On August 3, 1955: At a recording studio in Los Angeles, Lowell Fulson recorded two sides for Chess/Checker Records (“Trouble Trouble” and “Rollin’ Blues”)

Lowell Fulson 

was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the 

West Coast blues tradition...

Lowell Fulson 

(March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999) 

 Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, Fulson was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s…

In 1954, while on contract with Chess Records, he had a MONSTER hit with “Reconsider Baby”…

 

"Reconsider Baby" came from a long term contract agreed with Chess Records in 1954. It was recorded in Dallas under Stan Lewis' supervision with a saxophone section that included David "Fathead" Newman on tenor and Leroy Cooper on baritone…

On August 3, 1955: At a recording studio in Los Angeles, Lowell Fulson

recorded two sides for Chess/Checker Record...

Trouble Trouble

And Rollin' Blues 
(side is unavailable at this time)

 Neither tune charted…

Fulson stayed with the Checker label into 1962, when he moved to the Los Angeles-based Kent Records...

 1965's "Black Nights" became his first hit in a decade...

"Tramp," did even better, restoring the guitarist to R&B stardom…

A resident of Los Angeles, Fulson died in Long Beach, California, in March 1999, at the age of 77. His companion Tina Mayfield stated that the causes of death were complications from kidney disease, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. He was the father of four and grandfather of thirteen…

R.I.P. Lowell Fulson

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