Zuzu Bollin

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Member Since: 5/18/2007
Band Website: http://www.dallasbluessocietyrecords.com/
Band Members: Here is Zuzu Bollins 78 songs from 1952 , also Buster Smith with an Sir Harding Taylor who sounds like Zuzu Bollin , !!! ....... .. Mike Morgan ,Zuzu Bollin 1987...
Influences: ....... Heres the movie Texas tradition ... .... .. ... ...BOLLIN, A. D. [ZUZU] (1923..1990). Bluesqv singer A. D. (Zuzu) Bollin was born in Frisco, Texas, on September 5, 1923. His social security records say he was born in 1923, though most music references give his birth year as 1922. As a boy, Bollin was influenced by two uncles, amateur guitarists, who played the records of Blind Lemon Jeffersonqv and other early blues musicians. .... Heres a Video of Zuzu / Marchel Ivery, Hash Brown live at the Benson & Hedges Blues Festival at Poor Davids Pub Dallas , Texas June, 1990 .... ..He moved to Dallas with his mother by the 1930s, served in the navy from 1944 to 1946, and started performing professionally in the postwar years. In 1947 he was living in Denton, where he played in the band of Texan E. X. Brooks. During this time he took the nickname "Zuzu" from his favorite brand of gingersnap cookies. ... .. He also performed in bands with such illustrious Texas reedmen as Buster Smith, Booker Ervin,qqv and Adolphus Sneed....Heres a picture of Zuzu with Buster Smith and Duke HuddlestonIn 1949 Bollin formed a group with renowned saxists Leroy Cooper and David "Fathead" Newman. Both of these musicians played on his 1951 recording of one of the true classics of Texas blues, "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?" (flip side "Matchbox Blues"), for the short-lived label Torch. Bollin's voice was deep and strong, his guitar break in the jazzy T-Bone Walkerqv style. ... .. The 1951 piece garnered a bit of regional fame for Bollin, so he figured he was entitled to raise his performance price a bit. Reputedly this irked Dallas nightclub boss Jack Ruby,qv who used his influence to quash the record. Heres a picture of Zuzu with Buster smith 1989.In the 1950s and early 1960s Bollin traveled around Texas and the United States touring with various bands, including the band of Joe Morris, which backed such performers as Jackie Wilson. About 1964 he left the music business and went into dry cleaning. He fell into obscurity that lasted until 1987, when blues enthusiast Chuck Nevitt found him in a poverty-row roominghouse near downtown Dallas. Nevitt took Bollin down the comeback trail, acting as his manager and producing the acclaimed LP Zuzu Bollin: Texas Bluesman, sponsored by the Dallas Blues Society and released on the Antone'sqv label in 1989 ,,, . Bollin was suddenly ubiquitous in Dallas nightspots. The friendly, personable bluesman sometimes performed with the Juke Jumpers, but his most empathic accompanist was Brian "Hash Brown" Calway. In 1989 Bollin played at the Chicago Blues Festival and toured Europe, playing at Holland's prestigious Blues Estafette. His impressive comeback was curtailed by cancer, from which he died on October 19, 1990. ..
Sounds Like: Best yet is the reissue of the four vintage sides by Zuzu Bollin; these have been available before, but are notoriously tough to track down. While the arrangements and playing are a bit awkward at times, the soulfulness burns bright. If you..re a fan of Bollin..s phenomenal 1989 ..rediscovery.. album, Texas Bluesman, from Chuck Nevitt..s Dallas Blues Society, you..ll want this collection simply for these sides.... Heres a picture in the studio ... ..... Heres Buster Smith , Herbie Cowans, Zuzu 1988.. .....Buster Smith -- a veteran of Count Basie's torrid Kansas City crews of the 1930s -- was Newman's early sax mentor, and the youth learned his lessons pronto..During the early 1950s Newman hooked up with pianist Lloyd Glenn's combo and hit the road. He made his studio bow in 1952, blowing alto behind Zuzu Bollin on the T-Bone Walker-inspired guitarist's ribald "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night" for the tiny Torch label... ...... His section mate was none other than Leroy Cooper. The two played in similar tandem behind guitarist Lowell Fulson on his '54 Checker Records classic, "Reconsider Baby," which was also waxed in Dallas.Baritone sax specialist Leroy "Hog" Cooper crossed paths with both Fathead and Brother Ray long before he actually joined the ranks of the band. Cooper was another proud product of the fertile Dallas R&B circuit, who initially encountered Charles at the 1952 session with Zuzu Bollin ... ... Heres The legend Buster Smith with Kaz Heres Zuzu with Big Al Dupree 1990 Zuzu Bollin at White Rock lake Bathhouse , Dallas 1989
Record Label: Dallas Blues Society, Antones
Type of Label: Indie