Weepin’ Willie

Referred to as “Boston’s Elder Statesman from the Blues,” vocalist Weepin’ Willie chosen a music career following getting addicted to the polished, metropolitan blues design pioneered by famous brands B.B. Ruler, Bobby Bland, and Joe Williams. Extremely, it had taken Willie 50 many years of functioning the night clubs as an MC and vocalist before he got his initial record offer (with APO) in 1998. The causing album, FINALLY, promptly, was co-produced by Mighty Sam McClain and its own discharge garnered Willie some belated identification for his hard-earned lifestyle being a bluesman. Blessed William Lorenzo Robinson in Atlanta, GA, in 1926, Willie was raised being a field employee drifting from plantation to plantation along the East Coastline. After completing a three-year stint in the military in 1948, Willie transferred to Trenton, NJ, where he started MCing jazz and R&B gigs beneath the name Willie the Weeper. More than the next 10 years he heated up the stage for an extended type of entertainers transferring through Trenton, including B.B. Ruler, Lloyd Cost, Titus Turner, and Costs Doggett. At exactly the same time, Willie also uncovered his own skill as a vocalist and he started fronting a blues combo led by saxophonist Jimmy Taylor. In 1959, Willie transferred to Boston and transformed his stage name to Weepin’ Willie. Through the ’60s he discovered steady are an MC, including a normal gig starting for R&B vocalist Tommy Hunt. When Hunt made a decision to move to Britain, Willie remained behind and became a member of pushes with bassist Pal Johnson to create the Pal Johnson/Weepin’ Willie All-Star Music group, which lasted until Johnson’s loss of life in 1998. Willie eventually overran the band, which in turn became referred to as Weepin’ Willie as well as the All-Star Blues Music group. Well known All-Star alumni consist of sax players Gordon “Sax” Beadle (from the Duke Robillard Music group), Lynwood Cooke (of Luther “Electric guitar Jr.” Johnson’s Magic Rockers, and Emmett Simmons (a previous James Dark brown sideman that has performed with Willie on / off since 1964). Ahead of 1999’s FINALLY, promptly, Willie had just recorded once, reducing “Can’t FAIL Girl” for the 1991 Tone-Cool compilation Boston Blues Blast, Vol. 1.