Hear This!

Size: 261 MB
Time: 43:51
File: Flac
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. The life of Lightnin' Bug Rhodes (4:34)
2. Auto Mechanic Blues (3:28)
3. North Carolina Woman (4:29)
4. Wiggle, wiggle, baby (4:20)
5. Neighbour, neighbour (3:37)
6. Blues Star blues (3:34)
7. Step it up and go (3:26)
8. It's not what you do (3:00)
9. Peepin' through the grapevine (2:57)
10. Now hear this (3:11)
11. You got to do better (3:14)
12. Give me back my wig (3:57)

Walter was born in 1939 in Beaufort, NC and learned to play guitar there. In 1960 he was in New York playing for The Gospel Four and starting his recording career as a member of the Golden Arrows. Pretty soon though he made the move into R & B as a member of the Blues Boys duo, touring with such artists as the wonderful Big Maybelle and Shep & The Limelights. With his cousin Arthur Little he apparently recorded as Walt and Art for Dessa, before recording his first solo sessions for Blanche Kaslin’s Hull, with the Leo Price Band. He chose the name The Blonde Bomber as a variant on heavyweight boxer Joe Louis’ nickname The Black Bomber for his own albino pigmentation. http://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/R/walter_rhodes/index.php

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Walter 'Lightnin' Bug' Rhodes - Where Is My Friend

Size: 231 MB
Time: 42:30
File: Flac
Released: 1989
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. You Don't Have to Go (2:31)
2. Rainy Night in Georgia (3:33)
3. Good Ol' Love (Talkin' 'Bout Sex) (3:24)
4. The Wiggle (6:04)
5. Where Is My Friend? (4:41)
6. When You Love Someone (3:52)
7. Mind Your Own Business (3:12)
8. Bright Lights, Big City (5:40)
9. Bull In Your Pasture (4:26)
10. Lightnin' Bug (5:04)

Looking at his long career you’d have to call Walter Rhodes primarily a bluesman, but he did cut three masterpieces in the soul genre which haven’t really received their due attention. In fact his music in general hasn’t been studies properly, partly due to the number of names he recorded under and partly due to the obscure labels he cut for. HA highly talented musician, he was a more than competent guitarist and blues harp player but his crowning glory was his voice. He was never a flashy singer, but there were few who put so much of themselves into a lyric, and fewer still who made such emotionally compelling performances. My friend Dickie Tapp, who saw him live in 1989, says "I will never forget Walter Rhodes' appearance at the Blues Estafette in 1989. It was one of the most emotional performances I have ever witnessed and the 'pain' in his singing had me close to tears. Walter was backed by a small ad-hoc combo which included Teddy Reynolds on piano and Sherman Webster on bass - they all gelled." And that force and intensity was with him whatever musical style he chose. http://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/R/walter_rhodes/index.php

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