Baby Boy Warren

The denizens of Detroit’s postwar blues scene hardly ever really received their credited (aside from John Lee Hooker, obviously). Robert “Baby Boy” Warren put together a sterling discography from 1949 to 1954 for a number of Motor City companies without ever managing to transcend his regional position along Hastings Road. After honing his blues acoustic guitar strategy in Memphis (where he grew up), Warren found Detroit in 1942 to function for General Motors and gig privately. The fruits of his 1st recording program in 1949 with pianist Charley Mills assisting him arrived on a number of different logos: Reward, Staff, Gotham, actually King’s Federal government subsidiary. Another day in 1950 that discovered him supported by pianist Boogie Woogie Crimson was break up between Personnel and Sampson; Golf swing Period snagged “I ACQUIRED Lucky”/”Let’s Renew Our Like” and pressed it for Western Coast consumption. One of is own most memorable classes occurred in 1954, when wizened harpist Sonny Son Williamson found Detroit and supported Warren on “Sanafee” and “Chuc-A-Luck,” which discovered their method to Nashville’s Excello label. Joe Von Battle’s JVB imprint unleashed Warren’s “Hello Stranger” and “Baby Son Blues” from your same day. That same yr, an individual for effective Chicago deejay Al Benson’s Blue Lake Information combined “Mattie Mae” and “Santa Fe.” The 1970s brought Baby Boy Warren a flavor of Western touring, though nothing at all considerable, before he passed on in 1977.