Tampa Red
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Biography
[Edit]Out of the dozens of fine slide guitarists who recorded blues, only a handful — Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson, for example — left a clear imprint on tradition by creating a recognizable and widely imitated instrumental style. Tampa Red was another influential musical model. During his heyday in the '20s and '30s, he was billed as "The Guitar Wizard," and his stunning slide work on electric or National steel guitar shows why he earned the title. His 30-year recording career produced hundreds of sides: hokum, pop, and jive, but mostly blues (including classic compositions "Anna Lou Blues," "Black Angel Blues," "Crying Won't Help You," "It Hurts Me Too," and "Love Her with a Feeling"). Early in Red's career, he teamed up with pianist, songwriter, and latter-day gospel composer Georgia Tom Dorsey, collaborating on double-entendre classics like "Tight Like That."
Listeners who only know Tampa Red's hokum material are missing the deeper side of one of the mainstays of Chicago blues. His peers included Big Bill Broonzy, with whom he shared a special friendship. Members of Lester Melrose's musical mafia and drinking buddies, they once managed to sleep through both games of a Chicago White Sox doubleheader. Eventually alcohol caught up with Red, and he blamed his latter-day health problems on an inability to refuse a drink.
During Red's prime, his musical venues ran the gamut of blues institutions: down-home jukes, the streets, the vaudeville theater circuit, and the Chicago club scene. Due to his polish and theater experience, he is often described as a city musician or urban artist in contrast to many of his more limited musical contemporaries. Furthermore, his house served as the blues community's rehearsal hall and an informal booking agency. According to the testimony of Broonzy and Big Joe Williams, Red cared for other musicians by offering them a meal and a place to stay and generally easing their transition from country to city life.
Today's listener will enjoy Tampa Red's expressive vocals and perhaps be taken aback by his kazoo solos. His songwriting has stood the test of time, and any serious slide guitar student had better be familiar with Red's guitar wizardry.
Title: I'll Find My Way: Hot Chicago Blues (1947-1953)
Artist: Tampa Red, Hudson Whittaker
Genre: Blues
Collections
Title: Road Music
Genre: Rock
Title: Top 100 Classics - The Very Best of the 1920's, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955)
Genre: Blues
Title: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: 101 - The Best of Vintage Blues
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Blues Masterpieces Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: American Boogie & Blues - The Lost Album
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues!
Genre: Blues, World Music
Title: The Great Pop Songs of All Time, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: R&B Hits of 1951, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Country Folk & Blues
Genre: Country
Title: The House of the Rising Sun
Genre: Blues
Title: Please Warm My Weiner: Old Time Hokum Blues
Genre: Rock
Title: Death Might Be Your Santa Claus
Genre: Blues
Title: R&B Soul Hits of the Past, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Essential Chicago Blues - 50 Classic Tracks
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Definitive Collection of R&B Hits from 1949
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1953, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Songs Of Misery, Grief & Destruction
Genre: Pop
Title: Risque Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues of Chicago, Vol. 4
Genre: Blues
Title: Southern Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: A Woman's Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Definitive Blues Collection, Vol. 12
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Great Blues Guitarsists: String Dazzlers
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Blues for the Road, Vol. 3
Title: Early Blues Pioneers
Genre: World Music
Title: The World Of... Blues Power!
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1952, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Stop Messin' Around
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1940-1945, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Dirty Blues Licks
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Guitar Wizards: 1926-1935
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Masterpieces, Vol. 5
Title: Down In Black Bottom: Lowdown Barrelhouse Piano
Genre: Blues
Title: Slide Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: New York Blues 30's (Doxy Collection)
Genre: Blues
Title: Slide Guitar - Bottles, Knives & Steel, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: All by Yourself
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues, Vol. 4
Genre: Blues
Title: New York City Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Piano Discoveries (1928-1943)
Genre: Blues
Title: Southern Country Blues, Vol. 2 (Box Set)
Genre: Blues
Title: Unforgetable - Bottleneck Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Kings
Genre: Blues
Title: The Acoustic Blues Box Set
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Rural Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: New York Blues (Doxy Collection, Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of the Blues Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
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