J.B. Lenoir
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Biography
J.B. Lenoir was a committed artist and performer whose career was short-lived. After arriving in Chicago (Illinois) in 1949, he scored a hit in 1954 with"Mama Talk to Your Daughter". He also encountered censorship and trouble the same year for the controversial "Eisenhower Blues". J.B. Lenoir then went through a dark period when he was forced to give up music in part to survive on odd jobs. Willie Dixon came to his aid in 1963 for the recording of Alabama Blues. J.B. Lenoir died on April 29, 1967, following a car accident. In 2003, his life was the subject of Wim Wenders' film The Soul of a Man in The Blues series orchestrated by Martin Scorsese. His essential recordings can be found on The Parrot Antholoy compilation released in 2007.
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- When I Am Drinking
- Lou Ella
- Back Door
- Carrie Lee
- Daddy Talk to Your Son
- Louise by J.B. Lenoir
- Deep In Debt Blues
- Don't Dog Your Woman
- Let's Roll by J.B. Lenoir
- Don't Touch My Head
- I Have Married by J.B. Lenoir
- Eisenhower Blues
- Everybody Wants To Know
- Fine Girls
- Five Years
- Give Me One More Shot
- Good Looking Woman
- When I'm Drinking
- Do What I Say
- Oh Babe
- I'll Die Tryin' by J.B. Lenoir
- I Lost My Baby
- The Mountain by J.B. Lenoir
- The Mojo by J.B. Lenoir
