Kid Bailey
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Kid Bailey was a Mississippi
Delta blues
man, His one known recording session occurred September 25, 1929, in Memphis, Tennessee
.
Little is known about Bailey himself. His voice
had a distinctly coarse yet youthful quality, at least four of his recordings have survived: "Rowdy Blues", "Broke and Hungry", "Mississippi Bottom Blues" and "East St Louis Blues", in most digital releases, the tracks have been attributed to "Willie Brown" yet are evidently the same artist credited as "Kid Bailey" on the original 78s.
It has been remarked that, "Although it’s almost a cliché to say this about a blues musician from the American South, Kid Bailey was one of the most enigmatic musician
s of the era." There has been some speculation that Kid Bailey was actually blues singer Willie Brown
, using a pseudonym
.
His songs have been covered
by Ian A. Anderson
, Rory Block
, Doug Cox
, The Be Good Tanyas
, and Thomasina Winslow
with Nick Katzman
.
His song, "Rowdy Blues" is included on Yazoo Records
' compilation album
, Master of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton.
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
Delta blues
Delta blues
The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, Helena, Arkansas in the west to the Yazoo River on the east. The...
man, His one known recording session occurred September 25, 1929, in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
.
Little is known about Bailey himself. His voice
Voice
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had a distinctly coarse yet youthful quality, at least four of his recordings have survived: "Rowdy Blues", "Broke and Hungry", "Mississippi Bottom Blues" and "East St Louis Blues", in most digital releases, the tracks have been attributed to "Willie Brown" yet are evidently the same artist credited as "Kid Bailey" on the original 78s.
It has been remarked that, "Although it’s almost a cliché to say this about a blues musician from the American South, Kid Bailey was one of the most enigmatic musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s of the era." There has been some speculation that Kid Bailey was actually blues singer Willie Brown
Willie Brown (musician)
Willie Brown was an American delta blues guitarist and singer.- Life and career :Born Willie Lee Brown in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Brown played with such notables as Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson. He was not known to be a self-promoting frontman, preferring to "second" other musicians...
, using a pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
.
His songs have been covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
by Ian A. Anderson
Ian A. Anderson
Ian A. Anderson is an English magazine editor, folk musician and broadcaster.-Country blues and The Village Thing:...
, Rory Block
Rory Block
-Festival appearances:*Long Beach Blues Festival - 1993*San Francisco Blues Festival - 1999*Notodden Blues Festival - 2006-See also:*List of blues musicians*List of contemporary blues musicians*List of Austin City Limits performers-External links:****...
, Doug Cox
Doug Cox
Doug Cox is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and music programmer, and is currently signed to Toronto's NorthernBlues Music.He is well known for his skills on the dobro and slide guitar...
, The Be Good Tanyas
The Be Good Tanyas
The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian traditional music group, whose influences included folk, country, and bluegrass. The style of music they performed can be referred to as alt-country or Americana.-Career:...
, and Thomasina Winslow
Thomasina Winslow
Thomasina Winslow is an American blues musician from the Albany, New York area, and the daughter of folk musician Tom Winslow. As a toddler, she sang back-up on her father's folk music classic Hey Looka Yonder ; also singing a solo version of One-Two-Three, another version of which she produced on...
with Nick Katzman
Nick Katzman
Nick Katzman is an American blues musician. Katzman was born in New York City, and lives in both Manhattan and Berlin, Germany. He plays in a variety of musical genres, including Chicago blues, Mississippi blues, Texas blues, and ragtime....
.
His song, "Rowdy Blues" is included on Yazoo Records
Yazoo Records
Yazoo Records is an American record label, founded in the late 1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, country, jazz, and other rural American genres ....
' compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
, Master of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton.