Larry Garner

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Larry Garner (2013)

Larry Garner (born July 8, 1952 , New Orleans , Louisiana ) is an American guitarist , singer and songwriter of the Louisiana blues .

biography

Garner grew up in Baton Rouge . There he was inspired by the guitar-playing preacher Reverend Utah Smith. Garner made the acquaintance of blues musicians there such as Lonesome Sundown, Silas Hogan, Guitar Kelley and Tabby Thomas . Musically he was influenced by Hogan, Clarence Edwards, Jimi Hendrix and Henry Gray . Larry Garner received private guitar lessons, including from his uncle. After completing his military service in Korea, he returned to Baton Rouge. He worked intermittently as a musician while also a full-time employee at Dow Chemical .

Garner won the International Blues Challenge in 1988 . His first two albums Double Dues and Too Blues published by the British label JSP Records. The title of the album Too Blues was an allusion to a comment by a JSP employee that the demo version submitted by Garner was too blues . Tabby Thomas' club, Tabby's Blues Box, gave Garner regular appearances in the 1980s and also provided the theme for the strongest song on Double Dues , No Free Rides .

On You Need to Live a Little (1996) was followed by Standing Room Only (1998), Baton Rouge (1999) and in 2000 Once Upon the Blues. On the album Baton Rouge , Go To Baton Rouge provided a guide to some of the most important places in Louisiana for music.

In 2008, Larry Garner was seriously ill, which he processed in his album Here Today Gone Tomorrow , which was released in the same year .

Discography

All eight of Larry Garner's albums have been released on European labels:

  • Too Blues (1994) - JSP Records (awarded the Prix ​​Big Bill Broonzy )
  • Double Dues (1995) - JSP Records
  • Baton Rouge (1995) - Verve / Polydor / Polygram SA France and (1999) - Evidence
  • You Need to Live a Little (1996) - Polygram
  • Standing Room Only (1998) - Reputation
  • Once Upon the Blues (2000) - Reputation
  • Embarrassment to the Blues? (2002) - Live album - Reputation
  • Here Today Gone Tomorrow (2008) - Dixiefrog
  • Larry Garner, Norman Beaker and Friends - Live at the Tivoli (2010) (recorded at Tivoli Theater, Wimborne on October 8, 2009)
  • Blues For Sale (2012) - Dixiefrog

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Larry Garner at Allmusic (English)
  2. ^ A b c Tony Russell: The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray . Schirmer, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0-02-864862-0 , pp. 113 .
  3. ↑ a b c d John Host: BR's Larry Garner grateful to be Here Today , The Advocate (Louisiana). August 15, 2008, p. 18 FUN. Retrieved January 11, 2010. 
  4. ^ Larry Garner - Here Today Gone Tomorrow . Bluesweb.com. Accessed December 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Garner, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans