Bacon Fat

There Is More Than One Artist With This Name Including 1 Bacon Fat Was An American Blues Band Noted For A Dual-Harmonica-Driven Chicago Blues Sound.
2 Bacon Fat Was A Belgian Blues-Rock Band. 1 Bacon Fat Originally The Southside Blues Band Was An American Blues Band Based In Los Angeles Noted For A Dual-Harmonica-Driven Chicago Blues Sound.
Following The Breakup Of The Dirty Blues Band In 1968 Rod Piazza And George "Harmonica" Smith Whom Piazza Credits With Putting Him "straight On The Chromatic Harp " Formed The Southside Blues Band. The Band Toured With Big Mama Thornton And In 1969 Released "George Smith Of The Blues" Or "... Of The Blues" As It Appeared On The Album Cover As 'George "Harmonica" Smith & His Blues Band.' Originally Released On World Pacific The Album Was Reissued In 1974 By ABC/Bluesway BLS 6029 And In Germany In 1987 On Crosscut CCR 1015 . Smith's "Juicy Harmonica" From This Album Is Regarded As A Chromatic Harmonica Classic Indeed Piazza Covered "Juicy Harmonica" On "Grease One For Me." Recorded On February 27 And 28 1969 In Hollywood Personnel On "... Of The Blues" Are Listed As Smith And "Lightnin' Rod" Piazza On Harmonicas Richard Davis Trumpet Jim Wynn And Ed Davis Saxes Robert Schedel Piano Marshall Hooks And Arthur Adams Guitars And Curtis Tillman Bass. The Drummer Is Not Listed.
Shortly After The Release Of "...Of The Blues" British Producer Mike Vernon Persuaded The Band To Move To Blue Horizon And To Change Their Name. The Band Renamed Themselves Bacon Fat The Title Of An Andre Williams Recording. The Lineup Of The Band At This Time In Addition To Smith And Piazza Were Buddy Reed Guitar Gregg Schaefer Guitar Jerry Smith Bass Dick Innes Drums And J. D. Nicholson Piano.
Vernon Decided To First Record An Already-Scheduled Gig Opening For And Backing Up Pee Wee Crayton November 16 1969 At The "Bar Paradise A Go Go" Widely Known As "Small's" A Club At E53rd St And Avalon Blvd In South-Central LA. These Tracks Were Subsequently Released In 1986 By Blue Moon As "Live At Small's Paradise" BMLP 1.029 . The Following Day November 17 1969 Was Spent At The Eldorado Recording Studio In Hollywood Recording Tracks For Bacon Fat's First Album "Grease One For Me". On The 18th Bacon Fat Plus Guitarists Pee Wee Crayton And Marshall Hooks Recorded 8 Tracks That Were Released As "No Time For Jive" Under "George Smith." Smith Appears On Only One Track Of "Grease One For Me" Piazza Does Not Appear At All On "No Time For Jive". Mike Vernon The Producer Of Both Albums Maintains That The Segregation Of Smith And Piazza On These Releases Was Coincidence And In Hindsight It Was Probably A Mistake To Lose The Dual-Harp Format That Had Made Southside/Bacon Fat Successful In The First Place.
Both "Grease One For Me" And "No Time For Jive" Are Long Discontinued But The Tracks Are Available On "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" Released Under "George Smith & Bacon Fat" By Sony/BMG Europe Catalog 8287-68873724 A Tour Of Europe To Promote Both "Grease One For Me" And "No Time For Jive" Originally Planned For May Was Delayed Until November 1970. While In The UK Bacon Fat Recorded The Tracks For Their Second Album. The Sale Of The Blue Horizon Label To Polydor By CBS Delayed The Release Of "Tough Dude" Until March 1971 Allowing The Excitement Generated By The Tour To Fade. Bacon Fat Broke Up Sometime In 1971. 2 Bacon Fat Was A Belgian Blues-Rock Band That Released The Albums Boogielicious Baby 2004 And Reinventing The Mojo 2007 . read less