Archives and Special Collections Exhibits
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Creation Date
2-26-2022
Description
Laying down the beat for over 65 years, drummer Sam Lay performed with the top post-war blues musicians like Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and many others. This Birmingham-born drummer even played with Bob Dylan during the now-infamous electric guitar moment at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. He is best known as a backing musician on over forty Chess recordings, but he also made two albums fronting his own group. For his work as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band during the 1960s, Lay was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
This exhibit includes recordings and photographs from the Blues Archive:
- Stone Blues / Sam Lay Blues Band (Evidence Music, 1994)
- Sam Lay's Bluesband in Bluesland (Blue Thumb 1970)
- Take Me Back / James Cotton (Blind Pig 1987?)
- Fathers And Sons: Muddy Waters, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Otis Spann, Sam Lay (Chess 1972)
- I didn't give a damn if whites bought it!, vol. 2 / Jimmy Johnson and Eddie Clearwater (Red Lightnin 1984)
- Howlin Wolf: The Real Folk Blues (Chess 1966)
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