18-408: Shines is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johnny Shines (1915–1992), American musician Razor Shines (born 1956), American baseball player See also [ edit ] Shine (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Shines . If an internal link intending to refer to
36-609: A Chicago blues club, and he recorded tracks for the third volume of Chicago/The Blues/Today! . The album became a blues classic, and it brought Shines into the mainstream music scene. Shines toured with the Chicago All Stars alongside Lee Jackson , Big Walter Horton and Willie Dixon . Shines moved to Holt, Alabama , in Tuscaloosa County , in 1969. Natalie Mattson, a student at the University of Alabama, learned that he
54-487: A full-time farmer for many years while continuing to play music on weekends at dances and picnics. After decades of playing for small local gatherings, McDowell was recorded in 1959 by roving folklore musicologist Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins , on their Southern Journey field-recording trip. With interest in blues and folk music rising in the United States at the time, McDowell's field recordings for Lomax caught
72-504: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shines&oldid=815664501 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Johnny Shines John Ned Shines (April 26, 1915 – April 20, 1992)
90-495: Is the most vigorous surviving practitioner of acoustic Delta blues . With his intense vibrato, his observant, imaginative, yet tradition-soaked lyrics, and his incomparable slide guitar, he ought to be recorded once a year by the Library of Congress ." In the late 1960s and 1970s, Shines toured with Robert Lockwood, Jr. , Robert Johnson's stepson, another one of the last living original Delta blues musicians. In 1980, Shines's career
108-788: The album "may be the best single CD in McDowell's output, and certainly his best concert release". McDowell's final album, Live in New York ( Oblivion Records ), was a concert performance from November 1971 at the Village Gaslight (also known as The Gaslight Cafe ), in Greenwich Village , New York. McDowell's version of the folk song " John Henry " from 1969 is included on the Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969: Vols 1&2, 2019 release. McDowell died of cancer in 1972, aged 68, and
126-427: The attention of blues aficionados and record producers, and within a couple of years, he had finally become a professional musician and recording artist in his own right. His LPs proved quite popular, and he performed at festivals and clubs all over the world. McDowell continued to perform the blues in the north Mississippi style much as he had for decades, sometimes on electric guitar rather than acoustic guitar. He
144-477: The inspiration to return to music. In 1935, Shines began traveling with Johnson, touring in the United States and Canada. They parted in 1937, one year before Johnson's death. Shines played throughout the southern United States until 1941, when he settled in Chicago. There he found work in the construction industry but continued to play in local bars. He made his first recording in 1946 for Columbia Records , but
162-488: The takes were never released. He recorded for Chess Records in 1950, but again no records were released. He kept playing with blues musicians in the Chicago area for several more years. In 1952, Shines recorded what is considered his best work, for J.O.B. Records . The recordings were a commercial failure, and Shines, frustrated with the music industry, sold his equipment and returned to working in construction. In 1966, Vanguard Records found Shines taking photographs in
180-575: Was an American blues singer and guitarist. Shines was born in Frayser, Tennessee , today a neighborhood of Memphis . He was taught to play the guitar by his mother and spent most of his childhood in Memphis, playing slide guitar at an early age in juke joints and on the street. He moved to Hughes, Arkansas , in 1932 and worked on farms for three years, putting aside his music career. A chance meeting with Robert Johnson , his greatest influence, gave him
198-730: Was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist of hill country blues music. McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee . His parents were farmers, who both died while Fred was in his youth. He took up the guitar at the age of 14 and was soon playing for tips at dances around Rossville. Seeking a change from plowing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926, where he worked in the Buck-Eye feed mill, which processed cotton into oil and other products. In 1928, he moved to Mississippi to pick cotton. He finally settled in Como, Mississippi , around 1940, where he worked as
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#1733085763248216-561: Was brought to a standstill when he suffered a stroke. He later appeared and played in the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson . His final album, Back to the Country , with accompaniment by Snooky Pryor and Johnny Nicholas , won a W. C. Handy Award . In 1989, Shines met Kent DuChaine , and the two of them toured for the next several years, until Shines's death. Shines died on April 20, 1992, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama . He
234-515: Was buried at Hammond Hill Baptist Church, between Como and Senatobia, Mississippi . On August 6, 1993, a memorial was placed on his grave by the Mount Zion Memorial Fund . The ceremony was presided over by the blues promoter Dick Waterman , and the memorial with McDowell's portrait on it was paid for by Bonnie Raitt. The memorial stone was a replacement for an inaccurate (McDowell's name was misspelled) and damaged marker. The original stone
252-493: Was his first featuring electric guitar. It contains parts of an interview in which he discusses the origins of the blues and the nature of love. His live album Live at the Mayfair Hotel (1995) was from a concert he gave in 1969. Tracks included versions of Bukka White 's " Shake 'Em On Down ", Willie Dixon 's " My Babe ", Mance Lipscomb 's "Evil Hearted Woman", plus McDowell's self-penned "Kokomo Blues." AllMusic noted that
270-606: Was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame later the same year. According to the music journalist Tony Russell, Shines was that rare being, a blues artist who overcame age and rustiness to make music that stood up beside the work of his youth. When Shines came back to the blues in 1965 he was 50, yet his voice had the leonine power of a dozen years before, when he made records his reputation was based on. Mississippi Fred McDowell Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell ,
288-558: Was living in the area and invited him to play at a campus coffee house, the Down Under, which she ran. Shines played there on several occasions and brought his friend, blues artist Mississippi Fred McDowell , to perform with him. These were some of his earliest appearances in Alabama after his move there. He continued to play the international blues circuit while living in Holt. "Born in 1915, Shines
306-447: Was particularly renowned for his mastery of slide guitar , a style he said he first learned using a pocketknife for a slide and later a polished beef rib bone. He ultimately settled on the clearer sound he got from a glass slide, which he wore on his ring finger. While he famously declared, "I do not play no rock and roll," he was not averse to associating with younger rock musicians. He coached Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar technique and
324-636: Was reportedly flattered by the Rolling Stones ' rather straightforward version of his " You Gotta Move " on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers . In 1965, he toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival , together with Big Mama Thornton , John Lee Hooker , Buddy Guy , Roosevelt Sykes and others. McDowell's 1969 album I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll , recorded at Malaco Studios in Jackson, Mississippi, and released by Capitol Records ,
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