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“People let me take you down to the Chitlin’ Circuit. Pulling out of Jackson/Heading to Mobile/Gonna stop in Baton Rouge/Then it’s on to Greenville/DJs playin’ my music on the radio/And when I come to town everybody want to see the Bill Coday show/On the Chitlin’ Circuit/Everybody’s having a ball/Playing another hole in the wall.”
Those lyrics are taken from Bill Coday’s song “On The Chitlin’ Circuit” that references that famed part of the Deep South where modern Southern Soul Blues still lives and Bill Coday is a legend.
Born May 10, 1942, in Coldwater, Mississippi, Coday, the second of twelve children, was brought up in rural Arkansas with a strong religious Baptist background. Like many other great R&B singers, Bill was brought up singing gospel in church choirs and local quartets. Soon he crossed over to the Blues and began performing in juke joints around Blytheville, AK, with a band that included blues guitarist Son Seals Jr. He moved to Chicago in 1961 was spotted by Denise LaSalle while he was performing at the Black Orchid club. “Denise and her former husband, Bill Jones, owned Crajon Records. They signed me to their label, changing my name from “Chicago Willie” to “Bill Coday.”
Bill Coday CrajonLaSalle teamed Coday with Memphis soul icon Willie Mitchell (co-architect of the Al Green/Hi Records sound). Coday’s first singles for Crajon Productions were “Sixty Minute Teaser” and “I Get High on Your Love”.
Those lyrics are taken from Bill Coday’s song “On The Chitlin’ Circuit” that references that famed part of the Deep South where modern Southern Soul Blues still lives and Bill Coday is a legend.
Born May 10, 1942, in Coldwater, Mississippi, Coday, the second of twelve children, was brought up in rural Arkansas with a strong religious Baptist background. Like many other great R&B singers, Bill was brought up singing gospel in church choirs and local quartets. Soon he crossed over to the Blues and began performing in juke joints around Blytheville, AK, with a band that included blues guitarist Son Seals Jr. He moved to Chicago in 1961 was spotted by Denise LaSalle while he was performing at the Black Orchid club. “Denise and her former husband, Bill Jones, owned Crajon Records. They signed me to their label, changing my name from “Chicago Willie” to “Bill Coday.”
Bill Coday CrajonLaSalle teamed Coday with Memphis soul icon Willie Mitchell (co-architect of the Al Green/Hi Records sound). Coday’s first singles for Crajon Productions were “Sixty Minute Teaser” and “I Get High on Your Love”.
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