V/A - Lonesome & Blue Vol.3 -..

Facts Jay McShann's "Confessin' the Blues", mostly written by the band's freshly recruited singer Walter Brown, became a big hit selling 500.000 copies. It was one of the most influential records for the young Chuck Berry, who actually sang it on his very first public performance in 1941 at the high school he attended. The indubitable strength and vitality of this blues are easily demonstrated by the fact that it's still going strong today, right alongside younger genres. It was this very groundbreaking music from the pioneers like Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Bo Diddley that still makes the present music sounds as it does today.