Elmore James The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD)
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Elmore James: The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD)
Elmore James' last major recordings were made in the 1960s when he was signed by New York producer/label owner Bobby Robinson (Fire, Fury & Enjoy Records). In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Elmore James seemed to get better over the years. These recordings have appeared on so many different compilations - all with different sound qualities. Fortunately, we have this three-digit 58-song box that summarizes at least one existing recording of everything Elmore recorded with Robinson at the wheel.
Together with the standards Dust My Broom, The Sky Is Crying the classic One Way Out, the majority of this speaker set breaks new ground and is considered one of Elmore's most emotional works. These included the last sessions of our Elmore before his death and several tracks he recorded as a session guitarist for Bobby Robinson. On May 24, 1963, James suffered a heart attack that cost him his life at the age of 45. Among the musicians he inspired are The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, are just a few of the many musicians he has influenced throughout their careers. In 1980 he was elected to the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, and in 1994 Elmore was inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. Rollling Stone magazine has him on the list of the 30 best guitarists of all time!
Article properties: Elmore James: The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD)
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Interpret: Elmore James
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Album titlle: The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD)
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Genre Blues
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Artikelart CD
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Label Sunset Blvd Records
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EAN: 0708535794721
- weight in Kg 0.107
| James, Elmore - The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | The Sky Is Crying | Elmore James | ||
| 02 | Held My Baby Last Night | Elmore James | ||
| 03 | Bobby's Rock | Elmore James | ||
| 04 | Dust My Broom | Elmore James | ||
| 05 | Baby Please Set A Date | Elmore James | ||
| 06 | Rollin' And Tumblin' | Elmore James | ||
| 07 | I'm Worried | Elmore James | ||
| 08 | Done Somebody Wrong | Elmore James | ||
| 09 | Fine Little Mama | Elmore James | ||
| 10 | I Can't Stop Loving You | Elmore James | ||
| 11 | Early One Morning | Elmore James | ||
| 12 | I Need You | Elmore James | ||
| 13 | Strange Angel | Elmore James | ||
| 14 | She Done Moved | Elmore James | ||
| 15 | Something Inside Me | Elmore James | ||
| 16 | Stranger Blues | Elmore James | ||
| 17 | Anna Lee | Elmore James | ||
| 18 | Bleeding Heart | Elmore James | ||
| James, Elmore - The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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| 01 | Standing At The Crossroads | Elmore James | ||
| 02 | One Way Out | Elmore James | ||
| 03 | Got To Move | Elmore James | ||
| 04 | Person To Person | Elmore James | ||
| 05 | So Unkind | Elmore James | ||
| 06 | My Kind Of Woman | Elmore James | ||
| 07 | My Baby's Gone | Elmore James | ||
| 08 | Find My Kind Woman | Elmore James | ||
| 09 | Look On Yonder Wall | Elmore James | ||
| 10 | Shake Your Moneymaker | Elmore James | ||
| 11 | Mean Mistreatin' Mama | Elmore James | ||
| 12 | Sunnyland | Elmore James | ||
| 13 | Go Back Home Again | Elmore James | ||
| 14 | You Know You're Wrong | Elmore James | ||
| 15 | Hand In Hand | Elmore James | ||
| 16 | I've Got A Right To Love My Baby | Elmore James | ||
| 17 | Every Day I Have The Blues | Elmore James | ||
| 18 | It Hurts Me Too | Elmore James | ||
| James, Elmore - The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection (3-CD) CD 3 | ||||
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| 01 | Talk To Me Baby | Elmore James | ||
| 02 | Can't Stop Loving My Baby | Elmore James | ||
| 03 | She's Got To Go | Elmore James | ||
| 04 | Pickin' The Blues | Elmore James | ||
| 05 | Twelve Year Old Boy | Elmore James | ||
| 06 | Up Jumped Elmore | Elmore James | ||
| 07 | I Believe | Elmore James | ||
| 08 | I Gotta Go Now | Elmore James | ||
| 09 | Make My Dreams Come True | Elmore James | ||
| 10 | Find My Kind Of Woman (Alternate Version) | Elmore James | ||
| 11 | Mean Mistreatin' Mama (Alternate Version) | Elmore James | ||
| 12 | You Know You Done Me Wrong | Elmore James | ||
| 13 | Up Jumped Elmore (Blacksnake Blues) [Alternate Version] | Elmore James | ||
| 14 | (Poor Little) Angel Child (Sam Myers) | Elmore James | ||
| 15 | Little Girl (Sam Myers) | Elmore James | ||
| 16 | You Do It If You Want To (Marshall Jones) | Elmore James | ||
| 17 | Woke Up Happy (Marshall Jones) | Elmore James | ||
| 18 | Back In Mississippi (A Conversation) | Elmore James | ||
Elmore James
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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