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The Blue Boards / Main Forums / General R&B; Chat / Little Milton - RIP to a genuinely wondeful artist
  (Posted:  05 Aug 2005 14:06 )
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Surely its not just me who is saddened by the loss of the great Little Milton. Loved his music ever since his days on Chess / Checker. Even at his most bluesy he always had the soul in his voice that set him up for the transition to 60s soul blues, which he made so successfully for the Stax label.
I always thought he was the closest to Bobby Bland in his ability to do that. Occasionally, the quality dipped, but usually you wouldn't be disappointed with any output you picked up by Milton. Even in 1999, he was putting out records as good as "Welcome To Little Milton" and was still performing right up until the time of the stroke that killed him.
There must be other Milton fans out there with thier own memories of a great artist?
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  (Posted:  07 Aug 2005 20:05 )
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Absolutely - what a terrific blues and soul man. seen him live a couple of times and got material by him going back to the Sun label days.

And you're right about his more recent recordings - right up until this year in fact! The release on the Telarc label "Think Of Me " is excellent. Milton is in ifine voice, still writing great songs. It's a pretty fitting epitaph, far better than a lot of the standard rubbish we get from many of today's blues artists. If he had to go, at least he went out on a high, but he will still be greatly missed. The word 'great' is over used when it comes to blues men, but in this case it's fully deserved, far more so than in many more feted examples I can think of.
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  (Posted:  11 Aug 2005 13:15 )
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The Stax stuff was always better than many allowed for at the time. The problem now is there are all sorts of albums out there that pull together material from Milton's stint on Stax. If you don't want to get the original albums (which are available on CD but they are a little short it has to be said) you could do worse than something like "Tin Pan Alley", which has some great stuff on it.
"The Complete Stax Singles" is £12.99 but is 20 tracks of the best of Little Milton's soul blues. If anyone out there likes Bobby Bland, Howard Tate etc. and they haven't heard Little Milton, this one should be on your shopping list!
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