Joe Carter (guitarist)

Joseph J. "Joe" Carter ( born November 6, 1927 in Midland, Georgia, † June 15, 2001 in Chicago ) was an American blues guitarist and singer in the Chicago blues scene.

Joe Carter had as a young guitar lessons with Lee Willis in Georgia; In 1952 he moved to Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters. There he founded his first band with Smokey Smothers on guitar and Lester Davenport on harmonica, although created with this formation will not record. He got a record contract by Cobra Records offered, but declined because he preferred to live from club performances. In the 1950s, he appeared regularly in the 708 Club, one of the earliest known blues clubs on Chicago's South Side, where he was called Joe " Elmore James, Jr." Carter, because he mastered perfectly Elmore James' slide guitar style. For many years worked Carter outside the music scene as a pack workers; only in 1976 was a first album, which he recorded for Barrelhouse Records. In the late 1980s he joined occasionally in Lilly's nightclub on Chicago's North Side, accompanied by the band The Ice Cream Men A cancer ended his career in the early 1990s.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Mean & Evil Blues ( Barrelhouse Records, 1978)
  • Original Chicago Blues ( JSP Records, 1982)
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