The Folkways years, 1959-1973 /

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Author / Creator:Memphis Slim.
Imprint:Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, p2000.
Description:1 online resource (66 min.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Streaming Audio Music recording Audio
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8635976
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Other authors / contributors:Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992.
Gillum, Jazz, 1904-1966.
Jackson, Jump.
Stidham, Arbee.
Notes:Includes detailed program notes in English on insert.
Most selections previously released.
Previously issued as compact disc.
Primarily blues for piano, voice and piano, or for voice and small ensemble.
Memphis Slim, piano and on some selections, voice or Hammond organ ; other performers on some selections, including Willie Dixon on vocals and bass ; Jazz Gillum on vocals and harmonica ; Arbee Stidham on guitar and vocals ; Jump Jackson on drums ; Matt Murphy on guitar ; and Pete Seeger on banjo and vocals.
Other form:Original publisher catalog number: SFW CD 40128
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Standard no.:093074012826
Table of Contents:
  • Joggie boogie (3:24)
  • I left that town
  • Harlem bound / Peter Chatman (2:15)
  • Key to the highway / C. Segar-W. Broonzy (2:54)
  • Chicago rent party / Peter Chatman (3:53)
  • Stewball (3:32)
  • The dirty dozens / Rufus Perryman (2:48)
  • Beer-drinking woman / Peter Chapman (2:28)
  • Walking blues (3:08)
  • Pinetop's boogie woogie / C. Smith (4:09)
  • San Juan blues / Peter Chatman (2:19)
  • Prison bound / Leroy Carr (3:23)
  • If the rabbit had a gun / Memphis Slim (2:57)
  • Backwater blues / Bessie Smith (3:41)
  • You name it / Memphis Slim (2:13)
  • M & O blues / Walter Davis, Jr. (3:35)
  • Every day I have the blues / Peter Chatman (2:23)
  • Just a dream / W.L. Broonzy (4:10)
  • Midnight special / H. Ledbetter (1:47)
  • The bells (2:33)
  • Mean old Frisco / Arthur Crudup (3:19)
  • The gimmick / Memphis Slim (3:49).