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Willie D. Warren
Willie D. Warren (September 11, 1924 – December 30, 2000) was an American electric blues guitarist, bass player and singer. In a long career, he worked with Otis Rush, Al Benson, Little Sonny Cooper, David Honeyboy Edwards, Baby Boy Warren, Guitar Slim, Freddie King, Jimmy Reed, Morris Pejoe, Bobo Jenkins and Jim McCarty. One of Warren's better-known recordings was "Baby Likes to Boogie". He was described by the Allmusic journalist Michael G. Nastos as "one of the Midwest's true blues treasures". Biography Warren was born in Stamps, Arkansas, and moved with his family to Lake Village, Arkansas, when he was 13 years old. He was taught by Caleb King to play the guitar, and played in his own blues ensemble around the Mississippi Delta. He taught guitar techniques to his band's singer, Guitar Slim, and they toured around Louisiana in the latter half of the 1940s. Warren relocated to Chicago by the early 1950s and joined Otis Rush's band. He later played alongside Fredd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamps, Arkansas
Stamps is a city in Lafayette County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,693 at the 2010 census, down from 2,131 at the 2000 census. History A post office has been in operation in Stamps since 1887. The community has the name of the local Stamps family. Stamps was the shop headquarters for the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway until the relocation in the early 1920s to Minden in Webster Parish in northern Louisiana. Stamps has been noted on lists of unusual place names. An early postmaster quipped that Stamps was "the only town in the U.S. that stamps Stamps on stamps". File:Stamps, Arkansas (c. 1904).jpg, Stamps Ice & Fuel Company and a boxcar of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, c. 1904 Image:Stamps, AR Fire Department IMG_8383.JPG, Stamps Fire Department Image:Bodcaw Bank, Stamps, AR IMG_8385.JPG, Bodcaw Bank in Stamps Geography Stamps is in northeastern Lafayette County in southwestern Arkansas. U.S. Route 82 passes through the northern side of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |