Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry
Reason I Sing The Blues
© 2006 Bill Perry (format: CD-R)
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My CD, "Reason I Sing the Blues", contains some of my best songs. I can truly say I have prepared for this CD all my life, because I do have lots and lots of reasons why I sing the blues. This CD has a Mississippi Delta sound with a touch of funk.
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Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry spent his early years picking cotton in the fields around his Mississippi home. He was born near Abbeville, MS in Tula, on land where his ancestors had worked as slaves. He went to the same one-room school that his grandparents had attended. His family migrated to Chicago when he was fourteen. Bill hit the road as a professional musician at the age of seventeen. His travels have carried him all over the US, throughout the world and then back home again to Mississippi. Bill has been playing his music for over forty years.
Bill is a songwriter, a guitarist, and an educator. He worked with B.B. King in the B.B. King Music workshop at MVSU and opened at the B.B. King festival in Indianola. He started Wednesday night blues at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS, and continues to play there on many a Wednesday night. You can see him perform at many of the Mississippi festivals and the regional and national festivals. He will be doing some extensive touring in the summer of 2008 in California and across the U.S. Bill was tapped to play the role of The Bluesman in a film called the Way of War, which stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. Watch for the release of this action packed movie.
He has opened for B.B. King, and he performed at Ground Zero in Memphis for owners Morgan Freeman and Bill Luckett at the private opening of the Club.
He received his blues training from legends like Sonny Thompson (who wrote many of Freddy King hits). His career stretches back to Chicago in the early 1970s. He has written for Lil Johnny Taylor, Ted Taylor, and Cash McCall. He worked for Phil Chess as a studio musician and for Stan Lewis where he wrote for Jewel Paula Records. He did a stint writing for J.J. Taylor on a Willie Dixon Label. He has played gigs with Clarence Carter, Freddy King, T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, and Lee “Shot” Williams. He played on a Chuck Berry album, and recently on Buddy Guy’s “Blues Singer” CD.
International Press includes articles in Blues & Rhythm, IL Blues, and Blues Revue.
Review in Delta Currents by Thomas Jacques "Jook Joint Jump" is instantly infectious; … This disc is the sound of a guy who's played for many a tough audience, and doesn’t consider surrendering the stage until he’s won over every stubborn holdout.