Birth name Richard Justice Name Dick Justice Occupation(s) Coal miner Died September 12, 1962 | Years active 1929 Record label Brunswick Records Labels Brunswick Records Genres Blues, Folk music | |
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Associated acts Luke Jordan, Frank Hutchison Albums Little Lulie, Best Hits Collection of Dick Justice, Good For You, Mountain Blues, Vol. B, Cocaine Similar People Clarence Ashley, Samantha Bumgarner, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, Walter Davis, Slim Smith | ||
Dick Justice-One Cold December Day
Dick Justice (1906 – September 12, 1962) was an American blues and folk musician, who hailed from West Virginia, United States.
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Biography
Born Richard Justice, he recorded ten songs for Brunswick Records in Chicago in 1929. Unlike many contemporary white musicians, he was heavily influenced by black musicians, particularly Luke Jordan who recorded in 1927 and 1929 for Victor Records. Justice's "Cocaine" is a verse-for-verse cover of the Jordan track of the same name recorded two years earlier. The song "Brownskin Blues" is also stylistically akin to much of Jordan's work but stands on its own as a Justice original. As Jordan hailed from around Lynchburg, Virginia it is perhaps worth speculating that the two may have been associates. Justice is also musically related to Frank Hutchison (with whom he played music and worked as a coal miner in Logan County, West Virginia), Bayless Rose and The Williamson Brothers.
His recording of the traditional ballad "Henry Lee" was the opening track of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Justice also recorded four sides ("Guian Valley Waltz" and "Poor Girl's Waltz", "Muskrat Rag" and "Poca River Blues") with the fiddler Reese Jarvis.