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 - Lançado por Bear Family Records GmbH em 13 de abr. de 2012
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Sun Records Originals: We All Gotta Go Sometime
Blues - Lançado por Sun Label Group, LLC em 16 de jun. de 2023
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When I´m Gone
Blues - Lançado por HOT BLOOD em 12 de fev. de 2015
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We All Gotta Go Sometime / She May Be Yours
Blues - Lançado por Sun Records em 1 de jan. de 1953
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Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered)
Blues - Lançado por Master Tape Records em 19 de mar. de 2021
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King Of The One Man Bands (B)
Blues - Lançado por JSP Records em 1 de jan. de 2008
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Boogie in the Park
Blues - Lançado por HOT BLOOD em 12 de fev. de 2015
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King Of The One Man Bands (A)
Blues - Lançado por JSP Records em 1 de jan. de 2008
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The One Man Band (Hd Remastered)
Blues - Lançado por Reborn recordings em 11 de jul. de 2019
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We All Gotta Go Sometime
Pop - Lançado por JB Production em 12 de mar. de 2018
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