Detroit Jr Chicago Urban Blues(blues)(mp3@320)[rogercc][h33t]

Detroit Jr.: Chicago Urban Blues
Released : 1972
Label : Blues on Blues
Re Released :1976 (Antilles)
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Blues On Blues

Antilles

Emery Williams Jr. is a living link to the great Chicago blues piano players of the 1940s and 1950s. Born on October 26, 1931, in Haynes, AR, Williams was given the name Detroit Junior when be began recording on his own in the 1960s. As a child, Williams was moved around quite a bit, as his family relocated from Arkansas to Memphis, then to Pularski, IL, and finally to Flint, MI, where Williams lived with his grandmother. It was there that he began playing keyboards, learning on his grandmother's organa (a parlor instrument that was part organ, part piano). Soon he was playing piano in the tough clubs and juke joints around Flint, eventually relocating to Chicago in the early '50s, where he began playing with the likes of Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Reed, and Eddie Taylor.

He recorded his first 45 (and earned the name Detroit Junior), "Money Tree" b/w "So Unhappy," in 1960, and also cut a single ("Too Poor" b/w "You Mean Everything to Me") for Chess Records. An album, Chicago Urban Blues, came out on the Blues on Blues label in the early '70s. In 1969 Williams began a long stint as Howlin' Wolf's piano player, a spot he held until Wolf's death in 1976.

Tracklist :
01 - Don't Get In My Shape
02- Money Crazy
03- Windy City Blues
04- Welfare Blues
05- Christmas Blues
06- Dance With Me Baby
07- So Unhappy
08- Call My Job
09- Alice
10- My Weakness (Is Women)

Recorded : December 1971 in Chicago, IL;

Detroit Jr., vocal, piano;
Mac Simmons, harmonica.
Mighty Joe Young, guitar.
Jimmy Richards, bass.
Bill Warren, drums