Copyright Hip-O Records and/or Reelin' In The Years Productions Appearing on the American Folk Blues Festival, a music festival that introduced audiences in ...
I don't wanna be disrespectful here, but how the f*6k that bass player
standing there like he bored. He part of something amazing here, and he
letting his hand flap about on the strings like some dead thing from a
barely animated corpse. Maybe I am being disrespectful he probably heard it
1000 times that week, lord knows they used to work musicians hard back
then.
It depends though. This is a very different form of blues then what for example B.B King did. I love any blues but Chicago Blues would probably my favourite of all
Wow, he was good. Wish they had more videos of him, wish they had him going
full out and dancing and such; but then, I guess we lucky to have anything
from those bigoted times.
Unlike many other blues musicians who had left an impoverished childhood to
begin a musical career, Chester Burnett was always financially successful.
Having already achieved a measure of success in Memphis, he described
himself as "the onliest one to drive himself up from the Delta" to Chicago,
which he did, in his own car on the Blues Highway and with $4000 in his
pocket, a rare distinction for a black blues man of the time. In his early
career, this was the result of his musical popularity and his ability to
avoid the pitfalls of alcohol, gambling and the various dangers inherent in
what are vaguely described as "loose women," to which so many of his peers
succumbed. Although functionally illiterate into his 40s, Burnett
eventually returned to school, first to earn a General Educational
Development (GED) diploma, and later to study accounting and other business
courses aimed to help his business career.
Burnett met his future wife, Lillie, when she attended one of his
performances in a Chicago club. She and her family were urban and educated,
and not involved in what was generally seen as the unsavory world of blues
musicians. Nonetheless, immediately attracted when he saw her in the
audience as Burnett says he was, he pursued her and won her over. According
to those who knew them, the couple remained deeply in love until his death.
Together they raised Bettye and Barbara, Lillie's two daughters from an
earlier relationship.
After he married Lillie, who was able to manage his professional finances,
Burnett was so financially successful that he was able to offer band
members not only a decent salary, but benefits such as health insurance;
this in turn enabled him to hire his pick of the available musicians, and
keep his band one of the best around. According to his stepdaughters, he
was never financially extravagant, for instance driving a Pontiac station
wagon rather than a more expensive and flashy car.
Burnett's health began declining in the late 1960s. He experienced several
heart attacks and suffered bruised kidneys in a 1970 car accident.
Concerned for his health, bandleader Eddie Shaw limited him to a mere six
songs per concert.
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+C Varney ---Awesome post, so refreshing to actually get info on the artist you can use, not a bunch of stuff you don't need, no fighting, so I thank u so very much. I wish others could learn from this, I thought gettin on yt would a learning experience also, not just listening to musik. & you helped restore my faith.
+Carolyn Ekuka ----It really as informative, this is a prime example of what kinds of info I was hoping to get from the comments, such good history in those sentences. Lots of racism, juvenile behavior, & disrespect goes on & it's refreshing to learn about things you just didn't know.
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Back Alley rocks!! Sounds good Bald, liked the song selection too!! My feet
are blessed!.....No hwy that's fleet not feet.....Whatever Al it made me
want to dance thus feet. I don't own a shrimp boat so...oh hell never
mind..rock on Cadillacs!!!