Size: 182,9 MB
Time: 79:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Art: Full
1. Sunnyland Slim - When I Was Young (2:40)
2. Sunnyland Slim - Bassology (2:52)
3. Sunnyland Slim - Worried About My Baby (2:42)
4. Sunnyland Slim - Down Home Child (2:52)
5. Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland Special (2:36)
6. Sunnyland Trio - Mary Lee (3:01)
7. Sunnyland Trio - Leaving Your Town (3:02)
8. Sunnyland Slim & His Boys - Shake It Baby (2:38)
9. Sunnyland Slim & His Boys - Woman Trouble A.K.A. Overnite (2:55)
10. Sunnyland Slim - City Of New Orleans (2:57)
11. Sunnyland Slim & His Playboys - That Woman (2:48)
12. Sunnyland Slim & His Playboys - Four Day Bounce (2:24)
13. Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61 (Master) (3:01)
14. Sunnyland Slim - It's You Baby (2:21)
15. Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61 (Alternate Take 1) (3:03)
16. Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61 (Alternate Take 2) (3:14)
17. Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61 (Alternate Take 3) (3:09)
18. Sunnyland Slim & Jimmy Rogers - Blues (0:36)
19. Floyd Jones - Big World (2:56)
20. Floyd Jones - Dark Road (3:13)
21. Floyd Jones & His Trio - I Lost A Good Woman (2:49)
22. Floyd Jones & His Trio - Skinny Mama (2:12)
23. Floyd Jones & His Trio - Rising Wind (2:50)
24. Floyd Jones & His Trio - On The Road Again (3:11)
25. Robert Jr. Lockwood - Aw Aw Baby (2:37)
26. Robert Jr. Lockwood - Sweet Woman From Maine (3:01)
27. Robert Jr. Lockwood - Dust My Broom (2:27)
28. Robert Jr. Lockwood - Pearly B (2:24)
29. Robert Jr. Lockwood - Dust My Broom (Alternate Take) (2:41)
Exhibiting truly amazing longevity that was commensurate with his powerful, imposing physical build, Sunnyland Slim's status as a beloved Chicago piano patriarch endured long after most of his peers had perished. For more than 50 years, the towering Slim had rumbled the ivories around the Windy City, playing with virtually every local luminary imaginable and backing the great majority in the studio at one time or another.
He was born Albert Luandrew in Mississippi and received his early training on a pump organ. After entertaining at juke joints and movie houses in the Delta, Luandrew made Memphis his home base during the late '20s, playing along Beale Street and hanging out with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery and Ma Rainey. He adopted his colorful stage name from the title of one of his best-known songs, the mournful "Sunnyland Train." (The downbeat piece immortalized the speed and deadly power of a St. Louis-to-Memphis locomotive that mowed down numerous people unfortunate enough to cross its tracks at the wrong instant.) Slim moved to Chicago in 1939 and set up shop as an in-demand piano man, playing for a spell with John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson before waxing eight sides for RCA Victor in 1947 under the somewhat misleading handle of "Doctor Clayton's Buddy." If it hadn't been for the helpful Slim, Muddy Waters may not have found his way onto Chess; it was at the pianist's 1947 session for Aristocrat that the Chess brothers made Waters' acquaintance.
Aristocrat (which issued his harrowing "Johnson Machine Gun") was but one of a myriad of labels that Slim recorded for between 1948 and 1956: Hytone, Opera, Chance, Tempo-Tone, Mercury, Apollo, JOB, Regal, Vee-Jay (unissued), Blue Lake, Club 51, and Cobra all cut dates on Slim, whose vocals thundered with the same resonant authority as his 88s. In addition, his distinctive playing enlivened hundreds of sessions by other artists during the same time frame. In 1960, Slim traveled to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to cut his debut LP for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary with King Curtis supplying diamond-hard tenor sax breaks on many cuts. The album, Slim's Shout, ranks as one of his finest, with definitive renditions of the pianist's "The Devil Is a Busy Man," "Shake It," "Brownskin Woman," and "It's You Baby."
Like a deep-rooted tree, Sunnyland Slim persevered despite the passing decades. For a time, he helmed his own label, Airway Records. As late as 1985, he made a fine set for the Red Beans logo, Chicago Jump, backed by the same crack combo that shared the stage with him every Sunday evening at a popular North side club called B.L.U.E.S. for some 12 years. There were times when the pianist fell seriously ill, but he always defied the odds and returned to action, warbling his trademark Woody Woodpecker chortle and kicking off one more exultant slow blues as he had done for the previous half century. Finally, after a calamitous fall on the ice coming home from a gig led to numerous complications, Sunnyland Slim died of kidney failure in 1995. He's sorely missed. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic
(Note: The track/artist listing on the back cover isn't completely accurate. However, the one stated in the booklet will give you the correct track/artist listing.)
He was born Albert Luandrew in Mississippi and received his early training on a pump organ. After entertaining at juke joints and movie houses in the Delta, Luandrew made Memphis his home base during the late '20s, playing along Beale Street and hanging out with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery and Ma Rainey. He adopted his colorful stage name from the title of one of his best-known songs, the mournful "Sunnyland Train." (The downbeat piece immortalized the speed and deadly power of a St. Louis-to-Memphis locomotive that mowed down numerous people unfortunate enough to cross its tracks at the wrong instant.) Slim moved to Chicago in 1939 and set up shop as an in-demand piano man, playing for a spell with John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson before waxing eight sides for RCA Victor in 1947 under the somewhat misleading handle of "Doctor Clayton's Buddy." If it hadn't been for the helpful Slim, Muddy Waters may not have found his way onto Chess; it was at the pianist's 1947 session for Aristocrat that the Chess brothers made Waters' acquaintance.
Aristocrat (which issued his harrowing "Johnson Machine Gun") was but one of a myriad of labels that Slim recorded for between 1948 and 1956: Hytone, Opera, Chance, Tempo-Tone, Mercury, Apollo, JOB, Regal, Vee-Jay (unissued), Blue Lake, Club 51, and Cobra all cut dates on Slim, whose vocals thundered with the same resonant authority as his 88s. In addition, his distinctive playing enlivened hundreds of sessions by other artists during the same time frame. In 1960, Slim traveled to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to cut his debut LP for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary with King Curtis supplying diamond-hard tenor sax breaks on many cuts. The album, Slim's Shout, ranks as one of his finest, with definitive renditions of the pianist's "The Devil Is a Busy Man," "Shake It," "Brownskin Woman," and "It's You Baby."
Like a deep-rooted tree, Sunnyland Slim persevered despite the passing decades. For a time, he helmed his own label, Airway Records. As late as 1985, he made a fine set for the Red Beans logo, Chicago Jump, backed by the same crack combo that shared the stage with him every Sunday evening at a popular North side club called B.L.U.E.S. for some 12 years. There were times when the pianist fell seriously ill, but he always defied the odds and returned to action, warbling his trademark Woody Woodpecker chortle and kicking off one more exultant slow blues as he had done for the previous half century. Finally, after a calamitous fall on the ice coming home from a gig led to numerous complications, Sunnyland Slim died of kidney failure in 1995. He's sorely missed. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic
(Note: The track/artist listing on the back cover isn't completely accurate. However, the one stated in the booklet will give you the correct track/artist listing.)
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