Beverly "Guitar" Watkins: Don't Mess With Miss Watkins
Don't Mess With Miss Watkins
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- Label: DixieFrog
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.10.2007
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I met Beverly when she was playing on the streets of the Underground in Atlanta. She put on a tremendous show and she was obviously a star. We started booking package shows and Beverly consistently tore down the house. She came up under Piano Red and cut records with him back in the '50s and '60s. She plays low-down, hard stompin', railroad-smokin' blues. She''ll tell you, "people are impressed to see a black woman play like a man."
Tim Duffy / Music Maker
When she's talking about her days as a teenage guitarist for the legendary Piano Red, Beverly Guitar Watkins says "Back then I didn't do nothing but looked pretty and played rhythm." Beverly met Piano Red, and they formed the Meter Tones around 1958. They played a lot of colleges. They played University of Georgia and Yale. They played Mississippi in segregation days and they slept in a station wagon because they couldn't get a motel room.
When Red's group broke up in about 1966 Beverly didn't consider quitting music. She next joined up with original Ink Spot Eddie Tigner. Then there was a succession of bands. Sometimes she played in clubs, sometimes churches, sometimes solo, sometimes on the streets, sometimes in the food court at the Underground Atlanta mall. Along the way, she started singing and playing lead guitar.
She says "Playing blues, you have to live it. Blues is about just like I came up. My mother passed when I was three-months-old. I was raised up with different aunties. A lot of people have to drink to play, dope themselves up. I don't have to do that, because the blues are already in me. I can play it on the street or put it on an album. A lot of people ask, 'Are you scared?' No way. Scared of what? I'm not scared at all. When I hit the stage, I'm action. It's just a natural thing."
If you ask her if she feels like going home to rest a bit, she'll tell you "Home? My baby's grown and got kids himself. I'd rather be on the road. Have fun. On the road again. Jumpin' with my goodtime friends. This is what it's all about. Rock on, keep on, look good, play good, get paid good."
Tim Duffy / Music Maker
When she's talking about her days as a teenage guitarist for the legendary Piano Red, Beverly Guitar Watkins says "Back then I didn't do nothing but looked pretty and played rhythm." Beverly met Piano Red, and they formed the Meter Tones around 1958. They played a lot of colleges. They played University of Georgia and Yale. They played Mississippi in segregation days and they slept in a station wagon because they couldn't get a motel room.
When Red's group broke up in about 1966 Beverly didn't consider quitting music. She next joined up with original Ink Spot Eddie Tigner. Then there was a succession of bands. Sometimes she played in clubs, sometimes churches, sometimes solo, sometimes on the streets, sometimes in the food court at the Underground Atlanta mall. Along the way, she started singing and playing lead guitar.
She says "Playing blues, you have to live it. Blues is about just like I came up. My mother passed when I was three-months-old. I was raised up with different aunties. A lot of people have to drink to play, dope themselves up. I don't have to do that, because the blues are already in me. I can play it on the street or put it on an album. A lot of people ask, 'Are you scared?' No way. Scared of what? I'm not scared at all. When I hit the stage, I'm action. It's just a natural thing."
If you ask her if she feels like going home to rest a bit, she'll tell you "Home? My baby's grown and got kids himself. I'd rather be on the road. Have fun. On the road again. Jumpin' with my goodtime friends. This is what it's all about. Rock on, keep on, look good, play good, get paid good."
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Too Many Times
- 2 Miz Dr. Feelgood
- 3 Impeach Me Baby
- 4 Red Mama Blues
- 5 The Right String But The Wrong Yoyo
- 6 Right Don'T Wrong Nobody
- 7 Get Out On The Floo
- 8 Late Bus Blues
- 9 Back In Business
- 10 Sugar Baby Swing
- 11 Baghdad Blues
- 12 Jesus Walked The Water