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Terry Buckalew
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Bell is featured on vol. 2 (1978) & volume 4 (1980) of Alligator Records’ 6-album “Living Chicago Blues” set.
With his own band on the former, with Lovie Lee on the latter.
Vols 2 & 4 albums Living Chicago Blues series ICAGO BL CAREY BELL'S BLUES HARP BAND MAGIC SLIM AND THE TEARDROPS JOHNNY "BIG MOOSE" WALKER TICAGO B A. C. REED AND THE S SCOTTY AND THE RIB TIPS LOVIE LEE with Carey Bell Carey Bell has brought the art of Chicago blues harmonica into the 1970s. Carey was once just another student of Little Walter, the genius whose classic '50s sounds revolutionized blues harmonica playing. And Carey's style today still owes much to Walter. But imitation and adulation haven't trapped Carey Bell; he's free and fresh in his playing, charging forward with his little Hohner instrument. His constant growth, both as an instrumentalist and a singer, continues to be one of the joys of Chicago. Carey's infatuation with blues harp began as a teenager in Meridian, Mississippi, where he heard the early records of Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller). He knew enough harp then to play blues with his stepfather, pianist Lovie Lee, and country & western with a local white band. Carey, whose full name is Carey Bell Harrington, was born November 14, 1936, in Macon, Mississippi, a town that also produced other blues-playing Harringtons, including Eddy "Clearwater" Harrington (a second cousin) and violinist Houston H. Harrington. Carey arrived in Chicago in 1955 with the Lovie Lee band. Work, musical or otherwise, wasn't easy to find at first. Carey finally got a job at a car wash, stayed in Chicago with Lovie, and gave the rest of the band enough money to take the bus back to Mississippi. Lovie formed a new band, keeping Carey on harmonica, and found gigs in the South and West Side taverns. Carey was also learning guitar from Honeyboy Edwards, and through Honeyboy he met the two men who most shaped his harp playing, Little Walter and Big Walter Horton. He took lessons from both, but became an excellent bass player as well, and bass turned out to be his main instrument throughout the late '50s and '60s. Picking up slide guitar from Honeyboy and Hound Dog Taylor, Carey had his own band for a while. But usually he played bass for artists such as Honeyboy, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Johnny Young, Eddie Taylor, Willie Williams and Earl Hooker. He still…
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Great photo!
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Sorry that “one year” appears twice there.
I think it was 2002.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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You get to travel to the exotic locales.
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Mind the gap!
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I have serious reservations about this.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I got to meet him one year at the King Biscuit blues fest one year when I was sent to fetch him for an appearance he was running late for.
Sat with him while he finished breakfast and still got him to the thing in time!
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My introduction was this live version of Choctaw Bingo, a meth-fueled persona poem that pins a slice of the American underbelly to the wall. He never blinks. youtu.be/EBBvXcpMzhk?...
Choctaw Bingo
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November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM