Sam Myers in Chicago - mid 20th Century
from Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story, page 129:
I never will forget one other time, at the Chess Records studio, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Luther Tucker was getting ready to do a Little Walter session. The song was "Temperature." It goes, "My baby gives me a high temperature." People who know Lockwood know that he was a creator and innovator of a lot of those sessions. He said to Luther, "Man, this might be something here." But Luther said, "Yeah, man, but instead of me playing that, how about faking it?" So Lockwood looked at him hard and said, "Hey, man, we're not faking nothing here! Today we're playing!" So Luther finally got into … more >>
Jeff Horton and Sam Myers, Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story (City of Jackson, 2006), p. 129. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433257611214 accessed: 26 December, 2024
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'Temperature'
written by Little Walter |
performed by Luther Tucker, Robert Lockwood, Jr. |
Experience Information
Date/Time | mid 20th Century |
Medium | live, playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |