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Today's topic. Lowell Falsoon Lowell Falsoon
was a blues guitarist and songwriter in the

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West Coast blues tradition. After T. Bone Walker, he was the most

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important figure in West Coast blues in
the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. On

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January thirteenth, nineteen fifty five,
he recorded a single titled Do Me Right.

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The song was written by Willie Dixon. It was released July nineteen fifty

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five. Fulsome recorded for Swing Time
Records in the nineteen forties, Chess Records

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in the nineteen fifties, Kent Records
in the nineteen sixties, and Rounder Records

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in the nineteen eighties nineteen nineties.
He wrote three o'clock Blues B B.

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King's first hit, reconsidered Baby,
a blue standard, and Tramp co written

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with Jimmy McCracklin and recorded by several
artists. His nineteen sixty five song Black

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Nights was his first hit in a
decade, and Tramp did even better,

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restoring him to rn B stardom.
Fulsome died in Long Beach, California,

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on March seventh, nineteen ninety nine, at the age of seventy seven.

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He left us with a lot of
great blues