LIGHTNIN' SLIM Rooster Blues plus (CD)

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(2016/Soul Jam) 24 tracks. Lightnin 'Slim's best album Rooster Blues was published in 1960 by... more

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LIGHTNIN' SLIM: Rooster Blues plus (CD)

(2016/Soul Jam) 24 tracks.
Lightnin 'Slim's best album Rooster Blues was published in 1960 by the Excello label. In addition to the original masterpiece, this 24-bit digitally remastered CD contains 12 bonus tracks, which were published by Excello during the same period.

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Interpret: LIGHTNIN' SLIM
Album titlle: Rooster Blues plus (CD)
Genre Blues
Label SOUL JAM
Artikelart CD
EAN: 8436559461351
weight in Kg 0.1

Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues plus (CD) CD 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	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	BONUS TRACKS:I`m A Rollin` Stone	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
14	Hello Mary Lee	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
15	Just Made Twenty-One	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
16	Sugar Plum	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
17	Wonderin` And Goin`	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
18	Goin` Home	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
19	Bad Luck And Trouble	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
20	Have Your Way	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
21	I`m Warning You Baby	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
22	Mean Ole Lonesome Train	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
23	Mind Your Own Business	LIGHTNIN' SLIM
24	Love Me Mama	LIGHTNIN' SLIM

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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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