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Little Milton

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Personal name headingLittle Milton
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Variant(s)Campbell, Milton, 1934-
Milton, Little
Campbell, James Milton
Biography/History noteLittle Milton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1988.
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1934-09-07
Death date2005-08-04
Place of birthInverness (Miss.)
Place of deathMemphis (Tenn.)
AffiliationChess Records (Firm) Malaco Records
Bobbin Records (Firm) Checkers label (Firm)
Profession or occupationBlues musicians Singers Composers Guitarists
Found inLittle Milton, his greatest sides [SR] p1983: label (Little Milton); container (Little Milton Campbell)
New Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll (Little Milton; b. Milton Campbell, Sept. 7, 1934, Inverness, Miss.; blues singer, guitarist)
New York times WWW site, Aug. 5, 2005 (Little Milton; b. James Milton Campbell, Sept. 7, 1934, Inverness, Miss.; d. yesterday [Aug. 4, 2005], Memphis, aged 71; bluesman with a gritty voice and a sensuous guitar style who had hits throughout the 1960s and 70s)
African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Milton, Little; James Milton Campbell Jr.; blues musician/ singer, songwriter, guitarist; born 07 September 1934 in Inverness, Mississippi, United States; became very popular with the band leader Ike Turner in Missouri; formed his own band; moved to St. Louis, Missouri (1958); together with DJ Bob Lyons formed the label Bobbin Records; joined Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, as an artist on the Checkers label (1962); the hit recording, "We're Gonna Make It" climbed the R&B charts to number one (1965); signed with the Jackson-based Malaco Records in Mississippi (1984); recorded fourteen hit albums; earned the W.C. Handy Blues Award for Entertainer of the Year (1988); Malaco Records released an album entitled "Welcome to Little Milton", a collection of duets which was nominated for the distinguished Grammy Award (1999); was headlined a Memphis Blues festival in London, England (2005); final album, "Think of Me" (2005); died 04 August 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States)
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