Elmore James - King Of The Slide Guitar - The Complete Trumpet, Chief & Fire Sessions (1951-1963) 3CD Boxset (2003) FLAC

Elmore James - King Of The Slide Guitar - The Complete Trumpet, Chief & Fire Sessions (1951-1963) 3CD Boxset (2003) FLAC

Comprised of his complete classic recordings for the Chief, Fire and Enjoy labels and also the original Trumpet recording of his immortal hit, Dust My Broom. Alongside Dust My Broom, his signature track, this box set features all of the tracks James cut between 1959 and 1963, when he was at his most potent and creative,

This wonderful three-disc set includes that first version of "Broom" along with a half-dozen other versions (and a half-dozen more under different titles) that James recorded for Trumpet, Mel London's Chief Records, and Bobby Robinson's Fire label between 1951 and 1963. But James wasn't a one-trick pony, and aside from recycling killer version after killer version of "Dust My Broom," this set also contains his classic takes on the majestic "It Hurts Me Too," "The Sky Is Crying," "Rollin' and Tumblin'," and his rewrite of another Johnson standard, "Standing at the Crossroads." Check out the distortion, dirt and tone of his guitar on little known tracks like "Got to Move" and "Find My Kind of Woman," or the ragged yet elegant drive of "Can't Stop Loving My Baby" or "Elmore Jumps Up (Up Jumped Elmore)," to hear why he remains a guitarist's guitarist to this day. And don't forget James as a vocalist, either. He sang like his life depended on it every second, which is why there is literally no Elmore James collection that won't deliver the goods. This box set is no exception.

Mississippi born and raised, Elmore James learned his trade in the Delta in the 1930s, emerging in the early 1950s as the godfather of modern electric guitar, and no guitarist who ever plugged an instrument into an amp is free of his influence. Not only did he create the template for electric slide players everywhere, he also reworked his amps until they delivered a raw, overdriven sound that became endemic in pop and rock music a decade later, and no punk band ever sounded more ragged or passionate than Elmore James in full stride.

James was the unchallenged king of the electric slide guitar, updating the legacy of the country blues to post-war Chicago, and his potent influence has been widely acknowledged by both blues and rock guitar heroes including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green, Johnny Winter, Jeremy Spencer and Brian Jones.

Track Listings

Disc 1

01. Dust My Broom (I Believe My Time Ain't Long)
02. The Twelve Year Old Boy
03. Coming Home
04. It Hurts Me Too
05. Knocking At Your Door
06. Elmore's Contribution To Jazz
07. Cry For Me Baby
08. Take Me Where You Go
09. Bobby's Rock
10. The Sky Is Crying
11. Baby, Please Set A Date
12. Held My Baby Last Night
13. Dust My Broom
14. Rollin 'And Tumblin'
15. I'm Worried
16. Done Somebody Wrong
17. Fine Little Mama
18. I Need You (Baby)
19. I Can't Stop Lovin 'You
20. Strange Angels
21. Early One Morning
22. She Done Moved

Disc 2

01. Something Inside Me
02. Stranger Blues
03. Anna Lee
04. Standing At The Crossroads
05. (My) Bleeding Heart
06. My Kind Of Woman
07. Got To Move
08. So Unkind
09. Person To Person
10. One Way Out
11. Strange (r) Blues
12. Shake Your Moneymaker
13. Look On Yonder Wall
14. Go Back Home Again
15. Mean Mistreatin 'Mama
16. Sunnyland Train
17. You Know You Done Me Wrong
18. Mean Mistreatin 'Mama
19. Mean Mistreatin 'Mama
20. You Know You're Wrong
21. Find My Kind Of Woman

Disc 3

01. My Baby's Gone
02. Find My Kinda Woman
03. Look On Yonder Wall (Look Up On The Wall)
04. Dust My Broom
05. It Hurts Me Too
06. Pickin 'The Blues (Manhattan Slide)
07. Everyday I Have The Blues
08. I Have A Right To Love My Baby
09. Twelve Year Old Boy
10. Got To Move (She's Got To Go)
11. I Gotta Go Now
12. Talk To Me Baby
13. Make My Dreams Come True
14. Hand In Hand
15. Can't Stop Loving My Baby
16. Dust My Broom
17. Elmore Jumps One (Up Jumped Elmore)
18. I Believe
19. Back In Mississippi
20. Hand In Hand
21. Hand In Hand

Media Info

Genre : Blues
Release date : 2003
Country Disk : UK
Label : Charly / Snapper (722 SNAJ CD)
Audio Codec : FLAC
Rip type : image +. cue
Bitrate : lossless
Duration : 59:30 / 60:12 / 66:24

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