Memphis SLIM & Canned HEAT - Memphis Heat 1971

Memphis SLIM,Canned HEAT - Memphis Heat 1971
1974 Lp Issue

Blues

His Canned Heat sessions have been both praised and panned over the years, a state of affairs that often revealed more about the reviewers than the music itself. A fair assessment should take into account the blues and rock scene of the early '70s, the pianist's artistic intentions as he capped a long and eventful career, and perhaps most importantly the positive effect that this music is likely to have upon any listener who loves a good jumpin' electric blues band.
By arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide.
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A1. Back to Mother Earth   3:13
A2. Trouble Everwhere I Go   3:46
A3. Black Cat Cross My Trail   3:03
A4. Mr Longfingers   6:57
A5. Five Long Years   5:58
B1. When I Were Young   2:40
B2. You Dont Know My Mind   6:28
B3. Boogie Duo   3:00
B4. Whizzle Wham   1:47
B5. Paris   2:12
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Memphis SLIM - Alone with My Friends 1961

Memphis SLIM - Alone with My Friends 1961

Blues

Memphis Slim devoted all but one of the ten songs on this April 1961 session to covers of some of his favorite songwriters. He's only accompanied by his own piano playing as he provides serviceable, laidback interpretations of numbers by Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, and others, as well as his own "Sunnyland Train." Not the first or last place to check out Slim on record.
By Richie Unterberger.
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01. Highway 51 Blues  4:15
02. I Feel So Good  2:45
03. Rock Me, Momma  3:50
04. Goin' Down Slow  3:40
05. Sittin' on Top of the World  3:40
06. Sunnyland Train  3:55
07. Goin' Down to the River  3:00
08. I Just Want to Make Love to You  3:55
09. I Can Hear My Name A-Ringin'  4:00
10. Going Back to My Plow  4:45
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Memphis SLIM and Willie DIXON - Baby Please Come Home!In Paris 1962

Memphis SLIM and Willie DIXON -  Baby Please Come Home!In Paris 1962

Blues

In Paris: Baby Please Come Home! would have historical importance just because the early-'60s European tours by the blues-titan duo of Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim laid the foundation for the American Folk Blues Festival tours to bring more extensive packages of blues artists to Europe  and that genuinely changed music history. The songs are pretty evenly split between the two, and both individuals ironically show better on the other's tracks. Dixon's playing is a big revelation here, starting with an extended slapping solo on the opening boogie-woogie "Rock and Rolling the House." Even with all the blues and rock & roll foundations his playing laid on Chess sessions, there aren't many chances to hear Dixon the bass player putting to use his 20-odd years of live playing experience. Listening to his countermelodies and solid foundation, you understand why blues label chiefs chose him for session work, and Slim shines here too as an accompanist, be it on the slow blues "New Way to Love" or leaning on the left hand for the up-tempo "African Hutch With a Boogie Beat." You won't find Dixon's trademark songs here  "Do De Do" (aka "Do the Do") is the best known of the bunch  and most of them are pretty light I-got-a-girl-who-loves-me-right blues. Slim deals more with archetypes: the exuberant "Baby Please Come Home" mixes "Baby Please Don't Go" with "Boom Boom," and "How Come You Do Me Do Like You Do?" is effectively spare. Gotta bear in mind, too, that what are blues clichés now were undoubtedly revelatory to a Paris audience in 1962, and Slim's haunting "Pigalle Love" is a great example of adapting universal blues to the specific locale. In Paris: Baby Please Come Home! is hardly the best disc you can hear from either artist, but the performances are lively enough, and French drummer Philippe Combelle unobtrusively anchors the music. And In Paris does offer an intriguing glimpse into one style of
blues performance just before the Brits turned the whole thing around.
By Don Snowden, All Music Guide.
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Willie Dixon- Bass
Memphis Slim- Piano
Phillipe Combelle- Drums.
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01. Rock And Rolling The House   3:39        
02. Baby Please Come Home   2:14       
03. How Come You Do Me Like You Do   4:39       
04. The Way She Loves A Man   3:06       
05. New Way To Love   5:31       
06. African Hunch With A Boogie Beat   3:40       
07. Shame Pretty Girls     3:11       
08. Baby Baby Baby   3:05     
09. Do De Do   2:35       
10. Cool Blooded   5:32       
11. Just You And I   2:37        
12. Pigalle Love    3:59       
13. All By Myself   1:43
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Memphis SLIM - Worried Life Blues 2005

Memphis SLIM - Worried Life Blues 2005
Label: Membran
(4 CDs Box Set)
Audio CD (May 8, 2006)

Blues

Drawing his recording moniker of Memphis Slim from his lanky 6'5" frame, blues pianist Peter Chatman was instrumental in bringing a jazzy, urban sensibility to the blues in the mid-'40s. This generous four-disc, 77-track collection of Slim's 78s, recorded between 1940 and the early '50s on a variety of small labels, including Bluebird and Hy-Tone, the masters of which were purchased by King Records and released as singles in 1948 and 1949 (and they were then moved over to Miracle Records, which re-released them as 78 singles all over again in 1951 on Federal Records, a King subsidiary — it gets a bit confusing). Slim's jazz-inflected uptown sound (usually driven by merged alto and tenor saxes) is in full force on these tracks, giving the whole set, big as it is, a remarkable unity of tone. Highlights include some lightning-fueled jazz blues romps like "Slim's Boogie," his classic singles "Lend Me Your Love" and "Rockin' the House," the prescient, downtempo blues gem "Mother Earth," the joyful "Old Taylor," and "Blues at Midnight," which features the great Jazz Gillum on harmonica — all of these make this a great introduction to this first — and definitely great — phase of Slim's long career (although it curiously lacks his signature song, "Nobody Loves Me," which became better known as "Everyday I Have the Blues" in later versions by B.B. King, Joe Williams, and Lowell Fulson). Always an engaging pianist and singer, Slim, like many of the black blues and jazz musicians of his generation, found both an audience and a home in Europe for the last 20-plus years of his life, basing himself in Paris beginning in 1962 and remaining there until his death in 1988. In that span he recorded an astounding 50 or so albums, not including the various recordings of his live performances that still continue to surface. While it could be argued that his peak years were in the '40s and '50s, the period covered by this box, the recordings he made in the last third of his life were incredibly intimate and frank, and he didn't shy away from addressing racial and social injustice in the later songs, even while he kept his blues performances smooth and accessible. What's collected here is certainly essential and critical to understanding Slim, but listeners shouldn't hesitate to check out the later recordings as well.
By Steve Leggett . AMG.
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Alex Atkins- Alto Sax
Leroy Bachelor- Bass
Ernest Cotton- Tenor Sax
"Big" Crawford- Bass
Alfred Elkins- Bass
Jazz Gillum- Harmonica, Vocals
Leon Hooper- Drums
Floyd Hunt- Piano
Lillie Mae Kirkman- Vocals
Memphis Slim- Piano, Vocals
Timothy Overton- Tenor Sax 
Arbee Stidham Guitar, Vocals
Washboard Sam- Washboard
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Cd 1
01.  Blues at Midnight-  Chatman  2:43
02.  Diggin' My Potatoes, Pt.2-  Lawlers  2:51
03.  The Jive Blues-  Chatman  2:47
04.  Last Pair of Shoes Blues-  Chatman  2:58
05.  Miss Ora Lee Blues-  Chatman  3:00
06.  Blue Evening Blues-  Chatman  2:47
07.  Beer Drinking Woman-  Chatman, Williams  3:21
08.  You Didn't Mean Me No Good-  Chatman  2:56
09.  Grinder Man Blues-  Chatman, Williams  3:09
10.  Empty Room Blues-  Chatman  2:53
11.  Shelby County Blues-  Chatman  2:57
12.  I See My Great Mistake-  Chatman, Williams  3:00
13.  Old Taylor-  Chatman  2:45
14.  I Believe I'll Settle Down-  Chatman  3:07
15.  Jasper's Gal-  Chatman  2:54
16.  You Got to Help Me Some-  Chatman  2:59
17.  Two of a Kind-  Chatman  2:59
18.  Whiskey Store Blues-  Chatman  2:57
19.  Maybe I'll Loan You a Dime-  Chatman  2:50
20.  Me, Myself and I-  Chatman  2:50
21.  You Gonna Worry Too-  Chatman  2:49
22.  This Life I'm Living-  Chatman  2:52
23.  Caught the Old Coon at Last-  Chatman  3:01
24.  Lend Me Your Love-  Chatman  3:12

Cd 2
01.  Midnight Jump-  Westbrook  2:49
02.  Messin' Around-  Hunt  2:52
03.  Livin' Man Blues-  Coppage  2:52
04.  Lonesome-  Kirkman  2:28
05.  You and I-  Chatman  2:13
06.  Timsy's Whimsy-  Overton  3:00
07.  Frisco Bay-  Chatman  2:52
08.  Restless Nights   2:50
09.  If You Live That Life   2:05
10.  Love at Sight   3:02
11.  Jumping Bean   2:52
12.  A Letter Home-  Chatman  2:51
13.  Grinder Man Blues-  Chatman  2:54
14.  Slim's Boogie-  Chatman  2:45
15.  Mistake in Life-  Chatman  2:48
16.  The Girl I Love-  Chatman, Memphis Slim  2:44
17.  Mean Little Woman-  Chatman, Memphis Slim  2:49
18.  Slim's Blues-  Chatman  2:59
19.  Having Fun-  Chatman  2:26
20.  Flock Rocker-  Overton  2:42
21.  I Guess I'm a Fool-  Chatman  3:06
22.  Really Got the Blues-  Chatman, Hunt  2:40
23.  Mother Earth-  Chatman, Simpkins  2:42

Cd 3
01.  Worried Life Blues-  Merriweather  3:20
02.  I Don't Want My Rooster Crowin' After the Sun Goes Down-  Blake  2:40
03.  Lonesome in My Bedroom-  Jones  4:55
04.  Diggin' My Potatoes-  Brown  2:26
05.  In the Evenin'-  Carr  3:57
06.  I Feel So Good-  Broonzy  3:16
07.  Rockin' Chair Blues-  Broonzy  3:16
08.  Baby Gone-  Davis  3:40
09.  Cow Cow Blues-  Davenport  3:31
10.  Miss Ida B.- (Sykes)  Sykes  4:49
11.  Forty-Four Blues-  Sykes  3:29
12.  Trouble in Mind-  Jones  3:32

Cd 4
01.  Bye Bye Will Be on My Way- Chatman  4:31
02.  Letter Home-  Chatman  3:50
03.  Memphis Slim USA-  Chatman  2:38
04.  Born with the Blues-  Chatman  3:27
05.  Rocking the House-  Chatman  2:49
06.  I Wanna Dance-  Chatman  3:19
07.  Coco Boogie-  Chatman  1:06
08.  Fat Cat-  Chatman  2:19
09.  Chunkin'-  Chatman  2:26
10.  Lonely Nights-  Chatman  2:55
11.  Walk On-  Chatman  2:20
12.  Pretending I'm Happy-  Chatman  1:59
13.  The Natural Fact-  Chatman  1:59
14.  Blues Universal-  Chatman  2:46
15.  She Gone for Twelve Shoes-  Chatman  2:31
16.  My Walking Shoes-  Chatman  3:16
17.  When I'm Gone-  Chatman  2:32
18.  T.W.A.-  Chatman  5:03
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