Luke Miles

b. 8 Might 1925, Lachute, Louisiana, USA, d. 23 November 1987, LA, California, USA. Another of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ protégés, Kilometers got a fitful documenting career. His preliminary motivation was John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson, although he had not been thinking about the harmonica. He shifted to Houston, Tx, in 1952, where he fulfilled and became a pal of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Since Kilometers was 6 ft 5 inches high, Hopkins bestowed upon him the nickname ‘Very long Eliminated’. He followed Hopkins throughout a series of classes documented by Mack McCormick. Kilometers sang tranquility and spoken on two paths, ‘Baby’ and ‘Jail Blues DROP On Me’; two additional songs continued to be unissued. He shifted to LA in-may 1961, where he fulfilled arranger/maker Robert ‘Bumps’ Blackwell, who organized a agreement with Mercury, that a single premiered. Material from both classes, with efforts from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, premiered on Sundown twenty years later on. In 1964, Kilometers recorded an recording for Globe Pacific with guitarist Willie Chambers and bass participant Leroy Vinnegar and the next year trim two singles with Bruce Bromberg for just two Kings. Your final one, ‘Hello Josephine’, was documented for Kent in 1969. Mls made occasional performances in clubs with festivals, but medication problems held him inactive musically. After making it through a 1985 procedure for lung cancers, he briefly came back to executing before succumbing to human brain cancer tumor in 1987. An record session using the William Clarke Music group for Satch Information remains unissued.