Lurrie Bell
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| Lurrie Bell | |
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 Lurrie Bell (2007)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lurrie C. Bell |
| Born | December 13, 1958 Chicago, Illinois |
| Genre(s) | Chicago blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Singer |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, Vocals |
| Years active | 1970s - |
| Label(s) | JSP Records Delmark P-Vine Records Vypyr Records Aria B.G. Records |
| Associated acts | Carey Bell |
| Website | Lurrie.com |
Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States[1]) is a blues guitarist and singer. His father was renowned blues harmonica player Carey Bell.
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[edit] Career
Bell started playing guitar at the age of six, and in his teens he polished his skills playing with the legends of Chicago blues scene including Eddy Clearwater, Big Walter Horton and Eddie Taylor.
In the mid 1970s, he went on to join Koko Taylor's Blues Machine and he toured with the band for 4 years. In the late 1970s, he formed The Sons of Blues with musicians including Billy Branch on harmonica. Three tracks of the band's recordings were featured in the Alligator Records compilation Living Chicago Blues Vol. 3 released in 1978. In 1989 he released his first solo effort, Everybody Wants To Win, on JSP Records.
Though Bell's career appeared to be headed in the right direction, drawing attention of the blues fans around the world as a young prodigy of the blues, he battled emotional problems and drug abuse for many years, which kept him away from performing on regular basis.
He began a comeback in 1995 with the well-received album Mercurial Son, his first of several from the Delmark label. A series of albums followed thereafter, and he started to perform more frequently in the Chicago club and blues festival circuits.
Bell is featured on Gettin' Up - Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home, a 2007 CD and DVD release from Delmark, where he plays with his father Carey. Soon after this release, Carey died and this became his last recorded effort.
[edit] Discography
- 1989 Everybody Wants To Win (JSP)
- 1995 Mercurial Son (Delmark)
- 1997 700 Blues (Delmark)
- 1997 Young Man's Blues (JSP)
- 1998 Kiss Of Sweet Blues (Delmark)
- 1998 The Blues Caravan Live At Pit Inn 1982 (P-Vine)
- 1998 Chicago's Hottest Guitars: Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 25 (Wolf) with Phil Guy
- 1999 Blues Had A Baby (Delmark)
- 2001 Cutting Heads (Vypyr)
- 2004 Second Nature (Alligator) with Carey Bell (recorded in 1991)
- 2007 Gettin' Up, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home (Delmark) with Carey Bell
- 2007 Let's Talk About Love (Aria B.G.)
