Willie Love

Life

The most important influence on Loves piano style was Leroy Carr.1942 he met in Greenville Sonny Boy Williamson II, where they are joined at the Nelson Street, the center of the black community in the city, played. Williamson was also the Love to Trumpet Records took. There Is Love played with the first recordings piano.

Between 1951 and 1953, Love took her by Trumpet under his own name plates. When recording Everybody 's Fishing, his most successful titles, Elmore James played the guitar. In later recordings played Little Milton. His last recording session was in April 1953. In this session, he played with a white bassist, what was the state with the most stringent segregation, a rarity at that time in Mississippi. In August 1953, he died of complications from prolonged drunkenness. It is located on the Elmwood Cemetery buried in Jackson.

On the CD Greenville Smokin ' the remaining recordings Loves were published in 2000.