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BEBERLY
"GUITAR"
WATKINS

FURIOUS
"GUITAR"
WOMAN

IN PARIS !

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BEBERLY "GUITAR" WATKINS

"IN PARIS !"

MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION - 2022

RELEASE DATE : MARCH 18, 2022

(USA)

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Musicians:
Beverly Guitar Watkins - Lead Vocal/Lead Guitar/Harmonica
Albert White - Guitar/Background Vocals/MC
Eddie Tigner - Organ/Piano
Nashid Abdul - Bass Guitar
Lil Joe Burton - Trombone
Ardie Dean - Drums
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Jean-Jacques Milteau - Harmonica
Dan Hoctor - Hammond B3

Tracklist:
01 Baghdad Blues 02:46
02 Do The Breakdown 03:25
03 Melody Cruise 02:58
04 What'd I Say 04:14
05 Lonesome Window Blues 04:22
06 Blues Ain't What It Used To Be 04:03
07 Sugar Baby Swing 02:22
08 You Send Me 05:19
09 Red Mama Blues 06:15
10 Get Out On The Floor 03:34

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(1939-2019)

1999

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2004

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previous

albums

2009

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2010

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Willie Lee Perryman 

(1911-1985)

aka  piano red / dr, feelgood

dr. feelgood & the interns

Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Bobby Tuggle, Curtis Smith, Howard Hobbs, Roy Lee Johnson, Willie L. Perryman

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1962

a woman 

her
guitar

and

the blues

Born in Atlanta (GA), Beberly "Guitar" Watkins who began musically in her teens, first as a bass player in local bands to adopt soon the guitar as her faithful and definitive instrument, she did not gain personal recognition as a musician until the mid-1990s when Music Maker Foundation brought her back from ostracism by including her on the 1998 Hot Mama's tour with Koko Taylor, and release her first album "Back In Business" in 199 // then she was 60 // But before all that, Watkins, in the period 1959/65, was the guitarist in the combo Dr. Feelgood & The Interns, one of the multiple formations that Georgia's barrelhouse piano legend Willie Lee Perriman (Piano Red/Dr. Feelgood) put together along the sixtie // The album recorded by the band in 1962 "Dr. Feelgood & The Interns" is a real gem of  hot rhthm'n'blues that contained true emblematic songs like "Dr. Feel-Good", or "Right String But The Wrong Yo-yo", although the success was not what it deserved // As of 1965, Beverly Watkins continued to perform live , sharing the stage with great figures, among others, James Brown, BB King or Ray Charles // Through Music Maker she released two more albums in 2004 and 2009, being her last entry into the studio to record the album "Don't Mess With Miss Watkins" for the French label DixieFrog, released in 2010 // A heart attack deprived us three years ago to one of the fiercest and most robust blueswoman guitarists in blues history.

05/13/2022

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