Elmore James: The Best Of Elmore James on CD
The Best Of Elmore James
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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- Label:
- Great American
- UPC/EAN:
- 0708535155522
- Release date:
- 30.6.1990
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"Elmore will always remain the most exciting, dramatic blues singer and guitarist that I've ever had a chance to see perform in the flesh. On our way we listened to him on the radio as Big Bill Hill ... was broadcasting direct from that place. I was burning to see Elmore James and before we even pushed open the door of the club, we could hear Elmore's violent guitar sound. Although the place was overcrowded, we managed to find a seat close to the bandstand and the blues came falling down on me as it had never done before. Watching Elmore sing and play, backed by a solid blues band (Homesick James, J. T. Brown, Boyd Atkins and Sam Cassell) made me feel real fine. Wearing thick glasses, Elmore's face always had an expressive and dramatic look, especially when he was real gone on the slow blues. Singing with a strong and rough voice, he really didn't need a mike. On such slow blues as "I'm Worried - "Make My Dreams Come True" - "It Hurts Me", his voice reached a climax and created a tension that was unmistakably the down and out blues. Notwithstanding that raw voice, Elmore sang his blues with a particular feeling, an emotion and depth that showed his country background. His singing was... fed, reinforced by his own guitar accompaniment which was as rough, violent and expressive as was his voice. Using the bottleneck technique most of the time, Elmore really let his guitar sound as I had never heard a guitar sound before. You just couldn't sit still! You had to move...", George Adins
Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Dust My Broom
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2 Sky Is Crying
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3 Bobby's Rock
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4 Held My Baby Last Night
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5 Baby Please Set a Date
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6 Rollin' and Tumblin'
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7 I'm Worried
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8 Done Somebody Wrong
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9 Fine Little Mama
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10 Something Inside Me
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11 Stranger Blues
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12 Standing at the Crossroads
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13 One Way Out
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14 Got to Move
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15 Shake Your Moneymaker
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16 Look on Yonder Wall
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17 It Hurts Me Too
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18 Talk to Me Baby
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19 Twelve Year Old Boy [Alternate Version]
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20 I Believe
