MEMPHIS SLIM Memphis Slim (2-CD)

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2-CD set. Comes with a long-format hard cover packaging. This is part of a series presenting the... more

MEMPHIS SLIM: Memphis Slim (2-CD)

2-CD set. Comes with a long-format hard cover packaging. This is part of a series presenting the drawing art of Will Argunas. This set contains approx. 40 drawings, plus a biography. Nice.

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Interpret: MEMPHIS SLIM
Album titlle: Memphis Slim (2-CD)
Genre Blues
Label BD MUSIC
Artikelart CD
EAN: 9782849071960
weight in Kg 0.3

Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim (2-CD) CD 1
01	Beer Drinking Woman	MEMPHIS SLIM
02	Diggin' My Potattoes No.2	MEMPHIS SLIM
03	Grinder Man Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
04	Whiskey And Gin Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
05	Lend Me Your Love	MEMPHIS SLIM
06	Rockin' The House	MEMPHIS SLIM
07	(Sometimes I Feel Like A) Motherless Child	MEMPHIS SLIM
08	Harlem Bound	MEMPHIS SLIM
09	Messin' Around	MEMPHIS SLIM
10	Blue And Lonesome	MEMPHIS SLIM
11	Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have The Blues)	MEMPHIS SLIM
12	If You Live That Life	MEMPHIS SLIM
13	Slim's Boogie	MEMPHIS SLIM
14	Havin Fun	MEMPHIS SLIM
15	Mother Earth	MEMPHIS SLIM
16	Trouble Trouble (Misery)	MEMPHIS SLIM
17	My Baby (Left Me)	MEMPHIS SLIM
18	The Question	MEMPHIS SLIM
19	Train Is Comin'	MEMPHIS SLIM
20	Drivin' Me Mad	MEMPHIS SLIM
21	No Mail Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
22	Blue Evening	MEMPHIS SLIM
23	Tia Juana	MEMPHIS SLIM
24	Living The Life I Love	MEMPHIS SLIM
25	The Come Back	MEMPHIS SLIM
26	Wish Me Well	MEMPHIS SLIM
27	Memphis Slim U.S.A.	MEMPHIS SLIM
28	Treat Me Like I treat You	MEMPHIS SLIM
29	What's The Matter	MEMPHIS SLIM
30	The Saddest Song (Rollin' And Tumblin')	MEMPHIS SLIM
31	How Long	MEMPHIS SLIM
32	Gotta Find My Baby	MEMPHIS SLIM
33	Slim's Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
34	Sassy Mae	MEMPHIS SLIM
35	My Gal Keeps Me Crying	MEMPHIS SLIM
36	Stewball	MEMPHIS SLIM
37	Slim's Thing	MEMPHIS SLIM
38	The Lord Have Mercy On Me	MEMPHIS SLIM
39	In The Evening	MEMPHIS SLIM
40	Raining The Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
41	Rack 'Em Black Jack	MEMPHIS SLIM
42	We're Just Two Of The Same Old Kind	MEMPHIS SLIM
43	El Capitan	MEMPHIS SLIM
44	This Is A Good Time To Write A Song	MEMPHIS SLIM
45	True Love	MEMPHIS SLIM
46	Angel Child	MEMPHIS SLIM
47	The I.C. Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
48	You're Gonna Need My Help One Day	MEMPHIS SLIM

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Memphis Slim

At his first session for OKeh in 1940 under the omnipresent Lester Melrose’s supervision, towering blues and boogie piano specialist John Len Chatman adopted the name of his father, Peter Chatman, as his recording alias. When he returned to a Chicago studio less than three months later, this time for Bluebird, he was billed as Memphis Slim. And yes, he was born in the Bluff City on September 3, 1915.

Slim started playing at age seven (his dad was conversant on the 88s as well as guitar), and by 16 he was manning the ivories at the Midway Café on Beale. St. Louis pianist Roosevelt Sykes was his principal influence, so indelibly that after Slim came to Chicago in 1937 and teamed with Big Bill Broonzy, the veteran guitarist strongly urged him to get away from Sykes’ style and develop one of his own.

After the war, Slim recorded for a vast array of Chicago indies, beginning with Hy-Tone in ’46. He inked a pact the next year with Lee Egalnick’s fledgling Miracle label; with his jumping House Rockers, Slim topped the R&B charts in 1948 with his after-hours original Messin’ Around. He posted four more hits the next year (Blue And Lonesome made it to #2), and in ’50 laid down Nobody Loves Me, transformed by Lowell Fulson into Every Day I Have The Blues. On Egalnick’s Premium logo, Slim enjoyed a 1951 hit with the wise and worldly Mother Earth before bouncing to Mercury and then United, where Slim scored his last hit in ’53 with The Come Back.

It’s unlikely Slim ever made a better series of recordings than the ones he did for Vee-Jay, in no small part due to the presence of Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, who first joined the House Rockers in 1952. Slim’s first date for Vee-Jay in January of ’58 produced two 45s, and following a Carnegie Hall concert with Muddy Waters in the spring of ’59, Slim and the House Rockers (Murphy, saxists Alex Atkins, John Calvin, and Ernest Cotton, bassist Sam Chatman, and drummer Billie Stepney) entered a Chicago studio on August 18 for a marathon session that produced his entire misleadingly titled ‘At The Gate Of Horn’ album. Slim revisited a lot of his past classics that day, including Messin’ Around. Murphy’s explosive presence makes it the definitive treatment (his solo is mind-boggling for its time).

Europe was a tantalizing touring possibility for veteran bluesmen such as Slim and bassist Willie Dixon. The duo performed in England in 1959, then zipped over to Israel the next year. "We discussed it quite a bit, and we thought we was gonna be makin’ a bigger buck," said the late Dixon. "We didn’t find out the pound in Israel was worth 33 cents until we got there, and it was too late then!" Nevertheless, Slim was sick of the tribulations he encountered back home. He made Europe his home in ‘62, living like a king in Paris until his February 24, 1988 death there.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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