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Name :
Barry Pickell
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blubp@msn.com
Location :
San Diego, CA USA
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
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BRIAN BENTHAM
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brian@bbentham.freeserve.co.uk
Location :
chester, UK
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
have been a fan for 35yrs. What a great find on the net. Keep up the great work
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N C Junker-Poulsen
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ncjp@mail.tele.dk
Location :
Galten, Denmark
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
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What a great site! Very informative in just about everything I need to know about Sonny Boy and easy to get around. What more can I ask for? Just one question. Would you either tell me, who's the R. Bass who co-wrote Help Me with Sonny Boy? The best from N.chr. Junker-Poulsen. And keep up the good work. Note from 'fessor Mojo: "R. Bass" is Ralph Bass, the Chess producer who probably was the man who suggested Sonny Boy record something with the riff from "Green Onions" the Booker T. & the MGs hit of a year earlier.
Name :
Bill Flanagan
Email Address :
thehungries@fcgnetworks.net
Location :
Laconia, NH USA
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
WOW!! Great site! I've been playing harp about 20 yrs. and am amazed by how much I don't know.I'll be back.
Name :
MICHAEL GWYNNE
Email Address :
PURKASZ@AOL.COM
Location :
NEW YORK, NY USA
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
AHHHHH, SONNY BOY, WE HARDLY KNEW YA! I WAS IN MY "ONE ROOM LONELY CABIN" IN A FREEZE-ASS TOWN IN CANADA IN 1960 WHEN I CAME ACROSS A CHECKER SIDE CALLED "LONESOME CABIN." I AIN'T BEEN THE SAME SINCE. I GOT INTO RADIO DOWN IN NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI IN 1964 AND THOUGHT I COULD PLAY DIS censored WITH APLOMB! I WAS WRONG! THEY RAN MY ASS OUT OF TOWN RIGHT QUICK. SPECIALLY A WHITE BOY PLAYING THE BLOOZE DOWN THERE TOO. TOOK MY "GOODY BOX" TO MOBILE AND THE SAME DAMN THING HAPPENED. TRAVELLED TO MONTEREY CALIF AND HONOLULU PLAYING THE MUSIC ON MY RADIO SHOWS AS A TOP-40 DJ ALA JOHN R. I USED A LOTTA NAMES IN A LOTTA TOWNS...MY MY MY, WHAT A THRILL TO COME ACROSS THIS PAGE ESPECIALLY AFTER I JUST GOT BACK 1 HOUR AGO FROM BUYING THE LAST RECORDING SONNY BOY EVER MADE IN '65 IN THE UK. BAD RECORDING, GOOD MUSIC. I WANT MY CHESS-CHECKER SIDES BACK!! THANKS MAN, LEMME KNOW WHAT'S HAPPNIN' WHEN IT HAPPENS!
Name :
eli husock
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HHusock564@aol.com
Location :
Brookline, Ma U.S
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
I think the site is great. I'm a harp player, who thinks Sonny Boy is all you need to listent to. I don't like the emphasis of this site on the Chess/Checker stuff, though it's certainly not as good. The Trumpet sides rank with some of the best blues ever recorded. Also anyone who says Little Walter is the king of blues harp, has never heard Sonny Boy play, he's ten times the lyricist and 50 times the player!
Name :
Duncan Mclean
Email Address :
dmclean@cyberphile.co.uk
Location :
Walsall, United Kingdom
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
This guy's playing reaches your very soul. Timeless classics by the undisputed master of the blues harp !!!
Name :
Ron Cass
Email Address :
ronchi@netzero.net
Location :
Chattanooga, TN USA
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
I first became acquainted with Sonny Boy by accident. I had traded some records with a friend (1956)you know (Bill Haley,Carl Perkins), and thought I had got ripped because he slipped a few of his dad's records in the bunch..until I played them one was John Lee Hooker and the other was Sonny Boy Williamson "Don't start me to Talkin, I'll tell every think I know" MAN!!!Knocked me out!! I've been hooked ever sence, that tone from that harp, and the vibrato in his voice. it was so real.. As a musician for almost forty years, I have never heard anyone get close to his sound, and almost never that fealing.It is a shame that a gift like that can't live on forever...or maby it does......
Name :
Kurt Rightmyer
Email Address :
kurt@e-mail.ne.jp
Location :
Osaka-cho, Gifu Japan
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
Interesting site. Thanks for the harp tips.
Name :
Alex Tarneller
Email Address :
a_tarneller@hotmail.com
Location :
Bozen, Italy
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
You got to help me, I can't do it all by myself! SBW is far more than an inspiration...
Name :
George B. Thomas
Email Address :
latidaprod@aol.com
Location :
Waitsfield, VT USA
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
As a harp player, I can't imagine life without Sonny Boy Williamson II. As a DJ I can't imagine a Holiday show (Santa Claus) sans the man either. It's been a "Mighty Long Time" since I've heard anyone as moving. (not excepting Little Walter, Sonny Terry, Big Walter Horton, Jerry Portnoy, et.al.) Thanks for a great site, brings Eyesite to the Blind.
Name :
big pete
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Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
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sonny boy is absolutely the king(and i dont mean biscuit!') I really dig his whiny type sound........groovy.
Name :
Frank Black
Email Address :
bloomingtonnormal.com/blues/
Location :
Clinton, Illinois USA
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
Just returned from Mississippi and visited Sonny Boy's grave and I must tell you, tears sprang to my eyes...So emotional I got while looking at his grave. Please everyone, go to Mississippi and seek his grave, and stand there for a few hours, not minutes, and yes, my high school days, in Alabama, and the seeing of him two or three times in the years then, I won't forget, and by the way....go and see Robert Johnson's grave...well worth a trip. Note from 'fessor Mojo: Sonny Boy Williamson's grave is in Tutwiler MS at the Whitfield church. Downtown there is a map on the mural across from the train station where W. C. Handy first heard the blues. There are two Robert Johnson graves near Three Forks outside of Greenwood MS. I left him a nickel ("the lady wants 50 cents and I lacks a nickel")on his grave.
Name :
Aparicio Fernandes
Email Address :
apariciof@hotmail.com
Location :
lisbon, portugal
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
For me he is the Best harp player of Blues of all times!!!
Name :
Nate Taiapa
Email Address :
haipp@waikato.ac.nz
Location :
Hamilton, New Zealand
Date :
2010-04-26 00:00:00
Comment :
I'm here in Aotearoa. We've got the blues here too. Drop us a line. Yeah, and Sonny Boy has got to be my best harp examplar.
Comment :
Wow Bill, I have been meaning to come to this site for a long time. I just got a computer good enough to handle it. I will have to come back often. there is so much to learn. Thanks, Barry