Peetie Wheatstraw
Blues singer
Guitarist
Pianist
December 21, 1902 – December 21,
1941
Credits:
Songs:
Ain’t It a Pity and a
Shame; Blues At My Door; C and A Blues; Chicago Mill Blues; Crazy With the
Blues; Devil’s Son‐In‐Law; Don’t Feel Welcome Blues; Drinking Man Blues; Four
O'Clock in the Morning; Gangster Blues; Gangster’s Blues; Good Whiskey Blues; Hog-Love
Blues; I'm A Little Piece Of Leather; Long Time Ago Blues; Midnight Blues; More
Good Whiskey Blues; Packin' Up Blues; Pete Wheatstraw; Police Station Blues; Saturday
Night Blues; Shack Bully Stomp; Six Weeks Old Blues; So Long Blues; Strange Man
Blues; Suicide Blues; Sweet Home Blues; Tennessee Peaches Blues; The Break I'm
Getting'; The Rising Sun Blues; Working on the Project; You Can't Stop Me from
Drinking.
Albums:
ABC Of The Blues Vol 48
(2010); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Peetie Wheatstraw (2012); Blues Legend
1934-1941 (2011); Blues Legends: Peetie Wheatstraw (2014); Complete Recorded
Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1930-1932 (date?); Crazy With The Blues (2007);
Macho Persona (2015); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930-1932 (2005); Peetie
Wheatstraw Vol. 2 1934-1935 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 3 1935-1936 (2005); Peetie
Wheatstraw Vol. 4 1936-1937 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 5 1937-1938 (2005); Peetie
Wheatstraw Vol. 6 1938-1940 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 7 1940-1941 (2005); Saint
Louis - Chicago - New York 1931-1941 (The Blues) (1996); This Is the Blues,
Vol. 8 (Mono Version) (1962, EP).
Recommended reading:
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The Devil's son-in-law: The story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his songs
By Paul Garon.
Paperback.
Published 1971.
Published by Studio
Vista.
ISBN 13: 9780289702116
ISBN 10: 0289702119
ASIN: 0289702119
Description:
Blue-singer,
songwriter, piano and guitar player, William Bunch (1902-1941) was well-known
as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law and the High Sheriff from Hell.
Long recognized by connoisseurs as one of the most influential blues people of
all time, his life and work are little known to the broad public. Blues scholar
Paul Garon's important and abundantly illustrated study - drawing on his own
extensive interviews with Wheatstraw's relatives, and fellow musicians - brings
the exciting Whatstraw saga to life at last. With insight and imagination,
Garon explores Peetie Wheatstraw's crucial role not only in blues history, but
also in African American urban mythology, and - via a penetrating analysis of
song lyrics - his appreciable contributions to blues poetry and to vernacular
surrealism. Originally published in the UK in 1971, this substantially revised
and expanded edition includes a mass of new information and images, as well as
an updated bibliography, discography and index. Also included is a 24-track CD
portraying Peetie at his best, with a bonus track by Harmon Ray, the previously
unissued Xmas Blues!
