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Louisiana Red

Person · male · United States · Bessemer · born 1932 · died 2012 · recording since 1963

African American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer

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Also known as Lousiana Red · アイバーソン・ミンター

Debut: 1963
Recording span: 49 years
Release groups: 35
Timeline events: 30
Wiki language versions: 17

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Timeline

30 events▣ Album 27◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1

1930s
1. 23 March 1932 · Birth
  Born 1932-03-23
  source: wikidata
1960s
1. 1963 · Debut release
  Debut release: The Lowdown Back Porch Blues
  First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1963 · Album
  Album: The Lowdown Back Porch Blues
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1970s
1. 1972 · Album
  Album: Louisiana Red Sings The Blues
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1977 · Album
  Album: Too Wet to Plow
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1980s
1. 1984 · Album
  Album: Get You an Ol'Man
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1985 · Album
  Album: World on Fire
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1990s
1. 1991 · Album
  Album: Sugar Hips
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1994 · Album
  Album: Rip Off Blues
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1995 · Album
  Album: Dead Stray Dog
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1995 · Album
  Album: Sittin Here Wonderin
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1995 · Album
  Album: Shugar Hips
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 1997 · Album
  Album: Ashland Avenue Blues
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 29 April 1997 · Album
  Album: Walked All Night Long
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 1998 · Album
  Album: Blues for Ida B
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 23 June 1998 · Album
  Album: Over My Head
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
10. 1999 · Album
  Album: Driftin'
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
11. 1999 · Album
  Album: Millennium Blues
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. 1 August 2001 · Album
  Album: Live in Montreux
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2002 · Album
  Album: A Different Shade of Red
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 25 January 2005 · Album
  Album: No Turn on Red
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 2009 · Album
  Album: Back to the Black bayou
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 2009 · Album
  Album: Το Blues Συναντά Το Ρεμπέτικο
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 2009 · Album
  Album: You Got to Move
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 2010 · Album
  Album: Sweet Blood Call
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2011 · Album
  Album: Memphis Mojo
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 25 February 2012 · Death
  Died 2012
  source: wikidata
4. 30 December 2012 · Album
  Album: When My Mama Was Living
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 14 June 2014 · Album
  Album: The Sky Is Crying
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2020s
1. 18 February 2022 · Album
  Album: Tell Me ’bout It
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography478 words · 6 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371003698

Biography

Iverson Minter (March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012), known professionally as Louisiana Red, was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who recorded more than 50 albums. A master of slide guitar, he played both traditional acoustic and urban electric styles, with lyrics both honest and often remarkably personal. His career includes collaborations with artists as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Eric Burdon, and others.

Early life

Born March 23, 1932, in Bessemer, Alabama, Minter lost his parents early in life; his mother died of pneumonia shortly after his birth, and his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1937, prompting an aunt to place him in an orphanage. He later lived with his grandmother and an uncle in Pittsburgh.
At sixteen, Minter lied about his age and joined the U.S. Army, serving in Korea during the Korean War. Minter was assigned to a labor battalion and spent his evenings belting out the blues at the service club.

Early career

His first album, Lowdown Back Porch Blues, was recorded in New York City with Tommy Tucker and released in 1963. His second album, Seventh Son, was released later the same year. Louisiana Red released the single "I'm Too Poor to Die" for the Glover label in 1964. It peaked at number 117 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 30 on the Cashbox chart. (Billboard did not publish an R&B chart in 1964.)
He maintained a busy recording and performing schedule through the 1960s and 1970s, working in sessions for Chess, Checker, Atlas, Glover, Roulette, L&R and Tomato, amongst others.

Later career

Like many other blues musicians, Minter long struggled to make a living in his native country, so in the early 1980s he moved to Germany where, to his delight, he found audiences far more receptive to his elemental sound. He lived in Hanover, Germany, from 1983.
In 1994, Louisiana Red fused the blues with the urban Greek music of the bouzouki player Stelios Vamvakaris, on the album Blues Meets Rembetika. He continued to tour, including regular returns to the United States, until his death. In 2011, Louisiana Red released the album Memphis MojoMemphis Mojo2011 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Goodbye Blues3:492I Had Troubles All My Life4:033See That My Grave Is Kept Clean3:494No More Whiskey3:435Yolanda3:596Just Take Your Time2:587Your Lovin’ Man2:548Boogie Woogie Boogie3:179I’m Gettin’ Tired4:4010So Long, So Long3:5211Why Don’t You Come on Home2:5612Granmother’s Dead4:33, to broad public acclaim.

Personal life

Minter married a woman named Ealase in 1963. Together they raised three children. Ealase died of cancer in 1973.
His second marriage was to folk singer and civil rights activist Odetta in 1977. Minter separated from her in 1983 to pursue his career in Germany.
In 1984 he married Dora, a German-Ghanaian woman who acted as his manager later in life. Minter adopted Dora’s two sons and together they resided in Hanover, Germany.

Death

English slide guitarist Michael Messer noted on February 25, 2012, "I am very sorry to be bringer of such sad news that my dear friend, Louisiana Red, died this morning. He had a stroke on Monday and had been in a coma." He died in Hanover, aged 79.

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	17	76.4th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	35	91.7th
Studio albums	31	98.3th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	30	96.8th
Recording span (years)	49	90th
Genres	1	56th

Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.

Discography (35 release groups · 31 studio albums)

Albums · 31

The Lowdown Back Porch Blues
1963 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 34:30
1Red's Dream2:50
2Working Man Blues2:57
3I'm Louisianna Red3:32
4Sweet Alesse3:16
5Keep Your Hands Off My Woman2:29
6I'm a Roaming Stranger3:37
7Ride On Red Ride On2:53
8I Wonder Who3:28
9The Seventh Son2:31
10Das News2:56
11Two Fifty Three1:52
12Don't Cry2:09
Louisiana Red Sings The Blues
1972 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 41:33
1Rollin' Stone3:11
2I Am Louisiana Red2:10
3Country Playboy2:57
4You Don't Have To Go1:59
5Mean Ol' Frisco Blues2:47
6The Story Of Louisiana Red3:26
7Some Day3:10
8The Same Thing4:10
9Freight Train To Ride3:30
10Where Is My Friend4:13
11Red's New Dream4:26
12Louisiana Blues5:34
Too Wet to Plow
1977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 47:48
A1Too Wet to Plow4:21
A2Travelling Back Home3:53
A3Hot Tamale3:08
A4Moanin’ the Blues4:44
A5Red Sun4:41
A6Winding Mind2:38
B1You Better Turn Around4:28
B2The Wind Is Blowin’3:35
B3Trouble’s All I See5:16
B430 Days in Jail3:43
B5Pay Day Woman5:05
B6Epilog2:16
Get You an Ol'Man
1984 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 36:05
A1I Feel Like Rockin'3:30
A2Let's Talk It Over One More Time6:05
A3President Reagan7:30
B1Ain't Gonna Be a Low Down Dog No More3:50
B2Get You An Ol'Man10:00
B3I've Lost a Good Man5:10
World on Fire
1985 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 40:04
A1World on Fire3:23
A2Mississippi Girl2:56
A3Mini Skirt1:58
A4When I Was a Boy2:21
A5Voodoo Woman3:54
A6Suffering5:16
B1Pittsburgh2:45
B2Special Medicine3:57
B3For My Friend4:43
B4Soul Food4:27
B5On My Way to the Kingdom Land4:24
Sugar Hips
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 44:01
1Louisiana Boogie (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)3:00
2When My Mama Was Livin' (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)4:18
3Ethel Mae (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)4:48
4Got Sad News (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)5:35
5Stop Doggin' Me Around (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)6:19
6I'm Crazy 'Bout You (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)4:24
7Churchbell (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)3:33
8Sugar Hips (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)4:31
9East Berlin Blues (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)3:37
10Girl In Birmingham (Live in Hannover, 18.6.77)3:56
Rip Off Blues
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 40:38
1Earline4:44
2Rip Off Blues5:32
3Machine Gun Blues5:21
4Delores Delano4:32
5Baby Loan Me Some Love4:17
6I'm a Rich Man3:53
7I'm the Boss2:54
8Alabama Train4:48
9Rocky Mountain Blues4:37
Dead Stray Dog
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 41:07
1Dead Stray Dog3:57
2New Jersey Women2:21
3Held Up in One Town3:19
4Bad Case of the Blues3:04
5Caught My Man and Gone2:55
6My Heart's a Loser3:47
7Riding on a Tall White Horse2:11
8Cold White Sheet4:57
9Going Train Blues3:38
10Back to the Road Again3:32
11My Baby's Coming Home3:49
12Cold Feeling3:37
Sittin Here Wonderin
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 48:38
1E Street Bridge4:55
2Stella Blues3:43
3Sadie Lee3:44
4I'm Lonesome4:27
5Back Door Friend4:57
6Sittin Here Wonderin3:38
7Bumble Bee4:41
8Parole Blues3:13
9Pittsburgh Blues5:04
10Nothin but Trouble5:53
11Prison Blues #14:23
Shugar Hips
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 44:58
1Louisiana Boogie3:20
2When My Mother Was Livin'4:31
3Ethel Mae4:38
4God Sad News5:36
5Stop Doggin' Me Around6:14
6I'm Crazy 'Bout You4:46
7Church Bell3:27
8Shugar Hips4:23
9East Berlin Travel3:48
10Girl Birmingham4:15
Ashland Avenue Blues
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 50:37
1Ashland Avenue Blues5:05
2Eva5:35
3I Need a Job So Bad4:48
4Call Him by His Name4:33
5East Street Bridge5:14
6Gimme Some4:48
7Ida Mae4:20
8They March and They Sing5:27
9This Little Light of Mine4:41
10Good by Champion Jack Dupree6:06
Walked All Night Long
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 58:06
1First Degree3:22
2Bring Me My Machine Gun4:42
3King Bee2:35
4Stole from Me2:55
5Too Poor to Die2:56
6Walked All Night Long2:37
7Cold White Sheet6:10
8Pinetop4:45
9Going Train Blues4:52
10I’ll Pay the Price3:13
11Going Down Georgia3:18
12Ever Heard a Churchbell Sound3:41
13Mary4:59
14Got a Gal with a Dog Won’t Bark3:20
15The Whole World4:41
Blues for Ida B
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:06:20
1Blues for Ida B ('45' edit)3:38
2Grease Me4:37
3I Wonder Why6:41
4Love Me True4:43
5Nothing but a Gypsy Man4:44
6Chicken Licken5:57
7Little Boy5:02
8Sittin' Here Lookin'5:47
9Love Me Mama4:07
10This Little Letter3:52
11If I Had a Dollar4:28
12Nothing but the Blues5:14
13Blues for Ida B7:30
Over My Head
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 55:13
1Living in a World of Sin2:10
2Concita3:49
3Blue Face in the Window6:33
4Run Red Run2:38
5Wrestling Jacob2:57
6You Never Loose6:16
7Hi Type Woman3:30
8Bernice3:57
9How Long Is a Man Got to Suffer?7:23
10Blow Train4:36
11Certainly Lord2:23
12Over My Head3:23
13John Henry5:38
Driftin'
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:00:25
1Driftin'5:45
2Hard Hard Time5:47
3Bring Me Some Water5:29
4Leaving Grandma3:23
5In the Garden1:59
6The Day I Met B.B. King5:06
7Keep Your Hands on the Plow4:06
8Teddy Bear / Cootie in the Gump Stump3:37
9Getting Weaker Day by Day5:35
10I Met Lightnin' Hopkins2:21
11Chankity Chank Chank5:25
12Baby, You Gonna Miss Me2:39
13Powder Room Blues3:55
14Train Station Blues3:08
15He Will See You Through2:10
Millennium Blues
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:00:26
1Red's Vision5:50
2Play on Your Harp4:51
3Let Me Be Your Electrician5:28
4Red's Jazz Groove5:37
5Too Poor to Die6:33
6Red's Childhood Memories2:16
7Orphanage Home Blues5:19
8Leechie Geddens4:01
9Got a Home in That Rock2:29
10Arlene Blues3:54
11Texas Jump3:40
12That Detroit Thing5:01
13Millennium Blues5:27
Live in Montreux
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 44:43
1Bring It On Home to Me3:35
2First Degree3:22
3Look at the Children Run3:38
4My Heart's a Loser4:08
5When My Mama Was Living5:01
6Held Up in One Town4:14
7Turkey Killer3:31
8Date With Barbara3:31
9Standing at Your Door5:24
10Going Train Blues4:31
11Sweet Blood Call3:48
A Different Shade of Red
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 43:58
1Take Your Time4:47
2Lou Jean3:38
3Alabama Train4:29
4I Had a Dream3:00
5Blue Evening4:35
6Blues 20015:13
7Laundromat Blues3:57
8Lightning Bug4:02
9Where's My Friends?3:27
10Phillipa3:46
11Sleep Little Robert3:04
No Turn on Red
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 47:46
1Red's Hobo Blues4:27
2Freight Train to Ride3:59
3I Been Down So Long3:04
4September 11th Blues4:16
5I Done Woke Up3:49
6Cotton Pickin' Blues5:25
7Mary Dee Shuffle5:04
8You Got to Move3:33
9Rollin' Stone2:59
10Red's New Dream5:36
11Everybody Laughs at Me5:34
Back to the Black bayou
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 39:06
1I'm Louisiana Red3:20
2Alabama Train3:33
3Crime in Motion2:52
4Ride on Red, Ride On3:27
5Sweet Leg Girl4:13
6The Black Bayou4:11
7Too Poor to Die3:09
8Don't Miss That Train2:18
9You Done Quit Me4:19
10I Come From Louisiana2:43
11Roamin' Stranger2:49
12At the Zanzibar2:12
Το Blues Συναντά Το Ρεμπέτικο
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 45:21
1Standing at My Door4:07
2Voodoo Woman5:58
3Nelson Mandela5:43
4Korea Blues3:30
5Orphanage Home Blues10:26
6Hey Now Baby!4:19
7That's All Right4:28
8Η Φαντασία Στην Εξουσία4:15
9Greeceland2:35
You Got to Move
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 46:43
1Get Your Hands Off My Woman7:44
2Going Back to Memphis4:46
3You Got to Move6:25
4New Jersey Women4:02
5Been Down So Long6:05
6Barbara Jean5:36
7Stop You Crying7:01
8Red Talks About Homesick James and Others3:43
9Red Talks About Bending Strings1:21
Sweet Blood Call
2010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 36:12
1The Whole World3:34
2Had a Date With Barbara Last Night3:23
3First Degree2:56
4Sweetblood Call2:59
5I Was Out Walking3:42
6Thirty Dirty Women2:18
7King Bee3:52
8Death of Ealase4:38
9Who Been Fooling You2:41
10Going Home3:18
11Too Poor to Die2:51
Memphis Mojo
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 44:33
1Goodbye Blues3:49
2I Had Troubles All My Life4:03
3See That My Grave Is Kept Clean3:49
4No More Whiskey3:43
5Yolanda3:59
6Just Take Your Time2:58
7Your Lovin’ Man2:54
8Boogie Woogie Boogie3:17
9I’m Gettin’ Tired4:40
10So Long, So Long3:52
11Why Don’t You Come on Home2:56
12Granmother’s Dead4:33
When My Mama Was Living
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:06:35
1Walk All Over Georgia4:52
2King Bee3:54
3When My Mama Was Living5:00
4Caught Your Man And Gone2:09
5Bad Case Of The Blues3:42
6Little Suzie Jane3:27
7Got A Girl With A Dog Won’t Bark3:49
8Cold White Sheet5:13
9Going Down To Georgia2:55
10You Got To Move2:48
11Going Home2:59
12I'll Be Glad When You Are Dead3:36
13Cold, Cold Feeling3:39
14John Henry5:32
15Stole From Me4:17
16Joanne8:43
The Sky Is Crying
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:12:06
1Too Poor To Die5:05
2Working Mule2:49
3Champagne And Reefer4:23
4Do You Got Balls?1:29
5Same Thing6:22
6Good Bye Jack Dupree4:05
7What Is That She Got6:48
8Keep On Playin' The Blues6:06
9The Sky Is Crying6:24
10Locked Up So Long3:37
11I Wonder Who4:33
12Early In The Morning5:06
13You Done Quit Me5:10
14I Done Woke Up10:09
Tell Me ’bout It
2022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 50:06
1Mary Dee Shuffle5:01
2Early Morning Blues3:59
3Alabama Train3:33
4Caught Your Man and Gone4:56
5New Jersey Blues5:30
6Freight Train to Ride3:57
7Tell Me ’bout It4:09
8Earline Who’s Been Foolin’ You3:24
9Edith Mae4:30
10Bessemer Blues4:51
11Bernice Blues6:16
Midnight Rambler
— · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:07:44
1Midnight Rambler3:34
2Turkey Killer3:18
3Look at the Children Run3:29
4First Degree2:58
5Sweet Blood Call3:01
6King Bee3:53
7Goin' Home3:19
8Back to Georgia2:51
9Too Poor to Die2:52
1030 Dirty Women2:19
11Out Walkin'3:42
12The Whole World3:34
13I've Been Down So Long4:10
14Walk All Over Georgia6:27
15Recreation Blues4:40
16Standing at Your Door5:47
17Had a Date With Barbara3:12
18Death of Elise4:38
Midnight Rambler
— · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:14:02
1The Whole World3:35
2Had a Date With Barbara Last Night3:24
3First Degree2:58
4Sweetblood Call3:01
5I Was Out Walking3:44
6Thirty Dirty Women2:19
7King Bee3:53
8Death of Ealase4:39
9Who Been Fooling You2:42
10Going Home3:20
11Too Poor to Die2:54
12Standing at Your Door5:47
13I Been Down So Long4:11
14Turkey Killer3:18
15Walk All Over Georgia6:27
16Look at the Children Run3:31
17Recreation Blues4:41
18Midnight Rambler3:35
19When My Mama Was Living6:03
The Rising Sun Collection
— · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 50:09
1Walk All Over Georgia4:54
2Sharecropper's Son6:06
3Smoke a Little Marijuana5:42
4Too Poor to Die3:50
5Pretty Woman5:37
6Smokestack Lightnin'4:38
7Red, Funk + Blue5:07
8Tall White Horse4:40
9Louisiana Blues4:22
10You Don't Have to Go5:13
Always Played The Blues
— · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:16:23
1Valerie3:42
2This Little Letter8:04
3Brought Up The Hard Way3:34
4Sun Goes Down8:17
5Down So Long6:43
6Vivienne4:54
7Hello Mean Old World6:21
8Leaving Town4:56
9Steel On My Hand6:34
10The Best Place5:30
11I'm Leaving6:08
12Feeling Inside5:46
13Mambo Mumbo5:54

Album · 4

Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
1987	Hot SauceSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 10 tracks · 38:33 1Lightnin' Bug3:22 2Alabama Train3:20 3You're Gonna Need Me, Baby3:17 4Trouble All My Days3:18 5Ride On, Red, Ride On4:32 6Whose Ol' Funky Drawers Is These3:23 7Wo-Ho-Ho Baby3:41 8'Let These' Blues4:01 9Sometimes I Wonder5:23 10Gonna Move On Down The Line4:16	Compilation	1987
1995	The Best Of Louisiana RedSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 16 tracks · 53:13 1I Am Louisiana Red2:07 2Rollin Stone3:07 3Country Playboy2:54 4You Don't Have To Go1:56 5Mean Ol' Frisco2:44 6Story Of Louisiana Red3:23 7The Same Thing4:08 8Freight Train To Ride3:28 9Where Is My Friend?4:10 10Red's Dream3:14 11Red's New Dream4:24 12Early In The Morning3:25 13What Dat?2:46 14You Gonna Need Me3:21 15"Let These" Blues4:01 16I'm Goin' Down South4:05	Compilation	1995
1996	The Blues Collection: Louisiana Red, Pretty WomanSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 12 tracks · 57:23 1Vivienne4:57 2Leaving Town4:57 3Nothing but a Gypsy Man4:43 4Valerie3:42 5Sweet Blood Call3:43 6Pretty Woman5:40 7Sugar's Harmonica Boogie3:44 8This Little Letter3:52 9Locked Up So Long4:53 10Sittin' Here Looking5:45 11Ride On3:28 12Blues for Ida B.7:59	Compilation	1996
2019	At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall - Hamburg 1977Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:29:31 Disc 113 tracks · 47:03 A1Announcement Louisiana Red0:29 A2The Whole World3:47 A3I Wonder Who's Been Loving You Tonight3:20 A4Midnight Rambler3:04 A5When My Mama Was Living5:20 A6Red's Dream No.24:10 A7Red's Boogie3:43 B1Crime Emotion3:59 B2Good God Woman4:47 B3Alabama Train3:12 B4Soon One Morning3:56 B5Travelling Boogie3:19 B6Death of Ealase3:57 Disc 29 tracks · 42:28 C1Sweet Blood Call4:26 C2Goin' Down to Louisiana5:11 C3Rock Me6:48 C4Too Poor to Die3:10 D1Who's Been Foolin You3:37 D2Louise4:14 D3Recreation Blues5:09 D4Honky Tonk Slide5:25 D5Can't Get No Sleep at Night4:28	Live	March 2019

Stats & PK

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Louisiana Red metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	17	76.4th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	35	91.7th
Studio albums	31	98.3th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	30	96.8th
Recording span (years)	49	90th
Genres	1	56th

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Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
Louisiana Red and His Chicago Blues Friends(band)	—	present

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Why this artist is in the database

List of blues musicians — rank #134
Louisiana Red | 1932 | 2012 | Alabama | Electric blues |

United States · Person

blues

1 shared genre tag · debut 1962, 1 year apart · from United States

8 wikis

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blues

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6 wikis

Timeline

1930s

Born 1932-03-23

1960s

Debut release: The Lowdown Back Porch Blues

Album: The Lowdown Back Porch Blues

1970s

Album: Louisiana Red Sings The Blues

Album: Too Wet to Plow

1980s

Album: Get You an Ol'Man

Album: World on Fire

1990s

Album: Sugar Hips

Album: Rip Off Blues

Album: Dead Stray Dog

Album: Sittin Here Wonderin

Album: Shugar Hips

Album: Ashland Avenue Blues

Album: Walked All Night Long

Album: Blues for Ida B

Album: Over My Head

Album: Driftin'

Album: Millennium Blues

2000s

Album: Live in Montreux

Album: A Different Shade of Red

Album: No Turn on Red

Album: Back to the Black bayou

Album: Το Blues Συναντά Το Ρεμπέτικο

Album: You Got to Move

2010s

Album: Sweet Blood Call

Album: Memphis Mojo

Died 2012

Album: When My Mama Was Living

Album: The Sky Is Crying

2020s

Album: Tell Me ’bout It

Biography

Biography

Early life

Early career

Later career

Personal life

Death

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Discography (35 release groups · 31 studio albums)

Albums · 31

Album · 4

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Awards & honours

Line-up

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Why this artist is in the database

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