Amos Milburn

Genres:	Blues
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

1 April 1927, Houston, Texas, USA, d. 3 January 1980, Houston, Texas, USA. After service in the US Navy in World War II, Milburn formed his own blues and R&B band in Houston in which he played piano and sang, and in 1946 he was offered a contract by the Aladdin label. Between November 1948 and February 1954 he and his band, the Aladdin Chicken Shackers, had an extraordinary run of 19 consecutive Top 10 hits on the Billboard R&B chart, including four number 1s (‘Chicken Shack Boogie’, ‘A&M Blues’, ‘Roomin’ House Boogie’ and ‘Bad, Bad Whiskey’). His romping boogies about drinking and partying were hugely popular and for two years (1949 and 1950) he was voted Top R&B Artist by Billboard. Following the break-up of his band in 1954 he never achieved the same level of success, and he left Aladdin in 1956. He then recorded as part of a duo with Charles Brown for the Ace label, and in 1963 recorded an album for...

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