Tampa Red

Tampa Red (born Hudson Whittaker, January 8, 1904, Smithville, Georgia, USA; died: March 19, 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA) was an American Chicago blues musician. 
Already by the time of his 1928 recording debut for Vocalion, he had developed the clear, precise bottleneck blues guitar style that earned him his billing "The Guitar Wizard". His bottleneck and single-string solo style inspired a number of other blues guitarists, among them Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk. 
Tampa Red was also a prolific songwriter, writing such blues standards as "Sweet Black Angel", "Love Her With A Feeling", "Don't You Lie To Me", and "It Hurts Me Too" (covered by B.B. King, Freddy King, Fats Domino, and Elmore James, respectively). He may have been the most influential of the early 20th century blues guitarists.
== Links To Peel ==
Tampa Red's song "Lula Mae" was featured in the 1944 Peelenium.
== Peelenium ==
* Peelenium 1944: Lula Mae
== Shows Played ==
1960s
* Kat's Karavan (1961): (JR: 'Yes on this one, we just have Tampa Red who's well known to the blues... and guitar and Charles Sanders 'a la batterie' which means on the drums and that's it, just the three of them on this one')
1980s
* 14 December 1989 (& Big Maceo): Mercy Mama Blues (LP - Get It Cats !) Swingtime
1990s
* 06 January 1990 (BFBS) (with Big Maceo): Mercy Mama (LP-Big Maceo With Tampa Red In Chicago 1941 - 1946) (not on label)
* 20 December 1992 (BFBS): You've Gotta Reap What You Sow (LP - Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937) Yazoo
* 17 July 1993 (& Georgia Tom): Dead Cats On The Line (CD - The Slide Guitar – Bottles Knives and Steel Vol 2) (Columbia)
* 21 August 1993 (& Georgia Tom): You Can't Get That Stuff No More (Compilation CD-The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives & Steel) (Columbia)
* 03 September 1993 (BFBS) (and Georgia Tom): You Can't Get That Stuff No More (v/a album - The Slide Guitar: Bottle, Knives & Steel) Columbia CK 46218
* 01 September 1999: Lula Mae
2000s
* 01 March 2001: Denver Blues (Compilation LP: Flashbacks No.4 Heartbreakers 1927-1946 Blue & Lonely) (Trikont)
Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band
* 07 November 2000 (with Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxson): Boot It Boy (Pig's Big 78) Square
== Covered ==
* Taste: Sugar Mama (session) 09 March 1969
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia
* Discogs
Category:Artists