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BIOGRAPHY
He also backed a number of other Chicago-based blues musicians on record.
His own best known tracks are "Lost in the Jungle", "Special Agent", "Potato
Diggin' Man", and "Worried All the Time", which have appeared on several
compilation albums.
Andrew "Blueblood" McMahon was born in Delhi, Louisiana, United States.
He relocated to Chicago, Illinois, in 1949, and commenced performing in
the blues clubs across that city from the early 1950s.
McMahon first started playing in Howlin' Wolf's backing band in 1960, and
his recording career with Wolf ran between 1964 and 1973. That tenure saw
McMahon play bass on Wolf's single, "Killing Floor" (1964), and on his
albums, The Real Folk Blues (1966) and The Back Door Wolf (1973).
In 1960, McMahon supplied bass guitar to Morris Pejoe's single release
"She Walked Right In". Another early recording outside of Wolf's tutelage
was playing bass guitar on Freddy Young's single, "Someday Baby"
(1964).
In 1973, McMahon recorded his debut solo album, Blueblood,[6] in Chicago,
which was released by Dharma Records. His backing musicians on the
recording included Homesick James, Hubert Sumlin, and Sunnyland Slim. He
released the accompanying single, "Guitar King" / "Short Mini Dress", also
on Dharma. However, his subsequent solo career did not take off.
In 1977, his second album release, Go Get My Baby, a live recording, was
issued on the French record label MCM Records. It had been recorded the
previous November, over two nights, three days apart, at a couple of
Chicago blues clubs. Aron Burton played the bass guitar on a number of
tracks, to allow McMahon to concentrate on his singing. Other musicians
who performed on the recordings were the guitarists Jimmy Dawkins and John
Littlejohn. McMahon wrote five of the fourteen tracks on the recording,
which also had blues standards such as "It Hurts Me Too", "Got My Mojo
Working", and "Little Red Rooster".
Some of his live work appeared in the compilation album, The Chicago
Blues Box 2, issued by Storyville Records, plus four of his studio
recordings were incorporated on another compilation, Cadillac Baby's Bea
& Baby Records: The Definitive Collection.
McMahon died in Monroe, Louisiana, in February 1984, at the age of 57. An
obituary appeared in Living Blues magazine (issue No.59) later that
year.
