| Other author/creator | Red, Piano C., 1933-2013, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Piano C. Red |
| Portion of title |
Piano C. Red |
| Abstract |
Blues pianist James "Piano 'C' Red" Wheeler was born in Montevallo, Alabama on September 14, 1933. At the age of twelve, Wheeler learned the basics of blues and boogie-boogie piano and within four years, he was living and performing in Atlanta. A decade later, Wheeler relocated to Chicago calling it home ever since. Wheeler was a regular on Chicago's Maxwell Street blues scene, where many legendary blues performers got their start, and played with the likes of Count Basie and B.B. King. Wheeler and his band, the Flat Foot Boogie Men, continued to play in and around the old Maxwell Street area, in addition to performing at other Chicago blues clubs. For more than forty years, Wheeler worked as a cab driver by day and blues musician by night and for this reason named his 1999 CD release Cab Driving Man. He passed away on June 3, 2013. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 April 4. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Stock number | A2003.065 HistoryMakers |
