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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Arbee Stidham</b> (* <a href="9._Februar" title="9. Februar">9. Februar</a> <a href="1917" title="1917">1917</a> in DeValls Bluff, <a href="Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>; † <a href="26._April" title="26. April">26. April</a> <a href="1988" title="1988">1988</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> war ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a>-Musiker (<a href="Gesang" title="Gesang">Gesang</a>, <a href="Saxophon" title="Saxophon">Saxophon</a>, <a href="Gitarre" title="Gitarre">Gitarre</a>, <a href="Harmonika" class="mw-redirect" title="Harmonika">Harmonika</a>).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Arbee Stidhams Vater Luddie Stidham war Musiker im <a href="Jimmie_Lunceford" title="Jimmie Lunceford">Jimmie-Lunceford</a>-Orchestra.
Mit seiner Formation <i>Southern Syncopators</i> trat Arbee in den 1930er Jahren in Clubs seines Heimatstaats Arkansas auf; er war auch im Radiosender KARK in <a href="Little_Rock" title="Little Rock">Little Rock</a> zu hören und begleitete 1930/31 mit seiner Band die Sängerin <a href="Bessie_Smith" title="Bessie Smith">Bessie Smith</a> bei einer Tournee durch die Südstaaten. Stidham trat häufig in Little Rock und <a href="Memphis_(Tennessee)" title="Memphis (Tennessee)">Memphis (Tennessee)</a>, bevor er in den 1940er Jahren nach <a href="Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> zog. Dort arbeitete er mit <a href="Memphis_Slim" title="Memphis Slim">Memphis Slim</a>; außerdem machte er Plattenaufnahmen mit dem <a href="Lucky_Millinder" title="Lucky Millinder">Lucky-Millinder</a>-Orchestra für <a href="Victor_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Records">Victor</a>. Er nahm auch unter eigenem Namen für Victor auf (<i>Your Heart Belongs to Me</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, mit dem er in <a href="Liste_der_Singles_in_den_Race-Records-Charts_1948" title="Liste der Singles in den Race-Records-Charts 1948">R&B-Charts</a> erfolgreich war, ferner in den 1950er- und 1960er-Jahren für <a href="Bob_Shad" title="Bob Shad">Bob Shads</a> Label Sittin’ In With, Checker (<i>I Don't Play/Don't Set Your Cap for Me</i>), States (<i>Look Me Straight in the Eye</i>, 1957, mit Earl Hooker und Lefty Bates<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Abco (<i>Meet me Half Way</i>, mit <a href="Willie_Dixon" title="Willie Dixon">Willie Dixon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> und <i>Killer Blues</i>), <a href="Prestige_Records" title="Prestige Records">Prestige/Bluesville</a>, Mainstream und <a href="Folkways_Records" title="Folkways Records">Folkways</a>. Als Reverenz an den verstorbenen US-Präsidenten Roosevelt spielte er einen Protestsong, <i>Mr. Commissioner</i> (Checker 751) 1952 ein.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>1973 hatte er einen Auftritt in dem Film <i>The Bluesman</i>. Stidham trat in diesen Jahren auf zahlreichen Festivals und in Clubs auf, auch außerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten. In den 1970er Jahren unterrichtete er an der <a href="Cleveland_State_University" title="Cleveland State University">Cleveland State University</a>.
</p><p>Stidham war ein Bluessänger und Gitarrist, der im weitesten Sinn im Mississippi-Country-Stil eines <a href="Big_Bill_Broonzy" title="Big Bill Broonzy">Big Bill Broonzy</a> spielte.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Er nahm mit Jazz Gilum und Memphis Slim auch zwei Coverversionen von Broonzy-Songs auf, <i>I Feel So Good</i> und <i>Rockin' Chair Blues</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Charles Keil sieht in seinem Buch <i>Urban blues</i> Arbee Stidham in der Tradition der Kansas City-Shouter wie Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, <a href="Jimmy_Witherspoon" title="Jimmy Witherspoon">Jimmy Witherspoon</a>, <a href="Big_Joe_Turner" title="Big Joe Turner">Big Joe Turner</a> oder <a href="Wynonie_Harris" title="Wynonie Harris">Wynonie Harris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskographische_Hinweise">Diskographische Hinweise</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Complete Recordings Vol. 1: 1947–1951</i> (Blue Moon), mit <a href="Sax_Mallard" title="Sax Mallard">Sax Mallard</a>, <a href="Tab_Smith" title="Tab Smith">Tab Smith</a>, Lucky Millinder</li>
<li><i>Complete Recordings Vol. 2: 1951–1957</i> (Blue Moon), mit <a href="Red_Holloway" title="Red Holloway">Red Holloway</a>, <a href="Earl_Hooker" title="Earl Hooker">Earl Hooker</a>, Tommy 'Mad' Jones, J.T. Brown, Wayne Bennett, Lefty Hayes</li>
<li><i>My Heart Belongs to You</i> (Crown, rec. 1947–57, ed. 1981)</li>
<li><i>Arbee's Blues</i> (Folkways, 1961), mit Memphis, Slim, <a href="Jump_Jackson" class="mw-redirect" title="Jump Jackson">Jump Jackson</a></li>
<li><a href="Jazz_Gillum" title="Jazz Gillum">Jazz Gillum</a> / Arbee Stidham / <a href="Memphis_Slim" title="Memphis Slim">Memphis Slim</a> – <i>Blues By Jazz Gillum</i> (Folkways, 1961)</li>
<li><i>Tired of Wandering – The Blues of Arbee Stidham</i> (Prestige/Bluesville, 1960), mit <a href="King_Curtis" title="King Curtis">King Curtis</a>, John Wright, <a href="Leonard_Gaskin" title="Leonard Gaskin">Leonard Gaskin</a>, Armond 'Jump' Jackson (d)</li>
<li><i>A Time for Blues</i> (Mainstream, 1972)</li>
<li><i>There's Always Tomorrow</i> (Folkways, 1973)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000928363">Arbbee Stidham</a> bei <a href="AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> (englisch)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/Arbee+Stidham">Arbee Stidham</a> bei <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bluesnexus.com/bio.php?id=230">Porträt bei Blues Nexus</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://treasurechess.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/arbee-stidham/"><i>Arbee Stidham.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 17. Mai 2024</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AArbee+Stidham&rft.title=Arbee+Stidham&rft.description=Arbee+Stidham&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Ftreasurechess.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F05%2F12%2Farbee-stidham%2F&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">vgl. <i><a href="Billboard_(Magazin)" title="Billboard (Magazin)">Billboard</a></i> vom 23 October 1948 <span class="-print"><a href="Internationale_Standardnummer_f%C3%BCr_fortlaufende_Sammelwerke" title="Internationale Standardnummer für fortlaufende Sammelwerke">ISSN</a> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=iss%3D%220006-2510%22&key=cql">0006-2510</a></span></span>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sebastian Danchin: <i>Earl Hooker, blues master</i> (American Made Music Series). University Press, Jackson, Miss. 2001, ISBN 1-57806-306-X, S. 348.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mitsutoshi Inaba: <i>Willie Dixon. Preacher of the Blues</i>. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-6993-6</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Guido van Rijn: <i>Roosevelt's blues. African-American blues and gospel songs on FDR</i> (American Made Music Series). University Press, Jackson, Miss. 1997, ISBN 0-87805-938-5, S. 242.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">vgl. <i>High fidelity</i>, Bd. 11 (1961).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Roger House: <i>Blue Smoke. The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy</i>. University Press, Baton Rouge 2010, ISBN 978-0-8071-3720-8, S. 158.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles Keil: <i>Urban Blues</i>. University Press, Chicago, Ill. 1991, ISBN 0-226-42960-1, S. 63 (Nachdr. d. Ausg. Chicago, Ill. 1991).</span>
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