Sonny Boy Williamson
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manStopping off in the library this afternoon, I noticed on the discarded stock sale a CD of Sonny Boy Williamson, "the father of the blues harmonica". Oh, thought I; I recognise that name, as an influence on later bluesmen like Muddy Waters. So I bought the CD.
I was horrified, though, to discover when I got to read the sleeve notes, that another bluesman, Alec Rice Miller, started using Williamson's name, and after Williamson was beaten to death in a mugging around the corner from his own house in 1949, started recording as Sonny Boy Williamson himself.
I now have no idea which Sonny Boy Williamson it was that I had previously heard of. Still, this one's music is good, so I can't complain, I suppose. (OTOH for 50p, I could hardly have done otherwise...)
I was horrified, though, to discover when I got to read the sleeve notes, that another bluesman, Alec Rice Miller, started using Williamson's name, and after Williamson was beaten to death in a mugging around the corner from his own house in 1949, started recording as Sonny Boy Williamson himself.
I now have no idea which Sonny Boy Williamson it was that I had previously heard of. Still, this one's music is good, so I can't complain, I suppose. (OTOH for 50p, I could hardly have done otherwise...)
