ORIGINALLY UPLOADED ON WWW.DIMEADOZEN.ORG
Brought to you here by the original uploader; LUCIFER BURNS


O.k. Dime Members,
were gonna liven things up here for the next few weeks with some "Blues"!
Real Traditional Blues from the African-American Bluesmen of the U.S.A.

IT'S GONNA BE A VERY BLUESY NEW YEARS !!!

Thanks to all of you who download these shows in the past and left "thanks" etc....
Thanks to "William Tell" and ALL his Swiss, German & Italian taper friends.

We would like to dedicate this on going series with no end insight, again to our original inspiration, "team lampinski".
We would also like to give special mention to "Zubbid" & Kneesfudd" who have helped us out in the past with setlists, musicians line up, etc..

Once again i would like to ask those that still have such "treasures" tucked away,
to please consider sharing them the way these generous people have.
None of us are getting any younger and what good will any of your recordings be when you're DEAD!


So Ladies & Gentleman, Boys & Girls, Brothers & Sisters,
For your entertainment & "earjoyment"
I present to you;

"WILLIAM TELL EDITION" 119

Homesick James &Amp; Snooky Pryor
1973-02-24
"American Blues Legends 73"
Volkhaus
Zurich, Switzerland


Recorded by; "Doctor Robert"

Recorded on; Hitachi Low Noise Cassettes>ITT Schaub-Lorenz:SL54 Automatic>Philips Mic EL 3782

Recording provided by; "William Tell"

Uploaded by; "Lucifer Burns"


See IMPORTANT lineage notes below*


Setlist;

1. MY BABY'S GONE
2. BABY, PLEASE SET A DATE
3. GOTTA MOVE
4. I HELD MY BABBY LAST NIGHT/NINE BELOW ZERO
5. BOOGIE TWIST
6. I CAN'T FEEL GOOD NO MORE (aka My Head is Turning Grey)
7. ?
8. Instrumental



Musicians;

HOMESICK JAMES WILLIAMSON - Slide Guitar/Vocal (1 - 4 & 6 - 8) (April 30, 1910 ? December 13, 2006)
JAMES EDWARD PRYOR aka "Snooky Pryor" - Harmonica/Vocal (5 - 8) (September 15, 1921 ? October 18, 2006)
VERNON"Boogie Woogie Red"HARRISON- Piano (Tracks 3 - 7) (October 18, 1925 ? July 2, 1992)
Trigger Hill - Bass
Uncle Tom Farnell - Drums




Bio;

HOMESICK JAMES was an American blues musician known for his mastery of the slide guitar.
He recorded covers of "Stones in My Passway" and "Homesick".
He worked with his cousin, Elmore James, and with Sonny Boy Williamson II.
His birth name is variously reported as John William Henderson, James Williams, or James Williamson.

Little is known about his early life.
He developed a self-taught style of slide guitar through playing at local dances in his teens.
He claimed to have played with Yank Rachell, Sleepy John Estes, Blind Boy Fuller and Big Joe Williams, among others, and to have been acquainted with Robert Johnson.
He also claimed to be the older cousin of Elmore James, to have bought James his first guitar, and to have taught him how to play slide.
However, some of these claims are unconfirmed.

By the mid-1930s he was based in Chicago, working with Horace Henderson's band at the Circle Inn and with the pianist Jimmy Walker at the Square Deal Club.
He may have first recorded for RCA Victor in 1937, but this is also unconfirmed, and by 1938 may have begun playing electric guitar.
His first known recordings were in 1952 for Chance Records, recording the tracks "Lonesome Ole Train" and "Homesick", which gave him his stage name.
During the late 1940s and 1950s he worked with Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), and with Elmore James, and in the early 1950s he worked in bands including Baby Face Leroy Foster, Snooky Pryor, Floyd Jones, and Lazy Bill Lucas.
He was a member of Elmore James's band from 1955 to 1963, contributing to such tracks as "Dust My Broom," "The Sky Is Crying," and "Roll and Tumble."
Elmore James is said to have died on Homesick's couch, while the latter frantically searched for the former's heart pills.

As a solo performer, he recorded for the Colt and USA labels in 1962, including a cover version of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads".
His slide guitar style, not as refined as Elmore James's, traces back to Johnson's.
He also recorded a 1964 album for Prestige Records, Blues on the South Side (Prestige OBCCD 529-2), including another of his best-known covers, "Stones in My Passway", and some tracks for Vanguard, which are available on the compilation album Chicago: The Blues Today.

One of his own songs, "Gotta Move" (also on Blues on the South Side) was covered (as "Got to Move") by Elmore James and by Fleetwood Mac.
He is mentioned by name in the 1989 song "Fergus Sings the Blues" by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue, with the lyric "Homesick James, my biggest influence"~ wikipedi


Bio;

JAMES EDWARD PRYOR aka "Snooky Pryor" was an American Chicago blues harmonica player.
He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records in the late 1940s and early 1950s he did not utilize this method.

Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi, and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller).
He moved to Chicago around 1940.

While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through a PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way.
Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street Market, becoming a regular on the Chicago blues scene.

Pryor recorded some of the first postwar Chicago blues, in 1948, including "Telephone Blues" and "Snooky & Moody's Boogie", with the guitarist Moody Jones, and "Stockyard Blues" and "Keep What You Got", with the singer and guitarist Floyd Jones.
"Snooky & Moody's Boogie" is of considerable historical significance: Pryor claimed that harmonica ace Little Walter directly copied the signature riff of Pryor's song in the opening eight bars of his blues harmonica instrumental "Juke," an R&B hit in 1952.
In 1967, Pryor moved to Ullin, Illinois. He quit music and worked as a carpenter in the late 1960s but was persuaded to make a comeback.

In January 1973 he appeared alongside Homesick James with the American Blues Legends tour, which played throughout Europe.
On this tour they recorded an album in London, Homesick James & Snooky Pryor, on Jim Simpson's label, Big Bear Records.

Some of his better known songs include "Judgement Day" (1956); "Crazy 'Bout My Baby", from Snooky (1989); "where did You Learn to Shake It Like That", from Tenth Anniversary Anthology (1989); and "Shake My Hand" (1999)

He was later rediscovered by blues fans and resumed recording occasionally until his death in nearby Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 85.~ wikipedi



*Here is the orignal lineage for the die-hard collector as well as the average listener;

Hitachi Low Noise Master Cassettes>Nakamichi 682 ZX Cassette Tape deck(normal eq/no noise reduction)>Tascam FireOne>iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo>Audacity>normalize>FLAC>Dime

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PLEASE ENJOY THE MUSIC, WHILE YOU STILL CAN, BEFORE YOU'RE DEAD! AND WE'RE ALL DYING IN HERE, BUT YOU'RE NOT DEAD YET !