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A piano-pounding institution within the Southern Louisiana swamp blues picture during the past due ’50s and early ’60s, Katie Webster later on grabbed a long-deserved talk about of national reputation with some well-received Alligator albums. Poor Kathryn Thorne got to cope with deeply spiritual parents who do everything within their power to end their little girl from playing R&B. However the rocking noises of Fatty acids Domino and Small Richard were way too persuasive. Regional guitarist Ashton Savoy had taken her under his wing, writing her 1958 debut 45 for the Kry logo design (“Baby Baby”). Webster quickly became a great studio room sessioneer for Louisiana companies J.D. Miller in Crowley and Eddie Shuler in Lake Charles. She performed on edges by Electric guitar Junior (Lonnie Brooks), Clarence Garlow, Jimmy Wilson, Lazy Lester, and Phil Phillips (her carefully rolling 88s driven his strike “Ocean of Appreciate”). The youthful pianist also waxed some wonderful edges of her very own for Miller from 1959 to 1961 for his Rocko, Actions, and Spot brands (where she presented a dance known as “The Katie Lee”). Webster led her very own music group, the Uptighters, at exactly the same time she was spending her times in the studio room. In 1964, she guested with Otis Redding’s music group on the Bamboo Membership in Lake Charles therefore impressed the charismatic Redding that he absconded with her. For another 3 years, Webster offered as his starting action. The 1970s had been virtually a lost 10 years for Katie Webster as she got treatment of her ailing parents in Oakland, California. However in 1982 a Western tour beckoned, and she journeyed abroad for the to begin many such jaunts. The Alligator connection commenced in 1988 with some high-profile help: Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, and Kim Wilson all produced guest appearances for the Swamp Boogie Queen. The lovably extroverted boogie pianist encored with Two-Fisted Mama! no Foolin’ before hurting a heart stroke. She passed away on Sept 5, 1999 at age 63.
