Artist: J.B. Lenoir
Author: J.B. Lenoir
Label: Polydor
Year: 1966
Second voice: Willie Dixon.
Covers:
Ry Cooder [in film Crossroads]
Omar & The Howlers [from McComb, MS]
Pops Staples [from Drew, MS]
Jim Dickinson with Chuck Prophet [Jim is from Independence, MS]
Eagle Eye Cherry-Vernon Reed-James Blood Ulmer [in film The Soul Of A Man]
North Mississippi Allstars [feat. Jim Dickinson and a bit of I Walk On Gilded Splinters (Dr. John)]
J.B. Was the first black blues singer to openly bring the race subject across. In 1953, right in the middle of the Korea conflict, he also wrote an Eisenhower Blues and a Korea Blues. No wonder Lenoir had it hard finding an American record deal. When his Polydor contract ran out he recorded for the German Lippman & Rau label (L&R).
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