Eddie cleanhead vinson biography of rory
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Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson — Cleanhead’s Back In Town
For many years, one of my favorite CD collections has been a nifty little set called “Mercury R&B ’46-’62,” a two-CD set of old school R&B sides from Mercury records. These songs are distinctly rhythm and blues from the big band/orchestra era, though a few really anticipate rock ’n’ roll. In fact, I keep wondering how we accept that “Rocket 88” from 1951 was the first rock ’n’ roll song when “Caldonia” is right there in 1945. But I digress.
On that collection are three great songs by Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson & His Orchestra: “Cleanhead Blues,” “Cherry Red,” and “Just A Dream.” These are sensational. But after I got those CDs, I never saw anything more by Cleanhead until this past summer, when, pawing though the crates at the Phoenixville Punk Rock Flea Market (all kindsa music, despite the name), I ran across this gem. And it is a gem. Recorded in 1957, as the liner notes say, this does not age.
And I am here to tell you that one of the benefits of collecting music no one else cares about is that you can often get it , if you’ll excuse the phrase, for a song. Because the same fool who was trying to charge $85 for an early version of “Some Girls” sold this to me for $4.
FOUR DOLLARS.
Listen, if you see a
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THE BLUES WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY, TOO!
The Story Of
ROOMFUL OF BLUES
by Rick Bellaire
with much thanks to “Big” Al Pavlow and Marc Perry of the RIMHOF board; special thanks to Ronald Martinez, Al Copley, Greg Piccolo, Ron Levy, and Bobby and Fran Christina for taking the time to shed some light on the foggy areas; and deepest gratitude to Bob Bell, their manager of 23 years, without whose assistance and editing, this story could never have been written
FOREWORD
A Whole Room…Full of Blues
An Appreciation by Bob Angell
As presented at the first annual Rhode Island Music Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony,
February, 2012
Bob Bell, Roomful’s longtime manager and self-confessed “evangelist” for the group told me on the telephone recently that in his 23 year run with the band, he always considered the following advice to be the best he ever gave them: “Listen, create …and play” and most of all “Do what you do best.”
In their long and storied career, Roomful of Blues have most certainly done that. From the earliest incarnation wherein Duke played a homemade electric guitar with a popsicle stick for a bridge, through the Room-Tone single, the Island LP and on through the Alligator years, the band has changed considerably. The line-up has undergone monumental overhauls over t
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Roomful of Blues
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