LOUISIANA RED
Blues • United States
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Louisiana Red was an extraordinary character. A huge man with a slow, deliberate manner, he was a brilliant songwriter who used the tragedies of his own experience to produce a vivid, visceral Blues. His technique on slide-guitar harked back to the Delta, but he played harp and finger-style electric guitar too, and often moved himself to tears with his passionate vocal delivery. It is surprising that he was not better known, as he performed almost continuously for more than fifty years and played with a host of legendary figures. Red released no less than fifty albums, as well as making countless guest recordings with his admirers. He was awarded a Grammy, and won a shower of awards in the last years of his life.
Born in rural Alabama in 1932, Iverson Minter’s mother died when he was a few days old and when he was nine, his father was lynched by
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