⬇️ LINSEY ALEXANDER ⬇️
DISCOGRAPHY 1998-2020 (10CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Alexander was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in an area along the
Mississippi Blues Trail. His family was "poor but honest and hardworking"
sharecroppers. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his mother and a sister
when he was 12 years old.
Alexander's interest in music started when a family friend he knew only as
Otis taught him enough that when Otis left his guitar as a gift at
Alexander's home, he was able pick it up and play. Alexander concentrated on
singing as a teenager and later developed his guitar playing. His early
influences were blues, country music, and rock and roll, including the blues
keyboardist Rosco Gordon and the rock-and-roll artists Chuck Berry and Elvis
Presley.
In Mississippi, Alexander worked as a porter in a hotel laundry room and
later as a bicycle technician. In 1959, he pawned his first guitar to help
pay his way to Chicago by Greyhound bus, following a girl he had met in
Memphis. In Chicago, he had a series of jobs, working for a car dealer, at a
gas station, and as a cook and busboy. He received a pension after he was
wounded while working for the Chicago Police Department.
Alexander was pulled into the Chicago South Side music scene, where he
heard soul artists like McKinley Mitchell and Bobby Day and the bluesman
Howlin' Wolf. His first guitar was never recovered from the pawnshop, but he
bought another guitar and formed a band, the Hot Tomatoes, which was "good
enough to enter a talent show at the well-known nightclub on 63rd Street
called The Place." Alexander went on to form another band, the Equitable
Band, which played at the Launching Pad, at 75th Street and Stony Island,
for about eight years.
When Alexander was playing at Red's, a Chicago club at 35th Street and
Archer, he was approached by an agent who introduced him to the popular
North Side blues clubs B.L.U.E.S. and Kingston Mines. His entry into "Blue
Chicago" (downtown) exposed him to tourists to whom he started selling
independently recorded CDs, which are still selling well. Alexander has been
a fixture in Chicago North Side clubs for nearly two decades and has played
with blues notables including Buddy Guy, A.C. Reed, Magic Slim, and B.B.
King. He has performed for audiences in New York, Canada, and Europe and has
appeared at the Mississippi Blues Festival. Alexander is a regular performer
at Kingston Mines.....
(Wikipedia)
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