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Friday, April 17, 1987 ^ ^
'Blues Do<
By SAMUEL STARKS
Features reporter
Drink Small, known as the
"Blues Doctor," started playing
music at the age of 14. He's gone
from performing in "glee clubs"
to become a guitarist who has
been called South Carolina s
foremost blues entertainer.
Small said he had no formal
music lessons. He grew up listening
to John Lee Hooker, Muddy
Waters, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudder
and the Grand Ole Opry. He
gives them the credit for his wide
variety of musical experience.
"l can play tnc diucs in an
styles, but I didn't realize it until
I listened to a lot of guys play. I
can play all styles, whereas they
can only play certain styles.
That's how I acquired the name
'Blues Doctor,"' he said.
"I actually started out playing
organ, a little old country organ
? one you pump with your feet.
Everbody at that time learned to
Dlav 'Coonshine. Baby. Coon
shine. . . .' It was beautiful."
"My first guitar, believe it or
not, I made myself ? I wanted a
guitar so bad. . . Nowadays,
when kids ask me how that old
guitar sounded, I tell 'em, 'like a
bumble bee in a paper bag trying
to get out,"* he said.
Small said that as a teenager,
he played small house gigs on Friday
and Saturday nights. But his
first professional experience was
in the gospel field. He began his
gospel career with the Jubilee
Kings in Sumter. After remaining
with them for a while, he formed
nis own group, cauea i ne six
Stars.
Before singing the blues, Small
went on to play gospel with the
Golden Five from Bishopville
and the Spiritualaires, which was
one of the most popular gospel
music groups in the United States
in the mid-1950s.
"We (Spiritualaires) ended up
touring about 40 states, played
the Apollo Theater in New York
and recorded some on the Vee
Jay label. In 1957, I was voted
'Best Gospel Guitarist' by
Metronome, a popular music
magazine. Things were going
pretty good, but then, like it's got
to happen. . . we broke up and
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It was after the break-up of the
Spiritualaircs that Small started
singing and playing the blues for
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with the blues, he had
moved to Columbia.
"I organized a blues group and
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kids heard the blues, they went
wild. So I got crazy with it then. I
cut a little thing for Savoy
Records called 'I Love You
Alberta,' which ended up on a lot
of jukeboxes here in the
Carolinas," he said.
As a professional blues artist,
Small has played the 1982
World's Fair in Knoxville, the
Border Festival in El Paso and
the Foothills Festival. He is currently
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the Lowcountry Blues Society,
and he'll perform at the New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Festival later this year.
"People need to realize that
everybody's got the blues.
Sometimes, folks forget about
their roots and stick their noses
up at the blues. A lot of people
got the blues and don't know it."
"A lot of people who hate the
blues got more blues than the one
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everyday person when they get
down and out might say, 'Man, I
got the blues.' When a religious
person may figure they don't
want to use the 'blues' in their
vocabulary and they'll say they're
having 'hard trials and tribulations.'
They all mean the same
thing. All of them are feeling
bad. People mess the word
'blues' up before they can
understand what it is," he said.
Garry Erwin, president of the
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and country. He is certainly the
Palmetto State's foremost
bluesman."
Small performs frequently in
and around Columbia. For information
on bookings, performance,
dates and locations, con
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about student apathy.
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Alliance member Amy
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