Elmore James: Hits & Rarities ( CD )
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Title: Hits & Rarities
Artist: Elmore James
Label: Sunset BLVD Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 708535706526
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2025-01-31
Number of Discs: 2
Limited Edition 2 CD Seldom has a single musician had a more lasting effect than Elmore James "King of the Slide Guitar." That shangety-shangety bottleneck riff defined the sound after he debuted it on his seminal "Dust My Broom," inspiring other Chicago slide aces and eventually spreading all around the globe as shaggy-haired blues-rockers fed it through mammoth amps. The mind-melting impact of Elmore's anguished vocals was every bit as intense as his crashing fretwork. First cut by James in August 1951, "Dust My Broom" defined his signature style: a swooping, full-octave opening figure on slide guitar. James left behind a raft of classic blues songs that influenced a legion of Chicago slide players and were a foundational influence for the 60's blues rock explosion. His influence went beyond that one riff, however, as he has been credited with practically inventing blues rock by virtue of energizing primal riffs with a raw, driving intensity. James left behind a raft of classic blues songs that include "Shake Your Money Maker," "Talk to Me Baby," "It Hurts Me Too" and "The Sky Is Crying." His songs have been cut by the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, Canned Heat Fleetwood Mac and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. "You can hear his signature riff at least once a night from every slide guitarist working," music historian Tony Glover has written, "but no one has ever quite matched that vocal intensity, which transformed the lonesome moan of the Delta into a Chicago scream."
Tracks:
1.1 The Sky Is Crying
1.2 Held My Baby Last Night
1.3 Bobby's Rock
1.4 Baby Please Set A Date
1.5 Bleeding Heart
1.6 Dust My Broom
1.7 Anna Lee
1.8 I'm Worried
1.9 Rollin' And Tumblin'
1.10 Fine Little Mama
1.11 Done Somebody Wrong
1.12 I Need You
1.13 Early One Morning
1.14 I Can't Stop Lovin' You
1.15 Stranger Blues
1.16 Something Inside Me
1.17 She Done Moved *
1.18 Strange Angel
2.1 One Way Out
2.2 My Kind Of Woman
2.3 So Unkind *
2.4 My Baby's Gone *
2.5 Mean Mistreatin' Mama
2.6 Shake Your Moneymaker
2.7 Got To Move
2.8 Look On Yonder Wall
2.9 Talk To Me Baby
2.10 Can't Stop Loving My Baby
2.11 I Believe
2.12 Go Back Home Again *
2.13 You Know You're Wrong *
2.14 Pickin' The Blues *
2.15 Standing At The Crossroads
2.16 Sunnyland
2.17 It Hurts Me Too
2.18 Twelve Year Old Boy
Elmore James: Hits & Rarities ( CD )
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Artist: Elmore James
Label: Sunset BLVD Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 708535706526
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2025-01-31
Number of Discs: 2
Limited Edition 2 CD Seldom has a single musician had a more lasting effect than Elmore James "King of the Slide Guitar." That shangety-shangety bottleneck riff defined the sound after he debuted it on his seminal "Dust My Broom," inspiring other Chicago slide aces and eventually spreading all around the globe as shaggy-haired blues-rockers fed it through mammoth amps. The mind-melting impact of Elmore's anguished vocals was every bit as intense as his crashing fretwork. First cut by James in August 1951, "Dust My Broom" defined his signature style: a swooping, full-octave opening figure on slide guitar. James left behind a raft of classic blues songs that influenced a legion of Chicago slide players and were a foundational influence for the 60's blues rock explosion. His influence went beyond that one riff, however, as he has been credited with practically inventing blues rock by virtue of energizing primal riffs with a raw, driving intensity. James left behind a raft of classic blues songs that include "Shake Your Money Maker," "Talk to Me Baby," "It Hurts Me Too" and "The Sky Is Crying." His songs have been cut by the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, Canned Heat Fleetwood Mac and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. "You can hear his signature riff at least once a night from every slide guitarist working," music historian Tony Glover has written, "but no one has ever quite matched that vocal intensity, which transformed the lonesome moan of the Delta into a Chicago scream."
Tracks:
1.1 The Sky Is Crying
1.2 Held My Baby Last Night
1.3 Bobby's Rock
1.4 Baby Please Set A Date
1.5 Bleeding Heart
1.6 Dust My Broom
1.7 Anna Lee
1.8 I'm Worried
1.9 Rollin' And Tumblin'
1.10 Fine Little Mama
1.11 Done Somebody Wrong
1.12 I Need You
1.13 Early One Morning
1.14 I Can't Stop Lovin' You
1.15 Stranger Blues
1.16 Something Inside Me
1.17 She Done Moved *
1.18 Strange Angel
2.1 One Way Out
2.2 My Kind Of Woman
2.3 So Unkind *
2.4 My Baby's Gone *
2.5 Mean Mistreatin' Mama
2.6 Shake Your Moneymaker
2.7 Got To Move
2.8 Look On Yonder Wall
2.9 Talk To Me Baby
2.10 Can't Stop Loving My Baby
2.11 I Believe
2.12 Go Back Home Again *
2.13 You Know You're Wrong *
2.14 Pickin' The Blues *
2.15 Standing At The Crossroads
2.16 Sunnyland
2.17 It Hurts Me Too
2.18 Twelve Year Old Boy
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