Son Seals & Phish - Funky Bitch

Son Seals - Blues Guitar

Sometimes worth going back a while and listening to some sounds you might have forgotton or just not listened to for a while. He received the W.C. Handy Award in 1985, 1987, and 2001. I wonder how his 14 kids are doing.

The band Phish performed Son's song "Funky Bitch" throughout their career and brought him on stage on multiple occasions, turning a whole new generation on to his music.

Son Seals

I was thinking about the late Son Seals today. He used to have a tremendously hot band that came up to play Toronto from time to time back in the 80s. Tuffy P and I almost saw him in Chicago a few years after that. I say almost because we paid our cover at some little place in Old Town and went in and the place was jammed. I mean you couldn't move in there. It was so crowded it was dangerous and we decided to bail.

The Late Great Son Seals

Frank "Son" Seals is another bluesman who was born in the month of August. Of him wikipedia says;

He was born in 1942 in Osceola, Arkansas where his father, Jim "Son" Seals, owned a small club. He began performing professionally by the age of 13, first as a drummer with Robert Nighthawk, and later as a guitarist. In 1959, he formed his own band which performed locally and he also toured with Albert King.

In 1971, he moved to Chicago. His career took off after he was discovered by Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records at the Flamingo Club in Chicago's South Side. His debut, The Son Seals Blues Band, was released in 1973. The album included "Your Love Is Like a Cancer" and "Hot Sauce". Seals followed up with 1976's Midnight Son and 1978's Live and Burning. He continued releasing albums throughout the next two decades, all but one on Alligator Records. These included Chicago Fire (1980), Bad Axe (1984), Living In The Danger Zone (1991), Nothing But The Truth and Live-Spontaneous Combustion (1996). He received the W.C. Handy Award, an honor for best blues recording of the year, in 1985, 1987, and 2001.

He passed away in 2004 due to complications from diabetes. He is missed by fans from around the world.

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