Kid Bailey
Kid Bailey | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Died | after 1960 |
| Genres | Delta Blues |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instruments | |
| Years active | early 1920s - 1950s[3] |
Kid Bailey (before 1929 – after 1960)[4] was a Mississippi Delta bluesman. His one known recording session occurred on September 25, 1929, in Memphis, Tennessee.[5][6][7][8]
Little is known about Bailey. His voice had a distinctly coarse yet youthful quality. Two of his recordings have survived: "Rowdy Blues" and "Mississippi Bottom Blues". There has been some speculation that Kid Bailey was a pseudonym of the blues singer Willie Brown.[9] In most digital releases, the tracks are attributed to Willie Brown, yet are evidently the same artist credited as Kid Bailey on the original 78-rpm recordings.[10]
It has been remarked that "Although it's almost a cliché to say this about a blues musician from the American South, Kid Bailey was one of the most enigmatic musicians of the era."[11]
Bailey's songs have been covered by Ian A. Anderson, Rory Block, Doug Cox, the Be Good Tanyas, and Thomasina Winslow with Nick Katzman.[5]
His song "Rowdy Blues" is included on the compilation album Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton, released by Yazoo Records.[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ arwulf, arwulf. "Kid Bailey: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
- ↑ Eagle, Bob L.; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues: A Regional Experience. ABC-CLIO. p. 187. ISBN 9780313344244.
- ↑ Komara, Edward; Lee, Peter (2004). The Blues Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 9781135958329.
- ↑ Taft, Michael (2013). Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942. Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 9781136734014.
- 1 2 "Kid Bailey Discography". Wirz.de. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
- ↑ "Kid Bailey" (1995). Guinness Who’s Who of Blues (2nd ed.). Colin Larkin, ed. Guinness Publishing. p. 17.
- ↑ Olsen, Ryan. "Kid Bailey". The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues. Vol. 1, A–J. Edward Komara, ed. New York: Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 0-415-92699-8.
- ↑ Cowley, John (1988). "Kid Bailey and Copyright". Blues & Rhythm 51, p. 16.
- ↑ "Honey, Where You Been So Long?". Prewarblues.org. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
- ↑ "The mysterious Kid Bailey". MetaFilter. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
- ↑ Archived September 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books. p. 211. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.
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