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Music : The Complete Checker Hit Singles
Rating: 
- Not a Giant: just very, very good.
The sad news of Little Milton (Campbell)'s death on 4/8/05 has an added significance because, as 'The Times' said in his obituary: 'LITTLE MILTON was one of the last blues singers to have come from the prewar world of sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta from which so many of the great blues performers came.'
Determined not to spend his life picking cotton he moved to Memphis where he was 'discovered' by Ike Turner who produced his early (1953-4)recordings for the legendary Sun label.
In 1961 Little Milton signed to the Checker department of the pre-eminent blues label Chess, and over the next decade enjoyed the most commercially successful period of his long career with the recording collected on this CD.
Tracks such as 'Grits Ain't Groceries', 'If Walls Could Talk' 'Who's Cheating Who' and the exhilarating 'We're Gonna Make It' were superbly produced with (usually) a Soul-style horn section providing a perfect background for Campbell's talents.
Incongruously for a diminutive man he had a rich, booming voice, often compared to Bobby 'Blue' Bland. His guitar playing lacked the virtuosity of an Elmore James or a Buddy Guy, but his solos were tasteful, intensely rhythmic, and slotted perfectly into the arrangements.
After leaving Checker in 1970 Little Milton toured and recorded extensively, notably for Stax and later Malaco almost up to his death.
This CD is one I'm very pleased to have in my collection and play regularly. If you like this style of music, B.B.King or Robert Cray, you're likely to enjoy this one too.
Rating:
- Chess goodies
Excellent, all the tracks on this CD count as 'classics' and Little Milton was at his most effective on them.
- Not a Giant: just very, very good.The sad news of Little Milton (Campbell)'s death on 4/8/05 has an added significance because, as 'The Times' said in his obituary: 'LITTLE MILTON was one of the last blues singers to have come from the prewar world of sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta from which so many of the great blues performers came.'
Determined not to spend his life picking cotton he moved to Memphis where he was 'discovered' by Ike Turner who produced his early (1953-4)recordings for the legendary Sun label.
In 1961 Little Milton signed to the Checker department of the pre-eminent blues label Chess, and over the next decade enjoyed the most commercially successful period of his long career with the recording collected on this CD.
Tracks such as 'Grits Ain't Groceries', 'If Walls Could Talk' 'Who's Cheating Who' and the exhilarating 'We're Gonna Make It' were superbly produced with (usually) a Soul-style horn section providing a perfect background for Campbell's talents.
Incongruously for a diminutive man he had a rich, booming voice, often compared to Bobby 'Blue' Bland. His guitar playing lacked the virtuosity of an Elmore James or a Buddy Guy, but his solos were tasteful, intensely rhythmic, and slotted perfectly into the arrangements.
After leaving Checker in 1970 Little Milton toured and recorded extensively, notably for Stax and later Malaco almost up to his death.
This CD is one I'm very pleased to have in my collection and play regularly. If you like this style of music, B.B.King or Robert Cray, you're likely to enjoy this one too.
Rating:
- Chess goodiesExcellent, all the tracks on this CD count as 'classics' and Little Milton was at his most effective on them.