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Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500 recordings.
Chatman was born and raised in Memphis; a great place to commit to a career as a bluesman. Sometime in the late '30s, he resettled in Chicago and began recording as a leader in 1939 for OKeh, then switched over to Bluebird the next year. Around the same time, Slim joined forces with Big Bill Broonzy, then the dominant force on the local blues scene. After serving as Broonzy's invaluable accompanist for a few years, Slim emerged as his own man in 1944.
After the close of World War II, Slim joined Hy-Tone Records, cutting eight tracks that were later picked up by King. Lee Egalnick's Miracle label reeled in the pianist in 1947; backed by his jumping band, the House Rockers (its members usually included saxists Alex Atkins and Ernest Cotton), Slim recorded his classic "Lend Me Your Love" and "Rockin' the House." The next year brought the landmark "Nobody Loves Me" (better known via subsequent covers by Lowell Fulson, Joe Williams, and B.B. King as "Everyday I Have the Blues") and the heartbroken "Messin' Around (With the Blues)."
The pianist kept on label-hopping, moving from Miracle to Peacock to Premium (where he waxed the first version of his uncommonly wise down-tempo blues "Mother Earth") to Chess to Mercury before staying put at Chicago's United Records from 1952 to 1954. This was a particularly fertile period for the pianist; he recruited his first permanent guitarist, the estimable Matt Murphy, who added some serious fret fire to "The Come Back," "Sassy Mae," and "Memphis Slim U.S.A."
Before the decade was through, the pianist landed at Vee-Jay Records, where he cut definitive versions of his best-known songs with Murphy and a stellar combo in gorgeously sympathetic support (Murphy was nothing short of spectacular throughout).
Slim exhibited his perpetually independent mindset by leaving the country for good in 1962. A tour of Europe in partnership with bassist Willie Dixon a couple of years earlier had so intrigued the pianist that he permanently moved to Paris, where recording and touring possibilities seemed limitless and the veteran pianist was treated with the respect too often denied even African-American blues stars at home back then.
Two years before his death, Slim was named a Commander in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of France. In addition, the U.S. Senate honored Slim with the title of Ambassador-at-Large of Good Will.
Memphis Slim died on February 24, 1988, of renal failure in Paris, France, at the age of 72. He is buried at Galilee Memorial Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Tracklist:
CD1:
01 – Messin’ Around
02 – Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have The Blues)
03 – Harlem Bound
04 – Mother Earth
05 – Steppin Out
06 – Rockin’ The Blues
07 – Gotta Find My Baby
08 – John Henry
09 – I Feel So Good
10 – Boogie Woogie
11 – Roll And Tumble
12 – Beer Drinking Woman
13 – Highway 51 Blues
14 – 46Th Street Boogie (Fast Boogie)
15 – Chicago House Rent Party Blues
16 – Big Legged Woman
17 – Sail On Blues
18 – Boogie After Midnight
19 – Sweet Root Man
20 – Good Rockin’ Blues
21 – In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down
22 – I Just Want To Make Love To You
CD2:
01 – Rock Me Baby
02 – Whiskey Drinking Blues
03 – Sitting On Top Of The World
04 – 88 Boogie
05 – Goin’ Down To The River
06 – How Long Blues
07 – Trouble In Mind
08 – Goin’ Down Slow
09 – Three Women Blues
10 – Four O’clock Blues
11 – Mean Mistreatin’ Mama
12 – Late Afternoon Blues
13 – I Can Hear My Name A-Ringin’
14 – Woman Blues Boogie
15 – Whiskey And Gin Blues
16 – 44 Blues
17 – Mister Freddie
18 – Maybe I’ll Loan You A Dime
19 – Walkin’ The Boogie
20 – Red Haired Boogie
21 – San Juan Blues
22 – Kilroy Has Been Here
Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.99
MPEG-1 layer 3
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