Lurrie Bell
(born Lurrie C. Bell
, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States [1]) is a blues guitarist and singer. His father was renowned blues harmonica player Carey Bell.
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Career
Bell started playing
guitar at the age of six, and in his teens he polished his skills playing with the legends of
Chicago blues scene including
Eddy Clearwater,
Big Walter Horton and
Eddie Taylor.
In the mid 1970s, he went on to join
Koko Taylor's Blues Machine and he toured with the band for four years. He made his recording debut in 1977 appearing on his father's album
Heartaches and Pain
and also on
Eddie C. Campbell's
King of the Jungle
[2] [3]. It was around that time that he formed The Sons of Blues with
musicians including
Billy Branch on harmonica.
[4] Three tracks of the band's recordings were featured in the
Alligator Records compilation Living Chicago Blues Vol. 3
released in 1978. In 1989 he released his first solo effort,
Everybody Wants To Win
, on
JSP Records.
Though Bell's career appeared to be headed in the right direction, drawing attention of the blues fans around the world as a young prodigy of the blues, he battled emotional problems and
drug abuse for many years, which kept him away from performing on regular basis.
He began a comeback in 1995 with the well-received album
Mercurial Son
, his first of several from the
Delmark label. A series of albums followed thereafter, and he started to perform more frequently in the Chicago club and blues festival circuits.
Bell is featured on
Gettin' Up - Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home
, a 2007 CD and DVD release from Delmark, where he plays with his father Carey. Soon after this release, Carey died and this became his last recorded effort.
Discography
Solo
- 1989 Everybody Wants To Win
(JSP)
- 1995 Mercurial Son
(Delmark)
- 1997 700 Blues
(Delmark)
- 1997 Young Man's Blues
(JSP)
- 1998 Kiss Of Sweet Blues
(Delmark)
- 1998 The Blues Caravan Live At Pit Inn 1982
(P-Vine)
- 1999 Blues Had A Baby
(Delmark)
- 2001 Cutting Heads
(Vypyr)
- 2007 Let's Talk About Love
(Aria B.G.)
With Carey Bell
- 1977 Heartaches and Pain
(Delmark)
- 1982 Going on Main Street
(L+R)
- 1984 Son of a Gun
(Rooster Blues)
- 1986 Straight Shoot
(Blues South West)
- 1990 Dynasty
(JSP)
- 1994 Harpmaster
(JSP)
- 1995 Deep Down
(Alligator)
- 1997 Father&Son The Blues Collection
(BLU GNC 072)
- 2004 Second Nature
(Alligator) (recorded in 1991)
- 2007 Gettin' Up, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home
(Delmark)
Collaboration with other artists
- 1981 ''American Folk Blues Festival '81 (L+R)
- 1982 The Sons of Blues Live '82
(L+R)
- 1982 Chicago's Young Blues Generation
(L+R) with Billy Branch
- 1998 Chicago's Hottest Guitars: Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 25
(Wolf) with Phil Guy
See also
- List of Chicago blues musicians
- List of Electric blues musicians
References
- Allmusic biography
- Lurrie Bell's story on his official website
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- The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray