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Lovesick Blues" became his signature song, which he used to close his shows. [27] It was also his first number one hit, and garnered Williams the stage nicknames of "The Lovesick Blues Boy" and "Mr. Lovesick Blues". [28] In 1949, the singer received second billing behind Eddy Arnold on the list of the "Year's Top Selling Folk Artists". [27]
A new version of the song (with accompanying vocals by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) which had a completely different tempo than the original, was made into an animated short film entitled Blackfly by Christopher Hinton and the National Film Board in 1991, and was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 64th Academy Awards, [1] and for Best ...
He received a 2003 Juno Award in the category Aboriginal Recording of the Year for "Lovesick Blues" from his album Music is the Medicine. [5] [6] In 2006, Miller released his second album The Dirty Looks. [7] [8] Miller was honoured with a 2007 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award, in the category Best Rock Album, for his The Dirty Looks album. [9]
In 1925, he recorded one of the first versions of Lovesick Blues and successfully toured the country with minstrel shows, advertised as a "famous yodeling blues singer". He was known for breaking his voice within the words and elongating individual sounds, which was also called trick singing at the time.
Mason Ramsey (born November 16, 2006) [1] is an American singer. In March 2018, after gaining Internet fame from a viral video of him yodeling " Lovesick Blues " by Hank Williams at a Walmart , Ramsey was signed to Big Loud .
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He had also been a regular performer at many Canadian folk and blues festivals, several of which have named awards in his honour. Washington was well known for having a repertoire of some 1300 blues, folk and jazz songs. [10] A diabetic, he lost a leg to amputation and suffered other health issues, yet continued to perform.
Geeshie Wiley was an American country blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records, issued on three records in April 1930. [1] According to the blues historian Don Kent, Wiley "may well have been the rural South's greatest female blues singer and musician". [2]