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01. "Rocking the pad" 02. "Harlem bound" 03. "Old Taylor" 04. "Rockin' the house [Part I]" 05. "Kilroy has been here" 06. "No mail blues" 07. "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. "Whats the matter" 20. "Lonesome (Blues blues)" 21. "Tia Juana" 22. "She's alright" 23. "Walkin' the boogie (The Real Boogie Woogie)" 24. "Gotta find my baby" 25. "Sassy Mae" 26. "Love my baby" 27. "I'm lost without you" 28. "Let the good times Creole" 29. "Rockin the blues"
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Description: | Although weâ??ve picked Slimâ??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. â??Guitarâ?? Murphy gained great prominence through the
â??Blues Brothersâ?? movie, and bluesman and producer Willie Dixon told â??Living Bluesâ?? that Matt â??is definitely the best guitar
player, the best one I heard anywhere.â??
Talking in Paris in 1968, Memphis Slim said: â??Iâ??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.â??
By the time he died in 1988, Slim had become known around the world and the U.S. Senate had resolved that â??Memphis
Slim become an ambassador at large of good will for the United States.â??
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. - 26PGS BOOKLETIn 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.This compilation: © 2023 Bear Family Records |
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No. of tracks: |
29 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
BCD17687 |
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