King Biscuit Time

This is good, old time blues from Sonny Boy. Very difficult to find blues like this anymore. If you have heard him and like his music, this is for you. The remastering is very good and sounds like it was recorded in today's studios. I am quite impressed! There is one long track recorded in the radio station for the King Biscuit radio show. Historical to say the least. Interestingly, in between the songs, you can barely hear the radio announcer in the background as he does a commercial over the air. But, when Sonny Boy plays again, it is good.

Maybe this is where Blues had Rock guitars first?

This is simply a great blues album - capturing the moment where country blues became electric and urban. One of the two best Sonny Boy Williamson albums, there is not a bad cut on the album. Mind-blowingly great music made from minimal resources. Thank you, Arhoolie, for making this album available.

This cd is AWESOME FROM START TO FINISH! If you need one cd of Sonny Boy's THIS IS IT! You'll want more, of course, WHO DOESN'T?! Why Chess doesn't have an affordable box set of this man is a true enigma! I digress, just BUY THIS! 'Nuf said!

Blues at it's best..grear harp!!!

For hearing the man born as Alec (Rice) Miller as he had rounded into near-complete game shape, in the years immediately preceding the seminal sides he would cut for Chess beginning in the mid-to-late 1950s, there is no better package than this of Sonny Boy Williamson's incandescent, embryonic recordings for the ancient Trumpet label. Many of these songs would get the Sonny Boy makeover when he re-cut them during his Chess years, and it's intriguing to compare between the Trumpet originals and the Chess refineries of such signature songs as "Eyesight To The Blind," "Cross My Heart," "Nine Below Zero," "Mr. Down Child," and "Mighty Long Time." Then again, the tandem treat is to hear a good enough dollop of some of Sonny Boy's more personal material, particularly the slightly haunting "West Memphis Blues," which he wrote about the fire that actually burned down the house he had bought with his wife.Then, there are the bonuses: one of the last broadcasts of the legendary "King Biscuit Time" on which Sonny Boy would appear before his death; and perhaps the earliest known version Elmore James would cut of his signature "Dust My Broom," this one with Sonny Boy (who was long reputed to have tricked him into cutting it for Trumpet) sliding in with some fills showing he was a deft an accompanist/partner as he was a harmonica virtuoso. Accompanying the cantankerously poetic Sonny Boy, mostly, are such legends of Memphis/Helena blues as guitarist Joe Willie Wilkins (Robert Jr. Lockwood he ain't, but for laying a sensible support and spitting out the occasional fill and run he acquits his own self very nicely), bassist Cliff Bivens, drummer Frock, and pianist Dave Campbell, and they deliver yeoman's work.

Sonny Boy Williamson (aka Rice Miller) is one of the giants of the blues. He's been cited as an influence by Eric Clapton, John Mayall and Led Zeppelin, among others.This album contains a number of the tracks Williamson recorded for the Trumpet label in 1951 and a 15 minute radio broadcast from the same period.The sound quality on the Trumpet recordings is acceptable for materal recorded in 1951 by a small record label. It's not up to the recording quality of Williamson's Chess recordings from 1958-59.This is a very worthwhile recording for blues fans but if you're not familiar with Williamson, I would suggest starting with his Down And Out Blues CD. There's a 2CD set of Down And Out Blues available on Amazon in which the 2nd CD of the set has all the Trumpet recordings that are on this CD.

Sonny Boy somehow gets swept into a corner because he only had a few records that were "hits" in the 1950s, "Don't Start Me To Talkin'" and "Mighty Long Time," his masterpiece on this CD. However, when he died, artists including The Moody Blues, Jack Bruce, Jimmy Reed, Paul Jones of Manfred Mann, John Maysll, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and others recorded tributes to him. He recorded with the Animals and Yardbirds, Jimmy Page, jazzmen Chris Barber and Roland Kirk and others. The real story is that Sonny Boy II (not the same Sonny Boy Williamson who recorded "Good Morning Little School Girl"} was Alex Miller, a blues harp player, songwriter and singer who had been playing in the Mississippi delta since the late 1920s with people like Robert Johnson and Robert Lockwood Jr., Joe Willie Wilkins, Pinetop Perkins, Ike Turner and others. He was THE star of the Delta, so popular he didn't need to record until 1950 when he started to record these sides with Jackosn Mississippi's Trumpet Records. He was an escaped convict who became an international blues star using another man's name (John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson among others) and another's as his alias (his brother Willie Miller). He was truly hiding in the spotlight.

This was a great CD of rocking music from the early days before Sonny Boy Wiliamson came to London. It made a seventy three year old guy dane again.

Sonny Boy Williamson (aka Rice Miller) is one of the giants of the blues. He's been cited as an influence by Eric Clapton, John Mayall and Led Zeppelin, among others.This album contains a number of the tracks Williamson recorded for the Trumpet label in 1951 and a 15 minute radio broadcast from the same period.The sound quality on the Trumpet recordings is acceptable for materal recorded in 1951 by a small record label. It's not up to the recording quality of Williamson's Chess recordings from 1958-59.This is a very worthwhile recording for blues fans but if you're not familiar with Williamson, I would suggest starting with his Down And Out Blues CD. There's a 2CD set of Down And Out Blues available on Amazon in which the 2nd CD of the set has all the Trumpet recordings that are on this CD.

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生々しさではチェス時代のライス・ミラーよりも遥かに上位。この生々しさこそが、今は無きマックスウェル・ストリートでの多数のミュージシャンの演奏とも繋がる。エンディングなども流れで終る。まさにセッションである。最後のDust My Broomはエルモア・ジェームズである。凄いセッションである。キング・ビスケット・タイムという名前の番組は、どうやら今でもあるらしい。ブルースを流す番組で、ロバート・ロックウッドの演奏がテーマ曲になっているようだ。