→ Thanks to my accomplice L.C.
A man's redemption
Another good one gone… It's a long time I wanted to write about this soulful mystic blues singer. The early life of Samuel McClain is not very different from dozens of other bluesmen : born in Monroe, North Louisiana, in 1943, singing in church very young, early vocation for music, escape from home and from an abusive step-father at 13, "school" on the Chitlin' Circuit with R&B guitarist "Little Melvin" Underwood, meeting of DJ and producer "Papa Don" Schroeder at the 506 Club in Pensacola, Florida, who opened him the doors of the Muscle Shoals studios, first hit single in 1966 with a cover of Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams", more sides recorded in Muscle Shoals and Nashville for Amy Records and Atlantic, but without any commercial success (most of these sides were later compiled in "The Amy Records Sessions, 1966-1969", released in 2014).
