Blues guitarist Pat Hare was born on this day in 1930 in Cherry Valley, AR. Pat Hare was a blues guitarist whose distorted, ornery tone and ripping style gave many of the records on which he performed an urgency and tension few other players could produce. He broke onto the Memphis blues scene as a member of Howlin Wolfs first band in 1948. In 1952 he came to the attention of Sam Phillips, who recruited Hare to work as a Sun Records session guitarist. In the two years that he was with Sun, Hare recorded with Junior Parker, James Cotton, and other Memphis bluesmen, as well as recording a few solo sides. One song, Im Gonna Murder My Baby, expressed the violent side of Hares personality and predicted the act that would end his career a decade later. Hare left Memphis and Sun with Junior Parker in 1954 and resettled in Houston. After touring with Parker and the R&B-heavy Blues Consolidated package, which also included Bobby Blue Bland and Big Mama Thornton, Hare moved to Chicago and joined the Muddy Waters Band. Hares raw guitar sound helped give the Waters band a particularly rough edge. But during his time in Chicago, Hares drinking problems grew worse; after Waters s now-legendary appearance with his band at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, Hare was fired. In 1963 he moved to Minneapolis to work with Mojo Buford, but shortly thereafter was arrested for murdering his girlfriend and a policeman. He was convicted in 1964 and sent to prison for life. He died on in 1980.
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