Big Daddy Kinsey

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The Kinsey Report
General information
Genre (s) Blues, blues rock
founding 1984
resolution 2001
Last occupation
Guitar, harmonica
 Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey
Guitar, vocals
 Donald Kinsey
bass
 Kenneth Kinsey
Drums
 Ralph Kinsey
former members
guitar
 Ron Price

Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey (born March 18, 1927 in Pleasant Grove , Mississippi , † April 3, 2001 in Gary , Indiana ) was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player and singer.

Life

In his youth he played gospel music with guitar accompaniment. He played at parties when he was young, but his father, the pastor of Gary's Chase Street Church of God, didn't like it. In 1944 he moved to Gary, Indiana, where he married in 1947. He worked there in a steel mill. In 1957 he founded a family band (Big Daddy Kinsey and His Fabulous Sons), which existed until 1972. To support his family, he stayed away from the music scene for a long time, only at the end of the 1960s he played blues again with a group called The Soul Brothers.

His musical roots lay in the tradition of the Delta as well as the Chicago blues of the post-war period. His sons Donald, Ralph and Kenneth as well as Ron Price formed in 1984 as The Kinsey Report and accompanied their father until his death in 2001. Their musical range extends to blues rock with influences from funk and even reggae . In 1993 they released the album "I Am the Blues", a tribute album for Muddy Waters , on which they worked with Buddy Guy , James Cotton , Billy Branch , Sugar Blue and Pinetop Perkins .

Big Daddy Kinsey died of prostate cancer in Gary, Indiana in 2001 at the age of 71.

Discography

Big Daddy Kinsey

  • 1984 Bad Situation Rooster Blues
  • 1990 Can't Let Go Blind Pig
  • 1993 I Am the Blues Verve
  • 1995 Ramblin 'Man House Of Blues

The Kinsey Report

  • 1987 Edge of the City Alligator Records
  • 1989 Midnight Drive Alligator Records
  • 1991 Powerhouse Charisma
  • 1993 Crossing Bridges Capitol
  • 1998 Smoke and Steel Alligator Records

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Lester Kinsey
  2. ↑ CD Universe product information
  3. ↑ a b AMG biography of Jim O'Neal
  4. ^ AMG Kinsey Report discography
personal data
SURNAME Kinsey, big daddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinsey, Lester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues guitarist, harmonica player and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleasant Grove , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2001
Place of death Gary , Indiana