MEMPHIS SLIM Memphis Slim (2-CD)
- catalog number: CDBDBL196
- weight in Kg 0.3

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