⬇️ 'MEMPHIS PIANO RED' ⬇️
(John Williams)
(3CD)
(3CD)
John williams was born an albino in Germantown, Tennessee, in 1904 in a family with 11 children, six of whom played musical instruments. He died in 1980.
He learned how to play piano at the age of 13 from one of his sisters and was influenced by local Germantown piano blues players.
In 1930 he moved to Memphis where he started his musical activity, playing often in Beale Street bars. He hoboed and rode freight trains for more than 25 years, visiting and sojourning in various states, developing a solid barrelhouse piano technique coupled with strong, heartfelt singing.
He never had the chance to record 78 rpm race records, and was discovered in the late '60s during blues revival times. Only a limited number of examples of his music have ever been released; and in most of that material, the piano is out of tune.
He learned how to play piano at the age of 13 from one of his sisters and was influenced by local Germantown piano blues players.
In 1930 he moved to Memphis where he started his musical activity, playing often in Beale Street bars. He hoboed and rode freight trains for more than 25 years, visiting and sojourning in various states, developing a solid barrelhouse piano technique coupled with strong, heartfelt singing.
He never had the chance to record 78 rpm race records, and was discovered in the late '60s during blues revival times. Only a limited number of examples of his music have ever been released; and in most of that material, the piano is out of tune.