BOOTLEG
RECORDS
Independent label: Bootleg
Records managed at least three singles. Only 99 copies only pressed (to avoid
purchase tax). It issued singles in an 500 numerical series. Distributed By
Bootleg Records.
Guitar Nubbit Real Name was Alvin Hankerson he was a US blues singer and
guitarist, born 1923 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nicknamed ‘Nubbit’ following
the loss of the tip of his right thumb at the age of three in a hurricane. He
grew up in Georgia and relocating to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1945. He recorded
for Bluestown in 1962 and again in 1965. Joe Hill Louis Real Name was Lester
Hill. He was an American blues musician, born 23 September 1921 in Raines,
Tennessee, USA, and died 5 August 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. This bluesman
recorded quantity in Memphis as one-man band,and developed a primitive yet
powerful style on the harmonica. J.B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and
singer-songwriter, active on the Chicago blues scene of the 1950s and 1960s.
Born 5 March 1929 in Monticello, Mississippi; died 29 April 1967 in Champaign,
Illinois, of internal bleeding (and/or a heart attack) from injuries he had
suffered in a car crash three weeks earlier, which had not been properly
treated. As a young boy, J.B.'s father taught him to play guitar in the style of
Blind Lemon Jefferson; he was also taught by Arthur Crudup and Lightnin’
Hopkins. In the 1940s, he started playing in New Orleans with Sonny Boy
Williamson and Elmore James. In 1949 he moved to Chicago; he began playing with
names like Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather and Muddy Waters. J.B.'s first
recording session was in late 1950 for Chess. He recorded for J.O.B and Parrot
1951-1953, before he returned to Chess. His most commercially successful and
enduring release was 1954's “Mamma Talk To Your Daughter”, which reached no 11
on the Billboard R&B chart and was later recorded by many other blues and
rock musicians.
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Guitar Nubbit
Georgia Chain
Gang
BOOTLEG
501
65
Joe Hill Louis
Heartache Baby
BOOTLEG
502
65
J. B. Lenoir
Mama Talk To Your Daughter
BOOTLEG
503
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