Journalist Isabel Wilkerson gave the reason simply and succinctly as "the warmth of Paradoxically, this music, created for a relatively tiny audience, has influenced the popular music of the world like no other.Īs mechanization reduced the need for field labor and as a life freer of bigotry beckoned, vast numbers of African Americans left the Delta. That their music became a dialect that drew upon their ancestry and experience. Outside the towns and cities, African Americans vastly outnumbered whites, and their number and their apartness (an apartness enforced by law and custom), ensured
Sits atop a vast alluvial plain, the Mississippi Delta, and the Delta bequeathed us the blues. Immediate goal was to make a going concern of the studio and possibly quit his day jobs, his ambition was to capture the sound of Beale Street. It was so active, musically, socially, God, I loved it''! The blues resonated with his unconforming soul. Fifty years later, the memory was still vivid: "We drove down Beale in the middle of the night, and it was rockin'. But Phillips grew up around blues and gospel, and, in 1939, he and some friends drove to Memphis from their home in northwest Alabama. He looked like a poster boy for the but- toned-down orthodoxy of early fifties suburban America.Įven in impromptu snapshots, he's wearing a sports jacket and tie, and not a hair is out of place. LookingĪt photos of Phillips from back then, you'd never guess that his soul belonged on Beale Street. Beale Street dead-ended one block south, and the heart of Memphis's African American community lay close by. In January 1950, Sam Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue, one mile or so east of the Mississippi River. MEMPHIS BLUES AT 100 - It went undocumented at the Special thanks to the late Sam Phillips and the late Shelby Singleton John Singleton and Phyllis Hill at Sun Entertainment, Nashville's Jim Cole, Joe Filisko, Dale Franklin, Robert Loers, Doug Seroff, and Peter Guralnick, Bill Millar, Eric LeBlanc, Bob Eagle, Terry Stewart, Hank Davis, Martin Hawkins, Cilla Huggins,Įvans, Jim O'Neal, Bill Greensmith, Chris Bentley, Cilla Huggins, Steve LaVere, Victor Pearlin, George Paulis, David Evans, Doug Seroff, Hank Davis, Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins Hank Davis, Colin Escott, and Martin Hawkins The essays and photos are housed in a 184-page, hardboundīook authored by Hank Davis, Colin Escott, and Martin Hawkins. LaVere, David Evans, and Jim O'Neal have made decades of research available, including biographical information and – above all – breathtaking photos from the golden era of Memphis blues. In all, there are 10 CDs featuring 306 recordings, 14 of them previously unissued. Cole and never-heard recordings by Walter Bradford, the Jones Brothers, Billy Among them are Sam Phillips' commercial for a cure-all patent medicine a primitive John Lee Hookerstyles singer named J.C. Several significant caches of unissued recordings haveĬome to light since the 1980s LP edition of this set. Vocal group classics is the Prisonaires' original recording of ''Just Walkin' In The Rain''. In the 1950s, Memphis was home to many of the finest Southern gospel groups, including the Brewster, the Southern Jubilee Singers, and the Jones Brothers. Phillips also recorded Southern gospel and vocal groups. King, Little Milton, Earl Hooker and Ike Turner at the dawn of their careers. Guitar titans Pat Hare, Willie Johnson, and Floyd Murphy, and of course B.B.
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As the electric guitar came to fore, it became the predominant sound of post-War blues, and Phillips knew how to record it like no other producer ever had. Love, and Charlie Booker who brought the ageless soul of the Delta into modern times. All of them are here in newly restored sound, together with many other rare and collectible songs by now-classic Fifties blues singers like Doctor Ross, Joe Hill Louis, Willie Nix, Billy King's ''She's Dynamite'', Walter Horton's ''Easy'', Howlin' Wolf's ''Moanin' At Midnight'', Rosco Gordon's ''Booted'', and HoneyboyĮdwards' early Robert Johnson-styled recording of ''Sweet Home Chicago''.
Among the noteworthy original recordingsĪre Jackie Brenston-Ike Turner's ''Rocket 88'', Junior Parker original ''Mystery Train'', Rufus Thomas's ''Bear Cat'', B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Junior Parker, Rosco Gordon, Sleepy John Estes, Earl Hooker, Walter Horton, James Cotton, and Ike Turner. The finest post-War blues artists of all time, including B.B. The greatest-ever blues box now significantly upgraded! During the 1950s Sun Records founder Sam Phillips captured many of © MaBear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 17310 (1-8) mono digital
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