Albert Collins

   
Artist: Albert Collins

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Showdown

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 Albert Collins And Barrelhouse Live In Munich

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live 92-93

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Iceman

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 Cold Snap

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live In Japan

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 6


   
 Frozen Alive

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 7


   
 Frostbite

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 8


   
 Don't Lose Your Cool

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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Albert Collins, "The Master of the Telecaster," "The Iceman," and "The Razor Blade" was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that ended with his premature death on November 24, 1993. He was just 61 years older. The highly influential, whole original Collins, like the later John Campbell, was on the leaflet of a much wider planetary following via his deal with Virgin Records' Pointblank subsidiary. However, unlike Campbell, Collins had performed for many more than long time, in obscurity, earlier lastly finding a following in the mid-'80s.


William Wilkie Collins was born October 1, 1932, in Leona, TX. His family unit affected to Houston when he was seven. Growing up in the city's Third Ward area with the likes of Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, Collins started out taking keyboard lessons. His matinee idol when he was a stripling was Hammond B-3 organist Jimmy McGriff. But by the time he was 18 years older, he switched to guitar, and hung out and heard his heroes, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker and Lightnin' Hopkins (his first cousin) in Houston-area nightclubs. Collins began playing in these same clubs, release after his have style, characterized by his use of minor tunings and a capo, by the mid-'50s. It was besides at this point that he began his "guitar walks" through the hearing, which made him wildly popular with the jr. elwyn Brooks White audiences he played for years later in the 1980s. He lED a ten-piece band, the Rhythm Rockers, and cut his starting time single in 1958 for the Houston-based Kangaroo label, "The Freeze." The single was followed by a slue of other implemental singles with catchy titles, including "Sno-Cone," "Icy Blue" and "Don't Lose Your Cool." All of these singles brought Collins a regional undermentioned. After transcription "Deice" b/w "Albert's Alley" for Hall-Way Records of Beaumont, TX, he pip it big in 1962 with "Frosty," a million-selling single. Teenagers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, both elevated in Beaumont, were in the studio when he recorded the song. According to Collins, Joplin aright predicted that the single would suit a shoot. The tune quickly became percentage of his ongoing repertory, and was still part of his resilient shows more than than 30 eld later, in the mid-'80s. Collins' percussive, reverberance guitar style became his hallmark, as he would use his correct hand to displume the string section. Blues-rock guitar player Jimi Hendrix cited Collins as an influence in whatever number of interviews he gave.


Through the pillow of the 1960s, Collins continued to work day jobs spell pursuing his medicine with short regional tours and on weekends. He recorded for other small Texas labels, including Great Scott, Brylen and TFC. In 1968, Bob "The Bear" Hite from the blues-rock chemical group Canned Heat took an interest in the guitarist's music, travel to Houston to hear him live. Hite took Collins to California, where he was immediately signed to Imperial Records. By later 1968 and 1969, the '60s blues revival meeting was silent going on, and Collins got wider exposure opening for groups like the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Collins based his trading operations for many long time in Los Angeles before moving to Las Vegas in the late '80s.


He recorded three albums for the Imperial label before jumping to Tumbleweed Records. There, various singles were produced by Joe Walsh, since the label was owned by the Eagles' producer Bill Szymczyk. The label folded in 1973. Despite the fact that he didn't record a great deal through the seventies and into the early '80s, he had gotten sufficient airplay around the U.S. with his singles to be able to remain touring, and so he did, piloting his have bus from spear to gig until at least 1988, when he and his backing ring were finally able-bodied to enjoyment a driver. Collins' handsome ruin came around in 1977, when he was signed to the Chicago-based Alligator Records, and he released his magnificent debut for the judge in 1978, Icing Pickin'. Collins recorded six more albums for the label, culminating in 1986's Cold Snap, on which organist Jimmy McGriff performs. It was at Alligator Records that Collins began to substantiate that he could sing adequately, and working with his wife Gwen, he co-wrote many of his authoritative songs, including items like "Mastercharge," and "Conversation With Collins."


His other albums for Alligator include Hot in Japan, Don't Lose Your Cool, Frozen Alive! and Frostbite. An album he recorded with feller guitarists Robert Cray and Johnny "Clyde" Copeland for Alligator in 1985, Showdown! brought a Grammy prize for all three musicians. His Cold Snap, released in 1986, was nominated for a Grammy prize.


In 1989, Collins signed with the Pointblank underling of major judge Virgin Records, and his debut, Iceman, was released in 1991. The pronounce released the compilation Tom Collins Mix in 1993. Other compact disk reissues of his early recordings were produced by other track record companies world Health Organization saw Collins' newfound popularity on the fete and theater circle, and they include Dispatch Imperial Recordings on EMI Records (1991) and Truckin' With Albert Collins (1992) on MCA Records. Collins' sessionography is as well quite an extensive. The albums he performs on include David Bowie's Maze, John Zorn's Spillane, Jack Bruce's A Question of Time, John Mayall's Inflame Up Call, B.B. King's Blues Summit, Robert Cray's Shame and a Sin, and Branford Marsalis' Super Models in Deep Conversation.


Although he'd exhausted far likewise lots time in the 1970s without recording, Collins could sensory faculty that the blues were coming back stronger in the mid-'80s, with interest in Stevie Ray Vaughan at an all-time high gear. Collins enjoyed some media celebrity in the terminal few days of his life, via concert appearances at Carnegie Hall, on Late Night with David Letterman, in the Touchstone film, Adventures in Babysitting, and in a classy Seagram's Wine Cooler commercial with Bruce Willis. The blues revitalisation that Collins, Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds helped bring about in the mid-'80s has continued into the mid-'90s. But sadly, Collins has not been able to take portion in the ongoing evolution of the music.





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