Frank Frost
Frank Otis Frost ( born April 15, 1936 in Auvergne, Arkansas, † October 12, 1999 in Helena, Arkansas ) was one of the greatest Delta blues harmonica players of his generation.
Life
He was born in 1936 when Frank Otis Frost in Auvergne as the son of Theodore and Darthula frost. His family was very musical, his father played the horn and his mother the piano. In the church in which his parents played, he learned to play the piano.
In 1951 he moved to St. Louis, where he learned from Little Willie Foster and later by Sonny Boy Williamson II, who took him 1956-1959 as a guitar player on tour, blues harp. Williamson regarded him as a sort of son. Here he played with Sam Carr, the son of Robert Nighthawk, with whom he was all his life in close connection. A hand injury forced him to focus on harmonica and piano.
After he had separated from Williamson in 1959, he formed a duo with Sam Carr, came to the 1962 guitarist Jack Johnson. They played in local clubs and Blue in the King Biscuit Time, a blues broadcast from Helena, hosted by Sonny Boy Williamson.
From 1963, he went on tour with various musicians, such as Albert King, BB King, Carl Perkins and Conway Twitty. His own group caught the attention of Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, who with them on the sub-label International the plate Hey Boss Man! recorded! Frank Frost had no good memories of Phillips, he said in an interview with blues Acces: "We recorded it, and all he Offered me what $ 800 That's all We did not come out with it. Then it came out later, and I did not get paid. "
The next shots of frost for Jewel Records were produced by guitarist Scotty Moore Elvis Presley. In the late 1970s he was rediscovered by the Chicago blues fan Michael Frank, who recorded albums for Earwing Records, which he founded with him. The albums released under the group name The Jelly Roll Kings.
Frost had appearances in the films Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, a documentary about the Delta blues and Crossroads, a movie in which he played a musician in a juke joint. Even in a promotional trailer for President Bill Clinton, he appeared.
Frank Frost died on 12 October 1999 at his home in Helena, Arkansas to cardiac arrest.
Discography
Albums
Guest appearances (selection)
- Big Jack Johnson - The Oil Man (1987, Earwig )
- Big Jack Johnson - Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home? (1991, Earwig )
- T- Model Ford - Pee Wee Get My Gun (1997, Fat Possum )
- T- Model Ford - She Is not None Of Your'n (2000, Fat Possum )
- Sonny Boy Williamson & The Blues Harp Heroes - Encore Collection (2005, Fuel 2000, 2 CDs)
- John " Juke " Logan - The Truth Will Rock You (2005, Mocombo )
- Various Artists - The Legendary Sounds of Sun Studios (2006, Metro Triples, 3 CDs)