Little Milton
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Biography
[Edit]He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman — a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King — as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland — for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco.
James Milton Campbell was born September 7, 1934, in the small Delta town of Inverness, MS, and grew up in Greenville. (He would later legally drop the "James" after learning of a half-brother with the same name.) His father Big Milton, a farmer, was a local blues musician, and Milton also grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry radio program. At age 12, he began playing the guitar and saved up money from odd jobs to buy his own instrument from a mail-order catalog. By 15, he was performing for pay in local clubs and bars, influenced chiefly by T-Bone Walker but also by proto-rock & roll jump blues shouters. He made a substantial impression on other area musicians, even getting a chance to back Sonny Boy Williamson II, and caught the attention of R&B great Ike Turner, who was doubling as a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun. Turner introduced the still-teenaged Little Milton to Phillips, who signed him to a contract in 1953. With Turner's band backing him, Milton's Sun sides tried a little bit of everything — he hadn't developed a signature style as of yet, but he did have a boundless youthful energy that made these early recordings some of his most exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately, none of them were hits, and Milton's association with Sun was over by the end of 1954. He set about forming his own band, which waxed one single for the small Meteor label in 1957, before picking up and moving to St. Louis in 1958.
In St. Louis, Milton befriended DJ Bob Lyons, who helped him record a demo in a bid to land a deal on Mercury. The label passed, and the two set up their own label, christened Bobbin. Little Milton's Bobbin singles finally started to attract some more widespread attention, particularly "I'm a Lonely Man," which sold 60,000 copies despite being the very first release on a small label. As head of A&R, Milton brought artists like Albert King and Fontella Bass into the Bobbin fold, and with such a high roster caliber, the label soon struck a distribution arrangement with the legendary Chess Records. Milton himself switched over to the Chess subsidiary Checker in 1961, and it was there that he would settle on his trademark soul-inflected, B.B. King-influenced style. Initially a moderate success, Milton had his big breakthrough with 1965's "We're Gonna Make It," which hit number one on the R&B charts thanks to its resonance with the civil rights movement. "We're Gonna Make It" kicked off a successful string of R&B chart singles that occasionally reached the Top Ten, highlighted by "Who's Cheating Who?," "Grits Ain't Groceries," "If Walls Could Talk," "Baby I Love You," and "Feel So Bad," among others.
The death of Leonard Chess in 1969 threw his label into disarray, and Little Milton eventually left Checker in 1971 and signed with the Memphis-based soul label Stax (also the home of his former protégé Albert King). At Stax, Milton began expanding his studio sound, adding bigger horn and string sections and spotlighting his soulful vocals more than traditional blues. Further hits followed in songs like "Annie Mae's Cafe," "Little Bluebird," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'," but generally not with the same magnitude of old. Stax went bankrupt in 1975, upon which point Little Milton moved to the TK/Glades label, which was better known for its funk and disco acts. His recordings there were full-blown crossover affairs, which made "Friend of Mine" a minor success, but that label soon went out of business as well. Milton spent some time in limbo; he recorded one album for MCA in 1983 called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, and the following year found a home with Malaco, which sustained the careers of quite a few old-school Southern soul and blues artists. During his tenure at Malaco, Milton debuted the song that would become his latter-day anthem, the bar band staple "The Blues Is Alright," which was also widely popular with European blues fans. Milton recorded frequently and steadily for Malaco, issuing 13 albums under their aegis by the end of the millennium. In 1988, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Title: Me for You, You for Me - The Glades Masters
Artist: Little Milton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: The Early Years: Little Milton (Beggin' My Baby - 25 Titles: 1954-1962)
Artist: Little Milton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Time For Hot Electric Blues Songs (Remastered)
Artist: Little Milton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Waiting For Little Milton & Blues 'N' Soul
Artist: Little Milton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Sun Records Originals: If You Love Me
Artist: Little Milton
Genre: Blues, Country, Rockabilly
Title: Montreux Festival (Remastered)
Artist: Albert King, Little Milton, Chico Hamilton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Collections
Title: The Sun Blues Story (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Sweet Soul Music 1965
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel
Title: Electric Blues 2005 Part 4 - 1970-2005 (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Its A Doozy Beeing Bluesy
Title: Sun Records-The Ultimate Blues Collection (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Sun Records-The Ultimate Blues Collection (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Chess Story 1947-1975 (CD09)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Chess Story 1947-1975 (CD11)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Chess Story 1947-1975 (CD12)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Chess Story 1947-1975 (CD13)
Genre: Blues
Title: Sun Records. The Blues Years 1950-1958 (CD7)
Genre: Blues
Title: Where Southern Soul Began 1954-1962 (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Compact Disc Club - Midnight Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: In The Shadow Of Sun (CD1)
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Chess Soul - A Decade Of Chicago's Finest (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Wintertime Blues (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Acoustic
Title: Nobody Wins - Stax Southern Soul 1975
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Slow Blues: 25 Rare Blues Tracks
Genre: Blues
Title: R&B Years 1954 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Living The Blues ~ Blues Classics Vocal
Genre: Blues
Title: Living The Blues ~ Blues Classics 1965-1969
Genre: Blues
Title: Living The Blues: Blues Greats
Genre: Blues
Title: 50 Greatest Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Music From The Wattstax Festival & Film (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Living The Blues ~ Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: Living The Blues: The 70's Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: Living The Blues: The 80s Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: If Walls Could Talk
Genre: Blues
Title: Ride Along (Unofficial Soundtrack)
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Chess Rhythm & Roll (CD4)
Genre: Blues, Rock & Roll
Title: The Sun CDCollection ~ Black Music Originals Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: The Sun CDCollection ~ Black Music Originals Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Chess Blues (CD4)
Genre: Blues
Title: Soul Cargo (1994-1997)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: R&B And Classic Soul Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Sunshine Soul - 20 Scorching Soul Classics
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Go Go Power
Title: Shattered Dreams: Funky Blues 1967-1978
Genre: Blues
Title: Where Southern Soul Began: 3 1957-1963 (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Essential Memphis Blues (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: Essential Memphis Blues (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: California Soul (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: California Soul (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: California Soul (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: California Soul (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: A Soul Awakening From Sacred To Secular (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: A Soul Awakening From Sacred To Secular (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Soulsville U. S. A.: A Celebration Of Stax (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Funk
Title: 101 Stax Records 5CDs (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel, Byzantine/Relegious, Country, Disco
Title: 101 Stax Records 5CDs (CD5)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel, Byzantine/Relegious, Country, Disco
Title: Epic Soul Ballads
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, New Wave, Disco, Synth Pop, Funk, Smooth Jazz
Title: Loving Soul 2019
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel, World Music, Country, Funk, Folk
Featuring albums
Title: Mulennium (Live)
Artist: Gov'T Mule
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Heavy Metal
Title: The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The Man With The Iron Fists: Deluxe Ultra Pak CD4
Artist: Rza, Howard Drossin
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: Hip - Hop Is Read Presents: The Big Doe Rehab (The Samples)
Artist: Ghostface Killah
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Pop
Title: Ike Turner: That Kat Sure Could Play! (The Singles 1951 To 1957) (CD2)
Artist: Ike Turner
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Sun Records 65th Anniversary: Born from the Blues
Artist: Various Artists