Joe Hill Louis
Joe Hill Louis created quite a racket as a popular one-man blues band around Memphis during the 1950s. If not for his tragic premature demise, his name would surely be more widely revered. Lester (or Leslie) Hill ran away from home at age 14, living instead with a well-heeled Memphis family. A fight with another youth that was won by young Hill earned him the "Joe Louis" appellation. Harp came first for the multi-instrumentalist; by the late '40s, his one-man musical attack was a popular attraction in Handy Park and on WDIA, the groundbreaking Memphis radio station where he hosted a 15-minute program billed as The Pepticon Boy.
Also known as the Be-Bop Boy, Louis made his recording debut in 1949 for Columbia, but the remainder of his output was issued on R&B indies large and small -- Phillips (Sam Phillips's first extremely short-lived logo), Modern, Sun, Checker, Meteor, Big Town (where he cut the blistering "Hydramatic Woman," a tune he'd cut previously for Sun in 1953 with Walter Horton on harp, but Phillips never released it), and House of Sound. Louis was only 35 when he died of tetanus, contracted when a deep gash on his thumb became infected.
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The Be-Bob Boy (with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson)
Blues - Erschienen bei Bear Family Records GmbH am 13.04.2012
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Boogie in the Park
Blues - Erschienen bei ACE RECORDS am 25.05.2015
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Sun Records Originals: We All Gotta Go Sometime
Blues - Erschienen bei Sun Label Group, LLC am 16.06.2023
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Essential Blues Masters
Blues - Erschienen bei Nifty Music, Inc. am 01.03.2009
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We All Gotta Go Sometime / She May Be Yours
Blues - Erschienen bei Sun Records am 01.01.1953
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Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered)
Blues - Erschienen bei Master Tape Records am 19.03.2021
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King Of The One Man Bands (B)
Blues - Erschienen bei JSP Records am 01.01.2008
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Boogie in the Park
Blues - Erschienen bei HOT BLOOD am 12.02.2015
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A'Jumpin' & A'Shufflin' the Blues (1950-1954)
Country - Erschienen bei Jasmine Records am 13.12.2019
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Joe Hill Louis - Music History
Blues - Erschienen bei Vintage Jukebox am 11.08.2021
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King Of The One Man Bands (A)
Blues - Erschienen bei JSP Records am 01.01.2008
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Joe Hill Louis - Star Hits
Blues - Erschienen bei Don't stop the music am 16.09.2021
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Boogie in the Park
Rock - Erschienen bei Smith & Co. am 07.03.2017
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The One Man Band (Hd Remastered)
Blues - Erschienen bei Reborn recordings am 11.07.2019
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We All Gotta Go Sometime
Pop - Erschienen bei JB Production am 12.03.2018
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