CHRIS FARLOWE

Revisando el film ROJO, BLANCO, BLUES, de la colección que presentó MARTIN SCORSESE con el título genérico de THE BLUES me dejaron perplejo las declaraciones de Chris Farlowe y de los " bluesmen " británicos en general, en donde se muestras absolutamente apabullados y anonadados con las visitas que en los años 60's realizaron los artistas americanos del género a las Islas Británicas, sorprendidos por todo, su manera de vestir , de comportarse, de tocar , etc. etc., tanto fué el impacto que decidieron imitarlos.... con más o menos fortuna..... salvo honrosas excepciones...., el caso de Farlowe se vanagloriaba de que su versión de STORMY MONDAY que en su momento promocióno con el pseudónimo de LITTLE JOE COOK, ( ahi es ná ) ..... y que lo llegaron a confundir con un negro ! .....  No me pronuncio, juzgar vosotros, lo que sí quiero manifestar es que he oido mejores versiones de STORMY MONDAY ! 

                           

Apparently, more than mislabeling happened with Little Joe Cook's version, released by Guy Stevens on Sue Records in the UK. First of all, he and Chris Blackwell started this Island UK imprint to release American Sue releases in Britain. Somewhere along the line, they just began putting out any blues or RnB master they acquired from the States under the Sue moniker, unbeknownst to Juggy Murray, owner of Sue in New York. That fueled the first set of fireworks.

Fireworks display number two came when EMI's Chis Farlowe & The Thunderbirds, now suddenly known as Little Joe Cook, found their studio rehearsal of 'Stormy Monday' had been taped, and subsequently released, without their knowledge or permission, on the Sue label by Guy Stevens. Story goes he and Chris Farlowe were quite close, and according to Albert Lee (guitartist in The Thunderbirds), it was meant to hide from EMI that their band was moonlighting on another label.

On top of all that, this release credited Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine correctly -- if you go by the song title on the label. Problem was the music on the vinyl was again the T-Bone Walker composition of 'Stormy Monday', not 'Stormy Monday Blues'. More headaches for T-Bone.

Some say Little Joe Cook's version is the greatest UK blues record ever recorded. I've read this on a bunch of occasions. Who can say. Tell you one thing, it's a shimmering take on an already late night, after hours classic. It may be one of my all time favorite blues numbers. It and 'St. James Infirmary'.

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Chris Farlowe is an English rock, blues and soul singer, best known for his hit single "Out of Time." The song was a number 1 hit in the UK in 1966. His first band was his own John Henry Skiffle Group, where he played the guitar and sang too.

However, he wanted to focus on his vocals and turned his hand to rock and roll with the name Chris Farlowe. He was the voice of a group called 'Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds.' They built up a reputation throughout the UK and Germany and eventually moved to R'n'B in the early 1960's.

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Chris Farlowe (born John Henry Deighton, 13 October 1940 in Islington, North London) is an English rock, blues and soul singer. He is best known for his hit single "Out of Time", which rose to #1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1966 and his association with Colosseum and the Thunderbirds. Outside his music career, Farlowe collects war memorabilia.

Inspired by Lonnie Donegan, Farlowe's musical career began with a skiffle group, the John Henry Skiffle Group, in 1957 before he joined the Johnny Burns Rhythm and Blues Quartet, in 1958. He met guitarist Bob Taylor in 1959 and, through Taylor, joined the Thunderbirds, who went on to record five singles for the Columbia label. On Island's Sue label, he released a version of "Stormy Monday Blues" under the pseudonym Little Joe Cook, which perpetuated the myth that he was a black singer.

Farlowe moved to Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label and recorded eleven singles, five of which were cover versions of Rolling Stones songs including "Paint It, Black", "Think", "Ride On, Baby", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", and "Out of Time", which reached no. 1 (1966) in the UK Singles Chart. He recorded four more singles, the best known of which is Mike d'Abo's "Handbags and Gladrags".

He began an association with the jazz rock group Colosseum in 1970, recording a live album and two studio albums including, Daughter of Time (1970). Later in the next millennium he would appear on two more Colosseum albums In February 1972 he joined Atomic Rooster,and is featured on the albums Made in England (1972) and Nice 'n' Greasy (1973).

He sang vocals for the theme music written by Greenslade for the BBC Television series Gangsters. In 1978 he had a part in a play produced by BBC Birmingham, Curriculee Curricula, first shown on BBC Two and shot in its entirety on video at the University of Birmingham campus, with Magnus Magnusson as the narrator.[5] Farlowe and Greenslade provided the music. He also sang on three tracks from Jimmy Page's Death Wish II soundtrack (1982), as well as the tracks "Hummingbird", "Prison Blues" and "Blues Anthem" on Page's album Outrider (1988).

Chris Farlowe toured for a long time also with Hamburg Blues Band, mainly in Germany.

In 2009, Farlowe toured as a featured artist with Maggie Bell and Bobby Tench as part of the "Maximum Rhythm and Blues" tour of 32 UK theatres.