 Artist: Lowell Fulson: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Discography:  West Coast Blues Year: 2001 Tracks: 18  Rollin' Blues Year: 1998 Tracks: 20  It's a Good Day Year: 1990 Tracks: 10  So Many Tears Year: Tracks: 19  Reconsider Baby Year: Tracks: 14  Chicago Blues Bonus Year: Tracks: 20 Lowell Fulson recorded every shade of megrims conceivable. Polished urban blues, unsophisticated two-guitar duets with his younger brother Martin, funk-tinged grooves that pierced the mid-'60s charts, even an unwise cover of the Beatles' "Why Don't We Do It in the Road!" Clearly, the old-timer guitar player, wHO was active for more than than half a century, wasn't afraid to experiment. Perhaps that's why his last duet of discs for Rounder were so critical and satisfying -- and why he remained an pioneer for so tenacious. Exposed to the western dangle of Bob Wills as well as autochthonic blue devils spell ontogenesis up in Oklahoma, Fulson joined up with vocalist Texas Alexander for a few months in 1940, touring the Lone Star state of matter with the veteran soldier bluesman. Fulson was drafted in 1943. The Navy permit him go in 1945; afterward a few months back in Oklahoma, he was off to Oakland, CA, where he made his number one 78s for fledgeling producer Bob Geddins. Soon enough, Fulson was fronting his own banding and slip a stack of platters for Big Town, Gilt Edge, Trilon, and Down Town (where he hit big in 1948 with " O'Clock Blues," later covered by B.B. King). Swing Time records president Jack Lauderdale snapped up Fulson in 1948, and the hits truly began to Day I Have the Blues" (an version of Memphis Slim's "Cypher Loves Me"), "Blue Shadows," the two-sided holiday perennial "Lonesome Christmas," and a swagger mid-tempo instrumental "Low-pitched Society Blues" that really hammers home how staggeringly important piano player Lloyd Glenn and alto saxist Earl Brown were to Fulson's maturing sound (all charted in 1950!). Fulson toured extensively from then on, his stripe stocked with for a prison term with dazzling piano player Ray Charles (wHO later covered Lowell's "Sinner's Prayer" for Atlantic) and saxist Stanley Turrentine. After a one-off session in New Orleans in 1953 for Aladdin, Fulson inked a longterm pact with Chess in 1954. His first single for the Baby," cut in Dallas under Stan Lewis's supervising with a adolphe Sax section that included David "Twat" Newman on strain and Leroy Cooper on barytone. The unrelenting mid-tempo blues proven a monumental strike and perennial cover particular -- regular Elvis Presley cut it in 1960, right later on he got out of the Army. But apart from "Loving You," the guitarist's subsequent Checker outturn failed to find widespread party favour with the Baffling, since Fulson's crisp, concise guitar work and inflexible vocals were as effective as of all time. Most of his Checker roger Sessions were held in Chicago and L.A. (the latter his menage from the turn of the '50s). Fulson stayed with Checker into 1962, simply a change of labels worked wonders when he jumped over to Los Angeles-based Kent Records. 1965's driving "Smuggled Nights" became his first smash in a decennium, and " Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin, did regular better, restoring the guitar player to R&B stardom, gaining plentitude of come out spins, and inspiring a playful Stax cover by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas only a few months later that outsold Fulson's original. A yoke of lesser review hits for Kent ensued earlier the guitarist was reunited with Stan Lewis at Jewel Records. That's where he took a crack at that Beatles number, though about of his outings for the firm were substantially finisher to the blues bone. Fulson was never been abstracted for long on disc; 1992's Hold On and its 1995 follow-up Them Update Blues, both for Ron Levy's Bullseye Blues logo, were among his later efforts, both quite solid. Fulson continued to perform until 1997, when health problems forced the life history bluesman into a reluctant retreat. His health continued to deteriorate and on March 6, 1999 - barely a few weeks shy of his 78th natal day - Lowell Fulson passed away. Few bluesmen managed to remain contemporary the way Lowell Fulson did for more than five-spot decades. And fewer placid will make such a massive contribution to the dialect. |
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