Artist: Smokey Wilson
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
With the William Clarke Band
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
The Man From Mars
Year: 1997
Tracks: 1
The Real Deal
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
88th Street Blues
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
When Los Angeles-based guitarist Smokey Wilson really got serious roughly setting a full-fledged calling as a bluesman in motion, it didn't take him long to astonish the aficionados with an incendiary 1993 set for Bullseye Blues, Smoke n' Fire, that conjured up echoes of the Mississippi Delta of his youth.
Robert Lee Wilson lived and played the vapours with Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, Big Jack Johnson, Frank Frost, and other Mississippi stalwarts earlier relocating to L.A. in 1970 when he was 35 days old. But or else of grabbing for the amber as a touring entity, he open the Pioneer Club in Watts, prima the house band and nobly engagement the very topper in blues gift (all-star attractions at the fabled joint included Joe Turner, Percy Mayfield, Pee Wee Crayton, Albert Collins, and plentifulness more).
Wilson recorded slenderly at number one, his LPs for Big Town not doing the man justice. A 1983 set for Murray Brothers (late reissued on Blind Pig) with harpist Rod Piazza and Hollywood Fats on round guitar crataegus oxycantha have been the turning dot; clearly, he was gearing up to leave his Mississippi target on Southern California blues.
Smoke n' Fire and its 1995 encore, The Real Deal (a title now used for trey contemporaneous blues albums in a year's clip: John Primer and Buddy Guy make as well claimed it), nominate Smokey Wilson as one of the hottest late-bloomers in the vapours business.
