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Traditional and original blues, down home, the old fashioned way.
Genre:
Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date:
2002
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Blues Makes Me Happy
© Copyright-Robert Fox
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Record Label: Barking Fox
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My earliest mentors were the boogie woogie masters Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Meade Lux Lewis. I discovered guitar blues with Josh White, who led me to Big Bill, Leadbelly, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, and eventually to the Rev. Gary Davis, whom I took to churches where he preached and sang in Harlem. Eventually I performed with him in concert and on radio in a show that launched Bob Dylan's career (reviewed in the NY Times).
I've opened for Rev. Davis, Brownie and Sonny, and performed with many others in the blues and folk music scene of the 1960s and 70s. Making my home now in Columbus, Ohio I've opened for Dave Van Ronk and Jerry Jeff Walker, and in March,2002 won second place in the River City Blues Competition in Marietta, Ohio, "kicking the butt of 16 bands," in the words of the president of the Columbus Blues Alliance. I've performed in the 2000 and 2002 Traditional Blues Festival in Columbus, with Ann Rabson, Lloyd Spiegel, Mr. Downchild, Bierdorf and Kolbe, and Little Toby Walker.
Blues Makes Me Happy is my second solo album.
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A Pure-D Delight!
author: Robert Love Taylor
It grieves me to know that Bob Fox died not so long after completing this wonderful CD. His music, at once powerful and delicate, is a gift to those of us who survive him and will surely live a long time.
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Good, sturdy country blues. . . (and) a superior boogie-woogie pianist.
author: Blues Revue
It's always great to hear good, sturdy country blues. BOB FOX tips his hat to genre heroes like Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell, and Brownie McGhee (and that's only his guitarist side) on BLUES MAKES ME HAPPY. Fox is a superior boogie-woogie pianist, too, as he demonstrates on the stomping title cut and the more ruminative, "We'll Be Together Again." Also good are takes on McTell's "Statesboro Blues" and the traditional "Death Letter Blues."
--BLUES REVUE, February/March 2003
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Bobs arresting skills as both interpreter and creator are second to none.
author: Sing Out! Magazine
BLUES MAKES ME HAPPY features nearly seventy minutes of stripped-down, traditional acoustic blues/folk from Ohio-based Bob Fox (a regular at Cleveland's Barking Spider Tavern). Bob's arresting skills as both interpreter and creator in these idioms are second to none. Influenced by Dave Van Ronk and Reverend Gary Davis in his New York City youth, Fox not only plays a mean elemental, boogie-based piano (the title tune and autobiographical "Bob's West Coast Blues") and six and twelve-string guitar, but has a relaxed exploratory vocal approach that draws the listener in.
Fox is also a marvelous arranger, even rendering chestnuts like "John Henry," "Going Down Slow" and "Dupree Blues" fresh sounding. Exhilaratingly personalized covers of songs by Big Bill Broonzy, Furry Lewis, Pete Seeger, Son House (the rapt lamentation "Death Letter Blues") and Blind Willie McTell are also on-target. --GvonT, Sing Out! Vol. 46 #4 Winter 2003
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author: Peter Heidtmann
Bob: I've played your CD twice now, and like what I hear.
Never heard you on the piano before, so that was a treat. I
bought two copies of the CD so I can send one to my step-son
in Colorado, who also plays the acoustic guitar when he's not
painting houses.
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