BILLY "RED " LOVE

 

                             

                            

Otro músico de Memphis ligado a la factoría de los hermanos CHESS , en este caso se trata del pianista Billy " Red" Love maestro de Rosco Gordon , que referenciamos en nuestro post anterior, se trata como podéis oir del estilo imperante por aquellos entonces un híbrido donde confluyen los diferentes géneros ,etiquetados posteriormente, R&B , Rockabilly, Blues, Boogie, una mezcla que obtendría el beneplácito del público durante un período de tiempo. ( finales de los 40`s - principios de los 50´s y que culminó con el lanzamiento los bluesmen de Chicago. 

BILLY 'RED' LOVE

Born Milton Morse Love, 8 December 1929, Memphis, Tennesssee

Died 2 May 1975, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Singer / pianist / songwriter / arranger. Until recently, very little information was available about Billy 'Red' Love, an R&B artist who recorded for Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in the early 1950s. He was never interviewed and never featured in any music publications. Thanks to the admirable research of Martin Hawkins for the new Bear Family CD, many new facts have come to light. Billy's instrument was the piano. It is unknown whether he had any formal training on piano or what his basic influences were. By the late 1940s he was gaining a good reputation in Memphis as a player and as a teacher (Rosco Gordon was one of his pupils and called Love a formidable pianist).

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