Big Daddy KINSEY

⬇️ BIG DADDY KINSEY ⬇️

(Lester J. Kinsey Jr.)
(5CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

Lester J. Kinsey Jr., (March 18, 1927 – April 3, 2001) known as Big Daddy Kinsey, was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.

He was born near Pleasant Grove, Mississippi. He grew up playing gospel music; his father was a pastor in the Church of God in Christ and disapproved of blues music. However, Kinsey started playing guitar at parties in Mississippi, before moving in 1944 to Gary, Indiana, where he worked in a steel mill. He married and served in the military before returning to work in Gary and raising a family.

In the late 1950s, he started a family band, Big Daddy Kinsey and His Fabulous Sons, with his children, but it dissolved in the early 1970s, and Lester Kinsey began playing harmonica with a local band, the Soul Brothers. His second son, guitarist Donald Kinsey, played in Albert King's band in the 1970s, and later joined Bob Marley and the Wailers, but in 1984 rejoined his father and brothers Ralph and Kenneth to form The Kinsey Report.

The band featured Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey as slide guitarist and harmonica player. They signed for the Rooster Blues label, and in 1985 with Alligator Records, becoming "one of the hottest attractions in contemporary blues". In the early 1990s Kinsey recorded the album I Am the Blues, featuring such musicians as Buddy Guy, James Cotton, and Pinetop Perkins.

As well as leading his band, Lester Kinsey also established a bus company running charter trips to casinos in the southern States. He developed prostate cancer, and died in Gary in 2001 aged 74. His sons have continued to perform as The Kinsey Report.

NEW!

1986.06.07-LIVE Nightstage, Cambridge MA @VBR

LIVE

Nightstage, Cambridge MA

(with Kinsey Report)

TRACKS 01-Chicken Shack 02-The Thrill Is Gone 03-Why I Sing the Blues 04-Jimmy Jones Introduction 05-Intrumental- 06-Hey, Little Girl. 07-Treat Your Woman Right 08-Kinsey's Mood 09-Blow Wind Blow 10-Tribute to Muddy 11-Going to New York 12-Intro to Change Your Evil Wyas 13-Change Your Evil Ways 14-Medley ....Ride With Me ....Sweet home Chicago ....Close to You Baby ....You Dont have to go 15-Instrumental 16-Stir It Up 17-Instrumental 18-outro 19-Dont Lock The House 20-Hard Life 21-Love Me or Leave Me 22-Scratch My Back 23-Nuclear War Blues 24-Country Boy 25-Got My Mojo Working

1986.06.07-LIVE Nightstage, Cambridge MA @VBR

(Thanks to Rippin' Frog)

Can't Let Go

TRACKS 01-Can't Let Go 02-Going To New York 03-Meanest Woman 04-Kinsey's Mood Too 05-It's Over 06-Dancin' Shoes 07-Do You Need Me Like I Need You 08-Hard Life 09-I'm A Lover 10-Howlin' Wolf

BGKY-1990-Can_t Let Go @ALAC

I am the Blues

TRACKS 01-Ode to Muddy Waters 02-I Am the Blues 03-Baby, Don't Say That No More 04-Somebody's Gonna Get Hooked Tonight 05-Nine Below Zero 06-Walking Thru the Park 07-Good Mornin' Mississippi 08-Don't You Lie to Me 09-The Queen Without a King 10-Mannish Boy 11-Little Red Rooster 12-Got My Mojo Workin'

BGKY-1993-I am the Blues @ALAC

Ramblin' Man

TRACKS 01-Tippin' On In 02-Little Rain Falling 03-These Kinda Of Blues 04-It's Over 05-Ramblin' Man 06-Nothing's Too Good For My Baby 07-Treat Your Woman Right 08-For The Love Of A Woman 09-Bloody Tears 10-Stayed Away Too Long 11-Worst Feeling 12-Dancing Shoes

BGKY-1995-Ramblin Man @ALAC

Bad Situation

TRACKS 01-Bad situation 02-Treat Your Woman Right 03-Slow Down 04-Gary, Indiana 05-Gonna Make You Mine 06-Nuclear War Blues 07-Change Your Evil Ways 08-Tribute To Muddy 09-You're Gonna Miss Me 10-Kinsey's Mood 11-Hard Life 12-Sharp Axe

BGKY-1997-Bad Situation @ALAC