Luther Tucker & The Ford Blues Band

b. 20 January 1936, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, d. 17 June 1993, San Rafael, California, USA. Tucker transferred to Chicago, Illinois, at age nine and was most likely best known as you of Small Walter’s support guitarists both on stage and on record within the 50s. He was intensely inspired by his mom who performed piano and electric guitar, but Tucker began playing electric guitar himself after hearing Robert Lockwood Jnr. Lockwood became his coach, regarding his mom. He also caused other musicians such as for example J.T. Dark brown, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters and Sonny Guy ‘Grain Miller’ Williamson within the same 10 years. Tucker continued to be an in-demand support guitarist and documented with many blues performers, including James Natural cotton, Otis Hurry and John Lee Hooker. He resolved in California in 1969 and sometimes led an organization under his very own name. He was known for the quickness of his playing and documented in his very own befitting Messaround and Paris Albums. He resided in holland for a few years but afterwards returned to reside in California. Tucker passed away in 1993 from a coronary attack.