Smokey Wilson
When Los Angeles-based guitarist Smokey Wilson really got serious about setting a full-fledged career as a bluesman in motion, it didn't take him long to astound the aficionados with an incendiary 1993 set for Bullseye Blues, Smoke n' Fire, that conjured up echoes of the Mississippi Delta of his youth. Robert Lee Wilson lived and played the blues with Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, Big Jack Johnson, Frank Frost, and other Mississippi stalwarts before relocating to L.A. in 1970 when he was 35 years old. But instead of grabbing for the gold as a touring entity, he opened the Pioneer Club in Watts, leading the house band while the club booked the very best in blues talent (all-star attractions at the fabled joint included Joe Turner, Percy Mayfield, Pee Wee Crayton, Albert Collins, and plenty more).
Wilson recorded sparingly at first, his LPs for Big Town not doing the man justice. A 1983 set for Murray Brothers (later reissued on Blind Pig) with harpist Rod Piazza and Hollywood Fats on rhythm guitar may have been the turning point; clearly, he was gearing up to leave his Mississippi mark on Southern California blues. Smoke n' Fire from 1993, its 1995 encore The Real Deal (a title now used for three contemporary blues albums in a year's time: John Primer and Buddy Guy have also claimed it), and 1997's The Man from Mars nominate Smokey Wilson as one of the hottest late bloomers in the blues business.
© Bill Dahl /TiVo
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Round Like an Apple: The Big Town Recordings 1977-1978
Blues - Erschienen bei ACE RECORDS am 29.08.2005
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Smoke 'N' Fire
Blues - Erschienen bei Bullseye Blues am 15.09.1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Man From Mars
Blues - Erschienen bei Bullseye Blues am 11.03.1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Real Deal
Blues - Erschienen bei Bullseye Blues am 05.07.1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Back to the Roadhouse
Blues - Erschienen bei TEXMUSE am 01.01.2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
White Man's Blues
Country - Erschienen bei TEXMUSE am 01.01.2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo