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Little Milton - Collection (1965-2014) {38 Albums / 40 CDs}

Little Milton - Collection (1965-2014) {38 Albums / 40 CDs}

BAND/ARTIST: Little Milton

  • Title: Collection
  • Year Of Release: 1965-2014
  • Label: Various
  • Genre: Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Soul
  • Quality: FLAC (Tracks+Cue, Logs, Covers/Full Scans)
  • Total Time: 32:10:16
  • Total Size: 13,3 Gb
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Soul/blues singer whose style is characterized by a gritty, impassioned vocal style and precise, textured guitar playing.He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman -- a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King -- as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland -- for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco.

James Milton Campbell was born September 7, 1934, in the small Delta town of Inverness, MS, and grew up in Greenville. (He would later legally drop the "James" after learning of a half-brother with the same name.) His father Big Milton, a farmer, was a local blues musician, and Milton also grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry radio program. At age 12, he began playing the guitar and saved up money from odd jobs to buy his own instrument from a mail-order catalog. By 15, he was performing for pay in local clubs and bars, influenced chiefly by T-Bone Walker but also by proto-rock & roll jump blues shouters. He made a substantial impression on other area musicians, even getting a chance to back Sonny Boy Williamson II, and caught the attention of R&B great Ike Turner, who was doubling as a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun. Turner introduced the still-teenaged Little Milton to Phillips, who signed him to a contract in 1953. With Turner's band backing him, Milton's Sun sides tried a little bit of everything -- he hadn't developed a signature style as of yet, but he did have a boundless youthful energy that made these early recordings some of his most exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately, none of them were hits, and Milton's association with Sun was over by the end of 1954. He set about forming his own band, which waxed one single for the small Meteor label in 1957, before picking up and moving to St. Louis in 1958.

In St. Louis, Milton befriended DJ Bob Lyons, who helped him record a demo in a bid to land a deal on Mercury. The label passed, and the two set up their own label, christened Bobbin. Little Milton's Bobbin singles finally started to attract some more widespread attention, particularly "I'm a Lonely Man," which sold 60,000 copies despite being the very first release on a small label. As head of A&R, Milton brought artists like Albert King and Fontella Bass into the Bobbin fold, and with such a high roster caliber, the label soon struck a distribution arrangement with the legendary Chess Records. Milton himself switched over to the Chess subsidiary Checker in 1961, and it was there that he would settle on his trademark soul-inflected, B.B. King-influenced style. Initially a moderate success, Milton had his big breakthrough with 1965's "We're Gonna Make It," which hit number one on the R&B charts thanks to its resonance with the civil rights movement. "We're Gonna Make It" kicked off a successful string of R&B chart singles that occasionally reached the Top Ten, highlighted by "Who's Cheating Who?," "Grits Ain't Groceries," "If Walls Could Talk," "Baby I Love You," and "Feel So Bad," among others.

The death of Leonard Chess in 1969 threw his label into disarray, and Little Milton eventually left Checker in 1971 and signed with the Memphis-based soul label Stax (also the home of his former protégé Albert King). At Stax, Milton began expanding his studio sound, adding bigger horn and string sections and spotlighting his soulful vocals more than traditional blues. Further hits followed in songs like "Annie Mae's Cafe," "Little Bluebird," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'," but generally not with the same magnitude of old. Stax went bankrupt in 1975, upon which point Little Milton moved to the TK/Glades label, which was better known for its funk and disco acts. His recordings there were full-blown crossover affairs, which made "Friend of Mine" a minor success, but that label soon went out of business as well. Milton spent some time in limbo; he recorded one album for MCA in 1983 called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, and the following year found a home with Malaco, which sustained the careers of quite a few old-school Southern soul and blues artists. During his tenure at Malaco, Milton debuted the song that would become his latter-day anthem, the bar band staple "The Blues Is Alright," which was also widely popular with European blues fans. Milton recorded frequently and steadily for Malaco, issuing 13 albums under their aegis by the end of the millennium. In 1988, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

~ All Music

Little Milton - Collection (1965-2014) {38 Albums / 40 CDs}

Albums:

1965 - We're Gonna Make It (2007 Chess, Universal Music)
1965, 1966 - We're Gonna Make It & Sings Big Blues (1986 Chess, MCA)
1969 - Grits Ain't Groceries (2007 Chess, Universal Music)
1970 - If Walls Could Talk (1988 Chess)
1970 - If Walls Could Talk (2008 Shout! Records)
1973 - Waiting For Little Milton (1987 Stax )
1973, 1974 - Waiting For Little Milton & Blues 'N' Soul (1992 Stax)
1974 - Chico Hamilton & Albert King & Little Milton - Montreux Festival (1991 Stax)
1974 - Blues 'N Soul (1982 Stax)
1976 - Friend Of Mine (1993 Collectables)
1977 - Me For You, You For Me (1993 Collectables)
1980 - I Need Your Love So Bad (1991 P-Vine)
1981 - Walkin' The Back Streets (2002 Stax)
1982 - The Blues Is Alright! (1993 Evidence Music)
1983 - Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number (1991 MFSL)
1984 - Grits Ain't Groceries (Live) (2011 Stax)
1984 - Playing For Keeps (1984 Malaco Records)
1986 - Annie Mae's Cafe (1986 Malaco Records)
1987 - Movin' To The Country (1987 Malaco Records)
1988 - Back To Back (1988 Malaco Records)
1989 - What It Is - Live At Montreux (1989 Stax)
1990 - Too Much Pain (1990 Malaco Records)
1991 - Reality (1991 Malaco Records)
1992 - Strugglin' Lady (1992 Malaco Records)
1993 - Tin Pan Alley (1993 Stax)
1994 - I'm A Gambler (1994 Malaco Records)
1994 - Welcome To The Club: The Essential Chess Recordings (1994 Chess, MCA)
1995 - Live At Westville Prison (1995 Delmark)
1995 - The Complete Stax Singles (1995 Stax)
1996 - Cheatin' Habit (1996 Malaco Records)
1997 - Count The Days (1997 601 Music)
1997 - Greatest Hits: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (1997 Chess)
1998 - For Real (1998 Malaco Records)
1999 - Welcome To Little Milton (1999 Malaco Records)
2000 - Feel It (2000 Malaco Music Group)
2002 - Guitar Man (2002 Malaco Records)
2005 - Think Of Me (2005 Telarc Blues)
2006 - Live At The North Atlantic Blues Festival - His Last Concert (North Atlantic Blues Festival Records)
2014 - Sings Big Soul (Kent Records)

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