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Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson
Author: Aleck Miller
Label: Checker
Year: 1955
Real name: Aleck Ford, after his mother but as Rice Miller he adopted the name of his stepfather. Also known as Willie Williams, Alex Willie Williamson, Little Boy Blue, Buzzard Beak and The Signifyin' Goat. Played as Sonny Boy Williamson from '41 till '45 on radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas and recorded for Trumpet in Jackson, MS between '51 and '54. Not to be confused with John Lee Williamson, an older blues harmonica player who successfully recorded as Sonny Boy Williamson on RCA Bluebird in Chicago between '37 and '47. When he died in 1948, the second Sonny Boy from down in the Delta just adopted his new stage-name, recording for Checker in Chicago between '55 and '65 and for European companies like Storyville and L+R between '63 and '65.
Covers:
Dirty Blues Band [with Rod Piazza]
Fenton Robinson [on Sound Stage 7]
Bob Dylan [with Latino-punk trio The Plugz in Late Night with David Letterman; out on Bootleg Series Vol 16]
Jimmy Rogers [with Mick Jagger & Keith Richards]
Other songs by Sonny Boy 'Rice Miller' Williamson: Eyesight To The Blind and Nine Below Zero; other songs by Sonny Boy 'John Lee' Williamson: Check Up On My Baby and Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.
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)