News & Updates — Little Milton

Happy birthday to the soulful blues guitarist and singer Little Milton, most famous for his hit version of "Grits Ain't Groceries" and his fine albums on Chess, Stax and Malaco. He is generally known to fit into the BB King/Albert King style of brassy, soulful blues with strings and such. It's a formula that found Milton some hits songs in the '60s & '70s. From the Mississippi Delta, his father Big Milton was a blues musician and Little Milton got into country music and jump blues, with T-Bone Walker a particularly big influence. He started his career with the Rhythm...