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Memphis Slim & His House Rockers: Memphis Slim U.S.A.

one of the very finest in the sea of albums released by Memphis Slim - primarly thanks to the work of young wild guitar master Matt Murphy. At the time he already belonged to the most-in-demand players in the US, and he got plenty of room to stretch out. This is a great record that will become a classic! MEMPHIS LIM - pno/voc, MATT 'GUITAR' MURPHY - gtr, HENRY TAYLOR - bass, OTHO ALLEN - drums, plus horns.


Memphis Slim has made more records than any other pianist in blues history. His rich vocals and solid piano work have been exhibited in settings including blues, R&B, rock, even country & western - solo or in bands both large and small. Slim's recordings for the United label are outstanding, not only among Slim's own proliferation of material, but among the whole field of urban band blues.

And they marked a special occasion: the introduction to Chicago blues of Matt 'Guitar' Murphy. The guitar brought a change in the sound of Memphis Slim & His House Rockers that lasted until Slim disbanded the group and moved to France. Murphy joined the Blues Brothers and became a model for even more emerging modern blues guitarists. This CD contains two Murphy instrumentals, three songs not available since the 78s, and four previously unissued alternate takes

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Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim U.S.A. CD 1
01 Memphis Slim USA Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
02 Sassy Mae Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
03 Little Piece Of Mind Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
04 Got To Find My Baby Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
05 Banana Oil Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
06 Blue And Lonesome Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
07 Two Of A Kind Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
08 She's Allright Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
09 Blues All Around My Head Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
10 Wish Me Well Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
11 Four Years Of Torment Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
12 Got To Find My Baby Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
13 Slim Was Just Kiddin' Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
14 Jive Time Bounce Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
15 Backbone Boogie Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
16 Memphis Slim USA (Alternate) Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
17 She's Allright (Alternate) Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
18 Blues All Around My Head (Alternate) Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
19 Blue And Lonesome (Alternate) Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
Memphis Slim At his first session for OKeh in 1940 under the omnipresent Lester... more
"Memphis Slim & His House Rockers"

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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Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim U.S.A. CD 1
01 Memphis Slim USA
02 Sassy Mae
03 Little Piece Of Mind
04 Got To Find My Baby
05 Banana Oil
06 Blue And Lonesome
07 Two Of A Kind
08 She's Allright
09 Blues All Around My Head
10 Wish Me Well
11 Four Years Of Torment
12 Got To Find My Baby
13 Slim Was Just Kiddin'
14 Jive Time Bounce
15 Backbone Boogie
16 Memphis Slim USA (Alternate)
17 She's Allright (Alternate)
18 Blues All Around My Head (Alternate)
19 Blue And Lonesome (Alternate)