Eddie Hinton - A Tragic Deep Soul Genius, part 2

Part 2 features another pair of terrific albums:

"....Hinton lived in Macon, Georgia, in the early 1980s, fronting a band called the Rocking Horses. The band drew its repertoire from Hinton's Very Extremely Dangerous album and also wrote and played some new material. Hinton recorded six songs under producer Jimmy Johnson's direction at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1982 that were released as an album in 1986 under the title Letters from Mississippi. The album circulated under the Rounder and Mobile Fidelity imprints and garnered a great deal of insider interest. Hinton made two more albums for Bullseye: Cry and Moan (1991) and Very Blue Highway (1993), recorded at Birdland Studio in Town Creek, Lawrence County.

In the early 1990s, Hinton moved to Birmingham and was living there when he suffered a heart attack and died on July 28, 1995. He was buried in Tuscaloosa. Since Hinton's death there has been much retrospective interest in his musical legacy. Johnny Sandlin produced an excellent compilation of never-released tracks titled Hard Luck Guy (1999) and British producer Peter Thompson has compiled three albums of Eddie's unreleased music, accompanied by the MSRS and others. Hinton remains one of the true innovators in the Muscle Shoals music legacy. In 2001, Hinton was awarded a bronze star and recognized as a music achiever by the Alabama Music Hall of Fame."

There are three Bulls Eye Blues albums that I am not going to post - they are sensitive about their stuff showing up on blogs even if they can't be bothered to keep it in print.