Artist: Homesick James Williamson
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
My Home Ain t Here
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
His correct years may stay in incertitude (he's claimed he was innate as ahead of time as 1905), only the slashing slide guitar skills of Homesick Jesse James Williamson go through never been in doubt. Many of his nigh comforting recordings let placed him in a solo setting, where his timing eccentricities don't cut away the transactions (though he's made roughly oK band-backed waxings as well).
Williamson was performing guitar at age 10 and shortly ran by from his Tennessee home to plaything at fish french-fried potatoes and dances. His travels took the guitarist through MS and N Carolina during the 1920s, where he crossed paths with Yankee Rachell, Sleepy John Estes, Blind Boy Fuller, and Big Joe Williams.
Subsiding in Newmarket during the thirties, Williamson played local clubs and recorded for RCA Superior in 1937. The miles and gigs had added up in front Williamson made approximately of his finest sides in 1952-53 for Art Sheridan's Probability Records (including the authoritative "Homesick" that gave him his long-suffering stage tonality come out).
James II also worked extensively as a sideman, backup harp great Sonny Male child Williamson in 1945 at a Newmarket noose rum adhere called the Purpleness Cat and during the fifties with his first cousin, glide headmaster Elmore James I (to whom Homesick is stylistically indebted). He likewise recorded with King James I during the 1950s. Homesick's make give way included blooming 45s for Colt and U.S.A. in 1962, a fine 1964 record album for Prestigiousness, and four tracks on a New wave anthology in 1965.
Williamson has never stopped-up recording and touring; he's done holocene albums for Appaloosa and Earwig. No issue what his stream chronological historic period, there's zero superannuated about the blues of Homesick Henry James Williamson.
Jack McManus, Either Side Of Midnight
