''Feel Like Blowing My Horn'' is an album by blues musician

Roosevelt Sykes Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "the Honeydripper". Career Sykes was born the son of a musician in Elmar, Arkansas. "Just a little old sawmill town", Sykes said of his birthplace. The ...

, recorded in 1970 and released by the Delmark label in 1973.Both Sides Now: Discography of the Delmar(k) Label
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stated: "Producer Bob Koester gets kudos for bringing about a studio session for Sykes involving such a group later in his career. What a great combination of players is involved ... These legendary players hardly sit on their laurels; they use the opportunity to lay down really beautiful music, the rocking and fun-loving spirit of Sykes looking down on all of it like some kind of barbecue munching holy spirit. One of the best recordings on the Delmark label, and that is saying a mouthful".

Track listing

All compositions by Roosevelt Sykes # "Feel Like Blowing My Horn" – 2:58 # "My Hamstring's Poppin'" – 3:57 # "I'm a Nut" – 3:00 # "Blues Will Prank with Your Soul" – 3:27 # "Sykes Gumboogie" – 4:40 # "Rock-a-Bye Birdie" – 3:09 # "Moving Blues" – 3:54 # "All Days Are Good" – 2:41 # "Eagle-Rock Me, Baby" – 3:11 # "Jubilee Time" – 3:19

Personnel

– piano, vocals *

King Kolax King Kolax (born William Little, November 6, 1912 – December 18, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Biography William Little was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1912; he misleadingly claimed he was born in 1918 in later ...

– trumpet *

Sax Mallard Oett M. Mallard (September 2, 1915 – August 29, 1986), also known as Sax Mallard, was a Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader. He worked briefly (April–May 1943) with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, as well as with Ellington's Octet ...

– clarinet, tenor saxophone *

Robert Lockwood Jr. Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly fr ...

– guitar *Dave Myers – bass *

Fred Below Frederick Below, Jr. (September 6, 1926 – August 13, 1988) was an American blues drummer, best known for his work with Little Walter and Chess Records in the 1950s. According to Tony Russell, Below was a creator of much of the rhythmic stru ...

– drums

References

{{Authority control Roosevelt Sykes albums 1973 albums Delmark Records albums Albums produced by Bob Koester