![]() ![]() 1976/Jimmy Johnson, David Matthews, Ike Anderson, Dino Neal – Recording date Oct. 1976/Hip Lankchan, Jimmy Miller, Ernest Gatewood, Tyrone Centuray – Recording date Nov. 1975ĬD6: Jimmy Dawkins, Richard Kirch, Sylvester Boines, Tyrone Centuray – Recording date Nov. 1975/Willie Kent, Willie James Lyons, Big ‘Guitar’ Red, Tyrone Centuray – Recording date Oct. 1975/Luther Johnson Jr., Willie James Lyons, Willie Kent, Tyrone Centuray – Recording date Oct. 1975ĬD5: Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Dawkins, Sylvester Boines, Tyrone Centuray, Andrew Odom – Recording date Oct. 1977ĬD4: Bobby King, Leonard Gill, Harry Mitchum, Bill Warren, Muddy Waters Jr. 1976/Eddie Taylor, Lacy Gibson, Hayes Ware, Freddy Below – Recording date Oct. 1976ĬD3: Eddie Clearwater, Jimmy Dawkins, Sylvester Boines, Freddy Belov – Recording date Nov. 1977/John Littlejohn, Larry Burton, Aaron Burton, Candy Utah – Recording date Nov. 1976ĬD2: Big Mojo Elem, Willie James Lyon, Wayne Bennett, Freddy Below – Recording date Oct. She was at the right place at the right time.ĬD1: Magic SLim, Alabama Junior Pettis, Nick Holt, Douglas Holt – Recording date Nov. Many of the blues musicians had not recorded before and can only been found on the Storyville label that issued all the recordings on CD’s. She recorded live: Magic Slim, Big Mojo Elem,John Littlejohn, Eddie Clearwater,Eddie Taylor, Bobby King,Jimmy Johnson, Luther Johnson Jr.,Willie Kent, James Lyons,Hip Lankchan,Big Vocie Odom,Bluebloos McMahon, Joe Carter and Jimmy Dawkins at “Ma Bea’s”, “Golden Slipper”, “Queen Bea’s”, and “Big Duke’s”, on Chicago west and south side. Marcelle made three trips to Chicago in 1975,19 and arrived with her Nagra machine, a small mixing desk and a selection of microphones. She knew that it could only be done if she had her own record label and complete artistic control. She said to me, “I do not want an expensive coat or jewels – I want to go to Chicago to record the blues. Says Jacques Morgantini: It was the year of Marcelle’s 50th birthday and she came into some money from her family. Marcelle returned from her Chicago pilgrimage filled with excitement. Guitarist Jimmy Dawkins was a good friend and helped them in Chicago to meet and hear the many good blues musicians that played at the different clubs in Chicago. A young French woman Marcelle Chailleux Morgantini was married to Jacques Morgantini who changed her life into American jazz and blues. The brief and dazzling life of MCM Records was a labor of love that captured many treasurable live performances from the last flowering of the classic Chicago Blues age.
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