DISCOGRAPHY 1985-2006 (17CD)
Artie "Blues Boy" White (April 16, 1937 – April 20, 2013) was an
American blues and soul singer and guitarist based in Chicago, who was
described as "one of the foremost Chicago practitioners of Southern Soul
music".
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he first began performing in his teens with a gospel group, the Harps of David, before moving to Chicago in 1956. He continued to sing gospel in the Full Gospel Wonders, but switched to perform blues music in Chicago clubs in the early 1960s. After releasing several singles on small labels, he had his only chart hit in 1977 with "(You Are My) Leanin' Tree", written by Chicago songwriter Bob Jones and released on the ALTee label, which reached number 99 on the Billboard R&B chart.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he first began performing in his teens with a gospel group, the Harps of David, before moving to Chicago in 1956. He continued to sing gospel in the Full Gospel Wonders, but switched to perform blues music in Chicago clubs in the early 1960s. After releasing several singles on small labels, he had his only chart hit in 1977 with "(You Are My) Leanin' Tree", written by Chicago songwriter Bob Jones and released on the ALTee label, which reached number 99 on the Billboard R&B chart.
For a while he ran a blues club, Bootsy's Show Lounge, and later another
venue, the New Club Bootsy’s. He continued to perform and record,
releasing the album Blues Boy on the Ronn label in 1985 and thereafter
adopting the title as his sobriquet. In 1987, he moved to the Ichiban
label, where he recorded seven albums of soul blues, including more of Bob
Jones' songs and, on the 1989 album Thangs Got to Change, a collaboration
with his musical inspiration, Little Milton Campbell.
He signed for the Waldoxy label, a subsidiary of Malaco Records, in 1994,
and released the album Different Shades of Blue, which was nominated for
the Jackson Blues Award. His most popular singles in the 1990s included
“I’m Gonna Marry My Mother-In-Law” (1994) and “Your Man Is Home Tonight”
(1997). In 1997 he released the album Back Home to Clarksdale: A Tribute
to Muddy Waters, followed by Can We Get Together (1999).
He became well known on the Chicago blues scene for his flamboyant
costumes and stage presence, toured internationally, and headlined the
2000 Chicago Blues Festival. In 2001 he released the album Can’t Get
Enough on his own AChillTown label. He became ill later in the decade,
developing multiple health issues and increasingly becoming confined to a
wheelchair, but returned to occasional performances such as a concert to
honor Buddy Guy in 2008.
White died from Parkinson's disease in 2013, shortly after his 76th
birthday. (Wikipedia)