2 Sweet Sixteen 4:49
3 The Right To Be Loved 4:29
4 Wild About You Baby 3:41
5 I Miss You So 4:55
6 Pledging My Love 4:23
7 You Don't Have To Go 3:48
8 The Lady's Tattoo 2:38
9 I'm On My Way To L.A. 4:19
10 South Central Shuffle 7:17
11 Baby Please Don't Go 3:14
12 Home At Last 3:39
13 Pleading For Love 3:46
Thanks go to Bob Mac for sharing this one.
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Thanks! He's all new to me!
@ Soulpapa, Hi-Tide seems to be an underrated artist even though he made the crossover to John Mayall in the 70's. I've posted, as far as I know, everything except his CD Baby Cd download.
Thank you very much Bob Mac.
Thank you ..!!
@Xyros. He was big news back in the mid 1970s, playing alongside heavy hitters like Charlie Musselwhite, John Mayall, Larry Taylor. Then he went to Japan and pretty well vanished overnight from the international blues scene. Guess he met and fell in love with a Japanese gal and decided to make a new home and life there.
@Xyros. Just when I thought we had located all the Hi Tide Harris albums I see there's another one. I wonder if we can track this one down.
Hi Tide Harris - The Hey Day Of Hi Tide Harris (TEZU Records 0002)
Recorded in the 1980s
Tracks:
The Gentlemen's Blues - Great Googa Mooga - Happy Landing - Feel So Fine - Tanya - A Wet Dream Blues (Muse Blues) - Betty & Dupree - The Emperor's Blues - Operator - Stomping On Maxwell Street - Shirley Bee - Conversation.
Personnel:
Hi Tide Harris : guitar, vocals. "Bishop" Norman Williams : alto sax. Dave Smith : alto sax, flute. Mike Marcus : baritone sax. Sonny Lewis, Vince Wallace : tenor sax. Warren Gale, Al Malina, Harold "Pudgy" Attaberry : trumpet. Tricky Lofton : trombone. J.J. Malone, Stew Blank : piano. Ron Tompson : guitar. Steve Gomes, Bob Klein : bass. Lamont Scott, Shigeru "C-Chan" Inue : drums. J.C. : drums.
Bob Mac, this one I've never seen or heard of before and it looks interesting.
Coming 2 weeks I'm lazing around on a beach and recuperating on a sunny terras and I hope that when I get back you have a nice surprise for me.
Xyros. I've been doing some research on Hi Tide Harris.
"Slow Down Baby" & "My Conscience Is Bothering Me" (Sea Side #9555-0110) Recorded at San Francisco, California In 1965.
4 Tracks: "Messaround", Charlie Stone", "Tipitina" & "Never Will Forget Your Love" on the Blue Bay LP (Messaround Records 001) 1976.
Also appears with Paul Jackson & Marty Bracey on the album "Black Music from Jirokichi" (P-Vine Records PCD - 5708) Released in Japan in 1996
And there is another album titled "HiTide Harris Blues Band" - I can't find any info on this album and don't know which lable it came out on but I do have a small image of the cover, so it does exist.
@Xyros: I managed to track down a copy of The Hey Day Of Hi Tide Harris (TEZU Records 0002) Maple Blues kindly posted it for us @160kbps. You can find it in HGR Basement.
I now have a copy of the Seaside 45 (from Gerard)
So now searching for the other 2 albums.
2 Bob Mac, thanks for the nice vacation surprise. Hope you also have success finding the other 2 lp's.
Thanks a lot !!
Many thanks from the Big Apple!
The link is dead, but thanks a lot! Repost possible?
Thanks for all this Hi-Tide Harris. An excellent singer & guitarist
I spoke to him on the phone I guess just before he died. . He told me he could no longer stand being a black man in the USA and went to Japan where there was far less racism
Nom de Plume...He died? When? I knew him in the 70s.
This is the first I've heard anything about Hi Tide dying. Does anyone have any details? Where? When? Anyway, if it is true then RIP. I also met him in the 1970s when he toured Australia with John Mayall. My brother & I and a friend picked him up from the hotel the band was staying and took him to the beach, we got some beers and spent a pleasant afternoon sitting down the beach.
Been busy searching online for an obituary for Hi Tide Harris and haven't found anything. According to the online Oxford Reference he passed away in Japan in 1990, he would have been 44 years old. Yet another online reference has him still living and aged 75. There was also the "Too Good to Be True" album that was released in 2001, unless this is a reissue of earlier recordings, Harris would have been 55 at the time, and the photo of him on the front cover certainly looks to me like a man in his mid 50s.
Hi Tide Harris - Oxford Reference: b. 26 March 1946, San Francisco, California, USA, d. 1990, Japan. His real name was reportedly Willie Boyd or Willie Gitry.
Hi Tide Harris Born: March 26, 1946 (age 75 years), San Francisco, California, United States
Regarding Hi Tide Harris. I have asked Bob Eagle & Gerard Herzhaft, and neither have heard anything about Hi Tide Harris dying, and believe he is still living in Japan. So unless Nom de Plume knows something the rest of the blues world doesn't, it looks like this is a false rumor. However, it's weird that the Oxford Reference has him dying in 1990, but this is also obviously false as Harris was still recording well beyond 1990.
I have been trying to contact him tide for some time. I am Bob formally with the Chainreaction vocal group" Lady in Red", I gave hi tide Harris his first guitar which was given to me by blues singer, Little Joe blue , herd he was in Japan
Anyone have any addresses ,phone numbers or, record labels? Contact bro. Bob at bjtfish@ gmail.com thanks as Peace.
I thought Harris was about 77, met his ex wife and she enforced me that he was in Japan, have not herd of him dieing. Peace
You should get in touch with Paul Jackson’s widow Akiko. Paul was the legendary bass player with Herbie Hancock Headhunters. He also moved to Japan in the Early 80’s. Paul recorded with Hi Tide and owned P-Vine Records. Also a guy named Mac knew and managed some ex pat musicians and may know Hi Tide.
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