r/blues

I was reading how Chuck Berry managed to evade being exploited by labels to a great degree, and actually held onto his songwriting and publishing, even from a lot of his earliest recordings. He also successfully sued The Beach Boys over "Surfin' USA", and made all the income of the Beach Boys song (which would have been millions alone) for just one song. Chuck lived and died a very rich man.

I've read at length how Big Mama Thornton was swindled by Don Robey at Peacock, and I know the stories of early bluesman being ripped off by their labels are infinite. But other than BB, who is an outlier, did any of the legacy names we know and love from the 50's, 60's, or 70's live well from non exploitative contracts? ? At the time of their deaths, Howlin Wolf, Muddy, and even Gatemouth (who toured into the early 2000's) lived in very modest homes. It just made me wonder.

Sometime between 1992-1994 in San Francisco my dad made a cassette recording of a blues song from the radio. We listened to it all the time.

The cassette has been lost for many years now but we are still looking for the song.

Lyrics definitely contained something like “so don’t you worry/ about tomorrow”

Vocals/ delivery sound similar to Sam McClain

Song is kind of sad and may contain references to losing a job.

Any blues fans out there who can point me to the right direction???

Is the recommendations. I live it when someone asks for a specific type of blues and I see performers who are not in my collection. So I give a listen and more often than not am blown away.

I've already played guitar for a while I just need advice on where to start learning acoustic blues as I've been trying to move into this genre for a while.