Tarheel slim biography

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ARTISTSONGALBUM
Dave Bartholomew Country BoyDave Bartholomew 1947-50
Bob Camp and His Buddies Reading BluesDown Home Blues: New York, Cincinnati & the Northeastern States
The Big Three Trio I Ain't Gonne Be Your Monkey ManThe Big Three Trio
Jimmy Rogers That's All RightChicago Bound: Complete Solo Records As & Bs 1950-1959
Sunnyland Slim Everytime I Get to Drinkin'Sunnyland Slim 1949-1951
Little Walter Blue BabyThe Complete Chess Masters 1950-1967
Baby Face Leroy Trio Boll WeevilLeroy Foster 1948-1952
Saunders King Something's Worrying Me Saunders King 1948-1954
Ivory Joe Hunter Lying Woman BluesIvory Joe Hunter: 1947-1950
Calvin Boze Working With My BabyHavin' A Ball 1949-52
Chicago Carl Davis Sure Like to RunThe Shouters
Professor Longhair Hadacol BounceThe Mercury Blues & Rhythm Story 1945-1955
Little Brother Montgomery A & B BluesAfter Hour Blues
Dr. Hepcat Hattie GreenJuke Joint Blues
Cleo Brown Cleo's BoogieCleo Brown 1935-19



      The day I was born (May 23, 1959) the #1 record was Wilbert Harrison’s “Kansas City“. A re-make of a tune originated by Little Willie Littlefield and written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (itself based on an old tune by Jim Jackson), it featured an ultra-twangy guitar solo by Wild Jimmy Spruill. For this and other reasons I’ve always felt some sort of cosmic bond with Jimmy, who was in my opinion one of the greatest guitar wranglers in the history of rock’n’roll. You won’t find his name in the Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame (unlike such great talents as Art Garfunkel, Steven Stills and Bono and I don’t mean Sonny), but if you have any taste in music at all you’ve heard his playing.  As a session musician he played on hits like Bobby Lewis’ “Tossin & Turnin'”, King Curtis’ “Soul Twist”,  Dave “Baby” Cortez’ “The Happy Organ”, the Charts “Deserie” and tons of others.  Today however we shall be discussing his best records, including

Tarheel Slim and Little Ann (guess which one is which).
Early Apollo 78, his orchestra was a trio.

New York City was never a great town for blues and R&B. Audiences here tended to think of themselves as more sophisticated and uptown they bought mostly jazz and gospel, downtown it was show tunes and pop singers, but that doesn't mean there were no blues or R&B recorded here, in fact there was a thriving blues scene, much of it centered around a group of players who had grown up in the North Carolina area and included Sonny Terry, Brownie and Stick McGhee, and today's subject-- Allen Bunn, aka Tarheel Slim. Born Alden Bunn in the country side outside of Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1924, Bunn is rarely written about these days, which is suprising and sad since he made quite a few good records, one certified two sided masterpiece, not to mention a couple of almost hits. Somebody must have bought his records since he kept making them, recording for over 21 years, and they're all fairly easy to find today which means they pressed plenty of copies.

So who was Allen Bunn/T

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