Living Blues #239, September/October 2015

WHAT'S INSIDE:

Guy Davis

The Deliverer

By Jordan Moss

New York bluesman Guy Davis certainly did not travel the typical path to the blues. The son of actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Guy sees his music as an extension of his ancestry, reflecting the broad African American experience.

Henry Clement

I Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

By Gene Tomko

Louisiana-born, California-based bluesman Henry Clement is a multi-talented showman. His 60-plus-year career stretches back to studio work for Excello in the 1950s and later fronting his Gumbo Band as one of the most popular blues acts on the West Coast for over 40 years.

Piedmont Bluz

The True Blues of Valerie and Benedict Turner

By Frank Matheis

The Queens, New York, husband-and-wife duo of Valerie and Benedict Turner are committed to keeping the East Coast acoustic blues tradition alive.

Quinton Claunch

It Was in My System—I Couldn’t Shake It – Pt. 1

By David Whiteis

Musician, songwriter, producer and label owner Quinton Claunch has seen it all. At age 93, he looks back at his early days in hillbilly country music and his eventual founding of Memphis-based labels Hi Records and Goldwax Records in the first part of a two-part feature.

Tampa Red

The Guitar Wizard

By Jas Obrecht

Tampa Red was one of the first stars of blues guitar, and his single-string slide work influenced generations to come.

Record Reviews

New Releases by: Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland and Joe Louis Walker.

Reissues: Tampa Red, Clarence “Frogman” Henry and Wilson Pickett.

Editorial

Letters

Blues News

LB Talks to Zac Harmon

Obituaries: Clarence Etienne, Benjamin Spires, Frankie Lee. David Maxwell, and others

Radio Charts

Cover photo by Joseph A. Rosen

Contents photo  by Joseph A. Rosen