Blind Dog Radio

Message to St. Louis by Tommy Bankhead

Label: Fedora Records.
Release Date: February 15, 2000.
Releases: February 29, 2000.
Recording Time: 49 minutes.
Recording Date: July 15, 1999 - July 16, 1999.
Release Info: Studio Recording.

Recording information: The Benton Park Studio St Louis, MO (07/15/1999-07/16/1999).

Styles: Delta Blues, Regional Blues.

Eleven fantastic tracks from the great St. Louis Bluesman. Bankhead sings/plays guitar on ten originals and the classic blues song "Goin' to Chicago". This CD is Tommy Bankhead's debut on Fedora Records.

Bankhead began playing house parties and fish frys in rural Mississippi and Arkansas, then joined the blues legends Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson, to the "six-week gig" in St. Louis that has lasted nearly two decades, Unbelievably, this is only Bankhead's second recording the first Please Mr. Foreman 1983. Bankhead is joined by Erskine Oglesby, whose tenor was part of the Ike & Tina Revue, Charles 'Nephew' Davis, a veteran himself who played with James Brown and Little Milton, and the piano playing of Bob Lohr.

This CD is a necessity for all blues collections!

Personnel: Tommy Bankhead (vocals, guitar); Erskine Oglesby (saxophone); Bob Lohr (piano); Charles "Nephew" Davis (bass); Kenny Laurence (drums).
Includes liner notes by Michael Kuelker.

Credits: Tommy Bankhead - composer, guitar, primary artist, vocals; Roy Brown - composer; Huddie Ledbetter - composer; Bob Lohr - piano; Chris Millar - producer; Doug Rayburn - engineer; James Schwartz - cover art; Traditional - composer; Hal Wilson - design.

Tracks: 1) How Long; 2) Going to Chicago; 3) Tell Me Baby; 4) It Ain't Right; 5) Alcohol Ain't Nothin; 6) Who Said It; 7) The bright lights; 8) Message To St. Louis; 9) Gamblin' Man; 10) Old Maid; 11) Goin' Back.