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King Ernest: Blues Got Soul
by Ed Kopp
King Ernest Baker died in a car crash in Los Angeles on March 4, 2000, just a few days after he finished recording Blues Got Soul. His death seems all the more tragic when you hear the CD. Blues Got Soul is so deep-hearted, the singer would surely have landed more gigs and perhaps some real ...
Dave Thompson: Little Dave and Big Love
by Ed Kopp
This Fat Possum re-release was originally distributed in 1995 but suffered from underexposure when the label's relationship with Capricorn dissolved. Blues fans will be glad Fat Possum decided to revive Little Dave and Big Love. The sucker really cooks.Mississippi native Dave Thompson's displays blazing guitar chops and Hendrix-style vocals on a solid set of ...
Robert Belfour: What's Wrong With You
by Ed Kopp
Robert Belfour is a rare individual -- a country bluesman who grew up in the backwoods and taught himself the blues. His debut release What's Wrong With You is a powerful solo blues album that has garnered heaps of critical acclaim before it's even been released. (It comes out this month.) While most contemporary country-blues artists ...
Super Chikan: What You See
by Ed Kopp
You're probably dying to know how a dude comes by a nickname like “Super Chikan," so let's deal with that issue up front. When James Louis Johnson worked as a cab driver in Clarksdale, Miss., he became notorious for his lead foot. He acquired the nickname “Quick Chicken," which somehow got altered to “Super Chikan," and ...
Meet Me In the City
Label: Fat Possum Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Meet Me In the City, Done Got Old, Baby Please Don
Junior Kimbrough: Meet Me In the City
by Derek Taylor
With Kimbrough’s death in early '98 the blues world lost one its most uncompromising and idiosyncratic practitioners. All we’re left with now are posthumous collections like this one that out of necessity are forced to scrape the bottom of the corn liquor barrel for ‘new’ and releasable material. Though not imbued with the same level of ...
Paul Jones: Pucker Up Buttercup
by Ed Kopp
R.L. Burnside’s Ass Pocket ‘o Whiskey was a college radio smash for Fat Possum Records, the Oxford, Miss., label that specializes in crude country blues. Paul Jones’ Pucker Up Buttercup seems directed at the same audience. Like most Fat Possum artists, Jones hails from the hills of northern Mississippi. His rugged guitar playing is heavily distorted ...
Junior Kimbrough: Meet Me in the City
by Ed Kopp
Along with his neighbor R.L. Burnside, the late Junior Kimbrough may have been one of the last of the old-school Mississippi bluesmen. Kimbrough died of heart failure last year at age 67.A popular singer and guitarist in northeast Mississippi, Kimbrough turned his house into a juke joint that became such a hot spot he ...
