Baby Boy Warren

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Baby Boy Warren (August 13, 1919 – July 1, 1977) was an American blues singer and guitarist, who was a leading figure on the Detroit blues scene in the 1950s. He was born Robert Henry Warren in Lake Providence, Louisiana in 1919, but moved with his parents to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of three months. He was interested in music from an early age, and was working occasionally as a musician from around 1931, when he dropped out of school, having learned to play guitar from two of his older brothers. During the 1930s he worked in W. C. Handy Park, Memphis, with Howling Wolf, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Little Buddy Doyle and others, and he appeared on the Helena, Arkansas based King Biscuit Time radio show with Sonny Boy Williamson around 1941. In 1942 he moved to Detroit, where he worked for General Motors while also performing as a musician. Warren's first recording sessions were in 1949 and 1950 in Detroit, with the five resulting singles being released on a number of labels. Tracks recorded at a 1954 session accompanied by Sonny Boy Williamson were released on Joe Von Battle's JVB label, and on Excello Records. Further sessions the same year resulted in a single on the Blue Lake label featuring Boogie Woogie Red on piano and Calvin Frazier on guitar, and a reworking of the Robert Johnson song "Stop Breakin' Down" for the Drummond Label. Warren was mostly inactive in music during the 1960s, but revived his career to play the Detroit Blues Festival in 1971 and the Ann Arbor Bl

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Eisenhower Blues

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Blues Guitar Legends

Rolling Stone Classics

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Blues Beginnings - Early Raw Electric Blues Masters

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Motor City Blues

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Shim Sham Shimmy

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Early Electric Blues

Stop Breakin' Down

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The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond, CD D

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Deep Harmonica Blues

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Let Me Tell You About The Blues: Detroit

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Detroit City Blues, Vol. 3

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