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 By
Cornbread
 Tommy
Bankhead - Message To St. Louis
{Recorded July 1999, released 2000 | Fedora
Records}
Eleven
fantastic tracks from the great St. Louis Bluesman.
Bankhead sings/plays guitar on ten originals
and the classic blues song "Goin' to Chicago".
This CD is Tommy Bankhead's debut on Fedora
Records.
Bankhead
began playing house parties and fish frys in
rural Mississippi and Arkansas, then joined
the blues legends Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy
Williamson, to the "six-week gig"
in St. Louis that has lasted nearly two decades,
Unbelievably, this is only Bankhead's second
recording the first Please Mr. Foreman 1983.
Bankhead is joined by Erskine Oglesby, whose
tenor was part of the Ike & Tina Revue,
Charles 'Nephew' Davis, a veteran himself who
played with James Brown and Little Milton, and
the piano playing of Bob Lohr.
This
CD is a necessity for all blues collections!
I loved this CD, it has been added to my top
ten list. See Tommy's other reviews just
below!
Rating
5 out of 5 - hey y'all it doesn't get better
than that!
Ciao'
for now
'Cornbread'
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