Looking through voice memos taken while swamp-driving, listening to Sirius FM, and caught a show highlighting this #vintage "jump blues" performer....

Chin chin...🍷

Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Harlem 1018

Granville "Stick" McGhee:

Wikipedia:

McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.[1] He received his nickname when he was a child. He used a stick to push a wagon carrying his older brother Brownie McGhee, who had contracted polio.[5] Granville began playing the guitar when he was thirteen years old. After his freshman year he dropped out of high school and worked with his father at the Eastman Kodak subsidiary, Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport. In 1940, Granville quit his job and moved to Portsmouth, Virginia, and then to New York City...[6]

Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll.[2] Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival.

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