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Country Blues => Weenie Campbell Main Forum => Topic started by: JohnLeePimp on March 07, 2012, 10:25:00 AM
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The harmonica player who accompanied Jack Owens
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He was still performing in 1999 two years after Jack Owens's death. So that'll narrow down the search for a death notice/obit. He'd be 80, or thereabouts.
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He was still around, though apparently not in good health, when this article was published in 2003:
http://www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/Bentonia.htm (http://www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/Bentonia.htm)
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He was still performing in 1999 two years after Jack Owens's death. So that'll narrow down the search for a death notice/obit. He'd be 80, or thereabouts.
...yeah, well his name's Benjamin "Blind Bud" Spires, and there's no mention of his death online (My only source of "research")
But I did find out Arthur Big Boy Spires was recently grouped with McClennan and Petway in this blues trail marker ceremony thing
http://www.visitmississippi.org/uploads/docs/cities/Abbeville/Tommy%20McClennan%20Blues%20Trail%20Release%202-13-12.pdf (http://www.visitmississippi.org/uploads/docs/cities/Abbeville/Tommy%20McClennan%20Blues%20Trail%20Release%202-13-12.pdf)
..I sent an email to Jim O'Neal asking about it - though it's likely that if he were alive he would've been invited to the event
also I believe that the magnificent Jimmy Holmes might have an idea about him - but I can't find his email ::)
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I think he is otherwise I would've read about it in Block magazine. They always report all the deaths in the blues community.
Anyone aware of Otis Rush's condition? Bunker?
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He recorded a few tracks in Nov 2005 for Broke & Hungry on a release titled Back to Bentonia.
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Bud Spires is still alive, he is cousin to a good friend of mine here in California.
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Saw Bud Spires summer of 2011 in Indianola. Didn't talk with him but did chat with Jimmy "Duck" Holmes.
Far as I know Otis Rush is still alive but not at all well.
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Yes Bud spires is still alive. Ivisited him this spring at his home in Bentonia, MS
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Otis Rush is still alive. He suffered a stroke and basically stopped performing. I know 'cuz my friend Marty was his keyboard player.
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Been wanting to do an article about Bud Spires. And glad to hear he's still living. But oes anyone know his birth date? I can't find it anywhere.....
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Been wanting to do an article about Bud Spires. And glad to hear he's still living. But oes anyone know his birth date? I can't find it anywhere.....
The information can be found in David Evan's notes to the LP It Must Have Been The Devil:Mississippi Country Blues by Jack Owens & Bud Sipres (Testament T-2222, May 1971) - Benjamin "Bud" Spires, 20 May 1931, Yazoo County, MS son of Arthur "Big Boy" Spires. A lengthy feature by Evans on the pair can also be found in his Ramblin' column in Blues Revue 12, Spring 1994, pps 15-17 where there's a photo of Owen's and Spires taken in 1969.
I wouldn't mind betting that Evans probably has unpublished Spires info/photos.
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Been wanting to do an article about Bud Spires. And glad to hear he's still living. But oes anyone know his birth date? I can't find it anywhere.....
The information can be found in David Evan's notes to the LP It Must Have Been The Devil:Mississippi Country Blues by Jack Owens & Bud Sipres (Testament T-2222, May 1971) - Benjamin "Bud" Spires, 20 May 1931, Yazoo County, MS son of Arthur "Big Boy" Spires. A lengthy feature by Evans on the pair can also be found in his Ramblin' column in Blues Revue 12, Spring 1994, pps 15-17 where there's a photo of Owen's and Spires taken in 1969.
I wouldn't mind betting that Evans probably has unpublished Spires info/photos.
thanks Bunker Hill! This is a good start
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Second hand information, but coming from a very reliable source, on Saturday Dec 5. He is in pretty poor health and has been in the hospital for a couple of weeks with infection.
Will try to find out more soon..........
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Finally completed article on Bud Spires. Not an easy task and a little lengthy.
check pomeroyblues.org
and big thanks to all who helped with input!
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My uncle Bud Spires passed away today (mar. 20th, 2014) at the age of 82 in Bentonis,Mississippi He will be greatly missed.
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Sad to hear that. A very fine musician.
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Thankfully he received some belated attention thanks to the efforts Weenie and others.
http://www.pomeroyblues.org/2013/01/12/is-bud-spires-still-alive/ (http://www.pomeroyblues.org/2013/01/12/is-bud-spires-still-alive/)
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very sad to hear this
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post on pomeroyblues.org site yesterday. brief conversation with his daughter, Barbara
http://www.pomeroyblues.org/2014/03/21/bud-spires-2/ (http://www.pomeroyblues.org/2014/03/21/bud-spires-2/)
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My condolences to you and the family, Teamgrn4.