LIGHTNIN' SLIM Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim's Bell Ringer (CD)

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(1957-64 'Excello') (64:23/24) Neben Slim Harpo war Lightnin' Slim der populärste und... more

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LIGHTNIN' SLIM: Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim's Bell Ringer (CD)

(1957-64 'Excello') (64:23/24) Neben Slim Harpo war Lightnin' Slim der populärste und kommerziell erfolgreichste Musiker des 'Excello'-Labels. Diese CD faßt seine beiden LPs komplett zusammen! Ebenso bedenkenlos zu empfehlen wie die Alben von Lazy Lester und Slim Harpo / in the '50s he was Jay Miller's most popular, and commercially successful recording artist. The guitar player's two LP records 'Rooster Blues', and 'Bell Ringer' are included here in their entirety. Highly recommended real stuff!!: Rooster Blues, My Starter Won't Work, Hoo-Doo Blues, It's Mighty Crazy, Love Is Just A Gamble, You Move Me Baby, etc.

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Interpret: LIGHTNIN' SLIM
Album titlle: Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim's Bell Ringer (CD)
Genre Blues
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667151726
weight in Kg 0.107

Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim's Bell Ringer (CD) CD 1
01	Rooster Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
02	Long Leanie Woman	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
03	My Starter Won't Work	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
04	G.I. Slim	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
05	Lightnin's Troubles	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
06	Bed Bug Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
07	Hoo-Doo Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
08	It's Mighty Crazy	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
09	Sweet Little Woman	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
10	Tom Cat Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
11	Feelin' Awful Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
12	I'm Leavin' You Baby	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
13	Love Me Mama	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
14	She's My Crazy Little Baby	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
15	Have Mercy On Me Baby	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
16	Winter Time Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
17	If You Ever Need Me	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
18	Mean Ole Lonesome Train	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
19	Baby Please Come Back	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
20	Love Is Just A Gamble	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
21	Somebody Knockin'	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
22	You Give Me The Blues	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
23	Don't Start Me Talking	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
24	You Move Me Baby	LIGHTNIN' SLIM

Lightning Slim Lightning Slim (later spelled Lightnin' Slim) The recording... more

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"LIGHTNIN' SLIM"

Lightning Slim

Lightning Slim (later spelled Lightnin' Slim)

The recording of blues from Baton Rouge really began here, with this disc, in the spring of 1954. Here was an artist and a song that recording engineer Jay Miller said he, "loved from the start. I thought his music was just so real, you know. He was exactly what I wanted."
On the day he walked into Miller's recording studio in Crowley, the artist was Otis Hicks, a former farmer, former convict, and sometime juke joint bluesman working as a jobbing guitarist with local bands. He always referred to himself as 'a musicianer.' By the time he left the studio, Miller had renamed him Lightning Slim (with a 'g') and had big plans for Slim's career. They had been introduced by disc jockey Ray Meaders, 'Diggie Doo' on WXOK Baton Rouge, when Hicks was playing in a band Meaders thought Miller would like. "But in my judgement," Miller said, "they wasn't too much of a band. And I was just walking out the hall when I heard a guitar playing some of these low-down blues. So I just turned round, I said 'who in the world is that?' I hadn't heard the guitarist, you see the room wasn't very large and with seven or eight musicians, they had three horns, I had never heard the guitar once. I just thought he was so great I turned round and went back in there, started talking to him. I asked him if he did any singing. He said 'I knows a few numbers,' you know how he talked, real slow and everything. So he sang two or three songs and I tell you what, they did things to me. I just knew right then and there we had somebody that would sell."Lightning SlimBad Luck was a song where, Miller said, he recorded the drums way back and focused on Lightning Slim's guitar and vocals along with a wailing harmonica by Bill Phillips, a man Miller had brought in for the session. Miller loved Lightning's forlorn lyrics such as 'if it wasn't for bad luck / poor Lightning wouldn't have no luck at all' and his telling how he was born so late in the year that 'to tell you the truth about it / I was lucky to get here at all.' He also encouraged Lightning's signature call to his support player, 'blow your harmonica, son.' Lightning's first tunes were adapted from songs he'd probably heard for years on jukeboxes and in the mouths of other singers, but his expressive voice and hangdog style made songs like Bad Luck almost his own...

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Extract from: Various Artists - Blues Kings Of Baton Rouge (2-CD) - BCD17512
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