American Bluesmen Brought to Europe, Toured and Recorded by Big Bear Music Al Copley [New York, New York] Homesick James [Somerville, Tennessee] Baby Boy Warren [Lake Providence, Louisiana] Howard McCrary [Youngstown, Ohio] Big John Wrencher [Sunflower, Mississippi] Jimmy Fast Fingers Dawkins [Opelousa, Louisiana] Billy Boy Arnold [Chicago, Illinois] Johnny Mars [Laurens, South Carolina] Billy […]
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AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’79 by VARIOUS ARTISTS Catalogue number BEAR23 Track listing: Love With You Baby – Eddie C Campbell Look What You Done – Eddie C Campbell High Rise Blues – Chico Chism 480 Pounds – Chico Chism I Wish I Had Somebody – Good Rockin’ Charles I’m Goin’ Home Where Women Got Meat […]
AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’75: VARIOUS ARTISTS Catalogue number BEAR8 Track listing: Eddie Guitar Burns – Biscuit Bakin’ Mama Eddie Guitar Burns – Bury Me Back In the USA Billy Boy Arnold – I Wish You Would Billy Boy Arnold – Sugar Mama Tommy Tucker – Alimony Tommy Tucker – Hard Luck Blues Homesick James – […]
AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’73 | BEAR20 Track listing: Not available on CD, download and streaming only. Stream it here:
AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’74 by VARIOUS ARTISTS Track listing: Not available on CD, download and streaming only. Stream it here:
You can catch top live blues bands and attractions from 8pm every Tuesday at Snobs Bar, 200 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1SU. All performances free admission unless otherwise stated, admission subject to capacity. Doors open at 7pm. Upcoming Bands 3rd March – Alex Voysey Blues Band 10th March – Blue 2 the Bone 17th March […]
Handpicked items from the Big Bear Records back catalogue specially for fans of the blues. Including T-Shirts, posters, CDs , LPs and Don’t Worry About The Bear, the inside story of the UK’s oldest independent record label, including the story of the original Henry’s Blueshouse and the American Blues Legends tours.
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Big Bear on Blues Unlimited During the 1970s, Big Bear had the pleasure of working with a number of notable American bluesmen on the American Blues Legends tours. Traipsing around Europe in a splitter bus with the likes of Tommy Tucker, Willie Mabon, Homesick James, Eddie Guitar Burns, Eddie Playboy Taylor, Lightnin’ Slim […]
Get the inside story on the first 50 years of Big Bear Music in Jim Simpson’s new book, Don’t Worry ‘Bout The Bear – available to order now Big Bear Records was founded in October 1968 by Jim Simpson, the man who took Black Sabbath from obscurity as the Aston-based blues band Earth onto the […]




