⬇️ EDDIE 'Guitar' BURNS ⬇️
DISCOGRAPHY 1972-2021 (16CD)
Eddie "Guitar" Burns (February 8, 1928 – December 12, 2012) was an
American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and
songwriter. His career spanned seven decades, and in terms of Detroit
bluesmen, Burns was deemed second only in stature to John Lee
Hooker.
Burns was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States. His father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows, although Burns was mainly raised by his grandparents. He was self-taught in the harmonica and made his first guitar.
Initially influenced by exposure to the music of Sonny Boy Williamson I and Big Bill Broonzy, Burns relocated from the Mississippi delta via Waterloo, Iowa to Detroit in 1948. Originally Burns excelled playing the harmonica, and his debut single, "Notoriety Woman" (1948), featured this ability accompanied by the guitar playing of John T. Smith. Burns tells how he met John Lee Hooker here: "Well see, John T. and me was playing at a house party this particular Saturday night.
BIOGRAPHY
Burns was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States. His father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows, although Burns was mainly raised by his grandparents. He was self-taught in the harmonica and made his first guitar.
Initially influenced by exposure to the music of Sonny Boy Williamson I and Big Bill Broonzy, Burns relocated from the Mississippi delta via Waterloo, Iowa to Detroit in 1948. Originally Burns excelled playing the harmonica, and his debut single, "Notoriety Woman" (1948), featured this ability accompanied by the guitar playing of John T. Smith. Burns tells how he met John Lee Hooker here: "Well see, John T. and me was playing at a house party this particular Saturday night.
We was in Detroit Black Bottom...so Hooker was on his way home from
somewhere – I guess he was at some other party, house parties used to be
real plentiful here. Hooker heard it, knocked at the door, and they let
him in. He introduced himself and he sat down and played some with us. And
then, he liked the way I was blowing harmonica...he had a session coming
up on Tuesday, this was on a Saturday. And so then, he wanted to know if I
wanted to do this session with him on Tuesday. And I told him, yes,
naturally.
So that's how John T. and me went down to cut for Hooker. When we got
through the man wanted to know what I had. I had one song, "Notoriety
Woman." And so he said I'd need two, and I sat there and made up "Papa's
Boogie." However, by the following year Burns was playing guitar
accompaniment on recordings by John Lee Hooker.....
(Wikipedia)
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