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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16 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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The Be-Bob Boy (with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson)
Blues - Paru chez Bear Family Records GmbH le 13 avr. 2012
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Sun Records Originals: We All Gotta Go Sometime
Blues - Paru chez Sun Label Group, LLC le 16 juin 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Essential Blues Masters
Blues - Paru chez Nifty Music, Inc. le 1 mars 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
We All Gotta Go Sometime / She May Be Yours
Blues - Paru chez Sun Records le 1 janv. 1953
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered)
Blues - Paru chez Master Tape Records le 19 mars 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
King Of The One Man Bands (B)
Blues - Paru chez JSP Records le 1 janv. 2008
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A'Jumpin' & A'Shufflin' the Blues (1950-1954)
Country - Paru chez Jasmine Records le 13 déc. 2019
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Joe Hill Louis - Music History
Blues - Paru chez Vintage Jukebox le 11 août 2021
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King Of The One Man Bands (A)
Blues - Paru chez JSP Records le 1 janv. 2008
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Joe Hill Louis - Star Hits
Blues - Paru chez Don't stop the music le 16 sept. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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The One Man Band (Hd Remastered)
Blues - Paru chez Reborn recordings le 11 juil. 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
We All Gotta Go Sometime
Pop - Paru chez JB Production le 12 mars 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo