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(1991/Charly) 12 tracks - Rare Charly album incl. recordings made between 1952 and 1961! more

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Elmore James: Got To Move (LP)

(1991/Charly) 12 tracks - Rare Charly album incl. recordings made between 1952 and 1961!

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Interpret: Elmore James
Album titlle: Got To Move (LP)
Label CHARLY
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127806215
weight in Kg 0.2

James, Elmore - Got To Move (LP) LP 1
01	Dust My Broom (60s version)	Elmore James
02	Done Somebody Wrong	Elmore James
03	Knocking At Your Door	Elmore James
04	Fine Little Mama	Elmore James
05	Pickin' The Blues	Elmore James
06	Strange Angels	Elmore James
07	My Bleeding Heart	Elmore James
08	I've Got A Right To Love My Baby	Elmore James
09	Early One Morning	Elmore James
10	Look On Yonder Wall	Elmore James
11	Got To Move	Elmore James
12	Make My Dreams Come True	Elmore James
13	It Hurts Me Too (60s version)	Elmore James
14	Elmore's Contribution To Jazz	Elmore James
15	Held My Baby Last Night	Elmore James
16	Everyday I Have The Blues	Elmore James

Elmore James It didn't seem to much matter whether Fire Records boss Bobby Robinson... more

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It didn't seem to much matter whether Fire Records boss Bobby Robinson booked a studio to record slide guitar master Elmore James in Chicago, New York, or New Orleans. Elmore ripped into his own Shake Your Moneymaker at Cosimo Matassa's self-named studio in the Crescent City during the summer of 1961, the Harlem-based Robinson making the trip down to oversee the session.

After supervising Elmore's '59 comeback hit The Sky Is Crying in Chicago with the guitarist's own Broomdusters in sturdy support (see Disc Five), Robinson had helmed a couple of James dates at Beltone Studios in New York with the cream of the city's blues sessioneers behind him. But Elmore was now living mostly in Jackson, Mississippi (problems with the Chicago musicians union made it all but impossible for him to secure work there), so James met Bobby in the Crescent City to record with his Jackson-based band: Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker rattled the 88s, Sammy Lee Bully stroked the electric bass, and King Mose Taylor was on drums.

The non-union session was held under sweltering conditions that don't seem to have slowed the tough little combo down any; Moneymaker rides a fluid glide that's different from the grinding thrust that his platters traditionally had. This is no Dust My Broom retread, but fresh territory for James, whose vocal is all but unintelligible in spots yet thoroughly compelling from one end to the other. Of course, his savage slide work connects as solidly as ever.

Robinson had searched long and hard to locate Elmore prior to the date that spawned The Sky Is Crying, and the producer remained faithful to him to the end. That sad day arrived unexpectedly on May 24, 1963, when James succumbed to a heart attack at his bassist 'Homesick' James Williamson's house on Chicago's near North Side. He was only 45 and had long suffered from a bad ticker. With help from local deejay Big Bill Hill, Elmore had straightened out his longstanding dispute with the union and was primed to resume performing in the Windy City when he died, as well as planning his first European tour.

The electric blues idiom has seen its share of iconic slide guitarists over the decades. For a great many enthusiasts of the genre, there can be no better example of the crashing power of cold bottleneck or metal tube incisively applied to six amplified strings than the classic lick powering Elmore's Dust My Broom.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Customer evaluation for "Got To Move (LP)"

From: Michael Schumann-Teubner On: 22 Jan 2017

Gute Qualität

Gute Qualität, insbesondere wenn man mal bedenkt, wann die Aufnahmen gemacht worden sind. Musik dieser Art dhört auf den Plattenteller und nicht in das CD-Fach. Beom Zuhören merkt man sofort, wer hier alles beinflußt worden ist: ZZ-Top, Clapton, Peter Green usw.. Man hat bei einigen Stücken das Gefühl, als wenn hier nur 1 zu 1 kopiert wurde. Nur Elmore ist einfach besser, da das Orginal.

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