Arbee Stidham

Arbee Stidham ( born February 9, 1917 in DeValls Bluff, Arkansas, † April 1988) was an American blues musician (vocals, saxophone, guitar, harmonica ).

Life and work

Arbee Stidham Luddie Stidhams father was a musician Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra in. With his Southern Syncopators Arbee formation occurred in the 1930s in clubs of his native State Arkansas; He has also been heard on the radio station KARK in Little Rock, and accompanied in 1930/31 with his band the singer Bessie Smith on a tour through the southern states. Stidham frequently appeared in Little Rock and Memphis (Tennessee), before he moved to Chicago in the 1940s. There he worked with Memphis Slim; He also made ​​recordings with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra for Victor. He also took under his own name for Victor on ( Your Heart Belongs to Me), also in the 1950s and 1960s for Bob Shad's label Sittin ' In With, Checker (I Do not Play / Don ' t Set Your Cap for Me), States ( look Me Straight in the Eye, 1957, with Earl Hooker and Lefty Bates ) Abco ( Meet Me Half Way, Willie Dixon, and Killer Blues ), Prestige / Bluesville, Mainstream, and Folkways. As a tribute to the late U.S. President Roosevelt, he played a protest song, Mr. Commissioner ( Checker 751 ) 1952.

In 1973 he had a cameo in the film The Bluesman. Stidham occurred in those years at numerous festivals and clubs, and outside the United States. In the 1970s, he taught at Cleveland State University.

Stidham was a blues singer and guitarist, who played in the broadest sense in the Mississippi country style of Big Bill Broonzy. He took Gilum Jazz and Memphis Slim also two cover versions of songs on Broonzy, I Feel So Good and Rockin 'Chair Blues. Charles Keil sees in his book Urban blues Arbee Stidham in the tradition of Kansas City - shouter like Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Big Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Complete Recordings Vol 1: 1947-1951 ( Blue Moon ), with Sax Mallard, Tab Smith, Lucky Millinder
  • Complete Recordings Vol 2: 1951-1957 ( Blue Moon ), with Red Holloway, Earl Hooker, Tommy 'Mad ' Jones, JT Brown, Wayne Bennett, Lefty Hayes
  • My Heart Belongs to You ( Crown, rec. 1947-57, ed 1981)
  • Arbee 's Blues ( Folkways, 1961), with Memphis Slim, Jump Jackson
  • Jazz Gillum / Arbee Stidham / Memphis Slim - Blues By Jazz Gillum ( Folkways, 1961)
  • Tired of Wandering - The Blues Arbee Stidham of ( Prestige / Bluesville, 1960), with King Curtis, John Wright, Leonard Gaskin, Armond 'Jump ' Jackson ( d)
  • A Time for Blues ( Mainstream, 1972)
  • There's Always Tomorrow ( Folkways, 1973)
Singing Little Rock, Arkansas Victor Talking Machine Company Prestige Records Folkways Records Discogs
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