Kid Bailey (Date of birth unknown - after 1960) was a
Mississippi
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Delta bluesman. His one known
recording session The term studio recording means any recording made in a studio, as opposed to a live recording, which is usually made in a concert venue or a theatre, with an audience attending the performance.
Studio cast recordings
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occurred on September 25, 1929, in
Memphis, Tennessee
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.
Little is known about Bailey. His voice had a distinctly coarse yet youthful quality. Two of his recordings have survived: "Rowdy Blues" and "Mississippi Bottom Blues". In most digital releases, the tracks are attributed to
Willie Brown yet are evidently the same artist credited as Kid Bailey on the original 78-rpm recordings.
It has been remarked that "Although it's almost a cliché to say this about a blues musician from the
American South, Kid Bailey was one of the most enigmatic musicians of the era." There has been some speculation that Kid Bailey was a
pseudonym
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of the blues singer Willie Brown.
Bailey's songs have been
covered
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by
Ian A. Anderson,
Rory Block
Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style.
Career
Aurora Block was born in Princeton and grew up in Manhattan. Her father, Allan ...
,
Doug Cox, the
Be Good Tanyas, and
Thomasina Winslow with
Nick Katzman.
His song "Rowdy Blues" is included on the
compilation album ''Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton'', released by
Yazoo Records
Yazoo Records is an American record label founded in the mid-1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, country, jazz, and other rural American genres collectively known as roots music.
History
The first five releases (L 10 ...
.
References
External links
Illustrated Kid Bailey discography
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
20th-century African-American male singers
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
American blues singers
Country blues musicians
African-American guitarists
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