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​1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. In his...more

Memphis Slim: Memphis Slim - Rocks (CD)

​1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.

In his lifetime, Memphis Slim was probably the best-known blues singer in the world, moving from Memphis to Chicago and finally to Paris in the early 1960s. But it’s no exaggeration to say that Memphis Slim could rock with the best of them - and this CD is here to prove it!

  • Memphis Slim was born Peter Chatman in Memphis in 1915. His music was based on the raucous, driving piano of the barrelhouse during the boogie-woogie era. 
  • The 29 rocking tracks on this Bear Family Records® CD here were all made in the USA before Slim moved to Paris. 
  • They were made when Slim was still an integral and influential part of the American black music scene – the days when R&B was rock and roll, recorded between 1942 and 1961. 
  • By the definitions of their time, tracks like Rockin’ The House, Pacemaker Boogie, Midnight Jump and the rest were rock and roll. 
  • Memphis Slim Rocks, for sure!
  • We’ve included here Slim’s original version of Nobody Loves Me, his best-known song when renamed Every Day I Have The Blues and recorded by the giants of jazz, blues and rock.
  • Cross-label compilation (Bluebird, Miracle, VeeJay, Strand, King, Premium, United, Chess).
  • Compilation and liner notes by British blues and R'n'R expert Martin Hawkins.
  • Full-color, illustrated 36-page booklet and careful sound restoration round out this important release.
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Although we’ve picked Slim’s rockinest tracks here, there is variety in his piano and vocal performances, and you can still hear all the elements of blues and gospel and R&B that shaped him. 
When he took that music to Chicago in the 1940s and formed an R&B group, The House Rockers, many of the recordings he made then were firmly in the advance guard of rock and roll. 

Slim always maintained a fine band of mainly Memphis musicians. These included sax players Ernest Cotton and Alex Atkins, and particularly the sensational guitar player Matt Murphy

‘Guitar’ Murphy gained great prominence through the ‘Blues Brothers’ movie, and bluesman and producer Willie Dixon told ‘Living Blues’ that Matt ‘is definitely the best guitar player, the best one I heard anywhere.’ 

Talking in Paris in 1968, Memphis Slim said: ‘I’ve had a good life. Well, I had a very bad life, but it took a bad life to make it a good life for me. And I mean by that that I played my dues very early, and now I think I am reaping the benefit.’ 

By the time he died in 1988, Slim had become known around the world and the U.S. Senate had resolved that ‘Memphis Slim become an ambassador at large of good will for the United States.’

The Memphis Music hall of fame and the Blues Foundation hall of fame both have Memphis Slim among their inducted members. The Rock and Roll hall does not, but maybe when they hear these 29 rocking tracks they will find a place for the man who always rocked the house wherever he played.

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  • Interpret: Memphis Slim

  • Album titlle: Memphis Slim - Rocks (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AR
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127176875

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01Rocking The PadMemphis Slim
02Harlem BoundMemphis Slim
03Old TaylorMemphis Slim
04Rockin' The HouseMemphis Slim
05Kilroy Has Been HereMemphis Slim
06No Mail BluesMemphis Slim
07Memphis Slim U.S.A.Memphis Slim
08Beer Drinking WomanMemphis Slim
09Pacemaker BoogieMemphis Slim
10Wish Me WellMemphis Slim
11Big BerthaMemphis Slim
12Nobody Loves MeMemphis Slim
13Back AlleyMemphis Slim
14If You Live That LifeMemphis Slim
15Midnight JumpMemphis Slim
16Trouble TroubleMemphis Slim
17Slim's BoogieMemphis Slim
18The Girl I LoveMemphis Slim
19What's The MatterMemphis Slim
20Lonesome (Blue Blues)Memphis Slim
21Tia JuanaMemphis Slim
22She'S AllrightMemphis Slim
23Walkin' The BoogieMemphis Slim
24Gotta Find My BabyMemphis Slim
25Sassy MaeMemphis Slim
26Love My BabyMemphis Slim
27I'm Lost Without YouMemphis Slim
28Let The Good Times Roll, CreoleMemphis Slim
29Rockin' The BluesMemphis Slim
Memphis Slim Bei seiner ersten Session 1940 für OKeh unter der Leitung des... more
"Memphis Slim"

Memphis Slim

Bei seiner ersten Session 1940 für OKeh unter der Leitung des allgegenwärtigen Lester Melrose übernahm der musikalisch wie körperlich überragende Blues- und Boogie-Piano-Spezialist John Len Chatman den Namen seines Vaters, Peter Chatman, als Platten-Pseudonym. Als er weniger als drei Monate später in ein Chicagoer Studio zurückkehrte, diesmal für Bluebird, hieß er auf den Etiketten Memphis Slim. Denn genau dort wurde er am 3. September 1915 geboren.

Slim setzte sich mit sieben Jahren erstmals ans Klavier (sein Vater konnte sowohl Piano als auch Gitarre spielen) und war mit 16 im Midway Café auf der Beale Street an den 88 Tasten zu hören. Der Pianist Roosevelt Sykes aus St. Louis war sein Haupteinfluss – so stark, dass ihn der Bluesgitarrenveteran Big Bill Broonzy, mit dem Slim zusammenarbeitete, nachdem er 1937 nach Chicago gegangen war, eindringlich dazu ermahnte, sich von Sykes' Stil zu entfernen und seinen eigenen zu entwickeln.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg machte Slim für eine Vielzahl unabhängiger Labels in Chicago Aufnahmen, zuerst 1946 für Hy-Tone. Im Jahr darauf unterschrieb er einen Vertrag mit Lee Egalnicks aufstrebendem Miracle-Label, für das er zusammen mit seinen jumpenden House Rockers 1948 mit der melancholischen Eigenkomposition Messin' Around die Spitze der R&B-Charts erreichte. Im Folgejahr landete er gleich vier weitere Hits (Blue And Lonesome schaffte es auf Platz 2), 1950 nahm er Nobody Loves Me auf, das Lowell Fulson in Every Day I Have The Blues umwandelte. Auf Egalnicks Premium-Logo hatte Slim 1951 einen Verkaufserfolg mit dem weisen und weltlichen Mother Earth, bevor er zu Mercury und dann zu United wechselte, wo Slim 1953 mit The Come Back seinen letzten Hit einspielte.

Wahrscheinlich hat Slim nie eine bessere Serie von Aufnahmen hingelegt als für Vee-Jay, was nicht zuletzt an der Mitwirkung von Matt 'Guitar' Murphy lag, der ab 1952 mit den House Rockers zu hören war. Slims erste Aufnahmesitzung für Vee-Jay im Januar 1958 ergab zwei 45er. Kurz nach einem Konzert mit Muddy Waters in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall im Frühjahr 1959 gingen Slim und seine House Rockers (Murphy, die Saxofonisten Alex Atkins, John Calvin und Ernest Cotton,  Bassist Sam Chatman und Drummer Billie Stepney) am 18. August für eine Marathonsession in ein Chicagoer Studio und nahmen eine komplette LP auf, die unter dem irreführenden Titel 'At The Gate Of Horn' veröffentlicht wurde. Slim nahm an diesem Tag eine Reihe seiner alten Klassiker neu auf, darunter auch Messin' Around. Durch Murphys explosives Gitarrenspiel wurde daraus die definitive Version – sein Solo ist für diese Zeit einfach unglaublich.

Europa bot inzwischen verlockende Tourmöglichkeiten für altgediente Bluesmänner wie Slim und den Bassisten Willie Dixon. Das Duo trat 1959 in England auf und besuchte im Jahr darauf Israel. "Wir diskutierten das ziemlich oft und wir dachten, wir würden da mehr verdienen",sagte der 1992 verstorbene Dixon. "Wir erfuhren erst, dass das Pfund in Israel nur 33 Cent wert war, als wir dort ankamen, aber da war es zu spät!"  Dennoch war Slim die Probleme und Widerwärtigkeiten in seinem Heimatland leid. 1962 siedelte er für immer nach Europa über und lebte wie ein König in Paris, wo er am 24. Februar 1988 starb.

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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15 Sep 2023

Killer cuts with his Houserockers group, and work from a young guitarist Matt Murphy too!

A package that definitely lives up to the title – as it presents the hardest-wailing work recorded by Memphis Slim in the postwar years – including plenty of cuts that were a huge influence on early rock and roll, and many that have him in more of an R&B mode than usua! Slim's records weren't always upbeat, but the cuts in this set definitely are – and include some killer cuts with his Houserockers group, and work from a young guitarist Matt Murphy too

12 Jan 2023

sehr gut

Boogie Woogie und Piano Blues vom Feinsten *****

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Tracklist
Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Rocking The Pad
02 Harlem Bound
03 Old Taylor
04 Rockin' The House
05 Kilroy Has Been Here
06 No Mail Blues
07 Memphis Slim U.S.A.
08 Beer Drinking Woman
09 Pacemaker Boogie
10 Wish Me Well
11 Big Bertha
12 Nobody Loves Me
13 Back Alley
14 If You Live That Life
15 Midnight Jump
16 Trouble Trouble
17 Slim's Boogie
18 The Girl I Love
19 What's The Matter
20 Lonesome (Blue Blues)
21 Tia Juana
22 She'S Allright
23 Walkin' The Boogie
24 Gotta Find My Baby
25 Sassy Mae
26 Love My Baby
27 I'm Lost Without You
28 Let The Good Times Roll, Creole
29 Rockin' The Blues