Special Tommy Bankhead : Please Mr. Foreman (1983) / Message To St. Louis (2000) / Please Accept My Love (2002)

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Special Tommy Bankhead : St. Louis blues

Is it true that Albert King once said  about Tommy Bankhead :  "He was already a star in St. Louis when I first got up there" ? If it is, it's a perfect portrait of the late Tommy Bankhead. A voice forged by a long adventurous musical life that started in his teens, a plain, simple but efficient rootsy guitar style, often swinging, sometimes jazzy or funky, some nicely written songs and an energetic blending of Delta Country blues and Memphis sound, such was Tommy Bankhead.

From his mid-teens, he played with such blues legends as Woodrow Adams, Howlin' Wolf, Joe Willie Wilkins and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) who used to say he was his son because he was too young to enter bars and juke-joints, with his cousin Elmore James, Joe Hill Louis, Henry Townsend, Little Milton, Ike Turner, Albert King, Robert Nighthawk and many other bluesmen… He could also play bass, drums and harmonica.