Artist: Champion Jack Dupree
Genre(s):
Blues
Other
Discography:
From New Orleans to Chicago/Champion Jack Dupree and His Blues Band CD 2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
From New Orleans to Chicago/Champion Jack Dupree and His Blues Band CD 1
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Junker's Blues
Year: 2000
Tracks: 18
Blues from the Gutter
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Back Home in New Orleans
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Live with The Big Town Playboys
Year: 1989
Tracks: 12
The Tricks
Year: 1968
Tracks: 11
A formidable contender in the closed chain earlier he shifted his focussing to pounding the piano kinda, Champion Knave Dupree oft injected his lyrics with a yob mother wit of down-home sense of humor. Merely there was slide fastener blithe around his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake off Baby Excite," the stallion room had no survival of the fittest but to acquiesce.
Dupree was notoriously obscure more or less his beginnings, claiming in approximately interviews that his parents died in a fire plant by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the glare was accidental. Whatever the destiny of the tragic inferno, Dupree grew up in Newly Orleans' Colored person Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also exhausted his formative days on that point). Learning his craft from honky-tonk 88s i Willie "Drive 'em Land" Hall, Dupree left hand the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and and so Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Capital of Indiana, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.
In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Windy City A&R human organism extraordinaire Lester Melrose and O.K. Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia foot soldier exhibited a strong New Siege of Orleans undertone disrespect the Chicago milieu; his drive "Junker's Vapors" was afterward cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Avoirdupois Man." After a stretch out in the Naval forces during Existence War II (he was a Nipponese P.O.W. for iI age), Dupree distinct tickling the 88s flap fistfight whatsoever old day. He exhausted most of his time in Fresh House of York and quickly became a fertile transcription artist, cut for Continental, Joe Dwight Filley Davis, Alarm, Phoebus, and Red River Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Faker Chemise" in 1953), oftentimes in the caller-out of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Sidekick Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the genuinely imaginative Meat Head Lyndon Baines Johnson for Gotham and Apex of the sun's way.
Queen Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart assume, the relaxed "Walk the Blues.") Dupree's King yield rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Buzzer Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Scuff" (Dupree's vocal on the latter accentuation a harelip row impedimenta for politically wrong pseudo-comic essence).
By and by on a class on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic Ocean. 1958's Vapours From the Trough is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boast improbable readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blue devils," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Filthy Boogie-woogie." Dupree was i of the first base bluesmen to resultant his indigene domain for a less racially polarized European universe in 1959. He lived in a diversity of countries abroad, continuing to record book prolifically for Storyville, Brits Decca (with Whoremaster Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.
Peradventure detection his possess mortality rate, Dupree returned to Newly Siege of Orleans in 1990 for his number one jaw in 36 historic period. Patch there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Fete and laid toss off a savory album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in Freshly Siege of Orleans. Two more albums of fresh corporeal were captured by the ship's troupe the succeeding twelvemonth prior to the pianist's termination in Jan of 1992. Jack Dupree was a chomp to the very end.
