Willie Willis
Can't Help But Have the Blues
(Fedora FCD5009)
The North Texas area is overflowing with an
abundance of blues musicians toiling their craft in obscurity. One of the musicians that
has been playing around the area for decades is Willie Willis. With his new CD, Can't Help
But Have the Blues, Willie will hopefully become more well known to the blues public. The
first song, "Willie's Back", is a personal celebration of having overcome
medical problems and be back making a living again from the blues. "Willie's
Blues" takes you into the heart and soul from where the blues feeling emerges from
within Willie. There are six more original boogies and shuffles that give you a good
feeling of the fun that one has catching Willie perform live. There is also a soulful
cover of Albert King's "Laundromat Blues". Backed by a fine band featuring
Wilford Sims on saxophone and Hash Brown on guitar this is a fine representation of Texas
Blues that Willie Willis has established as uniquely his own.
- Scott Ferman -
Southwest Blues CD Review - December 1998
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