Big Daddy Kinsey

Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey ( born March 18, 1927 in Pleasant Grove, Mississippi, † April 3, 2001 in Gary, Indiana) was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player and singer.

Life

In his youth he played gospel music with guitar accompaniment. In later adolescence, he played at parties, but his father, the pastor of Gary 's Chase Street Church of God, did not like that. In 1944 he moved to Gary, Indiana, where he married in 1947. He worked in a steel mill. In 1957 he started a family band ( Big Daddy Kinsey & His Fabulous Sons), which existed until 1972. To support his family he stayed away longer time from the music scene, only at the end of the 1960s he was playing blues with a group called The Soul Brothers.

His musical roots were both in the tradition of the Delta and Chicago blues of the post-war period. His sons, Donald, Ralph and Kenneth Price and Ron were formed in 1984 as The Kinsey Report and accompanied their father until his death in 2001. Their music ranges up to Blue Rock with influences of funk and even reggae. In 1993 she released the album "I Am the Blues", a tribute album for Muddy Waters, on which she collaborated with Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Billy Branch, Sugar Blue and Pinetop Perkins.

Big Daddy Kinsey died in 2001 at the age of 71 years from prostate cancer in Gary, Indiana.

Discography

Big Daddy Kinsey

The Kinsey Report