Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions

Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions
Studio album by James Blood Ulmer
Released	September 4, 2001
Recorded	April 10, 11 & 12, 2001
Genre	Blues
Label	Hyena
Producer	Vernon Reid
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Blue Blood (2000) Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions (2001) No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions (2003)

Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in and released on the Hyena label in 2001. ^[1] The album features Ulmer covering fourteen blues standards recorded at Sun Studio.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, and stated, "some of the greasiest, knottiest, most surreal blues music ever... Memphis Blood is a fresh injection of blues truth... Ulmer delivers here, big time". ^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Track listing

1. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) – 2:58
2. "I Want to Be Loved" (Dixon) – 3:15
3. "Little Red Rooster" (Dixon) – 4:22
4. "Dimples" (James Bracken, John Lee Hooker) – 3:31
5. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Dixon) – 3:30
6. "Evil" Willy Dixon – 2:50
7. "Death Letter" (Son House) – 9:41
8. "Fattening Frogs for Snakes" (Willie Williamson) – 2:51
9. "Money" (Hooker) – 3:34
10. "I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" (Dixon) – 3:30
11. "Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous to Steal" (Daylie Holmes, Marl H. Young) – 2:36
12. "Double Trouble" (Otis Rush) – 4:56
13. "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" (Chester Burnett) – 8:25
14. "Back Door Man" (Dixon) – 3:18

• Recorded at Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee on April 10, 11 & 12, 2001

Personnel

• James Blood Ulmer – guitar, vocals
• Vernon Reid – guitar
• Charles Burnham – violin
• Rick Steff – piano, wurlitzer electric piano, hammond B3 organ
• David Barnes – harmonica
• Mark Peterson – bass
• Aubrey Dayle – drums

References

1. James Blood Ulmer discography accessed July 26, 2010 Archived November 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 26, 2010
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1430. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.

External links

• Discography at the end of the page for this album at the Wayback Machine (archived May 1, 2006)