Alabama Red is the professional nickname of a quite unknown blues musician, named Curtis Ray Alabama Red was born in 1927 in Panola, Alabama and learned to sing and to play guitar and piano in different local churches he used to go when he was a kid Like so many other black men, he travelled and settled in Chicago during the forties and soon he formed his own band, playing regularly both in churches and around city blues clubs In fact, he was not a lucky man, because he never had the chance to go to the recording studios In the eighties Alabama Red gave a cassette with some of his music to Hannes Folterbauer, Wolf Records owner, to be published on a record Now and after so many years, we can finally listen to his music in this impressing album The overflowing rolling strength and passion of the thirteen songs, is really amazing Alabama Red is on vocals, piano and guitar, Jimmy Johnson guitar, possibly Alan Batts organ and Howard Scott guitar and completely unknown harmonica, bass, drums and sax players A great Chicago blues album that perfectly shows the music you could listen in that city during the eighties Unfortunately Windy City Blues is the only album of this bluesman which died in 2006