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Little Milton
Welcome To The Club: The Essential Chess Recordings
(MCA, 1994)
Stinging guitar and smoking vox from Mr Grits Ain't Groceries. A MOJO Messageboarder tips his cap.
Despite James Milton Campbell's diminutive moniker, there isn't much about the man's five-decade long recording career, or the esteem in which he is held by his fans, which could justifiably be called 'little'.
While working the Southern juke-joint circuit in his late teens Milton met roving band-leader and talent spotter Ike Turner, who convinced him to sign with Sun Records in Memphis in 1953. After a short and relatively unsuccessful period learning his craft at Sam Phillips' label, Milton's career would see him move, like many post-WW2 African-Americans, up the Mississippi River from the South towards St. Louis and Chicago, in search of greater financial and personal freedoms.
It was while he was working with radio and media entrepreneur Bob Lyons' Bobbin Records label in East St. Louis that Milton's potential was spotted by Leonard Chess. The legendary label boss quickly signed the young rising star to his Checker imprint in the Windy City and, for almost a decade from 1961, began releasing the singles and albums that would become some of the greatest and most successful Milton would ever produce.
From the very start of his Chess tenure, the smoking cocktail of blues and soul within his vocal chords and the deftness of his guitar playing would become Little Milton's trademarks. Too often lost these days in the shadows cast by his more famous contemporaries like B.B. King, Welcome To The Club represents a handy (though sadly out-of-print) 'Exhibit A' of just how accomplished a musician he truly was. His biggest crossover hits are here - from the radio-friendly groover We're Gonna Make It, to the magnificent cover of Little Willie John's Grits Ain't Groceries, and the cheerful morality lesson Who's Cheating Who? - but the wealth on offer here runs much deeper than these better-known gems. Indeed, it is the sheer quality of Milton's work through the '60s, and across the bulk of these 48 tracks, that will probably impress first-time listeners the most. Songs such as the infectious I Need Somebody (with a young Fontella Bass at the piano) and the brassy You Colored My Blues Bright (with future Earth, Wind & Fire star Maurice White on the drum stool) were surprisingly never released on albums before. Indeed, nuggets like the bluesy Sneaking Around and the steamy reading of the Sugar Pie DeSanto tune Moanin' For You Girl are unearthed for the first time on this collection.
A must for any soul or blues lover, Welcome To The Club shows just how important Little Milton really was - important enough to tell a national audience that Things Go Better With Coke, anyway.
Ange Tsibogiannis
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