J.B. Hutto

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Has anyone heard this bluesman? "The Hawk Squat" is amazing.

― xavier mcshane (xave), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

yep, and yes Hawk Squat is a real good'n. and it has AACM-er Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre on reeds! god bless the Delmark label.

Hopefully the Rev. Hoodoo will come and drop some knowledge.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the combination of Maurice MacIntyre and Sunnyland Slim behind Hutto is unlike almost anything else I've heard... I read that Hutto later relocated to Boston.

― xavier mcshane (xave), Friday, 20 January 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

I saw him liive once and he was absolutely amazing. The best blues show I ever saw. I tried a couple of his records, but never found anything that lived up to the show. Reccommendations?

― chuck b, Friday, 20 January 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d871/d87185s937u.jpg

This album is as stinging as slide got in the mid-60s, post-Elmore James.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c562/c56239rt5lv.jpg

Hutto is pretty strong on here too. He's superceded by Otis Spann and Wells/Guy though.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)

that cover is SO FUCKING COOL

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

YES IT IS!

think that might be the Green Line Indiana Ave stop.

all three volumes of that series are freaking mind-blowing great. totally essential electric blues documents.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Not much I can add that hasn't been said already, but suffice to say that anybody who had their minds blown by Hound Dog Taylor will be down with Hutto. They try to tell us that his nephew Li'l Ed (& the Blues Imperials) is the new incarnation - he's good enough, but I'm not buying it for a minute.

Yes, that anthology pictured above is still classic after all this time. I personally think Vols. 1 and 3 are the best. And not only does that tenement and the train tracks still stand, but after 40 years or so they still look the same...(What's up, Stormy D.!)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

what up, Rev! I name-checked you cuz you were the guy that originally hipped me to Hutto (and told me bout the Kalaparusha connection). So wait was I correct -- that's Green Line? Indiana Ave or farther south?

Hey man you ever listen to Niles Frantz's show on BEZ? Been digging a lot of the recent blues stuff he's been playing.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Stormy...that LOOKS like the Indiana stop! Every time the Green Line train goes around that bend it pretty much looks like that Vanguard album cover!

As far as Niles' show...I haven't listened to the program in a minute, but I do remember him being a little heavy on the smoother Robert Cray/Shemekia Copeland-type stuff that I'm not too hot on.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:19 (twenty years ago)

yeah he definitely digs that stuff a lot but the show in general is pretty broad these days. Typical night might also have stuff by Otis Taylor, those newer James Blood Ulmer things, some sacred steel stuff ... man I am FREAKING OUT at how good the Lee Boys and Campbell Brothers are. but of course that kind of stuff is right up my alley...

also I didn't even know Delmark had just released a vintage Otis Rush live disc until he played a cut from it.

Man, it is snowing hard right now.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

I am a fan of all those artists you mentioned, and I will give Frantz credit for being more wide-ranging than most blues radio in Chicago (he even played the band War!). To be truthful, Niles Frantz has a broad definition of blues, but when I used to listen to his program, it seemed like the Cray/Shemekia/Neville Bros./Keb Mo "blues lite" was his bread & butter. I'm not going anywhere tonight (a Saturday), maybe I'll listen again.

Campbell Brothers are excellent - I've seen them live on a couple of occasions (at the Chicago Blues Fest and at the Old Town School of Folk Music).

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Listening to Hawk Squat again this afternoon, I think "The Same Mistake Twice" is *almost* a perfect blues tune, if not for the unfortunate saxophone (sorry Maurice). But the piano / guitar interplay on this song is pretty much why I love blues. I could listen to that guitar solo for the rest of my life and never get sick of it. I need more Hutto in my life. A friend just recommended Slidewinder. What else?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

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