Ray Scott
drummer
Good Rockin' Charles - Good Rockin' Charles (1975, Rooster)
Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy (1980s)
Jimmy Dawkins - Kant Sheck Dees Bluze (1991, Earwig)
Shirley King - Jump Through My Keyhole (1992, GBW)
Jimmy Dawkins - Blues And Pain (1994, Wild Dog/Ichiban)
He was very close with B.B. King. "B.B. treated me like I was his little Brother, calling me Sonny King. I used to tap dance while he played blues in Memphis and in Arkansas. I traveled with him in his car with the rumble seat. He could really holler when he sang the blues. It seemed people could hear him 4 or 5 miles away - and this without a microphone," says Ray Scott.
Ray is also close with B.B. King's daughter Shirley King. "She calls me Uncle Ray and I've been on some of her records." Ray still talks to B.B. King and Shirley King but no longer actively plays the Blues except for occasional jam sessions like the ones to help save Maxwell Street. He is a singer and drummer but doesn't play drums anymore.
He came to Chicago in 1947 and lived at 1916 West Adams, on Chicago's West Side. In the 1950s he had a band that played all over the Maxwell Street area and other parts of town. His band was called: The Ray Scott Rock and Roll Band. It included Philip Upchurch, Luther Guitar Junior, Floyd Murphy, and Calvin Jones (Muddy Water's bass player and cousin to Ray Scott). Calvin Jones is now living in Tunica, Mississippi.
Scott was also close to Jimmy Rogers. "In 1974 we was working construction in Elk Grove Village. I was his foreman. I told him he should get playing again because he still got the sound, and he got those good records. I sang to him while he was working in the mud."
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