{"id":5362,"date":"2014-02-16T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:04:44","slug":"jb-lenoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">JB<\/span> Lenoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/14-02-16-LISTENING-Lenoir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/14-02-16-LISTENING-Lenoir.jpg\" alt=\"14-02-16 LISTENING Lenoir\" width=\"320\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/14-02-16-LISTENING-Lenoir.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/14-02-16-LISTENING-Lenoir-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It would be inter\u00adest\u00ading to imag\u00adine what would have hap\u00adpened to blues\u00adman <span class=\"caps\">JB<\/span> Lenoir if he had lived beyond his span of 38 years, cut short by an auto\u00admo\u00adbile acci\u00addent.&nbsp;Unlike most blues artists of the fifties, he was polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly ori\u00adent\u00aded.&nbsp;One of the three albums I have, <em>Eisen\u00adhow\u00ader Blues<\/em> (1954), is a satir\u00adi\u00adcal stab at that Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adt\u2019s poli\u00adcies.&nbsp;He was active in the Civ\u00adil Rights move\u00adment.&nbsp;Anoth\u00ader album I have, a com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion put togeth\u00ader to accom\u00adpa\u00adny Mar\u00adtin Scorce\u00adse\u2019s film his\u00adto\u00adry of the blues, draws heav\u00adi\u00adly from <em>Eisen\u00adhow\u00ader Blues<\/em> and oth\u00ader Chess record\u00adings from the 1950s.&nbsp;So does a 1993 Char\u00adly label com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion I just found, <em>Mama Watch Your Daugh\u00adter<\/em>.&nbsp;Dur\u00ading this peri\u00adod, despite some chart suc\u00adcess with songs like \u201cDon\u2019t Dog Your Woman\u201d, Lenoir had to sup\u00adport him\u00adself work\u00ading in kitchens.&nbsp;It\u2019s in the six\u00adties, just before his sud\u00adden death, that he achieved real recog\u00adni\u00adtion.&nbsp;<em>Down In Mis\u00adsis\u00adsip\u00adpi<\/em>, issued posthu\u00admous\u00adly in 1970, dates from that period.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lenoir sang in falset\u00adto, his voice float\u00ading like a bub\u00adble on waves of rhythm gui\u00adtar, and the arrange\u00adments were clos\u00ader to ear\u00adly Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll than to tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal blues.&nbsp;He affect\u00aded gar\u00adish suits, and oth\u00ader\u00adwise fit well into the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll esthet\u00adic.&nbsp;His lat\u00ader work was elec\u00adtric boo\u00adgie, and he should real\u00adly be seen as hav\u00ading a promi\u00adnent place in the his\u00adto\u00adry of Rock.&nbsp;Cer\u00adtain\u00adly, a num\u00adber of promi\u00adnent rock artists were famil\u00adiar with, and were influ\u00adenced by his work \u2014 John May\u00adall, for exam\u00adple.&nbsp;Per\u00adhaps, if he had lived past 1967, that would now be the&nbsp;case.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although you will usu\u00adal\u00adly see his name print\u00aded as \u201cJ. B. Lenoir\u201d, his first name was actu\u00adal\u00adly \u201c<span class=\"caps\">JB<\/span>\u201d,&nbsp;which was not ini\u00adtials for any\u00adthing.&nbsp;His sur\u00adname was pro\u00adnounced in the French manner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be inter\u00adest\u00ading to imag\u00adine what would have hap\u00adpened to blues\u00adman <span class=\"caps\">JB<\/span> Lenoir if he had lived beyond his span of 38 years, cut short by an auto\u00admo\u00adbile acci\u00addent.&nbsp;Unlike most blues artists of the fifties, he was polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly ori\u00adent\u00aded.&nbsp;One&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5362\">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":[947,943],"tags":[1493,1491,1490,1489,1488,1492],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cm-listening-2014","tag-down-in-mississippi","tag-eisenhower-blues","tag-j-b-lenoir","tag-jb-lenoir","tag-lenoir","tag-mama-watch-your-daughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}