Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Cleo Page
Leaving Mississippi
(P-Vine, 2007)
From 1979, louche blues man - about whom we know nothing! - makes killer LP.
In these times of so much stuff being available at the click of a mouse, it’s refreshing to listen to someone properly mysterious. Like Cleo Page - absent from blues encyclopaedias, let alone the internet, he was apparently active in Los Angeles in the ’70s, and probably wouldn’t have liked strangers nosing into his business anyway. A gruff, to-the-point presence who likes his liquor and women, he sings as if recording these songs was an inconvenience to be got through quickly. It’s admirably idiosyncratic stuff, with the drummer keeping an eye on him to see what to do as Cleo plays a guitar homemade out of fence wire and shouts rough and boozy as someone else plays one of the less expensive organs in the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. An expressive singer prone to misery and anger – see Red Nigger’s mournful tale of drunkenness, marital pain and planning to gun down the new boyfriend his woman hasn’t even got yet - he also does mellow and benign, as on the possibly-carnal Roll Your Belly Slow, or Drinkin’ Wine, which sees him wino’ing across America before suddenly upping sticks for Moscow and North Korea. Page also did the super-tough 45 Black Man Too Tough To Die and a rude record we haven’t heard called Hamburger, I Love To Eat It. Anyone got a copy?
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 02/04/2008
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Junior Kimbrough – Sad Days, Lonely Nights (Fat Possum, 2005)
Hound Dog Taylor - Beware Of The Dog (Alligator, 2004)
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Hi Ian,
I stumbled on your post while researching Cleo Page on the internet (re. the wrong entry in All Music Guide). I do have the "Hamburger" 45, but I've never seen the "Black Man Too Tough" 45 you mention. If you let me listen to yours, I'll let you listen to mine...
Posted by Mojo Kilian at 11:07 AM GMT 09/06/2010 Report Abuse
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Dear Kilian,
I would be delighted send you an mp3 of Black Man Pts 1 & 2 in exchange for one of the Hamburger single. Drop me your address to andrew.male@bauermedia.co.uk.
Would love to hear more info on Cleo.
For instance, is it true that he briefly had his own soul label, Goodie Train?
Posted by Andrew Male at 12:24 PM GMT 09/06/2010 Report Abuse
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what about sending cleo page without exchange?
please
Posted by Anonymous at 6:39 PM GMT 20/08/2010 Report Abuse
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Cleo page was my father
Posted by Sha at 5:20 AM GMT 09/01/2012 Report Abuse
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Cleo page was my father
Posted by Sha at 5:22 AM GMT 09/01/2012 Report Abuse
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To all the listeners: THANK YOU FOR APPRECIATING MY FATHERS MUSIC. WE GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND PICTURES COMING SOON,HIS DAUGHTER, PAMELA PAGE.
Posted by Anonymous at 3:33 PM GMT 09/01/2012 Report Abuse
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For more information on Cleo Page, please feel free to contact me by e-mail: pagepamela@att.net
His daughter Pamela Page.
Posted by Pam Page at 3:49 PM GMT 09/01/2012 Report Abuse
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