Elmore James - Got To Move

All the stuff here was recorded in the early sixties.
This another vinyl rip, this time brought to you in another format, mp3s.
I've noticed that the high resolution files don't do well and that people might prefer smaller files.
A little feedback here will certainly be useful!

Tracks:
1.Dust My Broom (60's version)
2.Done SOmeone Wrong
3.Knocking At Your Door
4.Fine Little Mama
5.Pickin' The Blues
6.Strange Angels
7.Bledding Heart
8.I've Got A Right To Love My Baby
9.Early One Morning
10.Look Over Yonder Wall
11.Got To Move
12.Make My Dreams Come True
13.It Hurts Me Too (60's Version)
14.Elmore's Contribution To Jazz
15.Held My Baby Last Night
16.Every Day I Have The Blues

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Elmore James - The Final Sessions - 2006.

 
Review

One of the most important and influential figures on the post war blues scene, singer, guitarist and songwriter Elmore James was the unchallenged king of the electric slide guitar, updating the legacy of the country blues to post-war Chicago. His music, and particularly his guitar playing, has been a major source of inspiration for countless blues and rock musicians over the years. Eric Clapton, Duane Allman and Jimi Hendrix are just a few of the rock legends who have acknowledged his influence. This collection includes every complete master he recorded at his last 2 sessions for Bobby Robinson's Fire/Fury Label in New York City in February 1963, just 3 months before his untimely death from a heart attack at the age of 45. Packaged in a digipak.

Tracks

01 - My Baby's Gone.flac
02 - Find My Kinda Woman.flac
03 - Look On Yonder Wall (Look Up On The Wall).flac
04 - Dust My Broom.flac
05 - It Hurts Me Too.flac
06 - Pickin' The Blues (Manhattan Slide).flac
07 - Everyday I Have The Blues.flac
08 - I Have A Right To Love My Baby.flac
09 - Twelve Year Old Boy.flac
10 - Got To Move (She's Got To Go).flac
11 - I Gotta Go Now.flac
12 - Talk To Me Baby.flac
13 - Make My Dreams Come True.flac
14 - Hand In Hand.flac
15 - Can't Stop Loving My Baby.flac
16 - Dust My Broom.flac
17 - Elmore Jumps One (Up Jumps Elmore) , Black Snake Slid..
18 - I Believe.flac
19 - Hand In Hand.flac
20 - Find My Kind Of Woman (Take 1).flac
21 - Hand In Hand (Take 3).flac
22 - Back In Mississippi (Conversation).flac

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Elmore James - King Of The Slide Guitar - The Complete Trumpet, Chief & Fire Sessions (3 CD Box Set, Remastered)

Review
Forty years ago, on 23rd May 1963, the blues world lost one of its most powerful figures, when Elmore James, the great singer, guitarist and songwriter died tragically at the age of just 45.

To commemorate this anniversary we are issuing a deluxe 3 disc 64 track set, which comprises his complete classic recordings for the Chief, Fire and Enjoy labels and also the original Trumpet recording of his immortal hit, 'Dust My Broom'.

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. Musicians said the following about Elmore James: "Elmore James was a major, maybe even the main reason why the Stones came about", Bill Wyman. "Elmore is a Killer",  Ry Cooder. "I'd never leave the place where Elmore James was performing", Chuck Berry.

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, recording for Bobby Robinson's labels; Chief, Fire and Enjoy.

It includes such blues classics as "Shake Your Moneymaker", "Everyday I Have The Blues", "The Sky Is Crying " and rare alternative takes of the awesome "Hand in Hand". Packaged in an attractive compact box, each of the three discs is housed in its own sleeve.

The accompanying 24 page booklet by blues authority Les Fancourt is lavishly illustrated and includes a full discography. [Charly-co-uk]

fantastic box set.

This reissue of the original 50-track "King Of The Slide Guitar" box set, with an additional 14 tracks, is magnificent. It presents every song Elmore James recorded for the Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels in the early 60s, with great sound and a few interesting rarities and alternate takes.

You'll need to hear Elmore's earlier recordings as well, of course (available on the fine "The Classic Early Recordings" box set, ASIN: B000000W62), but the fact that a few of his best early songs weren't re-recorded for Bobby Robinson's labels, and thus are missing from this collection, doesn't really detract anything from its greatness.
There are still so many blues classics here it's unbelievable - "Dust My Broom", "It Hurts Me Too", "The Sky Is Crying", "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "The Twelve Year Old Boy" are the best-known, obviously, but the rest of this material is not sub-par in any way...every song is good, most are great, and a lot of them are just magnificent, some of the most powerful electric blues you'll ever hear.

The brand of fiery electric blues that Elmore James played more than forty years ago packed an incredible punch. It is supremely gritty (in spite of the urbane arrangements featuring piano and saxophone), and Elmore had one of the greatest, most intense and expressive voices you'll ever hear. His slashing slide guitar playing has made him more influential than any other single guitarist.

"King Of The Slide Guitar" also includes several terrific instrumentals, like the smouldering "Up Jumped Elmore" and the dance-friendly boogie "Bobby's Rock". And even though most of the approximately fifty different songs aren't well known outside the circle of fanatical Elmore James-fan, there is an incredible number of high-quality cuts here.
The tough raver "Rollin' & Tumblin'" easily matches anything Cream or the Yardbirds ever did, "Done Somebody Wrong" is virtually hard rock, and the slide leads and saxophone fills on the funky "Can't Stop Loving My Baby" all blend together to create the kind of blues song you normally only dream about.

This wonderful collection of music can easily match any of the great Chess box sets, and that is saying something! Elmore James and the Broomdusters rock incredibly hard on their definitive reading of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom", and they smoulder on the ultimate slow blues, James' own "The Sky Is Crying".
There are so many excellent songs here that rarely or never show up on various Elmore James-compilations: "Got To Move", "Person To Person", "Strange Angels", "You Know You're Wrong", "Hand In Hand", "I've Got A Right To Love My Baby", "She's Got To Go"...well, just get it, allright? [Amazon user review]


Track List:

Disc 1:

1. Dust My Broom (I Believe My Time Ain't Long)
2. Twelve Year Old Boy
3. Coming Home
4. It Hurts Me Too
5. Knocking at Your Door
6. Elmore's Contribution to Jazz
7. Cry for Me Baby
8. Take Me Where You Go
9. Bobby's Rock
10. 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:

1. Something Inside Me
2. Stranger Blues
3. Anna Lee
4. Standing at the Crossroads
5. My Bleeding Heart
6. My Kind of Woman
7. Got to Move
8. So Unkind
9. Person to Person
10. One Way Out
11. Strange(r) Blues [Alternate Take]
12. Shake Your Moneymaker [Take 1/2]
13. Look on Yonder Wall
14. Go Back Home Again
15. Mean Mistreatin' Mama [Take 3]
16. Sunnyland Train
17. You Know You Done Me Wrong
18. Mean Mistreatin' Mama [Take 1]
19. Mean Mistreatin' Mama [Take 2)
20. You Know You're Wrong
21. Find My Kind of Woman [Take 1]


Disc 3:

1. My Baby's Gone
2. Find My Kind of Woman
3. Look on Yonder Wall (Look Up on the Wall)
4. Dust My Broom
5. It Hurts Me Too
6. Pickin' the Blues (Manhattan Slide)
7. Everyday I Have the Blues
8. I Have a Right to Love My Baby
9. 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 [Take 4]
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 [Conversation]
20. Hand in Hand [Take 1]
21. Hand in Hand [Take 3]

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Elmore James - King Of The slide Guitar 1950, 1954 - Released in 1983 [ACE].

Bio
No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a wide influential trail behind him. And that influence continues to the present time -- in approach, attitude and tone -- in just about every guitar player who puts a slide on his finger and wails the blues. As a guitarist, he wrote the book, his slide style influencing the likes of Hound Dog Taylor, Joe Carter, his cousin Homesick James and J.B. Hutto, while his seldom-heard single-string work had an equally profound effect on B.B. King and Chuck Berry. His signature lick -- an electric updating of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and one that Elmore recorded in infinite variations from day one to his last session -- is so much a part of the essential blues fabric of guitar licks that no one attempting to play slide guitar can do it without being compared to Elmore James. Others may have had more technique -- Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker immediately come to mind -- but Elmore had the sound and all the feeling.

Tracks:

1. Lost Woman Blues (Please Find My Baby) (3:07)
2. One More Drink (3:15)
3. Strange Kinda Feeling (2:31)
4. Sho Nuff I Do (3:41)
5. My Best Friend (2:39)
6. So Mean To Me (3:39)
7. Wild About You (2:36)
8. Sweet Little Woman (Vocal by Little Johnny Jones) (2:59)
9. Long Tall Woman (2:52)
10. Where Can My Baby Be (3:07)
11. Dark & Dreary (3:24)
12. My Baby's Gone (2:20)
13. I May Be Wrong (Vocal by Little Johnny Jones) (2:47)
14. Elmo's Shuffle (Part 2) (2:48)

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Elmore James - The Classic Early Recordings - 1994.

Review

Although a few hardcore electric Chicago blues fans might take offense at the remark, Elmore James' work does not comprise the most varied discography among major bluesmen. So a single-disc survey of his material, whether it covers the first five years or so of his career (as this three-CD anthology does) or a longer period, works better as both a general introduction and a more listenable compilation than a box set does. If you're a completist who does want everything known to exist that he laid down in the studio between August 1951 and January 1956, however, this 71-track compilation is the most thorough retrospective of that era likely to be produced. In addition to including songs that were not issued in any form until after his death (and sometimes long after his passing), there are multiple takes of specific tunes, alternates, false starts, studio chatter, instrumental version, songs on which he guested for J.T. Brown and Little Johnny Jones, and so forth. Indeed, there are so many multiple versions on this release that even the liner notes take care to suggest custom-programming the CD sequence if you'd rather not hear them all in a row. For all the if-we-can-find-it-release-it mentality driving this collection, however, it really is pretty listenable, at least if you like James and early- to mid-'50s Chicago blues a lot. For one thing, it does include a couple of big hits, those being James' original 1952 version of "Dust My Broom" and the 1953 Top Ten R&B hit "I Believe." More relevantly, James played and sang consistently well even on the material that languished in the vault. Plus all those multiple versions aren't wholly repetitive; James occasionally makes changes to the lyrics and music, though the similarity of style from song to song is prevalent enough that you have to be paying close attention to catch all of these. Some fans primarily familiar with James through his Delta-soaked electric slide guitar playing (and there's plenty of that here) will also be surprised at the commercial R&B edge to many of the sides, though it's commercial in the better sense of that term, often with horns and piano urbanizing James' approach. The 40-page booklet has a wealth of information, vintage photos, and a detailed sessionography, increasing its appeal to those who want all things James. [Initially released in 1993 in long-box packaging, The Classic Early Recordings 1951-1956 was reissued by Ace in 2007 as a standard-sized three-CD set with a different cover.]

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Elmore James - Whose Muddy Shoes - 1969.

Review

Elmore James had recorded a session for Chess in 1953 before settling down with the Bihari Brothers and again in 1960, shortly before starting his final recordings for Bobby Robinson's Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels. This collects up all of them on CD with the bonus addition of an alternate take of "The Sun Is Shining," which can be interpreted as a precursor to his later hit "The Sky Is Crying." The earlier sides from 1953 lack his inimitable slide, but the 1960 session produced classics like "Talk to Me Baby," "Madison Blues" and a powerful reading of T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday." These tracks of James working with the Chess production team are delightfully fleshed out with a half-dozen gems by the highly underrated John Brim, some of which include stellar harp work by Little Walter ("Rattlesnake," "Be Careful" -- on which Walter stops playing in several spots to become an ad-lib backup vocalist -- and "You Got Me") as well as the original version of "Ice Cream Man," better known to rock fans from Van Halen's cover version of it from their debut album.

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