Lefty Dizz Shake For Me(blues)(mp3@320)[rogercc][h33t]

LEFTY DIZZ SHAKE FOR ME
Release Date: September 03, 2002



Born in Arkansas in 1937, Dizz (the nickname was bestowed on him by Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers, appropriating it from drummer Ted Harvey, who used the name when he was "playing jazz in the alley") started playing guitar at age 19 after a four-year hitch in the Air Force. Entirely self-taught, he played a standard right-handed model flipped upside down, without reversing the strings. His sound was raw and distorted and his style owed more to the older bluesmen than to the hipper West Side players like Otis Rush and Buddy Guy working in the B.B. King mode. By the time he came to Chicago, he had honed his craft well enough to become a member of Junior Wells's band in 1964, recording and touring Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia with him until the late '60s. At various times during the '60s and early '70s, he'd also moonlight as a guitarist with Chicago stalwarts J.B. Lenoir and Hound Dog Taylor, while sitting in everywhere and playing with seemingly everyone. While being well known around town as a "head cutter," Lefty Dizz was always welcome on anyone's bandstand. His personality, while seemingly carefree and humorous, masked a deep, highly intelligent individual who had also earned a degree in economics from Southern Illlinois University.

The unflappable Dizz, who could seemingly make the best out of any given situation without complaint and had friends in the blues community by the truckload, finally passed away on September 7, 1993. And with his passing, the blues lost perhaps its most flamboyant showman.



1 R.M. Blues (2:47)
2 Blue Shadows [Take 2] (3:41)
3 Take Out Some Insurance (3:54)
4 Cummins Prison Farm Calvin Leavy (4:37)
5 I Found Out (5:21)
6 Shake for Me (4:24)
7 Funny Acting Woman (4:12)
8 The Things I Used to Do (4:34)
9 Blue Shadows [Take 1] (4:14)
10 Moose Boogie (2:46)
11 One Eyed Woman (4:06)
12 All Right, OK, You Win (3:00)
13 Lake Shore Drive Boogie (3:09)