20 posts tagged Elmore James

Elmore James – The Classic Early Recordings 1951-1956 (Ace 1993, 2007) This three disc collection takes an extended look at the first half of the lamentably short recording career of the great blues slide guitarist and singer Elmore James.

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Elmore James Random choices from our music files: "Chelsea Girls," Nico - Why did her thick accent and flat singing voice work so well on a ballad like this? Because it made her more human? "All That We've Got Left," Vern Gosdin & George Jones - Two country singing masters who were human and had great voices.

Elmore James Random choices from our music files: "Chelsea Girls," Nico - Why did her thick accent and flat singing voice work so well on a ballad like this? Because it made her more human? "All That We've Got Left," Vern Gosdin & George Jones - Two country singing masters who were human and had great voices.

220:- Blues After Hours, originally released on LP by Crown in 1960, was Elmore James' first long-playing record. Made up of singles released on the Modern imprints Meteor and Flair, for many it was their first introduction to the fiery slide guitarist, and the crunchy garage sound of James'

America’s great national music is the blues.  Without the blues, there would be no rock and roll, and no hip-hop.  The first generation of the blues masters (Robert Johnson) is pretty much the exclusive territory of college professors and fawning Brits, and latter-day giants like Muddy Waters

It's pretty difficult to get diehard blues aficionados to agree about anything, but few dispute the genius of Elmore James. Born in Richland, Mississippi in 1918, he was the rootsy yet forward-looking guitar innovator who updated and intensified Robert Johnson's trailblazing slide style and made Dust

Hoo-rah! The Times wades into the escalating war on who the greatest crime writer might be, producing its own list of the Top 50 ‘Greatest Crime Writers’, producing something of a shock-horror (appropriately enough, given her subject matter) with its nomination for the greatest, Patricia Highsmith (right).

Elmore James Jr. - Daddy Gave me the Blues (JSP, 2008) Billing himself as the "undisputed son of the legendary blues great", Junior proves that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with a rousing album of traditional electric blues, that is rooted in the past without being an exercise in sheer nostalgia.

Keep it simple, stupid. On the Gold Doorstop awards show or whatever that was held recently: enjoyed the Coens' No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood and Jason Reitman's Juno as easy entertainments that are not in any way substantial (much less great), thought Joe Wright's