Sam Myers in Chicago
from Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story, page 35:
I kind of got into blues by accident. I had started out with the trumpet and drums, and I liked the big band sound, horns and all that stuff. I listened to a lot of records, and the people who I listened to back then were Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker with the guitar, Wynonie Harris, and then the rest came natural. I kind of gradually got into the blues after I had been spending time in Chicago. I would always rely on learning, getting a great inspiration from the people I would see doing the things I was taught to do.
Like many of the musicians in Chicago, I played on the street. One… more >>
Jeff Horton and Sam Myers, Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story (City of Jackson, 2006), p. 35. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1432633196028 accessed: 4 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersBlues | performed by Robert Lockwood, Jr., Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Sam Myers, Wynonie Harris, Robert Nighthawk, Louis Jordan, Howlin’ Wolf, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters |
Experience Information
Medium | live, playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public, solitary |
Notes
Sam Myers attended the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, on a scholarship, 1951-1955, from the age of fifteen.