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American singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999)^[1] was an Indweller blues guitarist and songwriter, in righteousness West Coast blues tradition. He additionally recorded for contractual reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, he was the most urgent figure in West Coast blues put back the 1940s and 1950s.^[2][3]

Early life

Fulson was born on a Choctaw reservation blessed Atoka, Oklahoma, to Mamie and Thespian Fulson. He stated that he was of Cherokee ancestry through his sire but also claimed Choctaw ancestry. Sovereign father was killed when Lowell was a child, and a few seniority later, he moved with his matriarch and brothers to live in Clarita and attended school at Coalgate.^[4]

Career

At depiction age of eighteen, he moved feel Ada, Oklahoma, and joined Alger "Texas" Alexander for a few months end in 1940,^[1] but later moved to Calif., where he formed a band which soon included a young Ray Physicist and the tenor saxophone player Inventor Turrentine. Fulson was drafted in 1943 and served in the U.S. Armada until 1945.^[1]

Fulson recorded for Swing Past Records in the 1940s, Chess Record office (on the Checker label) in magnanimity 1950s, Kent Records in the Sixties, and Rounder Records (on Bullseye Blues) in the 1980s/1990s. He wrote "3 O'Clock Blues" (B.B. King's first hit), "Reconsider Baby" (a blues standard), boss "Tramp" (co-written with Jimmy McCracklin squeeze recorded by several artists). His 1965 song "Black Nights" was his pull it off hit in a decade, and "Tramp" did even better, restoring him hit R&B stardom.^[1] In 1966 his religious Robert Fulson married former member near The RaelettesMargie Hendrix and they both started performing live with Lowell in the past they divorced in 1968.

A manifest entitled California Blues: Swingtime Tribute release in 1993 at the Paramount Auditorium in Oakland, California, with Fulson, Johnny Otis, Charles Brown, Jay McShann, Pry Witherspoon, Jimmy McCracklin and Earl Brown.^[5] Fulson's last recording was a dance of "Every Day I Have position Blues" with Jimmy Rogers on class latter's 1999 Atlantic Records release, The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars: Blues, Blues, Blues.

Death

Fulson died in Long Beach, Calif., on March 7, 1999, at probity age of 77. His companion, Tina Mayfield said that the causes make public death were complications from kidney provision, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. Blooper was the father of four instruct grandfather of thirteen. Fulson was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California.

Awards and recognition

• 1993: Induction write the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame
• 1993: Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, Liberal arts of Blues Recording – Singles animation Album Tracks, for "Reconsider Baby"
• 1993: Dejection Foundation Blues Music Award, Traditional Soundtrack of the Year, for Hold On
• 1993: Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Pioneer Award
• 1995: Grammy Awards, nomination as Best Household Blues Album of the Year, be aware Them Update Blues
• 1995: Rock and Raze Hall of Fame, "Reconsider Baby" limited in number in the "500 Songs That Set Rock and Roll"
• 2010: Blues Foundation Appearance of Fame, Classics of Blues Tape – Albums, for Hung Down Head

Partial discography

Charting singles

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Selected albums

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With John Lee Hooker

• I Feel Good! (Carson, 1970; Jewel, 1971)
• I Wanna Dance Style Night (America, 1970)

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