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Cripple Clarence Lofton and Walter Davis
Label : Yazoo Format : Mp3@320  CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON  Cripple Clarence Lofton is one of those colorful names that adorned many an album collection of early boogie-woogie piano 78s in the early days of the '60s folk-blues revival. An early practitioner of the form, along with his fellow contemporaries Cow Cow Davenport, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Pine Top Smith, and Jimmy Yancey, Lofton was one of the originators who spread the word in Chicago in the early '20s. The physically challenged nicknamed he used -- seen by modern audiences as a tad exploitative, to say the least -- was a bit of a ringer. Although he suffered a birth defect in his leg that made him walk with a pronounced limp, it certainly didn't stop him from becoming an excellent tap dancer, his original ticket into show business. He quickly developed a stage act that consisted of pounding out the boogie-woogie on the piano while standing up, dancing, whistling, and vocalizing while -- as one old bluesman put it -- "carrying on a lotta racket." Lofton's technique -- or lack of it -- stemmed more from a tent show background and those listening to his earliest and most energetic recordings will quickly attest that hitting every note or making every chord change precisely were not exactly high priorities with him. But this wild, high-energy act got the young showman noticed quickly and by the early '30s, he was so much a fixture of Chicago night life firmament that he had his own Windy City nightclub, the oddly named Big Apple. Lofton remained on the scene, cutting sides for the Gennett, Vocalion, Solo Art, Riverside, Session, and Pax labels into the '40s. When the boogie-woogie craze cooled off and eventually died down in the late '40s, Lofton went into early retirement, staying around Chicago until his death in 1957 from a blood clot in the brain. WALTER DAVIS  Davis was a pianist and singer born in Granada, Mississippi. He spent his early years subjected to harsh treatment from his family and at the age of 13, decamped to St. Louis. He learned blues piano and began scraping for a living. It was there he teamed up with Henry Townsend were Roosevelt Sykes noted his playing and recommened him to Victor records. His first session was with Sykes and Big Bill Broonzy. In 1953 his music provoked litte interest to the public and took up preaching. He suffered a stroke and later died of a heart attack. Walter was always impeccably dressed and had to work hard to get away from his rough St. Louis upbringing. Tracklist : 1. Juke Joint Stomp 2. I Don't Know 3. State Street Blues 4. Change My Mind Blues 5. Streamline Train 6. South Side Mess Around 7. Brown Skin Girls 8. Why Should I Be Blue 9. Santa Claus 10. Jacksonville Part 2 11. Call Your Name 12. Please Don't Mistreat Me 13. I Can Tell by the Way You Smell 14. Can't See Your Face Big Bill Broonzy Acoustic Guitar (track 7) Cripple Clarence Lofton Piano, Vocals (tracks: 1 to 7), Walter Davis Piano, Vocals (tracks: 8 to 14) Tracks 1-7 and 9, 13 Recorded 1935 Track 10 Recorded 1936 Track 11 Recorded 1939 Tracks 8 and 12, 14 Recorded 1940 Sharing Widget |