Tutu Jones Dallas Texas shares the stage with Sherman Robertson at the Black-eyed & Blues Fest

Here are a couple of tunes with just Tutu Jones and the full set of both Texans and a separate couple of tunes with Sherman Robertson are also on this channel. Tutu says "The first man that ever started branching out and developing a career for himself with the blues was Blind Lemon Jefferson," said Tutu. "He hung out on the Deep Ellem scene and I don’t stray too far from there now. I can look out my back window and see downtown Dallas and Deep Ellem or what they used to call central tracks. That’s where both Blind Lemon and T-Bone Walker used to hang out." Blind Lemon cut his first records back in the 20’s. He sang old country blues with a big burly voice. T-Bone Walker is regarded as the first electric blues guitarist. To this day B.B. King says he owes his greatest musical debt to T-Bone. It was T-Bone who wrote the original "Stormy Monday." Texas blues indeed! You see Texas is known for its dominating musicians. From my generation of hard pickin’ it comes from Freddie King. He inspired alot of musicians with his playing because not too many really heard a blues player back in the early 60’s turn up his guitar like that and control his volume. He was the one who dominated the Texas scene before Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan came along. Freddie used to take the stage and just wrap it up. You could feel him, not only just hear him. So Stevie Ray and a whole bunch of others grew up around Freddie King and we got a chance to get a good teaching from him. He’s still a big influence today. David ONeil @ The Blues Plate Special