J.B. Lenoir - biography
Recordings(along with L+R 42.Worried Life Blues
Rev.Just A Closer Walk With TheeDLP prod.The Tay May Club
The Job series Vol.Sunnyland Slim
The Job series Vol.My Babe
Eddie Boyd with Buddy Guy a.Mama What About Your Daughter
Chess Teldec 6.Delmark DD 648 (1988)"The Blues World ofLittle Walter"www.Lenoir: Mama, Watch Your Daughter
Charly Blues Masterworks Vol.Sunnyland Blues (Sunnyland Slim)
J.Louis Jimmy Oden, harmrec.Voodoo Boogie
Chess CHEB61702.Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!This video will appear on your blog shortly.Thank you for sharing your concerns.There may be significant legal penalties for false notices.The capo placement creates quicker action on the guitar.Just a great version of this tune,so full sounding..The code changes based on your selection.Alabama Blues
On L+R LP LR 42.Mm mm mm, I got them Eisenhower blues
Thinkin' about me and you, what on earth are we gonna do?Ain't go a dime, ain't even got a cent
I don't even have no money, to pay my rent
My baby needs some clothes, she needs some shoes
Peoples I don't know what, I'm gonna do
Mm mm mm, I got them Eisenhower blues
Thinkin' about me and you, what on earth are we gonna do?Korea Blues
This blues dates from 1951.Lord I need you in South Korea
Sweetheart please don't you worry, I just begin to fly in the air
Sweetheart please don't you worry, I just begin to fly in the air
Now the Chinese shoot me mdown, Lord I'll be in Korea somewhere
I just sittin' here wonderin', who you gonna let lay down in my bed
I just sittin' here wonderin', who you gonna let lay down in my bed
What hurt me so bad, think about some man has gone in your bed.This time J B Lenoir links it to the racial murders in the Southern States at
the time.Vietnam
This was recorded in 1965, two years before his untimely death.Blues Lyrics On Line by .These songs meant the world to me.Depression years along the Mississippi.KB Lenore) was born on March 5, 1929 in
Monticello, Mississippi.During the early 40's Lenoir worked with
blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson (Alex
Miller), and Elmore James at the New
York Inn in New Orleans, Louisiana.He is buried in Salem Church Cemetery in Monticello,
Mississippi.Some of his recorded songs include: Born Dead,
Carrie Lee, Don't Dog Your Woman,
Don't Touch My Head, Eisenhower Blues,
Feeling Good, Natural Man,
Korea Blues, and Vietnam Blues.Lenoir's gender upon first hearing his rocking waxings.Newcomers to his considerable legacy could be forgiven for questioning J.His politically charged "Eisenhower Blues" allegedly caused all sorts of nasty repercussions upon its 1954 emergence on Al Benson's Parrot logo (it was quickly pulled off the shelves and replaced with Lenoir's less controversially titled "Tax Paying Blues").Lenoir spent time in New Orleans before arriving in Chicago in the late '40s.Chess in 1951, "Korea Blues," was another slice of topical commentary."Mama Talk to Your Daughter," in 1954 for Al Benson's Parrot label.His music was growing substantially by the time he hooked up with USA Records in 1963 (witness the 45's billing: J.Alabama Blues and Down in Mississippi were done in Chicago under Willie Dixon's supervision, Lenoir now free to elaborate on whatever troubled his mind ("Alabama March," "Vietnam Blues," "Shot on James Meredith").Little did Lenoir know his time was quickly running out.
