"Travelin " all night long , yes the journey continues .
I've been invited to play at the Durham Blues Festival , N.C., my home.
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Big Daddy Wilson was born in a small town called Edenton, North Carolina. “We were very poor, but I had a very beautiful childhood”, Wilson remembers. “Me and my sisters were raised by Mom and Grandma.
We lived a simple life, we went to church every Sunday. I worked during
the summer in the tobacco fields and cotton fields, I was a
real country boy”. Living in a small town in the south, jobs
were scarce for a black man.
Young Wilson quit school at 16, and joined the US Army. A few years later Wilson meta German girl who became his wife and he decided to stay in the country. “I met the blues in Germany when I went for the first time to a real blues concert. In Edenton we used to listen to gospel and to the country music played at the local radio station. I didn’t know what
the blues was before”, Wilson says. “It was in Germany were I found a part of me that was missing for so long, the blues.”
It did not take long and the shy guy who just had written some poems years ago started looking for melodies. He went on stage, jammed all over the German blues scene, even won the GBC Award as the best German Blues Band. He made an impression with his warm and soulful voice. He began touring with bands and as a duo and released a few records.
With his international solo debut on RUF Records four years ago, Big Daddy Wilson took it one step further in his late career as a musician.
And now he proposes to you his new album “I’m Your Man” on Dixiefrog including the song “Hold The Ladder” written especially for him by his long-time friend Eric Bibb, and produced by Staffan Astner (Eric Bibb’s guitarist) and Sven Lindvall (who plays upright bass, electric bass and tuba on the album).
“On this CD I try to show the different hats that I put on
throughout my career. I think Blues is the root of all modern
music. So I try to show this connection, because I believe we
all are connected one way or the other. If you like Blues, Roots
& Soul, than “I’m Your Man”. I really enjoyed working on this
project especially the privilege to work with so many great
musicians. I think this is my best work so far.”
And now he want to go back home to North Carolina to present his marvelous show.
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