James Booker
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European Blues and R&B Festival
Report by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975
TEN YEARS AGO Britain was set to become the R&B capital of the world. Between 1962 and '67 we were visited by so many legendary ...
James Booker: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 27 October 1976
IT CAN BE argued, with, some conviction, that popular music of this century has had no true main stream, simply a complex network of tributaries ...
James Booker: A Winner Never Quits, A Quitter Never Wins
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, November 1976
'THE BLACK LIBERATCHI' That's what it says on the card and you can tell that it's going to be one of those interviews when you ...
James Booker: A winner never quits, a quitter never wins...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 30 November 1976
'THE BLACK LIBERATCHI' That's what it says on the card and you can tell that it's going to be one of those interviews when you ...
James Booker: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 19 March 1977
SOME FOLKS need two tons of equipment, the LSO, and a bunch of chorus girls or a performing elephant to justify their reputation. James Carroll ...
Roots Music In The Crescent City: The 12th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1981
This year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival included veterans like Dexter Gordon, bluesman Muddy Waters and local favorite Allen Toussaint. ...
James Booker: New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1982
IN ONE OF THE oddest occurrences in recent memory, a newly-released album that recalls the smoke-filled music of a French Quarter bar better than any ...
James Booker, 1939-1983 — "Piano Prince" of New Orleans
Obituary by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 1 December 1983
JAMES BOOKER cut a broad swath. As a piano-playing fool, he had no equal in New Orleans — which is somewhat like saying there wasn't ...
James Booker: R&B's Invisible Great
Obituary by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1983
The late James Booker fit comfortably into the New Orleans R&B piano tradition of Fats Domino but he also was a contemporary equivalent of the ...
James Booker: The Unsung Piano Genius with Star-spangled False Teeth
Profile by Ben Thompson, MOJO, January 1994
"IF ALL AMERICAN PIANO PLAYERS LINED UP IN A ROW, each knowing the other’s abilities and talents, all would take a step back to recognise ...
Various Artists: 40 Years Of Rounder Records
Review by Kate Mossman, The Word, January 2011
Now in new hands, Rounder Records looks back after four decades of progressive signings in country, blues and folk. ...
Essay by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, November 2018
MANY NEW ORLEANS pianists are better known — Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Harry Con- nick Jr., Professor Longhair, Fats Domino and Art Neville — but those ...
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