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Big Daddy (Bukka White Album)
''Big Daddy'' is an album by the American blues musician Bukka White, released in 1974. It was White's final album. ''Big Daddy'' was reissued by Shout! Factory in 2004. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for best "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording". Production The album was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, with White playing a National String Instrument Corporation, National Triolian guitar. Critical reception ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' called ''Big Daddy'' "both nostalgic and refreshing." AllMusic thought that "White conjures up in the studio the essence of the revival sound: a man, a guitar, and an authentic delivery." ''The Commercial Appeal'' wrote: "Slide master White ... manhandled his guitar, a force of nature that was akin to watching a dam break and the flood of blues run wild. His singing, even at this, his final session, matched every defiant, plucked note." ''The Day (New London), The Day'' deemed the album "genuine and powerful," and named the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukka White
Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White (November 12, 1906 February 26, 1977) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. Biography White was born south of Houston, Mississippi. He was a first cousin of B.B. King's mother (White's mother and King's grandmother were sisters). ''Bukka'' is a phonetic spelling of White's first name; he was named after the African-American educator and civil rights activist Booker T. Washington. He played National resonator guitars, typically with a slide, in an open tuning. He was one of the few, along with Skip James, to use a crossnote tuning in E minor, which he may have learned, as James did, from Henry Stuckey. He also played piano, but less adeptly. White started his career playing the fiddle at square dances. He claimed to have met Charley Patton soon after, but some have doubted this recollection. Nonetheless, Patton was a strong influence on White. "I wants to come to be a great man like Charlie Patton", White told his friends. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
