In Paris, by Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

In Paris

by Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

supported by

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Music Maker Recordings releases, including this album and 23 back-catalog items, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.

Subscribe Now $5 USD/month or more

1.	Baghdad Blues 02:46	buy track
2.	Do The Breakdown 03:25	buy track
3.	Melody Cruise 02:58	buy track
4.	What'd I Say 04:14	buy track
5.	Lonesome Window Blues 04:22	buy track
6.	Blues Ain't What It Used To Be 04:03	buy track
7.	Sugar Baby Swing 02:22	buy track
8.	You Send Me 05:19	buy track
9.	Red Mama Blues 06:15	buy track
10.	Get Out On The Floor 03:34	buy track

about

If you ran across Beverly “Guitar” Watkins playing at Underground Atlanta, you might never know that she was a guitar veteran who had been in the trenches with Piano Red, James Brown, B.B. King, and Ray Charles. By the time these recordings were made in 2012, Watkins had regained some of her notoriety with a string of groove-heavy albums for Music Maker that focused on her stellar songwriting. The bulk of these songs is original material, with one reprise of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say.”

On this fiery set recorded in Paris, Watkins is backed by vets, including rhythm guitarist Albert White (Elvin Bishop, Clarence Carter, Ben E. King, Ray Charles, Joe Tex), keyboard player Eddie Tigner (formerly of The Ink Spots), and Lil Joe Burton (Bobby Womack, Otis Clay, B.B. King).

Everywhere she played, from Atlanta taverns to Lincoln Center, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins was beloved, but in few places was she more treasured than in France. Listening back a decade later, one can imagine Watkins slinging her guitar behind her head and giving an all-out, wild, sweaty performance to an admiring crowd.

credits

released March 18, 2022

All original Beverly Guitar Watkins compositions, except "What'd I Say" written by Ray Charles and "You Send Me" written by Sam Cooke

Beverly Guitar Watkins - Lead Vocal/Lead Guitar/Harmonica
Albert White - Guitar/Background Vocals/MC
Eddie Tigner - Organ/Piano
Nashid Abdul - Bass Guitar
Lil Joe Burton - Trombone
Ardie Dean - Drums

Recorded live in PARIS FRANCE by Sam Clayton Jr. 2012 (Track 11 recorded in Kittery Maine 2010)
With Special Guest appearances by
Jean-Jacques Milteau - Harmonica
Dan Hoctor - Hammond B3

license

about

Music Maker Recordings Hillsborough, North Carolina

Music Maker Foundation tends the roots of traditional American music by meeting the day-to-day needs of the artists who create it, ensuring their voices are heard, and giving all people access to our nation’s hidden musical treasures.

musicmaker.org

contact / help

Contact Music Maker Recordings

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like In Paris, you may also like:

Last Pair of Shoes
by John Dee Holeman

supported by 84 fans who also own “In Paris”
go to album
Carolina Blues and Gospel
by Shelton Powe

supported by 77 fans who also own “In Paris”
go to album
Stories To Live Up To
by Harvey Dalton Arnold

supported by 75 fans who also own “In Paris”
go to album
Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz
by Russell Morris & Rick Springfield

Russell Morris and Rick Springfield pair grave tales with smoldering blues on this Día de los Muertos-inspired collaborative LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 3, 2021
go to album
The King's Blues Box
by B.B. King

Cleopatra Blues recently unleashed a barrage of reissued essentials from Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, etc. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2016
go to album
Parliament
by Mike Nagoda

Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP. Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2014
go to album
What Left
by Robert Lee Coleman

supported by 75 fans who also own “In Paris”
go to album