AMOS MILBURN TO BOOGIE MAKES A NEW MOMENTUM IN 1956

Child learns and plays the piano at church on Sunday. He learns to boogie woogie in brothels. At fifteen, he enlisted in the Navy until the end of the Second World War. Fighting in the Pacific, he plays piano in the circles of officers. Back in Houston, he staged a first group and scum local clubs. He soon signed with the firm Aladdin Records (along with Lightnin 'Hopkins). It records including a version of a song by Don Ray, Down The Road Apiece, which will then be taken over by Merrill Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Rolling Stones. He obtained some success, but in 1948 he reached the 1st place ranking rhythm & blues with Chicken Shack Boogie, a song heralding the rock 'n'roll. He recorded elsewhere in early 1950 titles Roll, Mr. Jelly, Let's Rock A While (1951) or Rock, Rock, Rock (1952). When they do not brag about his sexual prowess, his songs are mostly about his penchant for alcohol, such as Bad Bad Whiskey, Let Me Go Home, Whiskey and One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer, which was his last hit in 1953.
Despite a new version of Rock & Roll Chicken Shack in 1956, success is more to go. Amos Milburn was ousted by the new generation