SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON THE REAL FOLK BLUES ORIGINAL US 1966 CHESS LP

	£		88
	$		117

SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON - "THE REAL FOLK BLUES"  ORIGINAL US 1966 1ST PRESS ON THE CHESS LP 1503 LABEL IN FANTASTIC CONDITION!

COVER: FRONT LAMINATE COVER IS IN GREAT CONDITION WITH HARDLY ANY WEAR, STRONG AND FLAT WITH PERFECT SPINE, THERE IS A SMALL FAINT STAMP "VICTOR MUSIC" IN GREEN A RECORD STORE OR DISTRIBUTOR? ON THE BACK OF COVER AS CAN BE SEEN IN THE IMAGE BELOW, ANYWAY VERY CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL COVER, GRADED: EX to EX+
VINYL: RARELY PLAYED, CLEAN AND SHINY, NO SCRATCHES, NO MARKS, JUST A FEW WYSPY PAPER SLEEVE REMOVAL HAIRLINES VISIBLE UNDER A STRONG LIGHT. PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY WITH JUST OCCASIONAL LIGHT CRACKLE IN THE BACKGROUND IN QUITE PLACES, GRADED: EX to EX+
LABELS - SUPER CLEAN, NO WRITINGS OR STICKERS, NO WEAR AROUND SPINDLE HOLES, 1 OR 2 FAINT SPINDLE MARKS ON SIDE B ONLY. GRADED: NM 

The biography of Sonny Boy Williamson is something of an enigma, even to ardent blues fans. Indeed, he isn't even the "real" Williamson; a shrewd businessman simply gave singer-mouth harpist Aleck "Rice" Miller the name after the 1948 murder of popular blues artist John Lee Williamson. Still, Miller/Williamson's remarkable career literally bridged Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, both his music and life embodying a free-wheeling, hard-living lifestyle that became something of a rock and blues cliché. After considerable local radio success in the Delta, Miller/Williamson ended up at Chicago's Chess Records in the mid-1950s, where all but one of these two dozen tracks originated in the early '60s. But by the time Chess originally issued the first of these ill-timed collections (belatedly compiled to cash in on a waning '60s folk boom), Williamson was six months dead. Listen and it's not hard to hear why a generation or two of blues-smitten rockers held him especially dear, be it the Allmans (the original "One Way Out," with longtime partner Robert Lockwood Jr. supplying the familiar guitar licks) orZeppelin (a lugubrious, boogied-up take of Willie Dixon's "Bring It On Home"). Punctuated by harp blasts that could turn from sharply staccato to lyrically wrenching, Williamson's leathery voice muses over his being "Too Young to Die" or "Too Old to Think" with the self-deprecating indifference that became a trademark. Though these tracks are the cream of his last years, they're more boozy celebration than elegy. --Jerry McCulley

A hero to future blues stars (particularly harp players) and rock bands alike, Sonny Boy wrote and recorded some of the most unforgettable Chess sides of the '60s. All his best '60s Chess sides are included among these two LPs (look for "More Real Folk Blues" LP up in my auction): The Goat; One Way Out; Got to Move; Help Me; Bring It on Home; Bye Bye Bird; My Younger Days , and more certified classics.

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