⬇️ ARBEE STIDHAM ⬇️
(Arbee Perkins Stidham)
DISCOGRAPHY 1957-2010 (10CD)
DISCOGRAPHY 1957-2010 (10CD)
He was born in De Valls Bluff, Arkansas, to a musical family: his father,
Luddie Stidham, played with Jimmie Lunceford, and his uncle with the
Memphis Jug Band. Arbie learned to play the harmonica, clarinet and
saxophone as a child. Before his teens he had formed a band, the Southern
Syncopators, which backed Bessie Smith on tour in 1930 and 1931 and played
on the radio and in clubs in Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee.
In the mid-1940s Stidham moved to Chicago, where he met Lester Melrose,
who signed him to a recording contract with RCA Victor in 1947. His
biggest hit, "My Heart Belongs to You", was recorded at his first session;
it reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart in June 1948. He
spent the rest of his career trying to achieve the same success, recording
for Checker, States, and other independent record labels as a
jazz-influenced blues vocalist.
He was in a car crash in the 1950s, and his Injuries made it impossible
for him to play the saxophone, so he took up the guitar, under the
tutelage of Big Bill Broonzy, and played it on recordings for Folkways
Records in the early 1960s.
He recorded occasionally until the early 1970s and appeared at music
festivals and clubs in the United States and abroad. He lectured on the
blues at Cleveland State University in the 1970s. He appeared in the film
The Bluesman in 1973.
Stidham died on April 26, 1988, in Cook County, Illinois, aged 71.
(Wikipedia)
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1961-Arbee's Blues (LP) @FLAC+
1972-A Time For Blues (LP) @FLAC
1973-There's Always Tomorrow (LP) @FLAC+
1981-My Heart Belongs To You (LP) @FLAC+
2006-Arbee Stidham's Please Let It Be @ALAC
2010-Classic Blues @FLAC+
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1961-Blues by Jazz Gillum (LP) @FLAC