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	Sonny Boy Williamson II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sonny Boy Williamson II, Rice Miller, Willie Williams, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.
		Williamson's first recording was in 1951 for Lillian McMurray of Jackson, Mississippi's Trumpet Records.
		Williamson was characterized by a hip-flask of whiskey, a pistol, a knife, a foul mouth, and a short temper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II (687 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Sonny Boy Williamson Rarities Sonny Boy Williamson was the greatest blues musicain to ever live.
		Sonny Boy Blues Society Nonprofit organization whose primary goal it is to preserve the blues with projects like the Sonny Boy Williamson Blues Museum Project, Blues-In-Schools and Sonny Boy's Music Hall.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sonny_Boy_Williamson.html (468 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II. - Wikipedia
		Zu diesem Zeitpunkt legt sich Sonny Boy Williamson auch seinen Künstlernamen zu.
		Da es schon einen Bluesmusiker namens "Sonny Boy Williamson" gab, wurde er "Sonny Boy Williamson II." Im Jahre 1951 nimmt er das Stück Eyesight to the blind auf, welches er später in Chicago unter dem Namen Born blind nochmals aufnimmt.
		Januar 1963 kehrt Sonny Boy nach einer längeren Pause wieder in die Chess-Studios zurück.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson (412 words)

	sonny boy williamson II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy Williamson II was one of the most influential harmonica players and colorful characters in blues history.
		Sonny Boy taught himself to play harmonica and by the mid 1920's was playing at local Jukes.
		Since Sonny Boy the first wasn't interested in traveling south from Chicago, IGC enlisted Sonny Boy II (who was using the name Rice Miller at the time) to pose as the Chicago bluesman and perform on the now famous King Biscuit Time.
	nublues.port5.com /Historyoftheblues/sonnyboywilliamson2.htm (931 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II
		Sonny Boy Williamson II Sonny Boy Williamson II This is a portrait of the legend
		Sonny Boy Williamson was born in Glendora, Tallahatchie County in Mississippi, southeast from Clarksdale, at the 5th of December 1897.
		Sonny Boy died the 25th of May in 1965, a great bluesman had seen the daylight for the last time.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Square/4831/page2.html (707 words)

	Biography: John Lee Williamson
		Sonny Boy made the harp the lead instrument in the blues and his first (May 1937) recordings were in country style.
		Sonny Terry was an influential player and a finest exponent of the rural, chordal-rhythmic style accented by whoops & holler and driving chordal work.
		Sonny Boy was married to a woman named Lacey Belle, and her name pops up in many songs, including a late one entitled "Lacey Belle."
	afgen.com /williamson.html (921 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were 2 popular blues harmonica players that went by the name "Sonny Boy Williamson"
		Sonny Boy Williamson I, also known as John Lee Williamson was an American blues harmonica player, born in Jackson, Tennessee, whose first record 'Good Morning, School Girl' was a hit in 1937.
		Sonny Boy Williamson II, also known as Aleck "Rice" Miller, was the more famous of the two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson (200 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson music CDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy Williamson recorded the sessions on this Document Records CD with such artists as Blind John Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, William Mitchell, Ransom Knowling, Charlie McCoy, Washboard Sam, Alfred Elkins, Armand `Jump` Jackson, Eddie Boyd, Ted Summitt and Bill Sid Cox.
		Sonny Boy Williamson was from the date of his first recordings in 1937 until his death a decade later Sonny Boy Williamson was the undisputed king of the blues Harmonica and this CD represents a selection of tracks from these sessions.
		Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Williamson) was born in Jackson, Tennessee on 30th March 1914 to Ray Williamson and Nancy Utley but left home at an early age.
	www.document-records.com /content_show_article.asp?id=228 (852 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson
		Sonny Boy was a lay preacher, "Reverend Blue", who wandered the Delta with a brace of harps across his chest, on one occasion drawing an entire congregation out of a church.
		Sonny Boy claimed that he was "an 1800s' man" and that was the evidence that he was much older than John Lee Williamson who had "stolen" his stage name "Sonny Boy Williamson" from him.
		Sonny Boy was not recorded in the twenties because he was too young, in the late thirties because there was another artist named "Sonny Boy Williamson" and later because he insisted on using the other man's name on his radio show.
	www.furious.com /perfect/sonnyboy.html (1779 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy Williamson II was always a mystery blues artist.
		He claimed to fans and blues researchers that he was the original Sonny Boy (John Lee Williamson) who came from Jackson, Tennessee and recorded for Bluebird and later RCA Victor until his untimely death at the hands of an assailant on a Chicago street in the late 1940's.
		He made one last trip to England in the mid 1960's where he told blues researchers he was the real Sonny Boy Williamson, a facade he carried on for more than 20 years.
	www.bluesworld.com /GDWSonnyboy.html (518 words)

	Rice Miller (Sonny Boy II)-A Biographical Note by Glenn Weiser
		Sonny Boy II savored every note and color and timing was the essence of his playing.
		Of course, Sonny Boy was the live entertainment and not the announcer or a disc jockey, a role designated solely for a white man. Sam Anderson started as host and then Herb Langston hosted for a while and Hugh Smith was host from 1944-1953 when Sunshine Sonny Payne, today’s host, took over.
		Sonny Boy’s contract was signed over to the pressing plant owner to settle the bill and Lillian and Willard McMurry worked four and one half years to pay off the company’s debts.
	www.celticguitarmusic.com /Harmsb2.htm (2483 words)

	sonnyterry.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy Williamson was perhaps the most recognized Harmonica player in the world.
		He was also a vocalist, songwriter, Prolific recording artist, avid story teller, a charmer, and a bit of a con man. One thing was certain, he never failed to leave a lasting impression on all who met him.
		Sonny died in his little apartment in Helena, on May 26, 1965.
	www.geocities.com /theblueslady.geo/SonnyBoyWilliamson.html (453 words)

	Trail of the Hellhound: Sonny Boy Williamson
		As Sonny Boy Williamson, he and Lockwood auditioned for executives of Interstate Grocer, the makers of King Biscuit flour, in the Interstate Grocer Co. Building.
		Typically, Williamson had a more lucrative job offer in Clarksdale, Mississippi, but was scheduled the same night for the 16th Street Grill in West Memphis.
		Williamson's singing lacked the dynamism of his playing and his gruff, hoarse vocals conveyed a broad range of emotion unmatched by the range of his voice.
	www.cr.nps.gov /delta/blues/people/sonnyboy_williamson.htm (891 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson Help Me tab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Sonny Boy sings he has the harp in his hand and can quickly play a riff and then continue singing, without any pause at all.
		Through out the first and second verses, Sonny Boy plays the chug on the 2/3 draw between phrases until he hits the 4 chord where he blows on the 2/3 to make a 4 chord chug.
		Sonny Boy was not exactly on the 2 hole when he started playing.
	www.harptab.com /helpme/helpme2.shtml (306 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson Ii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy Williamson Ii Sonny Boy Williamson Ii Sonny Boy Williamson, circa 1964
		Willie Dixon recalled seeing Lockwood and Sonny Boy, with an amplified harmonica, in Greenville, Mississippi in the '30s.
		When Trumpet went bankrupt in 1955, Sonny Boy's recording contract was yielded to its creditors, who sold him to Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois.
	www.wikiverse.org /sonny-boy-williamson-ii (665 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		After Williamson's death, Miller claimed he was the original "Sonny Boy." What is not a mystery is that he was a blues legend who began his career playing with Robert Johnson and lasted long enough to play with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
		On May 25, 1965 when Sonny Boy did not show at the radio station for the daily broadcast, Peck Curtis went to his boarding house.
		Sonny Boy Williamson II was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5341 (281 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II, also known as Aleck Rice Miller, a Mississippi musician
		Sonny Boy Williamson began playing guitar and harmonica at the age of five and was performing in juke joints and clubs throughout Mississippi and Arkansas under the name Little Boy Blue by the early '20s.
		Williamson added to the confusion when he recorded "The Story of Sonny Boy Williamson" for Storyville Records in Copenhagen in 1963 in which he proclaims "I was born, 1897, in a little town, Glendora, Mississippi"...
		Sonny Boy claimed to fans and blues researchers that he was the original Sonny Boy (John Lee Williamson) who came from Jackson, Tennessee, and recorded for Bluebird and later RCA Victor until he was killed in Chicago in the late 1940's.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/WilliamsonII.html (1122 words)

	TBH, Dixon-Hooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name "Sonny Boy Williamson" is doubly associated with the blues harmonica.
		Sonny Boy Williamson 2 was his self-proclaimed successor.
		Sonny Boy 2 was born Aleck "Rice" Miller in Glendora, Mississippi, in 1910.
	www.thebluehighway.com /tbh3.html (963 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Sonny Boy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With his unerring slur and direct wit, Sonny Boy II, born Rice Miller circa 1897 and dead some 68 years later, is Chicago's third W: his great Chess albums stand with Wolf or Muddy.
		Where fools like his star pupil James Cotton strain against the dynamic limitations of that little piece of steel, Sonny Boy plays it like he sings it like he talks it--slyly, lethally, whispering complaints, secrets, existential questions, and promises made to be broken to anyone who ventures within earshot.
		Miller's writing was as factual as a police complaint, his groove as sexy as a swamp in June, and he sang in the strong, slurred, subtle voice of someone who'd been talking his way out of shit since he learned to say maybe.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=1281&name=Sonny+Boy+Williamson (309 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson
		Williamson never realized his full potential as a musician, as he was tragically murdered at the peak of his career.
		In 1937 Williamson moved to Chicago, where he quickly established himself as an elite harp player, and his harmonica-led group format soon became the norm.
		Sonny Boy Williamson was murdered with an ice pick while returning home from a gig in the South Side of Chicago in 1948, during the height of his career.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0780961.html (324 words)

	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
		Sonny Boy Williamson II Sonny Boy Williamson II, nicknamed "King of the Harmonica"
		In action "Sonny Boy unfolded slowly," according to blues writer Paul Oliver.
		Sonny thus brought unique timbres to his blues, which were...
	www.oafb.net /once63.html (531 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tyler hung around to wail Sonny Boy Williamson's ''Eyesight to the Blind," which was on Aerosmith's ''Honkin' on Bobo" CD last year.
		James Cotton will perform from the Sonny Boy Williamson Main Stage beginning at 10:30 pm on Friday, Oct. 7.
		The veteran Boston rocker took the spotlight on Sonny Boy Williamson's ``Eyesight to the Blind,'' then left Mayer to cruise solo into a bluesified version of...
	www.wikiverse.org /sonny-boy-williamson (279 words)

	John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was born in southwest Madison County on March 30, 1914, to Ray Williamson and Nancy Utley.
		John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson helped propel the country blues of his native Southland toward a more exhilarating, urban-blues sound with his blend of originality, country intensity, and the electrification of his sound with the piano, bass, and drums.
		In the wee hours of the morning, on June 1, 1948, the blues world lost one of its most influential harmonica players when John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was beaten to death as he left one of Chicago's nightclubs.
	www.tnstate.edu /library/digital/williams.htm (581 words)

	MBCBlues: Sonny Boy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy Williamson - страница, посвященная Сонни Бою Уильямсону (англ.)
		Sonny Boy Williamson - подробная хронология записей (англ.)
		BluesHarp Legends: Sonny Boy Williamson I - пока только снимок, но, очевидно, скоро появится что-то еще (англ.)
	www.blues.ru /BlackCat/sbw.htm (385 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy had a reputation as one of the biggest bullshitters of all time.
		So, Sonny Boy may have told some tall tales but there is a good reason for the tales he told and a lot of truth in the ones that others disbelieved.
		Sonny Boy used the name Willie most of his life and the songs on Trumpet Records are all ascribed to Willie "Sonny Boy" Williamson.
	www.thebluessite.com /community/index.php?topic=69.0 (1080 words)

	New Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy was a Baptist and this may have been his local church; it’s only a couple of miles from his childhood home.
		Sonny Boy's niece wrote me to confirm the location as the one which she visited as a child in the early 1930's.
		Speculation that he was "returning a favor" to Sonny Boy or he was in conflict of his contract with the McMurry's nemisis: the Bihari brothers, for whose RPM label he recorded at the time.
	www.sonnyboy.com (2673 words)

	Blues Online© John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Generally regarded as the original "Sonny Boy", John Lee Williamson was born in Jackson, Tennessee on March 30, 1914.
		John Lee Williamson moved to Chicago in 1934 where he worked Maxwell Street and as a sideman with numerous blues groups at the local clubs.
		John Lee Williamson is regarded as "the first truly virtuosic blues harmonica player", "who brought the harmonica to prominence as a major blues instrument".
	mathrisc1.lunet.edu /blues/John_Lee_Williamson.html (303 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson's Grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Boy's grave could be argued to be easiest one to find (see Central Mississippi Delta page).
		By 1999, two sisters of Sonny Boy were buried in front of Sonny Boy.
		Another point of debate with Miller, is that he took up the name of another blues harmonica player named "Sonny Boy" Williamson, who was murdered in Chicago back in the 1930s (It is believe that neither "Sonny Boy" met each other).
	www.roadfan.com /alecmil.html (319 words)

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