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Willie D. Warren
12+ albums
bluesmodern electric blues
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WILLIE D. WARREN (1924.09.11/Stamps, AK – 2000.12.30/Detroit, MI) was an American electric blues guitarist, bass player and singer. He was described by Allmusic journalist, Michael G. Nastos, as “one of the Midwest’s true blues treasures”. In a long career, he worked with Otis Rush, Al Benson, Little Sonny Cooper, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Baby Boy Warren, Guitar Slim, Freddie King, Jimmy Reed, Morris Pejoe, Bobo Jenkins and Jim McCarty. One of Warren’s better known recordings was “Baby Likes to Boogie”. Warren was born in Stamps, Arkansas, but moved with his family at the age of thirteen to Lake Village, Arkansas. He was taught by Caleb King to play the guitar, and played in his own blues ensemble around the Mississippi Delta. His band’s singer, Guitar Slim was, in turn, taught guitar playing techniques by Warren, and they toured around Louisiana in the latter half of the 1940s. Warren relocated to Chicago by the early 1950s and joined Otis Rush‘s band. He later played alongside Freddie King and Jimmy Reed, plus he also backed Morris Pejoe, when Pejoe recorded tracks for Chess Records. Warren formed the House Rockers back in Arkansas in 1959, and by the early 1970s had moved to Detroit to work and record with Bobo Jenkins. From 1974 to 1976 he was also a featured performer, along with Baby Boy Warren (no relation), with the Progressive Blues Band, a popular blues band that played in many of Detroit’s best blues venues. When Baby Boy died in 1977, Wille D. Warren took up
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Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions, Vol. 2
Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions, Vol. 1
Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions Vol. 1 (Feat. Howard Glazer)
Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions Vol. 2 (Feat. Howard Glazer)
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Hastings Street Grease: Detroit Blues Is Alive! Volume 2
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Hastings Street Grease - Detroit Blues Is Alive! - Vol. 1
Live
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Eleventh Anniversary Collection - 11 Years Of Screwin' Around
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Eleventh Anniversary Collection
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1997
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Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions, Vol. 1 (feat. Howard Glazer)
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Blues at Midnight