The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues (CD)

Sometimes known as Sonny Boy Williamson II, bluesman Rice Miller took his musical moniker from another blues singer who used it first, though Miller was the best-known Sonny Boy Williamson. He began performing in the 1920s, but the Mississippi singer/harmonica player is best known for his pioneering Chicago-style work in the '50s, which influenced Chicago blues singers and harmonica players in equal measure. In the '60s, he was one of those influential blues musicians embraced by British rockers, and he recorded with the Yardbirds, the Animals, and others before his death in 1965.

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• Release Date: March 12, 2002
• Label: Chess (USA)
• UPC: 008811282325
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106611310
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2 LPs on 1 CD: THE REAL FOLK BLUES (1965)/MORE REAL FOLK BLUES (1966).

Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey, Willie Dixon, Paul Williams.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

THE REAL FOLK BLUES:

Personnel includes: Sonny Boy Williamson (vocals, harmonica); Willie Dixon (vocals, bass); Robert Lockwood, Jr., Luther Tucker, Matt Murphy, Eddie King (guitar); Lafayette Leake (piano, organ); Otis Spann, Billy Emerson (piano); Milton Rector (acoustic & electric basses); Fred Below, Odie Payne, Al Duncan

(drums).

Producers: Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Marshall Chess, Willie Dixon.

Recorded between June 1960 and April 1964. Originally released on Chess (1503).

MORE REAL FOLK BLUES:

Personnel includes: Sonny Boy Williamson (vocals, harmonica); Willie Dixon (vocals, bass); Matt Murphy, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Luther Tucker, Buddy Guy, Eddie King (guitar); Jarrett Gibson (tenor saxophone); Donald Hankins (baritone saxophone); Lafayette Leake (piano, organ); Otis Spann (piano);

Billy Emerson (organ); Milton Rector, Jack Meyers (bass); Al Duncan, Fred Below, Odie Payne, Clifton James (drums).

Recorded between June 1960 and April 1964. Originally released on Chess (1509).

Sonny Boy Williamson was born Aleck Ford and known as Aleck Miller before adopting the familiar moniker. An earlier bluesman, born Rice Miller (1914-1948), went by the same name, though he died before this one showed up on the scene. Though this second Sonny Boy was prone to wildly contradictory biographical "facts" and unreliable self-mythologizing, his musical legacy is quite solid. His edgy singing and harmonica playing was like a dagger lunging forward in the teeth of a rhythmically insistent bear. His use of dynamics was subtle but insistent, allowing a relatively quiet number like "Bring It On Home" to simmer with an unshakable air of drama and danger.

These two albums appeared after his death in 1965 and cemented his reputation for subsequent generations of blues musicians. Williamson's influence was also key to the development of the various British blues bands in the '60s (The Yardbirds, John Mayall, etc.).

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