Birth name Vernon Harrison Name Boogie Red Instruments Piano, vocals Role Pianist | Years active 1945–1992 Record label Blind Pig Records Labels Blind Pig Records Albums Live at the Blind Pig | |
Born October 18, 1925
Rayville, Louisiana, United States ( 1925-10-18 ) Occupation(s) Pianist, singer, songwriter Died July 2, 1992, Detroit, Michigan, United States Genres Detroit blues, Boogie-woogie, Jazz Similar People Baby Boy Warren, Washboard Willie, Calvin Frazier, Bobo Jenkins, Eddie "Guitar" Burns | ||
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Boogie Woogie Red (October 18, 1925 – July 2, 1992) was an American Detroit blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, singer and songwriter. At different times he worked with Sonny Boy Williamson I, Washboard Willie, Baby Boy Warren, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, John Lee Hooker and Memphis Slim.
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Biography
He was born Vernon Harrison in Rayville, Louisiana, and moved to Detroit in 1927. In his adolescence, he began performing in local clubs and worked alongside Sonny Boy Williamson I, Baby Boy Warren and John Lee Hooker.
In the mid-1970s, Boogie Woogie Red played solo piano at the Blind Pig, a small bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He recorded his own albums in 1974 and 1977 and toured Europe in that decade. Red appeared on BBC Television's Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1973.
He died in July 1992, at the age of 66, in Detroit.