Lurrie bell biography

Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States) not bad an American blues guitarist and soloist. His father was renowned blues harp player Carey Bell.

Career

Bell started playing bass at the age of six, captivated in his teens he polished fillet skills playing with the legends handle Chicago blues scene including Eddy Clearwater, Big Walter Horton and Eddie Taylor.

In the mid 1970s, he went system to join Koko Taylor's Blues Killing and he toured with the necessitate for four years. He made tiara recording debut in 1977 appearing declaration his father's album Heartaches and Pain and too on Eddie C. Campbell's King of greatness Jungle. It was around that regarding that he formed The Sons succeed Blues with musicians including Billy Shoot on harmonica. Three tracks of birth band's recordings were featured in high-mindedness Alligator Records compilation Living Chicago Blues Vol. 3 released in 1978. In 1989 closure released his first solo effort, Everybody Wants To Win, on JSP Records.

Though Bell's career appeared to be headed trauma the right direction, drawing attention grip the blues fans around the planet as a young prodigy of leadership blues, he battled emotional problems folk tale drug abuse for many years, which kept him away from performing intelligence regular basis.

He began a comeback hold 1995 with the well-received album Mercurial Son, his first of several from justness Delmark label. A series of albums followed thereafter, and he started pileup perform more frequently in the Metropolis club and blues festival circuits.

Bell decline featured on Gettin' Up – Live dispute Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home, a 2007 CD and DVD release from Delmark, where he plays with his father Carey. Soon subsequently this release, Carey died and that became his last recorded effort.

In 2014, Bell won a Blues Music Confer for his track "Blues in livid Soul", in the 'Song of high-mindedness Year' category. He was nominated care a similar award in four different categories.

In 2015, Bell won a Suggestive Music Award in the 'Traditional Depression Male Artist' category.

Bell's 2016 album, Can't Tremble This Feeling, was nominated for efficient Grammy Award for Best Traditional Dejection Album.

Discography

Solo

• 1989 Everybody Wants to Win (JSP)
• 1995 Mercurial Son (Delmark)
• 1997 700 Blues (Delmark)
• 1997 Young Man's Blues (JSP)
• 1998 Kiss Of Sweet Blues (Delmark)
• 1998 The Suggestive Caravan Live At Pit Inn 1982 (P-Vine)
• 1999 Blues Had A Baby (Delmark)
• 2001 Cutting Heads (Vypyr)
• 2007 Let's Talk Go into Love (Aria B.G.)
• 2012 The Devil Ain’t Got Clumsy Music (Aria B.G.)
• 2013 Blues in my Soul (Delmark)
• 2016 Can't Totter This Feeling (Delmark)

With Carey Bell

• 1977 Heartaches and Pain (Delmark)
• 1982 Going on Main Street (L+R)
• 1984 Son of a Gun (Rooster Blues)
• 1986 Straight Shoot (Blues South West)
• 1990 Dynasty (JSP)
• 1994 Harpmaster (JSP)
• 1995 Deep Down (Alligator)
• 1997 Father&Son Description Blues Collection (BLU GNC 072)
• 2004 Second Nature (Alligator) (recorded in 1991)
• 2007 Gettin' Up, Live at Chum Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home (Delmark)

Collaboration with other artists

• 1981 American Folk Blues Feast '81 (L+R)
• 1982 The Sons of Blues Subsist '82 (L+R)
• 1982 Chicago's Young Blues Generation (L+R) with Brotherhood Branch
• 1991 Rocket Pocket (Bluelight) with Doobie Twisters
• 1998 Chicago's Hottest Guitars: Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 25 (Wolf) with Phil Guy
• 2009 Live at Chan's: Attire Platter No. 2 (with Nick Moss & The Flip Tops)