I just read on german news magazine der Spiegel, that LOUISIANA RED has died on saturday, the 25th of februari 2012, at the age of 79. Red was one of the last giants of the Blues. I heard him a couple of times in his good years and I admired his wide range in playing, singing and understanding the blues. I really liked his slide guitar which was sublime! I likes his raunchy voice not with all his songs but it harmonized with many! And sometimes he played harmonica, and it's a pity he didn't blow more often! Red, RIP we will miss you, but your music is around! Here the first song of a great concert: Louisiana Red together with harp king Carey Bell in Germany in the early nineties! I will upload more songs from this concert with Carey Bell in Nuremberg in the nineties in the legendary Jazzkeller. Enjoy & remember a true blues musician! Check out the other live recordings of Red on my channel............. Biography (from wikipedia) Minter lost his parents early in life; His mother died of pneumonia shortly after his birth, and his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan when he was five.[1] He was brought up by a series of relatives in various towns and cities. Red recorded for Chess in 1949, before joining the Army. After leaving the Army, he spent two years in the late 1950s playing with John Lee Hooker in Detroit.[1] He recorded for Checker Records in 1952, billed as Rocky Fuller.[3] His first album, Lowdown Back Porch Blues, was recorded in New York with Tommy Tucker and ...