Blues After Hours
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"Blues After Hours" is a 1948 instrumental by West Coast blues
guitarist Pee Wee Crayton
. It was his first single and the most successful of his three chart entries. "Blues After Hours" went to number one spot on the R&B charts.
"Blues After Hours" is a 1948 instrumental by West Coast blues
guitarist Pee Wee Crayton
. It was his first single and the most successful of his three chart entries. "Blues After Hours" went to number one spot on the R&B charts.
"Blues After Hours" is a 1948 instrumental by West Coast blues
guitarist Pee Wee Crayton
. It was his first single and the most successful of his three chart entries. "Blues After Hours" went to number one spot on the R&B charts.
According to Crayton, "Blues After Hours" was inspired by T-Bone Walker
and developed while he was playing at the New Orleans Swing Club in San Francisco. During his first recording session for Jules Bihari, Crayton began to play the song and Bihari decided to record it. Crayton protested, saying that the song was unfinished. Bihari countered "Play anything"."So I started playing and ideas just came. I was making T-Bone's stuff into what little I knew. That turned out to be one of the biggest records I ever had".
Backing Crayton (guitar) are: Buddy Floyd (tenor saxophone), David Lee Johnson (piano), Bill Davis (bass), Candy Johnson (drums), plus additional unidentified musicians. One source calls "Blues After Hours" "a barely disguised takeoff on 'After Hours
'",
a 1940 instrumental by Erskine Hawkins
and His Orchestra (Bluebird 10879), although Crayton's song features electric guitar, whereas the earlier song does not.
West Coast blues
The West Coast blues is a type of blues music characterized by jazz and jump blues influences, strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players relocated to California in the 1940s...
guitarist Pee Wee Crayton
Pee Wee Crayton
Connie Curtis Crayton , known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.-Career:...
. It was his first single and the most successful of his three chart entries. "Blues After Hours" went to number one spot on the R&B charts.
"Blues After Hours" is a 1948 instrumental by West Coast blues
West Coast blues
The West Coast blues is a type of blues music characterized by jazz and jump blues influences, strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players relocated to California in the 1940s...
guitarist Pee Wee Crayton
Pee Wee Crayton
Connie Curtis Crayton , known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.-Career:...
. It was his first single and the most successful of his three chart entries. "Blues After Hours" went to number one spot on the R&B charts.
"Blues After Hours" is a 1948 instrumental by West Coast blues
West Coast blues
The West Coast blues is a type of blues music characterized by jazz and jump blues influences, strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players relocated to California in the 1940s...
guitarist Pee Wee Crayton
Pee Wee Crayton
Connie Curtis Crayton , known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.-Career:...
. It was his first single and the most successful of his three chart entries. "Blues After Hours" went to number one spot on the R&B charts.
According to Crayton, "Blues After Hours" was inspired by T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the...
and developed while he was playing at the New Orleans Swing Club in San Francisco. During his first recording session for Jules Bihari, Crayton began to play the song and Bihari decided to record it. Crayton protested, saying that the song was unfinished. Bihari countered "Play anything"."So I started playing and ideas just came. I was making T-Bone's stuff into what little I knew. That turned out to be one of the biggest records I ever had".
Backing Crayton (guitar) are: Buddy Floyd (tenor saxophone), David Lee Johnson (piano), Bill Davis (bass), Candy Johnson (drums), plus additional unidentified musicians. One source calls "Blues After Hours" "a barely disguised takeoff on 'After Hours
After Hours (Avery Parrish song)
After Hours is a blues piano composition composed by Birmingham, Alabama pianist, Avery Parrish.The first recording of the song, in 1940 on the Bluebird label with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, was an instant hit, and subsequently became a jazz standard...
'",
a 1940 instrumental by Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Ramsay Hawkins was an American trumpet player and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is most remembered for composing the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction" with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson...
and His Orchestra (Bluebird 10879), although Crayton's song features electric guitar, whereas the earlier song does not.