Booker T. Laury
b. c.1918, USA. A Memphis blues pianist, Laury went unrecorded until the late '70s, but even in 1990 was still a vigorous survivor from the barrelhouse tradition. He was dismissed from the intermission spot by the tourist-oriented Blues Alley club as too old fashioned. He learned piano from Mose Vinson and Memphis Slim, whom he claimed to be a cousin. Laury's rough, energetic playing and powerful vocals were much less polished than Slim's. Laury appeared in the Jerry Lee Lewis bio-pic GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, and his version of the sexually explicit Big Leg Woman is based on Lewis's adaptation of the original recording by Johnny Temple.