Little Milton (Personal Name)

Little Milton, his greatest sides [SR] p1983: label (Little Milton); container (Little Milton Campbell)

New Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll (Little Milton; b. Milton Campbell, Sept. 7, 1934, Inverness, Miss.; blues singer, guitarist)

New York times WWW site, Aug. 5, 2005 (Little Milton; b. James Milton Campbell, Sept. 7, 1934, Inverness, Miss.; d. yesterday [Aug. 4, 2005], Memphis, aged 71; bluesman with a gritty voice and a sensuous guitar style who had hits throughout the 1960s and 70s)

African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Milton, Little; James Milton Campbell Jr.; blues musician/ singer, songwriter, guitarist; born 07 September 1934 in Inverness, Mississippi, United States; became very popular with the band leader Ike Turner in Missouri; formed his own band; moved to St. Louis, Missouri (1958); together with DJ Bob Lyons formed the label Bobbin Records; joined Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, as an artist on the Checkers label (1962); the hit recording, "We're Gonna Make It" climbed the R&B charts to number one (1965); signed with the Jackson-based Malaco Records in Mississippi (1984); recorded fourteen hit albums; earned the W.C. Handy Blues Award for Entertainer of the Year (1988); Malaco Records released an album entitled "Welcome to Little Milton", a collection of duets which was nominated for the distinguished Grammy Award (1999); was headlined a Memphis Blues festival in London, England (2005); final album, "Think of Me" (2005); died 04 August 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States)

Little Milton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1988.