Taildragger

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1.) Tail Dragger is Lowdown and Dirty Real Deal Chicago Blues at its best- Blues with a Feeling!! You must experience a Tail Dragger live performance; your life will not be the same. After the legendary Howlin' Wolf passed away, his long time wild guitarist Hubert Sumlin teamed up with Tail Dragger to rule the Chicago West Side Ghetto Blues Clubs. "One day this boy will take my place." - Howlin' Wolf. "One of the great personalities of Chicago blues is the unstoppable Tail Dragger, whose charisma fills up any room he plays in. " Bob Corritore Tail Dragger is a true, dramatic showman who possesses one of the most authentic and distinct Chicago Blues voices anyone will ever hear. While he's influenced vocally by Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy, Jimmy Reed, and most directly by Howlin Wolf, much of his material is refreshingly original. Refusing to let anyone in the audience miss his point, he sets up his songs with real-life anecdotes, often hilarious, before illustrating his point with a song. When he sings, he can be tragic or humorous, but you can't ignore him as he transports audiences to the cotton fields of his youth and the rough Chicago ghetto clubs he still performs in today. Born in Altheimer, Arkansas in 1940, Tail Dragger came to Chicago in the mid-sixties where he supported himself as a mechanic and fell under the spell of all the great blues artists but most particularly, Howlin Wolf. The Wolf let him sit in, taught him how to sing in time with the rhythm, an