Quickies:
- From Osceola, AR
- Band members: Frank ‘Son’ Seals
- Formed in 1973

Albums:
The Son Seals Blues Band - 1973 - Alligator
Midnight Son - 1976 - Alligator
Live & Burning - 1978 - Alligator
Chicago Fire - 1980 - Alligator
Bad Axe - 1984 - Alligator
Living in the Danger Zone - 1991 - Alligator
Nothing But the Truth - 1994 - Alligator
Spontaneous Combustion [live] - 1996 - Alligator
Lettin’ Go - 2000 - Telarc

Bio:
It all started with a phone call from Wesley Race, who was at the Flamingo Club on Chicago’s South Side, to Alligator Records owner Bruce Iglauer. Race was raving about a new find, a young guitarist named Son Seals. He held the phone in the direction of the bandstand, so Iglauer could get an on-site report. It didn’t take long for Iglauer to scramble into action. Alligator issued Seals’s 1973 eponymous debut album, which was followed by six more. When Alligator signed him up, his days fronting a band at the Flamingo Club and the Expressway Lounge were numbered. Seals’s jagged, uncompromising guitar riffs and gruff vocals were showcased very effectively on that 1973 debut set, which contained his “Your Love Is like a Cancer” and a raging instrumental called “Hot Sauce.” Midnight Son, his 1976 encore, was by comparison a much slicker affair, with tight horns, funkier grooves, and a set list that included “Telephone Angel” and “On My Knees.” 1994’s Nothing but the Truth sported some of the worst cover art in CD history but a stinging lineup of songs inside.

Similiar Artists:
Otis Rush, Hound Dog Taylor, Magic Slim, Buddy Guy

Links:
Article on his death from the Chicago Sun Times.

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