Leroy Foster

Like a charter person in the Headhunters, the brash team that also included Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers (thus named for their penchant for getting into nightclubs featuring other music artists and blowing them from the stage making use of their first-class musicianship), “Baby Face” Leroy Foster was readily available to greatly help develop the postwar Chicago blues idiom. Sadly, he wasn’t around lengthy enough to take pleasure from the fruits of his labors. The Mississippi indigenous found Chicago in 1945 within the star-crossed business of harpist Small Walter and pianist Johnny Jones. He caused Sunnyland Thin and Sonny Boy Williamson before starting up with the youthful and starving Waters aggregation. Foster performed drums on 1948 times for Tempo-Tone that created Floyd Jones’ brooding “CRISIS,” Small Walter’s “Blue Baby,” along with a Sunnyland Slim-fronted “I’D LIKE My Baby.” He turned to rhythm acoustic guitar to accompany Waters on many of his 1948-1949 Aristocrat 78s, notably “You’re Gonna Miss Me (When I’m Deceased and Eliminated),” “Mean Reddish colored Spider,” and “Screamin’ and Cryin’,” in addition to Johnny Jones’ moving “Big Town Playboy.” Foster also documented for Aristocrat like a frontman: “Locked Out Boogie” and “Shady Grove Blues” had been done in a 1948 day that created six Muddy experts. Waters got in a few hot water using the Chess brothers when he moonlighted on Foster’s rip-roaring eight-song program for Parkway in January of 1950. Though Foster’s crashing drums are prominent throughout, Muddy’s slashing slip and mournful moans are obviously noticed on Foster’s two-part “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” — plenty of in order that Waters was pressured to polish his own edition for Aristocrat to get rid of product sales on Foster’s rendition by his bosses. Those Parkway experts got amazing resiliency — Foster’s raunchy “Crimson Headed Female” reemerged on Savoy in 1954 (“Boll Weevil” experienced resulted in on Herald the prior 12 months). Two singles for Work — 1950’s “My Mind Can’t Rest Anymore”/”Have a Small Walk beside me” (with Muddy and Rogers in support, it had been afterwards released on Chess) and 1952’s “Family pet Rabbit”/”Louella” (with Sunnyland and guitarist Robert Jr. Lockwood financing a hands) — circular out his slender vinyl fabric legacy. Alcoholism brought Baby Encounter down early: he was just 35 yrs . old when he passed away in 1958.