{"id":3587,"date":"2023-11-27T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?page_id=3587"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:39:11","slug":"whispering-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?page_id=3587","title":{"rendered":"Whispering Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3585\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?attachment_id=3585\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3585\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"wp-image-3585 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/334-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-B-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/334-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-B-1024x784.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/334-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-B-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/334-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-B-768x588.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/334-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-B-800x612.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Whispering Smith i K\u00f6penhamn 1972.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Med sin enkla men effektiva munspelsstil var Whispering Smith ett utm\u00e4rkt komplement till Louisiana-bluesm\u00e4n som Lightnin\u2019 Slim och Silas Hogan. Men hans spel i kombination med den mullrande r\u00f6sten gjorde honom \u00e4ven till en unik artist i eget namn.<\/p>\n<p>Moses \u201dWhispering\u201d Smith r\u00e4knas bland f\u00f6retr\u00e4darna f\u00f6r s\u00f6dra Louisianas swamp blues, men till skillnad fr\u00e5n m\u00e5nga av sina kollegor var han f\u00f6dd i Mississippi. Sedan han i mitten av 1950-talet l\u00e4rt sig spela munspel flyttade han 1957 till Baton Rouge, Louisiana, d\u00e4r han under att par \u00e5r spelade ihop med Lightnin\u2019 Slim.<\/p>\n<p>Omkring 1960\u20131964 hade Smith eget band, men sammanstr\u00e5lade d\u00e4refter igen med Lightnin\u2019 Slim. Han spelade ofta med Lightnin\u2019 p\u00e5 dennes plattor, men sedan Lightnin\u2019 1966 flyttat till Detroit slutade Smith att spela professionellt.<\/p>\n<p>Samarbetet med Lightnin\u2019 Slim \u00e5terupptogs dock i b\u00f6rjan av 1970-talet, och tillsammans turnerade de bland annat flera g\u00e5nger i Europa. Smith gjorde d\u00e5 minnesv\u00e4rda framtr\u00e4danden, inte bara musikaliskt utan \u00e4ven med sitt ut\u00e5triktade agerande p\u00e5 scen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?attachment_id=3586\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3586\" src=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/335-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-A-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/335-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-A-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/335-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-A-768x987.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/335-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-A-797x1024.jpg 797w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/335-Whispering-Smith-1972-10-18-Cph-A-623x800.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>P\u00e5 skivinspelningar gjorde Smith under sextiotalet fina insatser i Jay Millers studio i Crowley. Han fick \u00e4ven g\u00f6ra plattor i eget namn, d\u00e4ribland Excello-singlarna \u201dMean woman blues\u201d och \u201dCryin\u2019 blues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I b\u00f6rjan av 1970-talet medverkade Whispering Smith tillsammans med andra swamp blues-artister p\u00e5 inspelningar som gavs ut av bl.a. Arhoolie och Blue Horizon. Det senare bolaget sl\u00e4ppte \u00e4ven Smiths enda album i eget namn, \u201dOver Easy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Moses \u201dWhispering\u201d Smith dog i Baton Rouge i april 1984 i en \u00e5lder av 52 \u00e5r.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charley Nilsson, text och foto<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Med sin enkla men effektiva munspelsstil var Whispering Smith ett utm\u00e4rkt komplement till Louisiana-bluesm\u00e4n som Lightnin\u2019 Slim och Silas Hogan. Men hans spel i kombination med den mullrande r\u00f6sten gjorde honom \u00e4ven till en unik artist i eget namn. Moses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?page_id=3587\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3587\/revisions\/3588"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}