Bukka White

See also: White

Bukka White , born Booker T. Washington White the November 12th 1906 with Houston, the Mississippi, and dead the February 26th 1977 with Memphis, Tennessee, is a Guitariste and Chanteur of American Blues .

Biography

Raised in the farm of his/her large father, close to Houston, the Mississippi, his/her father, workman of the railroads, initiates it with the Guitare when it is nine years old. After a meeting with Charley Patton and some time spent in his/her uncle with Clarksdale, Bukka White leaves for Saint Louis at the age 14 years. Starting from 1920, it travels through the the Mississippi and the states of the Delta, playing in the bars and Honky Tonks. In 1930, it records a first session of fourteen pieces to Memphis, for Victor Records, including three gospels with Memphis Minnie. A few years, solicited later by Big Bill Broonzy, it records again for an independent producer, Mr. Melrose, with Chicago. Of return in the Mississippi, it continues an itinerant life in the area of the Delta, alternating music, work in the farms and boxes professional.

During the summer of 1937, it wounds an attacker with the thigh of a ball of revolver during a brawl and is condemned to a sorrow of imprisonment which it will purge with the penitentiary of Parchman' S Farm. Little before its imprisonment, it records two pieces for Vocalion, of which Shake 'EM one down , one of its most famous pieces, which was a great success and whose topic will be taken again by Big Bill Broonzy. Whereas he is imprisoned in Parchman' S Farm, in 1939, Bukka White records a few pieces for Alan Lomax which worked then on the collection of the oral tradition for the Library of the Congress. After its release, in 1940, Bukka White go to Chicago and record twelve pieces of a great expressive violence, on the topics of the prison, the insulation and loneliness. Installed with Memphis, it is at that time that he will play occasionally with his young cousin, BB King. But the war will put an end to its musical career and, in 1944, it finds a work in a military camp. It still occupied it when it is redécouvert by John Fahey at the time of the " blues revival" beginning of the Years 1960. It then starts a second career which will carry out it in particular in California.

He dies in 1977, victim of a Cancer.

Style

Generally accompanied by a metal guitar, played in slide guitar using a Bottleneck, the song of Bukka White particularly powerful, is carried by a voice gutturale launched in long improvisations of the type talking blues .

External bonds

  • illustrated Discography of Bukka White
  • a page on Bukka White containing several photographs.

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