King Biscuit Boy & Sonny Del-Rio - Two Hound Blues (2003)

01 - Two Hound Blues 06:36
02 - Bad Luck Soul 02:21
03 - 7Th Avenue Blue 04:52
04 - Let The Good Times Roll 03:14      play
05 - Treat Your Baby Right 05:56
06 - Play The Honky Tonks 02:36
07 - Hard Times 03:00
08 - I'm In Love 02:29
09 - Blue Light Boogie 04:46
10 - Jailhouse Blues 07:34              play

King Biscuit Boy (Richard Alfred Newell), was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1944, and began playing harmonica in 1961. He soon gained an outstanding reputation, leading to touring with Ronnie Hawkins in 1968-70. Hawkins named him King Biscuit Boy after the popular blues Arkansas, radio program 'King Biscuit Time'.

A talented vocalist and slide guitarist, as well as a powerful and innovative blues harmonica player, King Biscuit Boy’s first album was Official Music that included the hit single Corrina, Corrina in 1970 backed by the great group Crowbar. Following a tour of England, in 1971, he pursued a solo career and in 1974 released King Biscuit Boy that was recorded in New Orleans with producer Allen Toussaint. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990’s, he continued to tour in Canada and the USA, attaining legendary status among blues musicians. He passed away in 2003.

His other albums include Gooduns, Mouth of Steel, Richard Newell aka King Biscuit Boy, The Best of King Biscuit Boy: Badly Bent, and Urban Blues Re:Newell.

Stony Plain Records re-issued several of Newell's recordings on CD in the 1990s , and in 2003, Race Records issued the CD, Two Hound Blues that featured long time friend and musical collaborator, Sonny Del-Rio. Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell received the Great Canadian Blues Award in 1995.

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