Sonny Boy Williamson was, in many ways, the ultimate blues legend. By the time of his death in 1965, he had been around long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at the start of his career and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Robbie Robertson at the end of it. In between, he drank a lot of whiskey hoboed around the country, had a successful radio show for 15 years, toured Europe to great acclaim, and simply wrote, played and' sang some of the greatest blues ever etched into black phonograph records. His delivery was sly, evil and world-weary, while his harp playing was full of short, rhythmic bursts one minute and powerful, impassioned blowing the next. His songs were chock-full of mordant wit, with largely autobiographical lyrics that hold up to the scrutiny of the printed page. Though he took his namesake from another well-known harmonica player, no one really sounded like him.
A moody, bitter, and suspicious man, no one wove such a confusing web of misinformation as Sonny Boy Williamson II. Even his birth date (either 1897 or 1909) and real name (Aleck or Alex or Willie "Rice"-which may or may not be a nickname-Miller or Ford) cannot be verified with absolute certainty. Of his childhood days in Mississippi absolutely nothing is known. What is known is that by the mid '30s, he was traveling the Delta working under the alias of Little Boy Blue. With blues legends like Robert Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Elmore James as interchangeable playing partners, he worked the juke joints, fish fries, country suppers, and ball games of the era. By the early '40s, he was the star of KFFA`s King Biscuit Time, the first live blues radio show to hit the American airwaves. As one of the major ruses to occur in blues history, his sponsor-the Interstate Grocery Company-felt they could push more sacks of their King Biscuit Flour with Miller posing as Chicago harmonica star John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson. In today's everybody-knows-everything video age, it's hard to think that such an idea would work much less prosper. After all, the real Sonny Boy was a national recording star, and Millers vocal and harmonica style was in no way derivative of him. But Williamson had no desire to tour in the South, so prosper it did, and when John Lee was murdered in Chicago, Miller became-in his own words-"the original Sonny Boy." Among his fellow musicians, he was usually still referred to as Rice Miller, but to the rest of the world he did, indeed, become the Sonny Boy Williamson.
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Sonny Boy Williamson II: Portrait Of A Blues Man (2000)
Tracks:
01. Little Girl - 4:33
02. Movin' Down The River Rhine - 3:47
03. Down And Out (take 1) - 3:26
04. The Story Of Sonny Boy Williamson - 4:51
05. On My Way Back Home - 3:37
06. Down And Out (take 2) - 3:35
07. Chicago Bounce - 3:18
08. I'm So Glad - 4:13
09. I Wonder, Do I Have A Friend - 4:02
10. Copenhagen Woman - 3:40
Recorded in Denmark, 1963 (Flac format)02. Movin' Down The River Rhine - 3:47
03. Down And Out (take 1) - 3:26
04. The Story Of Sonny Boy Williamson - 4:51
05. On My Way Back Home - 3:37
06. Down And Out (take 2) - 3:35
07. Chicago Bounce - 3:18
08. I'm So Glad - 4:13
09. I Wonder, Do I Have A Friend - 4:02
10. Copenhagen Woman - 3:40
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