Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:18
Size: 129,9 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full
1. Fine Looking Woman (4:10)
2. Done Got Over (3:20)
3. Since You Been Gone (3:50)
4. I'm Going (3:45)
5. Hear My Train Coming (5:07)
6. Forty Days And Forty Nights (3:24)
7. Saturday Night Fish Fry (6:27)
8. Early In The Morning (5:08)
9. Fat Rat (3:44)
10. The Claw (9:57)
11. Sentenced To The Sewer (4:51)
12. She's Not Another Woman (2:29)
Born in Winona, Mississippi and raised in a one-room shack, Davis learned to play the harmonica at the age of eight. He eventually left home and settled in Florida, where he continued to play the blues in the Miami area while working in orange groves and saw mills to make ends meet.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Davis traveled with medicine shows and played with blues musicians like Pinetop Perkins and Ike Turner. He spent a total of nine years on the road with Earl Hooker, including with the short-lived band of Hooker and Albert King, and recorded four sides for Rockin' Records in 1952 and 1953 (as Little Sam Davis). In the late 1950s, Davis lived in Chicago, Illinois, performing with Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed. He later married and settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, during which time he recorded a session for Trix Records that resulted in one 45" single. After the sudden death of his wife in 1970, Davis stopped playing and dropped out of the music scene for the next two decades.
In 1990, local DJ Doug Price spotted Davis playing harmonica in a Poughkeepsie barber shop. Price made mention of Davis' story and played some of his old recordings on WVKR, which in turn caught the attention of radio personality Don Imus. Imus invited Davis to perform on his show with guitarist Fred Scribner, and "Little Sammy Davis and Midnight Slim" became the house band for Imus in the Morning for years to come. Imus, in his trademark style, later quipped that Davis had "more harmonicas than teeth".
Capitalizing on this Imus fame, Little Sammy Davis and Midnight Slim toured radio and television stations around the United States. In 1995 Davis released his first full-length album, I Ain't Lyin, for Delmark Records. The record was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award and earned Davis a "comeback artist of the year award" from Living Blues magazine. Davis and Scribner released a second album, Ten Years and Forty Days, in 2001.
Note: Little Sammy Davis passed away on February 16, 2018.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Davis traveled with medicine shows and played with blues musicians like Pinetop Perkins and Ike Turner. He spent a total of nine years on the road with Earl Hooker, including with the short-lived band of Hooker and Albert King, and recorded four sides for Rockin' Records in 1952 and 1953 (as Little Sam Davis). In the late 1950s, Davis lived in Chicago, Illinois, performing with Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed. He later married and settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, during which time he recorded a session for Trix Records that resulted in one 45" single. After the sudden death of his wife in 1970, Davis stopped playing and dropped out of the music scene for the next two decades.
In 1990, local DJ Doug Price spotted Davis playing harmonica in a Poughkeepsie barber shop. Price made mention of Davis' story and played some of his old recordings on WVKR, which in turn caught the attention of radio personality Don Imus. Imus invited Davis to perform on his show with guitarist Fred Scribner, and "Little Sammy Davis and Midnight Slim" became the house band for Imus in the Morning for years to come. Imus, in his trademark style, later quipped that Davis had "more harmonicas than teeth".
Capitalizing on this Imus fame, Little Sammy Davis and Midnight Slim toured radio and television stations around the United States. In 1995 Davis released his first full-length album, I Ain't Lyin, for Delmark Records. The record was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award and earned Davis a "comeback artist of the year award" from Living Blues magazine. Davis and Scribner released a second album, Ten Years and Forty Days, in 2001.
Note: Little Sammy Davis passed away on February 16, 2018.
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