Big Al Calhoun

This Session Featuring Big Al Calhoun On Amplified Harmonica And Vocals With Henry Townsend Electric Guitar Vocals And Vernell Townsend On Vocals Was Recorded In August 1979 In St. Louis. Big Al Had Worked For Years With Henry And Vernell. He Picked Up The Harmonica When He Was A Small Boy Living On A Large Sharecropper Plantation In Mississippi. When He Heard Sonny Boy Williamson On The Radio He Started To Play The Blues. On The Plantation He Heard Many Of The Great Blues Musicians Of That Time Both Live And On Records And He Played With Some Of Them Notably Eddie Cusik. Big Al Still Plays The Harmonica "all The Time" And Lives In St. Louis. "I Like Blues That's The Whole Thing In A Nutshell." read less