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Little Milton Strugglin Lady
Label : Malaco
Released : September 1992
Format : [email protected]
A world-renowned musician born and bred in a region of the southern United States widely known as "the home of the blues"-the Mississippi Delta-Campbell managed to remain true to traditional blues while incorporating elements of country and soul into his music to craft a style distinctly his own. He came to be known to blues fans as simply Little Milton, and while the guitarist and singer never truly gained wide-scale crossover success on the pop charts, within the blues world he came to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with such all-time greats as B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Bobby "Blue" Bland, among others. "Those guys elevated blues to a level where it was accepted by all people, black and white," Mississippi radio station owner Stan Branson told Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger. "Little Milton could write, play, perform. And he was a true professional." Little Milton died at the age of 70 on August 4, 2005, a few days after suffering a stroke at his Memphis home.
A riveting live performer who cut his chops on the road in the deep South as a teenager, Little Milton possessed a soulful voice and a spare, stinging guitar sound. Deeply loyal to his roots in the Delta blues tradition, he was also a maverick committed to his own groundbreaking musical instincts. He pushed the edges of what the blues could be throughout his career. "I am the type of artist who will not record anything that I cannot feel, or anything I can't add something to and at the same time get something out of," Little Milton told Jeff Weiner on the BluesAccess website. "I don't record nothing that I don't feel, that I don't like. I don't give a damn who writes it or who says you should do it. When I go into the studio, I am my own boss. I have advisors and friends, I listen to them and I listen to their points. But if I feel that I can't do it without putting all of me into it, then I say, 'No, we are not going to do it.'" It was a philosophy he never abandoned during a career that lasted more than 50 years. "When you hear his records," said blues promoter Roger Clarksdale in the Clarion-Ledger, "you notice there's nobody who did exactly what he did."
Tracklist :
1. Strugglin' Lady 4:04
2. My Dog And Me 4:51
3. Cafe Woman 3:52
4. You Were Always On My Mind 3:56
5. Let Them Talk 3:17
6. If This Ain't The Blues 4:12
7. A Nickel And A Nail 4:17
8. She Never Gets The Blues 4:29
9. I Keep Falling For You 3:53
10. Bending The Rules 3:18
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