Lightnin' Slim Rooster Blues (LP. 180g Vinyl)

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(Blues Joint) 18 tracks One of the names inextricably linked with the music of the Southern... more

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Lightnin' Slim: Rooster Blues (LP. 180g Vinyl)

(Blues Joint) 18 tracks

One of the names inextricably linked with the music of the Southern juke joint is the fabulous Otis Hicks, also known as Lightnin' Slim (1913-1974), a mainstay of "swamp blues" (that unmistakable down-to-earth butecho electric blues from Louisiana). He possessed one of the truly great blues voices, languid, unadorned and untouched. Slim built his style on his expressive vocals and rudimentary guitar work. Rooster Blues is perhaps his best album and one of the best of the swamp blues.

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Interpret: Lightnin' Slim
Album titlle: Rooster Blues (LP. 180g Vinyl)
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
Label Blues Joint
EAN: 8436563185274
weight in Kg 0.29

Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues (LP. 180g Vinyl) LP 1
01	Rooster Blues	Lightnin' Slim
02	Long Leanie Mama	Lightnin' Slim
03	My er Won't Work	Lightnin' Slim
04	"GI" Slim	Lightnin' Slim
05	Lightnin's Troubles	Lightnin' Slim
06	Bed Bug Blues	Lightnin' Slim
07	Bad Luck And Trouble (Bonus Track)	Lightnin' Slim
08	Mean Ole Lonesome Train (Bonus Track)	Lightnin' Slim
09	Bad Luck (Bonus Track)	Lightnin' Slim
10	Hoodoo Blues	Lightnin' Slim
11	It's Mighty Crazy	Lightnin' Slim
12	Sweet Little Woman	Lightnin' Slim
13	Tom Cat Blues	Lightnin' Slim
14	Feelin' Awful Blues	Lightnin' Slim
15	I'm Leavin' You Baby	Lightnin' Slim
16	Sugar Plum (Bonus Track)	Lightnin' Slim
17	Just Made Twenty-One (Bonus Track)	Lightnin' Slim
18	Nothing But The Devil (Bonus Track)	Lightnin' Slim

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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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