I had a few emails about this great record which happens to be my all time fave dancer on Eddie Thomas,s label from chicago who released 13 stunning 45,s apart from saxie,s gem The Amazers,Cash McCall,Jamo Thomas(Eddie,s brother) The Brooks brothers & mamie Galore...and the man behind the name,well his real name is Russell Taplin who was a member/session man mainly for gigs of the Bobo jenkins band (real name John Pickens Jenkins) out of chicago who cut a few discs with Boxer records who also recorded the great Mckinley Mitchell. The label was owned by john moore who,s business partner was a lady called Eva Russell....Bobo came from Detroit and was a blues singer/songwriter/guitarist as Russell "saxie" Taplin came from Chicago....What happened to saxie ? god only knows as i have spent hours researching his whereabouts and what happened to him ...Zilch sadly...I hope that answers your queries, thats all i humbly know.
AMM
Bobo Jenkins, Saxie russell, & Unknown drummer taken circa late 1950,s
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bobo jenkins-the democrat man... must have!
great find and great music. This is amazing. thank you AMM.
Excellent stuff
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Unearthed!
Thanks AMM for the detective work here.
Thanks for yet another rare gem.
I don't know if it's an album or two singles that you're offering us, but when in doubt, I'm a taker. Thanks AM.
Pierre
This looks very interesting. Thanks AMM for the review.
I'm with Pierre, it's unclear if you're offering anything here but whatever it is I'll grab it with both eager hands. BTW. I had Bobo Jenkins first LP, it was a homemade affair on his own label (Big Star if my memory serves me correctly) it was fun because he had obviously set up the tape recorder himself and played his song then walked over to turn the tape recorder off, so there were these long gaps between songs and on a few tracks you could even hear his footsteps. Reminds me of a very early Son House field recording, you can faintly hear a train in the distance (choo-choo) and on one Robert Johnson track recorded in a San Antonio hotel room you can hear a bird whistling outside the window.
Many thanks for the digging
Thank s for more rare soul MM.
cheers,ELtel
Found that the name was also Vernon Taplin and Saxie Russell & The Starfires
TIM(V Taplin) single I need your Love/My side of the track Celtex records.It seems there a lot more to this man must be more somewhere
Thanks AMM for the the depth of search
Cheers Pedro
takes me back to the casino .
Just revisited this post and read the review and comments which have convinced me that I`m in need of this post...please AMM
This sounds very interesting. Though I have some singles I wonder what to expect.
Thank you for this.
Well Bobo Jenkins is always interesting, I dare to say. Thank you for the information.
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