Big Al Calhoun
Biography
This session, featuring Big Al Calhoun on amplified harmonica and vocals, with Henry Townsend (electric guitar, vocals) and Vernell Townsend on vocals, was recorded in August, 1979, in St. Louis. Big Al had worked for years with Henry and Vernell. He picked up the harmonica when he was a small boy living on a large sharecropper plantation in Mississippi. When he heard Sonny Boy Williamson on the radio, he started to play the blues. On the plantation he heard many of the great blues musicians of that time
