Legend of the Blues Vol. 1

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Legend of the Blues Vol. 1
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Studio album by
Released1967
Genre Blues
Length36:01
Label Jubilee
JGS-8003
Producer Clyde Otis
Memphis Slim chronology
Clap Your Hands
(1964)
Legend of the Blues Vol. 1
(1967)
Bluesingly Yours
(1967)

Legend of the Blues Vol. 1 is an album by American blues pianist Memphis Slim which was released in 1967 on the Jubilee label. The album was reissued on CD in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records.

Memphis Slim 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.

Jubilee Records was an American independent record label, specializing in rhythm and blues and novelty records. It was founded in New York City in 1946 by Herb Abramson. His partner was Jerry Blaine. Blaine bought Abramson's half of the company in 1947, when Abramson went on to co-found Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun. The company name was Jay-Gee Recording Company, a subsidiary of the Cosnat Corporation. Cosnat was a wholesale record distributor.

Wounded Bird Records is a compact disc only, re-issue record label, that was founded in 1998 in Guilderland, New York.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his review for Allmusic, William Ruhlmann says "Memphis Slim shows off his piano abilities on the instrumental 'Broadway Boogie,' but otherwise the ensemble supports him with jazz-blues arrangements for his smooth and authoritative vocals." [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Peter Chapman

  1. "Little Lonely Girl" - 2:16
  2. "Gone Again" - 4:14
  3. "Forty Years Or More" - 4:44
  4. "All By Myself" - 2:16
  5. "Broadway Boogie" - 3:07
  6. "Lend Me Your Love" - 5:00
  7. "Ramble This Highway" - 2:57
  8. "I Feel Like Ballin' the Jack" - 2:29
  9. "Rock Me Woman" - 5:18
  10. "This Little Woman" - 3:40

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Billy Butler (guitarist) American musician

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Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

  1. 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. Memphis Slim - Legend of the Blues Vol. 1: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 23, 2015.