Little Joe Blue
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Biography
Joseph Valery, Jr., known as Little Joe Blue, was born 23 September 1934 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and became an American electric blues singer and guitarist. After moving to Detroit in 1951 and serving in Korea, he formed the Midnighters and later recorded for Kent, Jewel, and Checker Records. His 1966 single "Dirty Work Going On" reached number 40 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. He released albums such as Southern Country Boy (1972), Blue & The Blues Are Back (1978), and Just Like B. (1980), and appeared at the San Francisco (1974) and Chicago Blues (1986) festivals. He toured Europe in 1975 and 1982, recorded for Evejim in the 1980s, and a posthumous Greatest Hits compilation was issued in 1996. Little Joe Blue died of stomach cancer in Reno, Nevada, on 22 April 1990.
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- Dirty Work Going On
- Who
- As Mean As I've Been Good (Double Dealing)
- My Tomorrow
- I'm Doing All Right Again
- How Could You Do It To Me
- Devil In Disguise
- Me And My Woman
- I'm Not Blind
- Big Leg Woman
- Let Me Love You
- Stop Wasting My Time/Don't Waste My Time
- Just Your Fool
- Don't Start Me To Talking
- Encourage Me Baby
- You Keep My Nose To The Grinding Stone
