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	Sonny Boy Williamson II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		When Trumpet went bankrupt in 1955, Sonny Boy's recording contract was yielded to its creditors, who sold it to Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois.
		Williamson was characterized by a hip-flask of whiskey, a pistol, a knife, a foul mouth, and a short temper.
	www.westmemphis.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II (713 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rice Miller was born on the Sara Jones Plantation near Glendora, Mississippi in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
		Williamson's first recording was in 1951 for Lillian McMurray of Jackson, Mississippi's Trumpet Records.
		It was during Williamson's tour of the UK in the 60s that he adopted the bowler hat and carried his harmonica's on stage in a briefcase, later to become his trade mark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II (777 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
		The music Sonny Boy made for her between 1951 to 1954 show him in peak form, his vocal, instrumental, and songwriting skills honed to perfection.
		Williamson struck paydirt on his first Trumpet release, "Eyesight to the Blind" and though the later production on his Chess records would make the Trumpet sides seem woefully under-recorded by comparison, they nonetheless stand today as classic performances, capturing juke-joint music in one of its finest hours.
		With Williamson blowing harp, a drummer keeping time, and the tape machine running surreptitiously, Elmore recorded the first version of what would become his signature tune, Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom." By this time Sonny Boy had divorced his first wife (who also happened to be the Howlin' Wolf's sister) and married Mattie Gordon.
	www.findthefun.com /bands/lists/..\b01\b0018223.htm (1504 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sonny Boy Williamson was born near Glendora, Mississippi in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi between 1897 and 1909, either April 7, Dec. 5, or March 11, 1908 according to a headstone put on his unmarked grave near Tutweiler, Mississippi 12 years after he died.
		Williamson lived and worked with his sharecropper step-father and Mother, Jim Miller & Millie Ford until he was 30.
		The owner, Max Moore, billed him as Sonny Boy Williamson after the harmonica legend John Lee Williamson(see Sonny Boy Williamson.) Thus, Aleck "Rice" Miller became "Sonny Boy Williamson", and Lockwood and the rest of his band were the King Biscuit Boys.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II (584 words)

	JOHN LEE "Sonny Boy" WILLIAMSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was born in southwest Madison County, Tennessee in 1914.
		Williamson's father died when he was just a baby, and he was brought up by his mother on a small farm.
		Sonny Boy Williamson's life was cut tragically short on June 1st 1948 when, on his way home from a Chicago nightclub, he was mugged and beaten to death aged just 34.
	www.bluesfarm.htsuk.net /artists/mus_jlw.htm (405 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)

	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 - 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 (208 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II
		Sonny Boy was a lay preacher, "Reverend Blue", wandered the Delta with a brace of harps across his chest on once 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.hub.org /bluesnet/readings/sbwII.html (2510 words)

	TBH, Dixon-Hooker
		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)

	BlueBeat.com - Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson II
		Williamson struck paydirt on his first Trumpet release, "Eyesight to the Blind" and though the later production on his Chess records would make the Trumpet sides seem woefully under-recorded by comparison, they nonetheless stand today as classic performances, capturing juke joint blues in one of its finest hours.
		Then in his mid-'60s (or possibly older), Williamson was truly appreciative of all the attention, and contemplated moving to Europe permanently.
		When Ronnie Hawkins' ex-bandmates, the Hawks, were playing in the area, they made a special point of seeking out Sonny Boy and spent an entire evening backing him up in a juke joint.
	www.bluebeat.com /artists/6684 (1531 words)

	The BluesHarp Page:Legends:Sonny Boy Williamson II
		Williamson struck paydirt on his first Trumpet release, "Eyesight to the Blind," and though the later production on his Chess records would make the Trumpet sides seem woefully underrecorded by comparison, they nonetheless stand today as classic performances, capturing juke-joint music in one of its finest hours.
		With Williamson blowing harp, a drummer keeping time, and the tape machine running surreptitiously, Elmore recorded the first version of what would become his signature tune, Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom' " By this time Sonny Boy had divorced his first wife (who also happened to be Howlin' Wolf's sister) and married Mattie Gordon.
		When Williamson didn't show, Curtis left the station and headed to the rooming house where Sonny Boy was staying only to find him lying in bed, dead of an apparent heart attack He was buried in the Whitfield Cemetery in Tutwiler, MS, and his funeral was well-attended.
	www.bluesharp.ca /legends/sboy2.html (1479 words)

	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II
		Williamson's harp style included intricately woven phrases, bold sonic textures, trills and vibrato, a wide range of dynamic passion, and a superb sense of timing.
		Yet Williamson was more than just a blues harp genius and potent performer; he was also a superb tunesmith.
		Williamson was also a convincing singer and the blues' first radio star.
	www.southernmusic.net /sonnyboy.htm (304 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	The Southern Music Network presents The Sonny Boy Williamson Harp Summit & Teach-In
		The Southern Music Network presents The Sonny Boy Williamson Harp Summit and Teach-In This event was nominated for a 1999 Keeping The Blues Alive Award at the W.C. Handy Awards, in the categories of education, historical preservation, and Internet communications.
		The Sonny Boy Williamson Community Center and Library is in need of all of the kinds of items imaginable: books, records, videos, computer equipment, etc. Mayor Thomas's own particular wish for computer equipment for the children served by the Center was fulfilled by Star Financial Services, a California company that donated five complete computer systems.
		Aside from being a harp player who helped set the course of modern blues, Sonny Boy Williamson #2 was also a legendary blues character whose colorful personality, unpredictable actions, and frequent stretching of the truth only served to enliven his blues with a rare, but warmly embraced, eccentricity.
	www.southernmusic.net /summit.htm (1099 words)

	The Grave of Sonny Boy Williamson II
		The Grave of Sonny Boy Williamson II The Grave of Sonny Boy Williamson II
		In archaeological terms, Sonny Boy's community is probably a multi-component site with more or less continuous occupation for the last 1,500 years.
		As Sonny Boy Williamson was born only 4 years after that event, in 1899, and only 15 miles down the road in Glendora and with obvious familial ties to Tutwiler, I can't help but wonder if that seminal bluesman was his father, grandfather, or one of his uncles.
	www.deltablues.net /tutwiler.html (1767 words)

	Sonny Boys Christmas Blues
		The simple facts are that, on December 5, 1998, Sonny Boy Williamson II's 86th birthday, over a dozen of the finest blues harp players in the New World converged on Glendora MS for a two-day Teach-In.
		When I visited to interview the mayor, Johnny B. Thomas (Sonny Boy's grandnephew) in May, I was touched by their warm hospitality and enthusiasm to know more about their most famous citizen.
		With 17 of Sonny Boy's relatives in the humble Center, I watched the light in the eyes of the children, some seeing their first blues harp player, the charismatic Sonny Boy Williamson.
	www.deltaboogie.com /features/harpsummit (1409 words)

	village voice > music > by Robert Christgau
		Most relevant here is the way modern boy groups typified by Boyz II Men developed the love-man idea traceable to Barry White, Teddy Pendergrass, and evolved doowoppers like the Moments and the Manhattans.
		There's a difference between teenage boys seducing teenage girls and young studs seducing teenage girls, and Boyz II Men dare you to figure out what it is. They're polite and lubricious in equal measure, role models who'll never call that sweet young thing again.
		He made the Backstreet Boys reaction inevitable, and if he was too lightweight to loathe—I myself am partial to the dumb double entendres of "You Remind Me of Something" ("my sound, I wanna pump it," "my cars, I wanna wax it")—he was also too lightweight to feel.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0403/christgau.php (671 words)

	Rice Miller (aka Sonny Boy Williamson II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, the name he used Sonny Boy Williamson was not original nor creative, for lack of a better term he "borrowed" then "adopted" the name from the superb singer and blues harpist and very popular John Lee Williamson the original Sonny Boy Williamson.
		Sonny Boy started recording late in life after achieving some fame as the host of the King Biscuit radio show in Helena, AR.
		"The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson", (Chess) MCA is two CD's, 53 tunes and is in as the name implies in the "Essential" catagory.
	www.island.net /~blues/sonny_bo.html (257 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sonny Boy Williamson II Sonny Boy Williamson II He used to claim to be the first Sonny Boy Williamson and sometimes that he was the only one, though anybody with half an ear could tell that his bleating harmonica and sly, half-spoken vocals were a different approach altogether from his forerunners.
		In Detroit he worked with the singer-guitarist Baby Boy Warren while in Chicago he opened an eight -year association with Checker Records with 'Don't Start Me Talkin'.
		In Europe, which Williamson first visited with the 1963 AFBF, he was appreciated for his Mephistophelean goatee, two tone suits and meandering reminiscences, which he developed into a new free-form blues genre on two Storyville albums with Matt Murphy and Memphis Slim.
	www.anycities.com /godders/SBWII.htm (283 words)

	The Key (To Your Door) Lyrics - Sonny Boy Williamson II
		Sonny Boy Williamson II - Born Blind Lyrics
		Sonny Boy Williamson II - Ninety Nine Lyrics
		Sonny Boy Williamson II - Temperature 110 Lyrics
	www.lyrics007.com /Sonny%20Boy%20Williamson%20II%20Lyrics/The%20Key%20(To%20Your%20Door)%20Lyrics.html (391 words)

	Glossary: Williamson, Sonny Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The original Sonny Boy Williamson (I) is John Lee Williamson, nicknamed Sonny Boy because he was so young (about 16) when he hit the road seeking fame and fortune with his harmonica.
		Indeed, it was common during the 40s for an amateur harp player to blow a few riffs and announce, "I'm Sonny Boy Williamson!" Sonny Boy I was brutally murdered (multiple ice pick wounds) in 1948.
		After leaving his radio show around 1944 and wandering around the South playing juke joints, Sonny Boy II began recording for the Bluebird label in 1951 and then switched to the Chess label in 1955.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/glossary/sonny.html (251 words)

	Sonny Boy Williamson II by Cub Koda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sonny Boy Williamson II was, in many ways, the ultimate blues legend.
		Even his birth date (stated as December 5, 1899 in most reference books, but some sources claim his birth may have been in either 1897 or 1909) and real name (Aleck or Alex or Willie "Rice" — which may or may not be a nickname — Miller or Ford) cannot be verified with absolute certainty.
		Lockwood — who had been one of the original King Biscuit Boys — had become de facto house guitarist for Chess, as well as moonlighting for other Chicago labels.
	www.blueson.se /sonnyboyII.htm (1505 words)

	Little Village Lyrics - Sonny Boy Williamson
		Sonny Boy Williamson II Album: Bummer Road (The Original Chess Masters CHD 9324)
		Sonny The little village is too small to be a village
		Sonny: You know I was in a small little place
	www.bluesforpeace.com /lyrics/little-village.htm (660 words)

	Harmonica Players- Male- Pioneers in Blues- Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I & II, Sonny Terry, Walter Horton, ...
		"Sonny Boy made the harp the lead instrument in the blues and his first (May1937) recordings were in country style.
		One of the most influential blues artists of all time, he was so disdainful of interviewers that next to nothing has been known about his early life.
		His tools for the blues were a Harmonica, Guitar and his pleading, boasting, chuckling or threatening voice.
	www.harmonicalinks.com /malepio.html (545 words)

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