GEORGE " DADDY HOTCAKES " MONTGOMERY

                                       
Cuando George " Daddy Hotcakes "  Montgomery canta "Mostaza Verdes" su voz rica y áspera cambia de una conversación de llamada y respuesta sobre comer pan de maíz y hojas de mostaza a letras sobre crecer en el país. El impulso del momento es lo que le mueve realmente . Samuel Charters, quien grabó a Daddy Hotcakes en 1961, continúa maravillado ante el ingenio de Hotcakes veinte años después: "Nunca he grabado a nadie que se haya parecido a él ... Usando su imaginación y una gran cantidad de frases de blues para ayudarlo a superarlo". vacilaciones ocasionales, simplemente inventaba las canciones a medida que avanzaba ... Nunca pude estar seguro de lo que vendría después. Hotcakes desarrolló su estilo deambulando por el sur y asumiendo diversos trabajos en el camino. Se instaló en St. Louis en la década de 1940, donde continuó actuando en las calles y entreteniendo a la gente en los tranvías de St. Louis. 

Daddy Hotcakes
Born
15 May 1891, Davenport, GA, United States
Died
15 May 1970, Saint Louis, MO, United States
Also Known As
George Montgomery, George "Daddy Hotcakes" Montgomery
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From the Blues Masters, Vol. 10: Blues Roots...

Recorded in St. Louis in May, 1961, by Samuel Charters

George "Daddy Hotcakes" Montgomery was born in Georgia and came moved to St. Louis in 1918. He began singing the blues as a youngster and worked as an entertainer during the 1920's. Sometime in the late 30's he had an opportunity to record through blues artist and talent scout Charlie Jordan but the recording session fell through. He was still occasionally playing parties when Charters recorded him in 1961. These are his only recordings. As Charters wrote: "I am still also as surprised - when I listen to what we recorded in his room over the next two or threes days - at the complete, natural spontaneity of his blues. Using his imagination and a store of familiar blues phrase to help him through occasional hesitations he simply made up the songs as he went along. I had some of the same experience when I recorded Lightnin' Hopkins and Robert Pete Williams but even as loose and free as they were with their blues I still could anticipate most of what they were going to do. With George, however, I never could be sure what might come next if I asked him to repeat anything. The songs George recorded in his room - as far as I know these were his only recordings - made me conscious again of the haphazard circumstances that left their mark on what we knew of the blues. How many singers were there like George, who missed a recording trip because they didn't get the times right? How many were there who never were heard by anyone who knew where to send them to get their songs on record?" These recordings were issued on Folkways Records (FS 3814) under the title The Blues In St. Louis, Volume 1: Daddy Hotcakes (originally planned to be issued on Bluesville). ~ source: Big Road Blues

Photography by Alfred Eisenstaedt: Window of The Poor Man's Store on Beale Street in Memphis, 1938; Samuel Charters: George "Daddy Hotcakes" Montgomery, front cover of FS 3814