From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Mon Apr 15, 2002  1:14 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Frank Frost
 
FRANK FROST (By Shaun Mather)

Born Frank Otis Frost, 15 April 1936, Augusta, Arkansas
Died 12 November 1999, Helena, Arkansas

Singer / multi-instrumentalist (harmonica, piano, organ, guitar).
A protege of blues harpists Little Willie Foster and the legendary Sonny
Boy Williamson, Frank Frost was a well journeyed bluesman who never strayed
far from his down-home style, which sounded for all the world like a product
of Excello Records. He had the same lazy, harmonica dominated sound.
He hooked up with drummer Sam Carr in 1954 and they formed a band, before
Frost joined Sonny Boy's band as a guitarist for a three year stint. In '59 he
went back with Carr, to be joined three years later by guitarist Jack Johnson.
They recorded an album, Hey Boss Man!, for Sam Phillips, who issued
it on his Phillips International label as by Frank Frost and the Nighthawks.
It was a great album but unfortunately it failed to rekindle Phillips' love
for the blues. Frost's next release was on Jewel Records in 1966 and was
produced by Scotty Moore. The results were again uncompromising blues
with the single My Back Scratcher (Frost's takeoff on Slim Harpo's Baby
Scratch My Back) even denting the R&B charts for three weeks. Nothing
happened for a decade until Frost, still with Carr and Johnson in Clarksdale,
cut an album for his own Earwig label, followed two years later by Rockin'
The Juke Joint Down. Albums continued in '88, '92 and '96 before Frost died
of a heart attack at his home in Helena.

More info: http://elvispelvis.com/frankfrost.htm
Recommended listening:
Big Boss Man: The Very Best of Frank Frost - Collectables (the Phillips
stuff)
Jelly Roll Blues - Paula (the Jewel recordings)