{"id":3681,"date":"2024-07-23T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?page_id=3681"},"modified":"2024-07-27T08:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T07:49:26","slug":"homesick-james","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?page_id=3681","title":{"rendered":"Homesick James"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3679\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3679\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3679\" src=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-E-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-E-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-E-768x757.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-E-1024x1010.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-E-800x789.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Originell f\u00f6retr\u00e4dare f\u00f6r den elektrifierade bluesen med personlig s\u00e5ngstil, slidegitarrspel och udda timing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>James Williamson (alt. John William Henderson) f\u00f6ddes i Somerville, Tennessee, f\u00f6rmodligen 1910. Han b\u00f6rjade i unga \u00e5r att spela gitarr runt om i S\u00f6dern, och tr\u00e4ffade d\u00e5 musiker som Big Joe Williams och Hammie Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e5gon g\u00e5ng p\u00e5 1940-talet slog han sig ner i Chicago, d\u00e4r han kom att spela med bl.a. munspelaren Snooky Pryor. Uppbackad av pianisten Lazy Bill Lucas gjorde han 1952 sina f\u00f6rsta inspelningar, d\u00e4ribland \u201dHomesick\u201d f\u00f6r skivbolaget Chance. Inspelningarna k\u00e4nnetecknades av opolerat, vildsint slidegitarrspel och en originell timing som inte s\u00e4llan st\u00e4llde till det f\u00f6r medmusikanterna s\u00e5v\u00e4l d\u00e5 som senare.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3678\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3678\" src=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Homesick-James-Prestige-CD-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prestige-lp:n \u00e5terutgiven i cd-format.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00c5ren 1959\u20131960 medverkade han p\u00e5 sin avl\u00e4gsne sl\u00e4kting Elmore James Fire-<span style=\"color: #444444;\">inspelningar, och hade vid det laget antagit artistnamnet Homesick James. P\u00e5 sina inspelningar fr\u00e5n 1960-talet framst\u00e5r Homesick James framf\u00f6rallt som en stilm\u00e4ssig arvtagare till Elmore James. En utm\u00e4rkt version av \u201dCrossroads\u201d blev resultatet av ett skivstudiobes\u00f6k 1962, f\u00f6ljd 1964 av den Sam Charters-producerade Prestige-lp:n \u201dBlues From The South Side\u201d. \u00c5ret d\u00e4rp\u00e5 producerade Charters lp-serien \u201dChicago\/The Blues\/Today\u201d d\u00e4r fyra nummer med Homesick James ingick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bluesintresset i Europa medf\u00f6rde under 1970-talet ytterligare speltillf\u00e4llen f\u00f6r honom, ofta tillsammans med Snooky Pryor som t.ex. i turn\u00e9paketet American Blues Legends 1973. Samarbetet med Pryor resulterade \u00e4ven i ett par lp:er.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3680\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3680\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3680\" src=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-B-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-B-1024x769.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-B-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-B-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-Homesick-James-1973-07-28-Malm\u00f6-B-800x601.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homesick James i Malm\u00f6, juli 1973.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>P\u00e5 1990-talet kom fler plattor med Homesick James, d\u00e4ribland \u201dGoin\u2019 Back In The Times\u201d d\u00e4r han visar en mer personlig och inte s\u00e5 Elmore James-p\u00e5verkad sida. Trots h\u00f6g \u00e5lder fortsatte han att spela in plattor och framtr\u00e4da. V\u00e5ren 2004 gjordes \u201dMy Home Ain\u2019t Here\u201d, och i juli 2006 spelade han p\u00e5 en bluesfestival i England tillsammans med Honeboy Edwards och Robert Lockwood Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Homesick James avled den 13 december 2006 i Springfield, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charley Nilsson, text och foto<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Williamson (alt. John William Henderson) f\u00f6ddes i Somerville, Tennessee, f\u00f6rmodligen 1910. Han b\u00f6rjade i unga \u00e5r att spela gitarr runt om i S\u00f6dern, och tr\u00e4ffade d\u00e5 musiker som Big Joe Williams och Hammie Nixon. N\u00e5gon g\u00e5ng p\u00e5 1940-talet slog &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/?page_id=3681\">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-3681","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3681","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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"http:\/\/vindogatan62.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3681\/revisions\/3684"}],"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=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}