With his improbable cap Herman Alexander a bit like the captain of a ship wheels with gigantic blades never cease to stir as if the Mississippi was to mix colors or to take the rich silt. Or maybe it is a cap of Employee Railway that he is not come to mind to take off for the camera. Far from being enforced, these similarities are bound to be pushed farther soon realized that this incredible bluesman, whose morphology is almost as dry as the game has not registered more than a genuine sign vessel or a professional background. 
Eleven titles skinny - the longest does not exceed four minutes - are a total of twenty-seven minutes in all and for all, a rustic blues whose music power catapult Herman Alexander in the community more closed than we think, of very great blues musicians. For eternity! Pace Wim Wenders, then these musicians have never needed to jump into the air or trigger hurricanes decibels to leave footprints and memories. A skimpy costumes, an acoustic guitar, a life in the best case, were largely the case.
Exit Theatre on Beale Street, 1939
Born in Tunica, Mississippi, 1 st January 1925, Herman Alexander learned to play guitar by listening to records while his father taught him the harmonica. A few years later, he met pianist Alabama Red to which he will complete his education by greatly expanding his repertoire. Street musician, his reputation would probably never exceeded Beale Street and Handy Park (Memphis), where officials Austrian label Wolf Records had had the foresight to save it. One may regret about it that it was necessary to add to these eleven tracks of eight new titles Cedell Davis . Despite all the love that we devote to it, a disc full devoted to the work of Herman Alexander would probably have been preferable. The raw material is here
demonstration,
- Poor Boy Blues (Highway 61 - Wolf Records, 1990)
- Baby Please Do not Go ( idem )
- Catfish Blues (ditto )
Blind Test Day
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