Perhaps Lacy Gibson was not too popular with fans although I'm sure many will have listened, forgetting that he was in the Son Seals album "Live and Burning." He played and / or recorded with Jimmy Reed, Earl Hooker, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, Willie Mabon and even jazz musicians accompanied the likes of Duke Ellington or Count Basie. He was a versatile guitarist, with a striking and passionate voice. There is more to listen to "Easy Woman" contained in the record "Switchy titchy." The May 1, 1936 Lacy Gibson was born in Salisbu ry, North Carolina. The family decided to move away de su lugar natal y después de recorrer parte del sudeste de su país acabaron en Chicago en 1949. Aprendió a tocar la guitarra de la mano de su madre y lo hizo con la música hillbilly, estilo que estaba muy moda y se programaba con bastante frecuencia en las emisoras de la ciudad del viento. Sin embargo, a principios de los años 50 y junto con su compañero de escuela Luther Tucker, entraron en contacto por primera vez con el blues. Maestros tuvo bastantes, sobre todo de escucharlos, como T-Bone Walker, B. B. King y, por supuesto, Muddy Waters, el héroe local en esas fechas. Las primeras lecciones le vinieron del guitarrista Lefty Bates (que había tocado y grabado con casi todo el mundo del blues, as Jimmy Reed without going further), Wayne Bennett or his good friend, bassist Milton Rector. Thanks to this he joined the band of CT Tolbert & His Rhythm Counts of which he won m uchísima stage experience. Here and along with Chancellor would join the Chicago Flames that used to play in clubs accompanying jazz singers. One of these voices
Mitchun Geri was to which he had a son who was bass player and would later be his contact to join the band of Son Seals. Lacy was one of the musicians who formed part of the b litter that was Earl Hooker. He was always very critical of the latter as a bad payer fame was legendary among musicians. Lacy knew I would never charge what Earl was promising but still not stopped working with him, such was the attraction he exercised over his colleagues, and so participated on Monday 17 October 1960 the first recording Messin 'With The Kid Junior Wells did for the label Chief. The two guitarists were Hooker and Gi bson. Three years later played with Willie Mabon, Billy "The Kid" Emerson and Buddy Guy. On February 8, 1963 Buddy record with four cuts for Chess, one of which, a soul ballad My Love Is Real and in which he sang, the credits awarded in the "wrong" to Buddy Guy. The first two singles to his name he would record in the basement of his home in 1968. The label that released called Repeto and songs are titled "I Want an Easy Woman" / "I'm Want to Unmask the Batman" and the other was a single see sion of "The Sky Is Crying" / "She's My Baby." The distribution had been so limited as the recording equipment used. In that year a kinship with jazz musician Sun Ra and recorded in the same basement in 1970 with his brother an LP titled Wishing Ring on behalf of the Sun Ra Arkestra and the label released the Saturn disc that came out very happy because all the music was not very consistent, in his own reflections.
For 9 years remained fairly inactive until the figure of Son Seals and Ralph Bass. Snapper With Mitchun notif or in the band around 1976 Son Seals, traveling for 2 years in Europe and the U.S.. As for Bass, had been a producer for a long time with the Chess brothers and had reached the point where he wanted to perform a series of recordings for some talents highlighted in the Chicago blues scene. His idea was to record 10 albums and in the end would be condensed into 5 LPs would publish the label Red Lightnin 'under the title I Did not Give A Damn If Whites Bought It. Years later, these series would be published by Ralph Bass Delmark with some bonus track. The LP that came out of these is
sions "The Ralph Bass Sessions Vol 1" made in March 1977 had Lacy Gibson in the face as Joe Carter's car to B, but also accompanied by Gibson. The other musicians were Willie Black on bass , Fred Below on drums and Sunnyland Slim the piano. Ralph Bass took the presence of Sunnyland Slim to also record other sessions on the same days, 8, 9 and 16 March and adding another guitarist, Lee Jackson. Later, when Delmark released these discs, called "Crying For My Baby" Lacy Gibson and "Smile On My Face" of Sunnyland Slim. Also in 1977, the most prolific for Lacy, participated in the volume "Chicago Blues Nights Vol 1" from the French label MCM, Marcelle Morgantini, in the sessions with Eddie Taylor at the Golden Slipper on 24 October (the other items were for Eddy Clearwater). And in January 1978 he participated in the session recorded live at the Wise Fools Pub in Chicago with Son Seals published by Alligator named "Live and Burning" and that he would in a double LP with the Chicago Fire. " Following this album, Bruce Gibson Lacy Iglau included four c ANCTIONS for collection "Living Chicago Blues" was recorded even five. The fifth was a cov er BB King's "I Do not Want Cuttin 'Off Your Hair." In these records 
Mitchun tions participate Snapper, King Solomon keyboardist also had just completed its relationship with the group Son Seals and a French guitarist who played with them on their tour of France, Sebastian Danchin, and author of the only existing biography of Earl Hooker. After this season would have a collaboration with the All Stars of Willie Dixon , a trip to Europe with Otis Rush, Albert Collins performances, local jobs in Chicago with Abb Locke, Willie James Lyons and Brewer Phillips also piloting a band that incorporated the harmonica "Mad Dog" Lester Davenport before the last recording and second full album to his name. We
in 1982, on 8 November and 8 December. The Dutch label Black Magic released the album "Switchy titchy" which, being produced by Dick Shurman and supervision of Bruce Iglau r, was recorded at Chicago Recording Company Red Label. Sunnyland Slim Again though participated
and Allen Batts played piano on four tracks, Snapper Mitchum on bass, Abb Locke on tenor sax and Robert Covington on drums. This album was not as successful as expected. In addition, the European tour and more recordings ceased altogether to settle for taking short work in small clubs in the ghetto. For some years, his wife and he ran a club, Ann's Love Nest, on the same floor of the building where they lived until they closed. Sometimes Billy Boy Arnold was hired as a member of his gang, had dole fact participate in the Chicago Blues Festival 1994. Gradually his health deteriorated and had to undergo surgery. Recovered half of their illnesses, little is currently known about Lacy Gibson, the last thing is I had a roommate for a Big Time Sarah, who, through facebook of Delmark Records has brought forward the news of his death. On Monday April 11 died of a heart attack. 
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