Hustler (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Blues  »  Texas/W. Coast Blues
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• Release Date: November 18, 1997
• Label: Arhoolie
• UPC: 096297900826
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106094990
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #197127 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #4459 in Blues (See Top 100 Blues Bestsellers)
• #205 in Texas/W. Coast Blues (See Top 100 Texas/W. Coast Blues Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Bee Houston (vocals, guitar); Willie Molette, Big Mama Thornton (vocals); Terry "Big T" de Rouen (guitar); Jay Hodge (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Alex Nelson, Everett Minor, Sonny Campbell (tenor saxophone); Richard Brown (baritone saxophone); William Anthony (trumpet); Nathaniel Dove (piano); Eddie Jones , Gus Wright, Fred Cooper, Chuck Davenport (drums).

Recording information: Harmony Recorders, Hollywood, CA (01/25/1968-03/05/1970); United (01/25/1968-03/05/1970); Vault Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA (01/25/1968-03/05/1970); Western Recorders, Hollywood, CA (01/25/1968-03/05/1970).

Photographer: Pete Welding.

Arranger: Richard Brown.

Long before soul and R&B rolled down different paths, they were comfortable cohabitants. Artists like the self-satisfied and energetic Bee Houston contain such elements. Houston can treat his guitar like a T-Bone Walker as quick as he can be a B.B. King. This exhorting and emphasizing vocalist was found suitable as a backing musician for Little Willie John, Junior Parker, Little Johnny Taylor and Bobby Bland. His guitar work is not about flash, but brash support for soul shouting. Familiar with Big Mama Thornton's "Ball and Chain?" Well, Houston backed Big Mama on her classic 1968 recording of that song and Thornton shows up here singing on "Woke Up This Morning." This is a reissue of Bee's only previously issued album (also on Arhoolie) and another previously unissued album. Bee proves himself to be a consummate showman, stellar guitar stylist and creator of a superb, original songbook of blues-and-soul material. ~ Tom Schulte

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