Biography

Sometimes known as Sonny Boy Williamson II, bluesman Rice Miller took his musical moniker from another blues singer who used it first, though Miller was the best-known Sonny Boy Williamson. He began performing in the 1920s, but the Mississippi singer/harmonica player is best known for his pioneering Chicago-style work in the '50s, which influenced Chicago blues singers and harmonica players in equal measure. In the '60s, he was one of those influential blues musicians embraced by British rockers, and he recorded with the Yardbirds, the Animals, and others before his death in 1965.

Top Tracks

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• Baby Please Don't Go

• Bo Diddley

• Bring Another Half Pint

• Bring It On Home

• Bye Bye Bird

• Cat Hop

• Catfish Blues

• Checkin' Up On My Baby

• City Of New Orleans

• Cool, Cool Blues

• Crazy About You Baby

• Decoration Day

• Don't Let Your Right Hand Know

• Don't Send Me No Flowers

• Don't Start Me To Talkin'

• Dust My Broom

• Eyesight To The Blind

• Falling Rain

• Fattening Frogs For Snakes

• From The Bottom

• Getting Out Of Town

• Gotta Find My Baby

• Help Me

• Highway 49

• Highway 69

• I Ain't Beggin' Nobody

• I'm Not Beggin' Nobody

• Keep It To Yourself

• Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pockets

• Little Village

• Mighty Long Time

• My Babe

• Night Time Is The Right Time

• Nine Below Zero

• Nobody But You

• One Way Out

• Pontiac Blues

• Rosalee

• Runnin' Drunk

• She Got Next To Me

• She's My Baby

• Steady Rollin' Man

• Sugar Mama Blues

• Take Your Hand Out Of My Pocket

• Tappin' That Thing

• The Sky Is Crying

• V-8 Ford

• When The Lights Went Out

• Whistling Pines

• Willie Mae

• Work With Me

• You Killing Me

• Your Funeral And My Trial

Discography

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• Clownin' with the World

  Alligator Records

  1989

• Don't Send Me No Flowers

  Decal (UK)

  1966

• In Memoriam

  Chess

  1965

• Help Me

  Chess

  1964

• Down and Out Blues

  Chess

  1959