Rockin Tabby Thomas Pt.1

Tabby Thomas began recording in 1952 with the release of Midnight is Calling and I' 11 Make the Trip on Hollywood Records in Los Angeles. He is known as a vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Tabby Thomas describes his Blues on this cool documentary of the Baton Rouge Blues , I always loved the song Hoodoo Party made famous by Anson and the Rockets , digging deeper i found the orginal song done by Tabby Thomas , this film also has the Legendary Jay Miller who recorded the Best swamp blues ever availible from the 50s !!! also a glimpse of Whisperin Smith who in my book had the low-downest voices ever , lots of cool stuff !!! check out this on Jay ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._%22Jay%22_Miller

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Music

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• blues
• tabby
• miller

[MrHerm1956]

Hi Tabby,thanks to you I have been all over the world,you have my prayers,please contact me just google Betty Lewis

[88Rocker]

He also showed me pictures of all the greats on the walls, I asked about Pinetop and he said there he is at the supper table at somebody's house they had been , I asked if he'd put up a friend of mine named Daryl Davis and I'll be dog-gone he "knew" of him..and he put the picture up..I miss getting around to those places I learned a lot from watching and listening to these artists, Especially DD who showed me some JLLewis licks one day in Potomac,Md.I miss hearing it. Danny O'Donnell

[88Rocker]

In 1988 or so I was at 111 North (St)?(Blvd) in Baton Rouge and I went in to this little place and started talking to a man at the bar and asked if he knew the band , he said yes why, oh i play piano i said..he laughed and said come on up, and up we went ,on a small ladder that went up through the upstairs 'loft" where they were playing, my God it was cramped but man did I hear some good blues that night! Rockin' Tabby Thomas was very nice to me, Criket says "Tabby's Blues Box" is no more. :(

[osykaman]

I had one of the finest evenings of my life listening to Tabby talk about the history of the blues at Tabby's Juke Joint in Baton Rouge about 7 years ago.

[mangozumo]

Tabby gave me my 1st paid gig in louisianna, with Henry Grey!

not bad for a white boy from Cleethorpes!

Miss the Blues Box.

Keep on rockin Tabby..

[prettyeyesincali]

Is he related to Phillip Michael Thomas? His kid looks just like Philip!

[JimmyHook]

This is awesome! I haven't seen this documentary in years! To me, it's a classic! It had a huge impact on me, as far as discovering new artists and new kinds of music. Thanks SO MUCH for posting this!

[rpmacaoidh]

Swamp blues with an anthropological twist. Suits me. More please.

[zkat2]

Keep em coming...this is great stuff!

[zkat2]

Keep em coming...this is great stuff!