Melodie Jazz Classic
2002
The Chronological 1946-1947
About This Album
Choctaw Native and African-American bluesman Lowell Fulson was born near Tulsa, OK, in 1921 and grew up in the town of Atoka, which is right up against the Texas/Oklahoma border. Inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson and one Coot Mason, an itinerant musician remembered as a "hillbilly guitarist," young Fulson moved to Ada, OK, in 1938 and began performing there with a string band led by Dan Wright. Married in 1939, he tried to swear off professional musicianship but soon had a gig accompanying blues shouter, soon-to-be wife-slayer, and ultimate syphilis victim Alger "Texas" Alexander. Lowell Fulson was conscripted into the armed forces in 1943. While stationed in Oakland, CA, he wandered into a 7th Avenue record store where shop owner and small-time record producer Bob Geddins stood operating a one-man record-pressing device. Picking up a guitar that was lying nearby, Fulson played on it until Geddins offered him his first recording assignment with a payment of $100 cash. This first volume in the Classics Lowell Fulson chronology opens with the first 12 sides he ever recorded. The session took place in San Francisco during June of 1946 with his brother Martin Fulson playing second guitar.
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