TONY HOLLINS


     Como suele pasar en algunas ocasiones la información en este caso gráfica de que se dispone de TONY HOLLINS no existe. En esta portada que aparece como uno de los artistas que forma parte de este disco dedicado al blues de Chicago la fotografía es de Johnny Shines, en otras fotografías que figuran en la red a menudo lo identifican con una imagen que en realidad corrresponde a Son House. Bien, nos quedamos con su música, como podéis ver más abajo es una de las referencias de John Lee Hooker que no esconde sus influencias , por otra parte innegables. 


Cited as a major influence by no less than John Lee Hooker, Delta blues singer/guitarist Tony Hollins was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi around the turn of the century. Few details are known of Hollins' life; he cut his first recordings for OKeh in 1941, with his fluid, insistent performance of "Crawlin' King Snake" serving as the blueprint for Hooker's own later rendition. His "Traveling Man Blues" was also later appropriated by Hooker for his "When My Wife Quit Me"; clearly admired by his peers, Hollins never caught on as a popular favorite, and after another session in 1951, he gradually drifted out of music, focusing instead on his day job as a barber. He died in Chicago in 1959.


             


                         



"Crawling King Snake" (alternatively "Crawlin' King Snake" or "Crawling/Crawlin' Kingsnake") is a blues song that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists. It is believed to have originated as a Delta blues in the 1920s[1] and be related to earlier songs, such as "Black Snake Blues" by Victoria Spivey (1926 OKeh 8338) and "Black Snake Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson (1926 OKeh 8455).

As "Crawling King Snake", it was first recorded by Big Joe Williams on March 27, 1941. The song is a country-style blues, with Williams on vocal and nine-string guitar and William Mitchell providing imitation bass[2] accompaniment. On June 3, 1941, Delta bluesman Tony Hollins recorded "a markedly different version"[3] (OKeh 06350), which served as the basis for many subsequent versions.


                             

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