Slim's Shout

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Slim's Shout
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Studio album by
Sunnyland Slim
Released1961
RecordedSeptember 15, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Blues
Length40:54CD reissue with additional tracks
Label Bluesville
BVLP 1016
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Sunnyland Slim chronology
Chicago Blues Session
(1960)		Slim's Shout
(1961)		 I Done You Wrong
(1965)

Slim's Shout is an album by blues musician Sunnyland Slim recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label the following year. [1] [2] [3]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
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AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "You wouldn't think that transporting one of Chicago's reigning piano patriarchs to Englewood Cliffs, NJ would produce such a fine album, but this 1960 set cooks from beginning to end. Sunnyland Slim's swinging New York rhythm section has no trouble following his bedrock piano, and the estimable King Curtis peels off diamond-hard tenor sax solos in the great Texas tradition that also mesh seamlessly". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Sunnyland Slim except where noted

  1. "I'm Prison Bound" (Brownie McGhee) – 3:19
  2. "Slim's Shout" (Sunnyland Slim, Ozzie Cadena) – 3:46
  3. "The Devil Is a Busy Man" – 3:49
  4. "Brownskin Woman" – 3:41
  5. "Shake It" (Big Joe Turner) – 3:00
  6. "Decoration Day" – 4:35
  7. "Baby How Long" (McGhee) – 2:40
  8. "Sunnyland Special" – 4:39
  9. "Harlem Can't Be Heaven" – 2:15
  10. "It's You Baby" – 2:23
  11. "Everytime I Get to Drinking" [take 3] – 2:40 Additional track on CD reissue
  12. "Tired of You Clowning" – 3:09 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

Performance

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzdisco: Prestige Records Catalog: Bluesville 1000 series accessed May 14, 2019
  2. ↑ Both Sides Now: Prestige/Bluesville Album Discography accessed May 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Sunnyland Slim discography accessed May 14, 2019
  4. 1 2 Dahl, Bill. Sunnyland Slim: Slim's Shout – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  6. ↑ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 616. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
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