photographer: Felix Wohrstein

Boston Blackie real name: Benjamin Joe "Bennie" Houston, in his early career known as "Dog Man" b. November 6, 1943 in Panola, Sumter County, Alabama d. July 11, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois (shot by James "Tail Dragger" Jones) discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1998	Boston Blackie & Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers: Chicago Blues Session   Volume 1 Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers - I Can't Judge Nobody   @ youtube - Hello Little School Girl - Sad, Sad Day - Do the Thing Boston Blackie - ABC Blues * (4:54)   @ youtube - Louise #   @ youtube - Hey Baby #   @ youtube - How Much More Long *   @ youtube Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers - Give Me Back That Way [actually "Give Me Back That Wig"] - Blues All Day Long   @ youtube - I've Been Drinking Muddy Water Boston Blackie - ABC Blues (tk 2) * (4:21)   @ youtube - Find Me Another Babe *   @ youtube Boston Blackie tracks rec. January 29, 1992 at ACME Recording in Chicago, IL by Paul Smith; Boston Blackie, voc, g; Luther Adams, g; # Willie Kent or * Michael Riley, b; Cleo Williams, dr; prod. by Willie Kent Boston Blackie photo by Felix Wohrstein Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers tracks rec. 1984 & 1991 Smokey Smothers photo by James Fraher notes by JoAnn Larson & Richard Shavzin (Boston Blackie) and Sam Burckhardt (Smokey Smothers) Wolf CD 120.847 (Austria 1998) = Wolf CD 120.847 (Austria 2013) "Boston Blackie & Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers: ABC Blues" Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers discography
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 95 - Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 64 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, p. 51 - Scott Fornek: Deadly Feud Robs the Blues of Two Voices.- Chicago Sun-Times, July 18, 1993 - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Kirk Whiting, Hannes Folterbauer and Lex Jansen for additional info / scans   Boston Blackie at the Majestic Lounge photographer: Jim O'Neal   Boston Blackie & Billy Lane, bass at Eddie's Place (the former 1815 Club, on 1815 W. Roosevelt Road), Chicago, January 1977 source: Jefferson 45 (Autumn 1979); photographer: Magnus Calais   Boston Blackie & Eddie C. Campbell, Chicago, 1977 source: Juke Blues #1 (July 1985), p. 26; photographer: André Hobus   Boston Blackie Blues Band at Buddy's Sunset Lounge (2853 W. Lake, Chicago) l to r: Boston Blackie (Bennie Houston), B.B. Jones (= Alvin Nichols, guest on guitar), Pete Peterson, West Side Wes photo accompanying Tommy Lofgren's article "Sweet Hot Chicago" in Jefferson 77 (Summer 1987); photographer: Hans Ekestang   Tail Dragger and Boston Blackie with B.B. Jones and Westside Wes at Buddy's Sunset Lounge, Chicago, Summer 1987 source: Jefferson 105 (Autumn 1994); photographer: Hans Ekestang (The photo accompanies a newspage with a.o. the news that Tail Dragger had fatally shot Boston Blackie.)   Dogman, Bob Corritore, Foots (obscured), Tail Dragger & Boston Blackie at the Delta Fish Market source: Bob Corritore photo gallery [under reconstruction] photographer: Marty Green   Wolf CD 120.847; notes by JoeAnn Larson & Richard Shavzin source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8KX7Q_xXs