Daddy John Love
Daddy John Love was an old-time American musician .
Life
John Love worked in a garment factory in Concord , North Carolina , and like many workers in those factories, he also tried his hand at music to make a living and escape the stuffy factory halls. JE Mainer and Wade Mainer worked in the same factory and, together with Zeke Morris, Love became a member of Mainers Crazy Mountaineers in 1932 , which soon after became stars on Radio WBT in Charlotte . 1935 hit Love at WIS in Columbia , South Carolina , on Riley Shepard , Ollie Bunn and Clarence Todd, with whom he the Dixie Reelers founded. With this group he made some recordings in 1936 for Bluebird Records .
A year earlier, JE Mainers Mountaineers held their first session - on August 6, 1935 in Atlanta , Georgia - where Love recorded his first three solo pieces Broken Hearted Blues , Green Back Dollar and Searching For a Pair of Blue Eyes . On February 14, 1936, a second session followed in Charlotte, where, among other things, two tracks with the Hilliard Brothers and seven solo tracks by Love were recorded. On this session, Love was based on Jimmie Rodgers , who had died three years earlier , which can be heard well in the example of Railroad Blues . With Blue Yodeling and so-called "train whistles" (imitating a whistling train) they were very close to Rodgers' pieces. Bill C. Malone called Love's train imitation in the Railroad Blues the best of the Rodgers imitators: " The finest facsimile of Rodgers' train whistle was by Daddy John Love on" Railroad Blues ", recorded in 1936. " Paul Oliver and Tony Russell Love even described it like this: “ The band had an excellent singer, yodeller [sic] and guitarist in Daddy John Love, who sounded like a crossover between Jimmie Rodgers and Bill Carlisle . ”
On June 20, 1936, Bluebird had a final session in Charlotte, during which six more songs were produced, including the Cotton Mill Blues, which is popular among textile workers . Love continued to play with JE and Wade Mainer, Bert Layne and Riley Puckett . Love also made recordings after World War II .
Discography
Much of the Bluebird recordings were also released on Montgomery Ward .
| year | title | # | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebird Records | |||
| 1935 | Broken Hearted Blues / Green Back Dollar | BB-6090 | |
| 1935 | Searching For a Pair of Blue Eyes /? | BB-6194 | B-side from JE Mainer's Mountaineers |
| 1936 | My Wife Went Away and Left Me / My Little Red Ford | BB-6294 | |
| Mean Old Jailhouse Blues / Trifflin 'Woman Blues | BB-6366 | A-side with the Hilliard Brothers | |
| Cotton Mill Blues / No Place Like Home | BB-6491 | ||
| I Am Dreaming of Mother / Blue Days | BB-6583 | ||
| Railroad Blues / What Makes Him Do It? | BB-6624 | ||
| Over the Hills in Carolina / Budded Roses | BB-6675 | ||
| Homeless Child / Where Is My Mama? | BB-8199 | ||
| Unpublished titles | |||
| 1936 |
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Bluebird | with the Hilliard Brothers |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill C. Malone: Stars of Country Music (1975), pp. 130-131; University of Illinois Press
- ^ Paul Oliver / Tony Russell: Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre (2001), p. 222; Cambridge University Press
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Love, Daddy John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American old-time musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |