Elmore James The Fire / Enjoy Singles (9x7inch, 45rpm, Box, Ltd.)

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Elmore James: The Fire / Enjoy Singles (9x7inch, 45rpm, Box, Ltd.)

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Towards the end of a career cut tragically short, Elmore James recorded a string of singles between 1959 and 1963 with renowned producer Bobby Robinson under his Fire and Enjoy record labels that would eventually lend their name to this collection. Together they would capture James's iconic take on the blues with his effortless intersections of slide guitar complementing the marching calls from his pained Blues vocals.

This feast for the eyes box-set includes nine 7" discs and a Fire Records tote bag sized perfectly for carrying your favourite 7" record and not much else. A great addition for collectors of rare blues and DJs.

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Interpret: Elmore James
Album titlle: The Fire / Enjoy Singles (9x7inch, 45rpm, Box, Ltd.)
Label P-VINE
Genre Blues
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Geschwindigkeit 45 U/min
Vinyl record size Single (7 Inch)
Edition 2 Japan Edition
Artikelart 7inch
EAN: 4995879640005
weight in Kg 0.62

James, Elmore - The Fire / Enjoy Singles (9x7inch, 45rpm, Box, Ltd.) 7inch 1
01	Make My Dreams Come True	Elmore James
02	Bobby's Rock	Elmore James
03	The Sky Is Crying	Elmore James
04	Held My Baby Last Nigh	Elmore James
05	Rollin' & Tumblin'	Elmore James
06	I'm Worried	Elmore James
07	Done Somebody Wrong	Elmore James
08	Fine Little Mama	Elmore James
09	Stranger Blues	Elmore James
10	Anna Lee	Elmore James
11	Look On Yonder Wall	Elmore James
12	Shake Your Moneymaker	Elmore James
13	It Hurts Me Too	Elmore James
14	Pickin' The Blues	Elmore James
15	Bleeding Heart	Elmore James
16	Mean Mistreatin' Mama	Elmore James
17	Everyday I Have The Blues	Elmore James
18	Dust My Broom	Elmore James

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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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