Artist: Son Seals
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Lettin' Go
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Spontaneous Combustion
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Midnight Son
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Living in the Danger Zone
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
It all started with a sound call from Wesley Race, world Health Organization was at the Flamingo Club on Chicago's South Side, to Alligator Records owner Bruce Iglauer. Race was raving near a new feel, a lester Willis Young guitarist named Son Seals. He held the sound in the direction of the bandstand, so Iglauer could get an on-site paper. It didn't take foresightful for Iglauer to scramble into action at law. Alligator issued Seals' eponymous debut album in 1973, which was followed by sestet more.
Son Seals was born Frank Seals on August 13, 1942 in Osceola, Arkansas. His pop operated a juke joint called the Dipsy Doodle Club in Osceola where Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, and Albert King cavorted upfront while little Frank listened intently in back. Drums were the youth's first base instrument; he played them behind Nighthawk at age 13. But by the sentence he was 18, Son Seals sour his talents to guitar, fronting his possess band in Little Rock.
While visiting his sister in Chicago, he aquiline up with Earl Hooker's Roadmasters in 1963 for a few months, and on that point was a 1966 erolia minutilla with Albert King that sent him behind the drumkit once more than. But with the dying of his don in 1971, Seals returned to Chicago, this sentence for effective. When Alligator gestural him up, his days fronting a banding at the Flamingo Club and the Expressway Lounge were numbered.
Seals' jaggy, inflexible guitar riffs and gruff vocals were showcased very effectively on that 1973 debut determine, which contained his "Your Love Is like a Cancer" and a hot subservient called "Live Sauce." Midnight Son, his 1976 encore, was by comparison a practically trickster amour, with close horns, funkier grooves, and a set list that included "Telephone set Angel" and "On My Knees." Seals LP in 1978 at Wise Fools Pub; some other studio concoction, Chicago Fire, in 1980, and a solid sic in 1984, Bad Axe, before having a disagreement with Iglauer that that was patched up in 1991 with the departure of his sixth Alligator set, Living in the Danger Zone. Zippo But the Truth followed in 1994, sporting some of the worst cover nontextual matter in CD account, just a stinging card of songs inside. Another unrecorded disc, Self-generated Combustion, was recorded at Buddy Guy's Legends club and released in June of 1996. Over the years, Seals had his share of hardship, bad deals, unemployment, and rip-offs that go on in the medicine business. However, his personal life took 2 crushing blows in the late '90s. On January 5, 1997, during a domestic dispute, Seals was shot in the yack away by his late mate. He miraculously recovered and continued touring. Two years later he had his left wing stage amputated as a result of diabetes. What would induce certainly forced almost performers into retirement only made Seals more dedicated to his euphony and audience. He came back in 2000, sign language with Telarc Blues, and recorded Lettin' Go. Seals preferent to remain close to his Chicago home, retention his touring itinerary to an sheer lower limit. Virtually every weekend he could be base somewhere on the Northside blues circuit, dishing up his raw-edged brand of bad blues ax to local followers. The blues complete for Son Seals on December 20, 2004; he passed aside due to diabetes related to complications.
