U.P.WILSON

Uno de estos artistas todo fuerza que vuelcan en cada una de sus actuaciones su sonido brutal, ver video live at The Bluebird y quedaros con su forma de tocar la guitarra... lo nunca visto ! 

                                                         
              

Y comprobar toda su fuerza en este tema : Boogie Boy : 

Y en el resto de audios , podéis oir uno de sus mejores albumes grabado con el armonicista PAUL ORTA . ATTACK OF THE ATOMIC GUITAR, el cual encabeza ntro.post. 

En resumen un blues-show-man ! 

                                                              
                                  

Guitarrista, cantante y compositor UP Wilson interpreta con  un estilo sorprendentemente refrescante con profundos sonidos que reflejan el alma del blues del Sur  rural y   urbano. Su forma de tocar la guitarra muy rítmica se exhibe en tres álbumes para JSP Records, y parece que después de años de ser conocido como un artista  regional en torno a Texas, Wilson está listo para tomar su show en la carretera. Wilson ha grabado tres álbumes de los Registros JSP con sede en Londres - Boogie Boy: El Retorno del Tornado de Texas en 1994, This Is UP Wilson (1995), y el torbellino, un comunicado de 1996. Wilson también tiene dos grabaciones tempranas de los años 90 para las pequeñas etiquetas de Texas Red Lightnin 'y Double Trouble.

Su  blues de Texas, tenía fervientes seguidores . Wilson comenzó a grabar de forma local en 1987 y recorrer de nuevo todo Texas. Desde el lanzamiento a mediados de los años 90 de sus álbumes JSP, Wilson y su banda han realizado giras a nivel regional en todo el Sur,  su inventiva, composición,  inteligente, grandes arreglos y la pura originalidad. Regresó en 1999 con On My Way.

                                 

                                                                     
                                    

U.P. Wilson cd 1992 - Attack of the Atomic Guitar

Track 03 - Enter the Tornado

Attack of the Atomic Guitar - this slashing live CD by the underrecorded veteran Texas guitarist includes harpist Paul Orta and The Kingpins providing support

Born - September 4, 1934 in Shreveport, LA 

Died - September 22, 2004 in Paris, France

                                          

U.P. Wilson (September 4, 1934 – September 22, 2004) was an African American electric blues guitarist and singer who performed Texas blues. He recorded five albums for JSP Records, the first being Boogie Boy! The Texas Guitar Tornado Returns!, and was known for playing a style of deep Southern soul blues that was gospel inflected

Huary Perry Wilson was born on a farm in Catto Parish, Shreveport, Louisiana, to parents Carrie Lee and Tommy Wilson. Raised in West Dallas, Wilson learned the blues from ZuZu Bollin, Cat Man Fleming, Frankie Lee Sims, Mercy Baby and Nappy "Chin" Evans. Wilson later relocated from Dallas to Fort Worth and formed a duo, the Boogie Chillun Boys, with the drummer and vocalist, Robert Ealey. Later he worked with Cornell Dupree before Dupree left to become a session musician.The Boogie Chillun Boys provided inspiration to fellow Texan singer and guitarist Ray Sharpe.

From 1967 onwards he raised his family, and worked in Fort Worth during the day as a school janitor. At night, Wilson performed as a sideman in local nightclubs. By the late 1970s, Wilson and Ealey played at a Fort Worth club named the New Bluebird, where they attracted crowds of Texas blues fans. By 1987, Wilson had begun solo recording, and touring around Texas. However, he subsequently rejoined Ealey in his new band, The Lovers, the following year.

Music journalist, Tony Russell, noted that Wilson put on a show, playing one-handed while drinking, smoking and greeting his fans, but behind the tricks and the hyped language used in his billings ('Texas Tornado', 'Atomic Guitar' etc.,) Wilson was a musician with a talent for more than just getting boys to boogie down. His peculiar decision to sing in falsetto flawed his 1995 release This Is U.P. Wilson, but subsequent releases re-discovered his blend of Texas shuffles and low-down blues.

For most of the last decade of his life, Wilson toured both the European blues circuit and throughout the United States. Activities included appearances at the Chicago Blues Festival, and playing accompaniment to Albert Collins. Wilson was imprisoned for six months in the John R.L. Jacksboro State Penitentiary for cocaine possession between 1997 and 1998, and on his release moved to live in Paris, France.

Wilson went to hospital in Paris for surgery, and he died there on September 22, 2004, at the age of 70. His wife Rosie, predeceased him, and he was survived by two daughters and a son.