'Nine Below Zero'---Sonny Boy Williamson

[panader0]

[kwassa]

1. Which Sonny Boy Williamson is this?

I or II? I think II.

great song, by the way.

edit to add: Definitely Rice Miller, Sonny Boy II.

Here is an incredible live version of the song, with a young Otis Spann on the piano.

[panader0]

2. I thought the song was apropos considering the weather...

Rice Miller is MY version of Sonny Boy Williamsom. Check out the stuff he did with the Yardbirds (with Clapton)

[kwassa]

3. I will.

The clip I posted is unusually good.

This is Sonny Boy with his hometown musicians.

[panader0]

4. Remember "the Real Folk Blues"? Issued by Chess or Checker if I remember right.

They had Sonny Boy, Howlin' Wolf. Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker.....
I had 'em all in the day...

[kwassa]

5. Howling Wolf is my all-time favorite blues singer.

Somewhere I still have a greatest hits album. I love all the Chicago blues musicians. I am now trying to go back and listen to ones I was less interested in 30 years ago, like Little Walter and Junior Wells. I was more into Muddy and various piano players back then, as I used to play the piano.

[bluesbassman]

6. Oh yeah.