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It should’ve happened… multiple hits, a massive career, world recognition and all the rest.

Born Coy Love Jr.

“HOT SHOT” LOVE

SUN RECORD BLUES

He would be a 100+ years of age, if alive. Born Coy

Love Jr., September 9, 1914. He was one out- there

cat. He only made two records—to our knowledge—

but they were as unique as a faulty premonition.

GIVE A LISTEN: “Harmonica Jam”

.

He was a blower and a yakker. At some point he claims to have crossed paths with Elvis; and actually

recorded his two sides with Sam Phillips’ Sun prior to Elvis, in January 1954. Per some Bear Family

(German Record label), Love made some living as a sign painter and he could be spotted riding his bike in

search of jobs and returning home to—per claims—a seven woman nest; at the least. He had painted his

philosophy on the back of his leather coat. The contents, unlike Aristotle and Plato, have been lost but not

that one-off single for Sun. It was gritty, raw with Love mumbling words of a sort; all with an unusual

mouth organ abrasiveness.

After painting the front window of Steve LaVere’s Memphis Blues & Folk Center, in 1963, “Hot Shot” got to

record his second and last single; issued on Mr. Bo Weevil Records.

Coy Love, Jr. died in a car crash, a mile outside of Memphis, June 4, 1980.