Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson
Author: Aleck Miller
Label: Trumpet
Year: 1951
Sonny Boy II, operating from Arkansas and Mississippi. Hijacked the name of his Chicago counterpart. This second Sonny Boy was the most successful one, working for radio in Helena, AR (the famous King Biscuit Flower Hour, still running), later for Chess in Chicago. His Arhoolie re-issue of his earliest (Trumpet) sides (and the backside of his gravemarker in Tutwiler, MS) hold one long list of standard blues material: Eyesight To The Blind, Nine Below Zero, Mr. Downchild, I Cross My Heart, Pontiac Blues and Mighty Long Time (where he borrowed the melody line of Blues Stay Away From Me for; see there).
Covers:
James Cotton [title track cd]
El Fish [Sonny Boy II was their harmonicaman Steven De Bruyn's main influence]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)