MEMPHIS SLIM Rockin' The House (2-CD)

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MEMPHIS SLIM: Rockin' The House (2-CD)

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Interpret: MEMPHIS SLIM
Album titlle: Rockin' The House (2-CD)
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
Label Fantastic Voyage Music
EAN: 5055311001517
weight in Kg 0.2

Memphis Slim - Rockin' The House (2-CD) CD 1
01	Mistake In Life	MEMPHIS SLIM
02	Slim's Boogie	MEMPHIS SLIM
03	Cheatin' Around	MEMPHIS SLIM
04	Rockin' The House	MEMPHIS SLIM
05	Lend Me Your Love	MEMPHIS SLIM
06	Harlem Bound	MEMPHIS SLIM
07	Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have The Blues)	MEMPHIS SLIM
08	Throw This Poor Dog A Bone	MEMPHIS SLIM
09	Help Me Some	MEMPHIS SLIM
10	Blue And Lonesome [1949]	MEMPHIS SLIM
11	Angel Child	MEMPHIS SLIM
12	Messin' Around	MEMPHIS SLIM
13	Frisco Bay	MEMPHIS SLIM
14	If You Live That Life	MEMPHIS SLIM
15	Grinder Man Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
16	The Girl I Love	MEMPHIS SLIM
17	Slim's Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
18	I Guess I'm A Fool	MEMPHIS SLIM
19	Really Got The Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
20	Mother Earth	MEMPHIS SLIM
21	Train Is Comin'	MEMPHIS SLIM
22	No Mail Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
23	Gonna Need My Help Some Day	MEMPHIS SLIM
24	Sittin' And Thinkin'	MEMPHIS SLIM
25	Living Like A King	MEMPHIS SLIM

Memphis Slim - Rockin' The House (2-CD) CD 2
01	Only A Fool Has Fun	MEMPHIS SLIM
02	Living The Life I Love	MEMPHIS SLIM
03	The Come Back [1953]	MEMPHIS SLIM
04	Wish Me Well	MEMPHIS SLIM
05	Little Peace Of Mind	MEMPHIS SLIM
06	Got To Find My Baby	MEMPHIS SLIM
07	Four Years Of Torment	MEMPHIS SLIM
08	Sassy Mae	MEMPHIS SLIM
09	Blue And Lonesome [1956]	MEMPHIS SLIM
10	Memphis Slim Usa	MEMPHIS SLIM
11	Treat Me Like I Treat You	MEMPHIS SLIM
12	Worried Life Blues	MEMPHIS SLIM
13	This Time I'm Through	MEMPHIS SLIM
14	Stroll On Little Girl	MEMPHIS SLIM
15	Boogie Woogie Memphis	MEMPHIS SLIM
16	Rollin' And Tumblin'	MEMPHIS SLIM
17	How Long	MEMPHIS SLIM
18	The Comeback [1960]	MEMPHIS SLIM
19	My Gal Keeps Me Crying	MEMPHIS SLIM
20	Steppin' Out	MEMPHIS SLIM
21	Lonesome (Blue Blues)	MEMPHIS SLIM
22	Cold Blooded Woman	MEMPHIS SLIM
23	Four Walls	MEMPHIS SLIM
24	Big Bertha	MEMPHIS SLIM
25	I'll Keep On Singing The Blues	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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