Big Joe's
History
The best biography of Big Joe Duskin was the article
Larry Nager wrote for Living Blues when Joe made the cover. Larry was instrumental in arranging Big Joe's
final CD and getting Peter Frampton, Philip Paul and Ed Conley to perform on it with him. This is the CD that
was nominated for a W. C. Handy Blues Award for Comeback CD of the Year in Memphis. Unfortunately, Gary
"U.S." Bonds won, but Joe had a great time at the awards and performed on stage.
Each page of the article is downloadable
here:
Living Blues
Cover
Table of Contents
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Larry also wrote a story on Big Joe that was in Cincinnati
Magazine:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
In the same Living Blues issue, Larry wrote a history of Blues in
Cincinnati:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Larry Nager is author of "Memphis Beat", has been music critic for Memphis'
"Commercial Appeal" and Cincinnati's "Enquirer" newspapers and is currently living in Nashville.
Big Joe performed at the New Orleans Jazz &
Heritage Festival in 1989 and 2001. He was also
the first inductee to the Boogie Woogie Piano Hall of
Fame and the first inductee into the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (CEA) Hall of Fame in
2004.
Click here for a nice City Beat article about
him.
Wolfgang
Wolf sent us some great pictures of Big Joe with him and some friends in 1980-1982
when he toured Europe.
Click here to see
them.
Tobias
Hounsham sent us a great letter about Big Joe visiting his house in London while he
was on tour in 1988 and teaching him some boogie-woogie.
Click here for the
story
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