Sylvester Cotton
Sylvester Cotton was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter of country blues .
Sylvester Cotton, about whose life little is known, recorded a total of 19 blues songs for Bernie Besman's Pan American Record Company in Detroit from 1948 to 1849. Only three of these titles were published during this period; they appeared on Sensation Records and Modern Records , of which a 78 was initially released under his name, Sak Relation Blues with the B-side Ugly Woman Blues (Modern 655). The next single, I Tried (Modern 893) was paired with a song by John Lee Hooker . In this song Cotton processed his current situation in Brunie Besman's studio:
- Now listen to all you friends
- that ever heard a record I made.
- Remember just one thing: Lord,
- Don't thank me, friends,
- just thank one man, Mister Brunie Besman.
Other songs by Cottons were u. a. Big Chested Mama Blues , Brown Skin Woman , Three Cent Stamp Blues and Waitin 'Blues .
Lexical entry
- Colin Larkin (ed.). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music , Middlesex, Guinness Publishing, 1993 ISBN 0-85112-721-5 .
Web links
- Information about the album Sylvester Cotton / Andrew Dunham - Blues Sensation: Detroit Downhome Recordings 1948-49 on Ace Records
- Sylvester Cotton at Allmusic (English)
- Cotton Sylvester at Discogs (English)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Modern Records Discography
- ↑ where the song by Cotton was wrongly attributed to Hooker.
- ↑ Jeff Todd Titon: Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era . 1990
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cotton, New Years Eve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |