Word: hutto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these groups openly admitted that they owed their success to such people as Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter Jacobs, J.B. Hutto, and the rest of the old-style blues musicians who had carried the blues up from the south to Chicago. And yet of all these great artists, few remain. Sonny Boy, Elmore James, Little Walter have all died. And the rest of the people in Chicago like J.B. Hutto and Homesick James (Elmore's cousin) barely make a living and are still playing in the same Chicago bars. Only Muddy Waters and Howlin...
...every one of these established Bluesmen who plays the Fillmore there are hundreds of beautiful musicians who play 6 hours a night, seven nights a week on Chicago's South Side. While Cream and Eric Clapton rake in $10,000 for one show, J. B. Hutto plays all night at Peppers Lounge and goes to work in a body shop in the morning to make payments on his guitar and feed his kids. You've probably never heard of J. B. Hutto but superstars like Clapton and Butterfield have and they know that without Hutto and hundreds of anonymous Bluesmen...
Elmore James died in 1964 and though his electric slide guitar style is still played by men like J. B. Hutto and Homesick James, in the clubs of Chicago, it has declined in popularity and has been replaced by the more polished style personified by singer-guitarist B. B. King. King has said that Elmore James was one of the most important influences on his own style. However, he was never able to adapt himself to the slide technique, and instead developed a multinote style which combines the intensity of the slide technique of James with complexity of the more...
...JACK HUTTO New York City...