Sonny Scott

Precious little is well known on the subject of Sonny Scott, a blues guitarist and singer whose method of the music places him in league with Ed Bell, Blind Boy Fuller, Curley Weaver, Furry Lewis, and Friend Moss. The recordings where he is kept in mind had been cut with fellow Alabama indigenous Walter Roland for the American Record Organization in 1933. Roland’s “Crimson Mix Blues” (never to become puzzled with an identically entitled tune by Bluebird documenting designer Walter Davis) steadily gained a solid way of measuring relevance inside the blues repertoire, through Scott’s cover and following variations by Forest Town Joe, Robert McCoy, Sonny Young man Williamson, and Champ Jack port Dupree. In 1933, Scott and Roland required themselves to NEW YORK together with barrelhouse blues vocalist Lucille Bogan and spent several days making information. Some were released under the titles from the Jolly Two or the Jolly Jivers. Roland, who generally offered piano accompaniment on Bogan’s recordings, slice several acoustic guitar duets with Scott, who were able to launch a few information under his personal name. A sampling of the elusive artist’s functions have already been reissued on 1933, a 17-monitor disc released by the Tale from the Blues and RST Blues Record labels. He’s also heavily presented on volume among Roland’s complete functions on Record (5144), and shows up on that label’s useful compilation Alabama & the East Coastline (5450). A extensive Sonny Scott anthology offers however to materialize.