LITTLE BUDDY DOYLE

                                           
Charlie" Little Buddy" Doyle , guitarrista y cantante, participó en la primera grabación de Walter " Shakey " Horton, quien le acompaña en este video que podéis oir.


                           

From the Broke, Black & Blue - An Anthology Of Blues Classics and Rarities: Good Whiskey Blues

Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 1, 1939; Little Buddy Doyle, vocal and guitar; probably Walter Horton, harmonica...Originally issued on Okeh 05771

Little is known about Little Buddy Doyle, except his real name was Charlie Doyle and that he was a midget who probably suffered from encephalitis. Buddy sings the heart-wrenching blues of bad health, deprivation, woman trouble and pre-occupation with death. "Hard Scufflin' Blues" tackles such a theme. Musically the performance is well integrated with the welcome presence of the great Walter Horton on harmonica. ~ Joop Visser (from the liner notes)

LYRICS:

Scufflin' have got so hard, seem like I can't even make a dime

Scufflin' have got so hard, seem like I can't even make a dime

I musta had the wrong woman, seem like gangsters on me all there now

I never wants another woman that she don't do nothin' but hang around for be in a gang

I never wants another woman, that she don't do nothin' but hang around for be in a gang

She will all drive you to your weakness, she will keep you with a turned-down hand

Life have got miserable, seem like no more happiness to be made

Life have got miserable, seem like no more happiness to be made

But life is really too short to be worried about some old no-good babe

Good Book, don't it tell us, where there's a will there's a way

Lord, the Good Book kindly tell us, where there's a will there's a way

But it seem like to me the way it's jivin', now to me, more and more every day...

Photography by Alan Lomax

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Little Buddy Doyle

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Little Buddy Doyle

Birth name Charlie Doyle

Born March 20, 1911

Forrest City, Arkansas, United States

Died Unknown

Genres Country blues, Memphis blues

Occupations Guitarist, singer, songwriter

Instruments Vocals, guitar

Labels Okeh, Vocalion

Associated acts Big Walter Horton, Hammie Nixon

Little Buddy Doyle (March 20, 1911 – unknown) was an American Memphis and country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a working associate of Big Walter Horton and Hammie Nixon.

Charlie Doyle was probably born in Forrest City, Arkansas, United States. During the 1930s, the diminutive Doyle performed regularly on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

It is generally accepted that Big Walter Horton made his first recording backing Doyle, on Doyle's Memphis based eight song recordings made for the Okeh and Vocalion labels in 1939. Doyle also recorded with the harmonica player, Hammie Nixon, around the same time, although some of their recorded work remains unissued

Most of what else is known about Doyle derives from the autobiography of David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who met him and played with him. Doyle also played with Sunnyland Slim. Edwards met Doyle for the first time in Memphis in 1935. At this point Doyle usually performed in Handy Park, Memphis. Doyle was still alive and still performing in Handy Park in 1943, when Edwards again came to Memphis. In 1943, Edwards sometimes performed in Handy Park together with Doyle, Big Walter Horton and a young Little Walter. Edwards remembered Doyle clearly and he described him as a quite charismatic figure. According to Edward's description, Doyle was a red-eyed alcoholic who was drunk all the time, and had two or three gold teeth. No photos of Doyle seems to be known. Doyle was most likely called Little Buddy Doyle because of his diminutive height; according to Edward's description Doyle "... was a midget. His legs was so short that when he sat on the bench to play the guitar he couldn´t pat his feet. He had to just bump against the seat, his feet would be that far off the ground. He´d get to playing the blues and just bump, bump, bump."

When Edwards met him in 1935 he was married to Hedda, who was six feet tall. According to Edwards, Hedda too was "a good guitar player in the key of G." She sometimes performed with Doyle.

Little else is known of Doyle's life outside of his recorded work, and his death appears to be unrecorded.