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Though Lowell Fulson might be less famous than other post-war bluesmen, especially from Chicago, he was the innovative king of West Coast blues. A man with flair : in the early 1940s he spotted two promising musicians and took them in his band : a pianist named Ray Charles and saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. He wrote and recorded famous classics like "3 O'Clock Blues" in 1946, which became B.B. King's first hit in 1951, the immortal "Every Day I Have the Blues" (adapted from Memphis Slim's "Nobody Loves Me"), "Reconsider Baby" in 1954, which became a blues standard, notably covered by Elvis Presley in 1960.
He
also co-wrote "Tramp" with Jimmy McCracklin in 1967, a song covered
only a few months later by the duet Otis Redding-Carla Thomas, or “Black
Nights” with Fats Washington, a hit released in 1965. No need to pursue
further to understand the man's importance in the blues landscape.
