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Blues, Reading History, Politics, Documentary Films & Preserving African-American Culture. Блюз, Чтение, История, Политика, Документальные Фильмы & Сохранении Афро-Американской Культуры |
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In Phil " Big Daddy Blues" Speat resides the real thing. Born on September 16, 1961 in Compton, CA. He is an original article. He is one of the few people left that can shout the blues in Kansas City Style. Blessed like Big Joe Turner & Jimmy Rushing with an arsenal of vowel sounds and glottal shocks which you can nearly reach out and touch. Moreover Phil’s range is perfectly suited to the nature of his material, and that material is perfectly adequate to express the essence of his personality. At the age of 29 in 1990 Phil had a rather late start in down the blues road compared to other modern day blues artists. In 1990 while singing in "Jam Sessions" in Huntington, California Big Daddy Blues met two men "Joe Houston & Harvey "Harmonica Fats" Blackstone and they would have a big impact on the fledgling bluesinger.
Plainly speaking “Big Daddy Blues” like the masters of the Kansas City Style of bluesinging Big Joe Turner & Jimmy Rushing has found a way, no doubt by pure instinct, of doing what every creative artist ought to do but few ever manage, he has contrived an ideal marriage of the blues from and content. He is almost the last of a long and honorable that includes Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, Jimmy Witherspoon, Big Momma Thornton, Victoria Spivey, Jay McShann, Alberta Hunter & of course Bessie Smith. Like those who came before him "Big Daddy Blues" represents a priceless tradition of Art, called the Kansas City Style Blues, which is all but extinct.
This art is a dying art, and therefore doubly demands our scrutiny because Bluesinging of this type has always been one of the glories of the Blues, we would be a parcel of fools not to revel in it for as long a we can.. In these modern times of 2012 where the true blues are almost a distant memory Phil "Big Daddy Blues" Speat gives testament that those Rippin, Rompin, Riffin & Stompin days of Kansas City are in good hands and still alive!!
This Compton, California born man has sang the blues in USA, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belgium, France, Poland, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Ukraine, Russia, Montenegro, Kosovo, UK, France and The Netherlands since arriving to Europe in 1994. In June 2002 he released his first of two CD recording “Crackers In My Soup” on his own artist owned label Momma Jo Records. The 2nd CD recording was recorded in Finland during the winter of 2006 and is named “Big Daddy Blues With Blues Disease” .Most definitely a man that will be singing the blues for another 30 years. Since 2012 Phil have been performing in Russia with Eugene Lamba's "Blues Juke Box" and they have made perfromances in many cities i the Russian Federation. Phil "Big Daddy Blues" Speat currently resdies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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