J.D. Short

J.D. Short

J.D. Short

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My Rare Dog
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By The Spoonful
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You Got to Help Me Some
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It's Hard Time
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Starry Crown Blues

Albums

  • The Sonet Blues Story

    Jan 1973 • 10 songs

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J.D. Short

Biography

Gifted with a striking and almost immediately identifable vocal style characterized by an amazing vibrato, J.D. Short was also a very versatile musician. He played piano, saxophone, guitar, harmonica, clarinet and drums. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Short learned guitar and piano. He was a frequent performer at house parties before he moved to St. Louis in the '20s. Short played with the Neckbones, Henry Spaulding, Honeyboy Edwards, Douglas Williams, and Big Joe Williams from the '30s until the early '60s. He recorded for Vocalion, Delmark, Folkways, and Sonet. Short w...
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