{"id":3529,"date":"2011-05-20T17:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2018-08-05T00:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T04:55:44","slug":"howard-louie-bluie-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"Howard \u201cLouie Bluie\u201d Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve played the Blue Suit Records com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion of Louie Bluie\u2019s coun\u00adtry blues about twen\u00adty times since I got it.&nbsp;Arm\u00adstrong had an appeal\u00ading per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, and was a far cry from the trag\u00adic and self-destruc\u00adtive fel\u00adlows that fill blues his\u00adto\u00adry.&nbsp;Mul\u00adti-tal\u00adent\u00aded, able to speak sev\u00ader\u00adal lan\u00adguages and to engage audi\u00adences as a racon\u00adteur, he died at the age of 95, respect\u00aded and com\u00adfort\u00adable though not rich.&nbsp;Between the two world wars, he played with Sleepy John Estes and Big Bill Broonzy, among many.&nbsp;His cheer\u00adful style on fid\u00addle, man\u00addolin and gui\u00adtar, often accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by bril\u00adliant\u00adly-told per\u00adson\u00adal anec\u00addotes, dis\u00adtin\u00adguished him from the surli\u00ader, less artic\u00adu\u00adlate per\u00adsonas that dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded coun\u00adtry blues. After serv\u00ading in <span class=\"caps\">WWII<\/span>, he worked for twen\u00adty-five years in a Detroit auto plant, then start\u00aded to per\u00adform and tour exten\u00adsive\u00adly when pub\u00adlic inter\u00adest in old blues revived.&nbsp;Check out, if you can, his unusu\u00adal and delight\u00adful fid\u00addle ver\u00adsion of Gershwin\u2019s \u201cSum\u00admer\u00adtime\u201d, which segues ele\u00adgant\u00adly into a beau\u00adti\u00adful ren\u00addi\u00adtion of the old hymn \u201cWhen He Calls Me, I Will Answer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve played the Blue Suit Records com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion of Louie Bluie\u2019s coun\u00adtry blues about twen\u00adty times since I got it.&nbsp;Arm\u00adstrong had an appeal\u00ading per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, and was a far cry from the trag\u00adic and self-destruc\u00ad\u00ad\u00adtive fel\u00adlows that fill blues his\u00adto\u00adry.&nbsp;Mul\u00adti-tal\u00aden\u00adt\u00aded, able&nbsp;to&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3529\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,929],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cp-listening-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}