Billy Boy Arnold - Man Of Considerable Taste

Arnold, WBA Music, BMI

Billy Boy has been a force on the Chicago blues scene for seven decades. After receiving harp lessons from his hero, John Lee Williamson (the original “Sonny Boy”), Billy made his first recordings in the early 1950s while still a teenager. He then joined Bo Diddley’s aggregation and played on I’m A Man. Signing with Vee-Jay Records in the 1950s, Billy cut a series of classic blues singles including I Wish You Would and I Ain’t Got You. Since then, he’s recorded a dozen albums full of his original songs and trademark harmonica style, and continues to perform as a venerated elder statesman of Chicago blues at festivals around the world. Billy cut two Alligator albums; the second, Eldorado Cadillac, included an all-star band featuring Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin and James Wheeler on guitars.