Lonnie Brooks Wound Up Tight(blues)(mp3@320)[rogercc][h33t]

LONNIE BROOKS WOUND UP TIGHT
Label Alligator
Orig Year 1986
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Long before Lonnie Brooks was headlining major blues festivals and sharing stages with the likes of Eric Clapton, he was forging his bayou-swamp-music-meets-Chicago-blues-via-Texas style. Born Lee Baker, Jr. in Dubuisson, Louisiana on December 18, 1933, he began his career playing everything from rock 'n' roll to country & western and R&B. Originally desiring to play banjo (his grandfather was an accomplished banjo player), Lonnie instead mastered the guitar. His first professional job came when zydeco legend Clifton Chenier saw him playing guitar on his front porch and drafted him into the famous Red Hot Louisiana Band. In the mid-1950s, Brooks, now known as Guitar Junior, cut a series of Gulf Coast proto-rock 'n' roll hits for the Goldband label, now considered swamp rock classics. He hitched a ride with Sam Cooke's touring caravan and got off in Chicago in 1960. Because Chicago already had a Guitar Junior, he changed his name to Lonnie Brooks, and jumped headlong into Chicago blues. He joined Jimmy Reed's touring band, and also recorded singles for Mercury, Chess and other labels in the 1960s, before Capitol released Brooks' first album, Broke And Hungry (under the name Guitar Junior) in 1969.


Personnel: Lonnie Brooks (vocals, guitar); Johnny Winter, Osee Anderson, Larry Clyman (guitar); Jim Liban (harmonica); Tom Giblin (keyboards); Noel Neal (bass); Jimi Schutte (drums).

Recorded at Streeterville Studios, Chicago, Illinois.



Track List
1.Got Lucky Last Night
2.Jealous Man
3.Belly Rubbin' Music
4.Bewitched
5.End of the Rope
6.Wound up Tight
7.Boomerang
8.Musta' Been Dreamin'
9.Skid Row
10.Hush Mouth Money