Tampa Red

Tampa Red ( born January 8, 1904 in Smithville, Georgia, † March 19, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois; actually Hudson Whittaker, born Hudson Woodbridge ) was an American singer and guitarist. He was one of the outstanding slide guitarists and was also known as The Guitar Wizard.

The special feature of his guitar playing was that he used a short bottleneck that did not go over the entire fingerboard and enabled so to use your finger to touch the strings. In contrast to almost all other slide guitarists this time, he played on a normal tuned guitar (so-called Spanish tuning), while the majority of guitarists to play slide began open tunings.

Tampa Red moved in the 1920s to Chicago, where he formed the duo Hokum Boys with Georgia Tom Dorsey, which scored a hit with the title It's Tight Like That. From the 20s to the 1950s was one of Tampa Red next to Big Bill Broonzy and Muddy Waters later to Chicago's leading blues musicians. He helped many newly arrived from the country musicians, Big Maceo Merriweather, for example, on the first time and made ​​his home to the exercise room for the blues scene. Tampa Red made ​​many recordings in the field Hokum, Pop, Jive and especially blues. With Anna Lou Blues, Black Angel Blues, Crying Will not Help You, It Hurts Me Too and Love Her with a Feeling some classic blues compositions are by him.

After the death of his wife in 1953, he never overcame his alcohol problems became acute and his career broke off.

In the early 1960s took Tampa Red on some LPs. There were mostly solo recordings, on which he accompanied himself with the guitar and kazoo. On some pieces supporting him the pianist Cow Cow Davenport. Despite the interest in blues music from the 20s and 30s, Tampa Red was unable to establish new career more. After the death of his new partner in the 1970s, the structured his daily routine and had supplied him, the blues musicians lived in a nursing home. 1981, the same year in which he died penniless, Tampa Red was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Discography

  • Do not Tampa with the Blues (1961 )
  • Do not Jive with Me ( 1961)
  • How Long (1963 )
  • Bottleneck Guitar (1928-1937) (1974 )
  • Tampa Red (1982 )
  • It's Tight Like That (1991 )
  • In Chronological Order Vol 1:. May 1928 To 12 January 1929 (1991 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 2 (1929 ) ( 1991)
  • Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol 4 ( 1930-31 ). (1991)
  • Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol 5 ( 1931-34 ). (1991)
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 9 (1937-1938) (1993 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 10 (1938-1939) (1993 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 11 (1939-1940) (1993 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 12 (1941-1945) (1993 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 15 (1993 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 13 (1945-1947) (1994 )
  • Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Vol 7: 27 July 1935 To 5 August 1936 (1994 )
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol 8 (1936-1937) (1996 )
  • 1928-1946 (1999)
  • Do not Jive Me ( 2002)
  • Guitar & Piano Duets (2007) with Big Maceo
  • Bluebird Recordings 1936-1938 (2007)
  • Roots N'Blues -the Guitar Wizard ( 2008)
  • You Cant Get That Stuff No More (2008)
  • Midnight Blues

The Complete Recorded Works published by Document Records.

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