Arbee Stidham

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Arbee Stidham (born February 9, 1917 in DeValls Bluff , Arkansas , † April 1988 ) was an American blues musician ( vocals , saxophone , guitar , harmonica ).

Live and act

Arbee Stidham's father Luddie Stidham was a musician in the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. With his formation Southern Syncopators Arbee appeared in clubs in his home state of Arkansas in the 1930s; he could also be heard on the radio station KARK in Little Rock and in 1930/31 accompanied the singer Bessie Smith with his band on a tour of the southern states. Stidham performed frequently in Little Rock and Memphis, Tennessee , before moving to Chicago in the 1940s . There he worked with Memphis Slim ; He also made recordings with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra for Victor . He also recorded under his own name for Victor ( Your Heart Belongs to Me ), with which he was successful in R&B charts , and in the 1950s and 1960s for Bob Shadow's label Sittin 'In With, Checker ( I Don' t Play / Don't Set Your Cap for Me ), States ( Look Me Straight in the Eye , 1957, with Earl Hooker and Lefty Bates), Abco ( Meet me Half Way , with Willie Dixon , and Killer Blues ), Prestige / Bluesville , mainstream and folkways . As a tribute to the late US President Roosevelt, he played a protest song, Mr. Commissioner (Checker 751) in 1952.

In 1973 he made an appearance in the film The Bluesman . Stidham performed at numerous festivals and clubs during these years, including outside the United States. In the 1970s he taught at Cleveland State University .

Stidham was a blues singer and guitarist who played in the broadest sense of the Mississippi country style of Big Bill Broonzy . He also recorded two covers of Broonzy songs, Jazz Gilum and Memphis Slim, I Feel So Good and Rockin 'Chair Blues . Charles Keil sees in his book Urban blues Arbee Stidham in the tradition of Kansas City shouters such as Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Jimmy Witherspoon , Big Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris .

Discographic notes

  • Complete Recordings Vol. 1: 1947 - 1951 (Blue Moon), with Sax Mallard , Tab Smith , Lucky Millinder
  • Complete Recordings Vol. 2: 1951-1957 (Blue Moon), with Red Holloway , Earl Hooker , Tommy 'Mad' Jones, JT Brown, Wayne Bennett, Lefty Hayes
  • My Heart Belongs to You (Crown, rec. 1947–57, ed. 1981)
  • Arbee's Blues (Folkways, 1961), with Memphis, Slim, Jump Jackson
  • Jazz Gillum / Arbee Stidham / Memphis Slim - Blues By Jazz Gillum (Folkways, 1961)
  • Tired of Wandering - The Blues of Arbee Stidham (Prestige / Bluesville, 1960), with King Curtis , John Wright, Leonard Gaskin , Armond 'Jump' Jackson (d)
  • A Time for Blues (Mainstream, 1972)
  • There's Always Tomorrow (Folkways, 1973)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Billboard dated October 23, 1948, ISSN  0006-2510 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Danchin: Earl Hooker, blues master (American Made Music Series). University Press, Jackson, Miss. 2001, ISBN 1-57806-306-X , p. 348.
  3. ↑ Mitsutoshi Inaba: Willie Dixon. Preacher of the Blues . Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-6993-6
  4. ↑ Guido van Rijn: Roosevelt's blues. African-American blues and gospel songs on FDR (American Made Music Series). University Press, Jackson, Miss. 1997, ISBN 0-87805-938-5 , p. 242.
  5. ↑ cf. High fidelity , Vol. 11 (1961).
  6. ↑ Roger House: Blue Smoke. The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy . University Press, Baton Rouge 2010, ISBN 978-0-8071-3720-8 , p. 158.
  7. ^ Charles Keil: Urban Blues . University Press, Chicago, Ill. 1991, ISBN 0-226-42960-1 , p. 63 (reprint of the edition Chicago, Ill. 1991).
personal data
SURNAME Stidham, Arbee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH De Valls Bluff
DATE OF DEATH April 1988