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Shake Your Moneymaker: The Best Of The Fire Sessions (CD)

By: Elmore James (Artist)

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Elmore James Artist Snapshot:

Elmore James built a blues career largely around one milestone slide-guitar lick, but what a lick it was! Copped from Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom," James's frantic trademark run can safely be cited as one of the cornerstones of rock & roll, from Eric Clapton to George Thorogood. The Mississippi bluesman recorded for a variety of labels throughout the '50s, but died in 1963, at the peak of his influence.

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DISC 1 for Shake Your Moneymaker: The Best Of The Fire Sessions (CD) Album By Elmore James (Artist)
1   Shake Your Moneymaker
2   Look On Yonder Wall
3   Sky Is Crying, The
4   Rollin' And Tumblin'
5   Held My Baby Last Night
6   I'm Worried
7   Done Somebody Wrong
8   Fine Little Mama
9   Anna Lee
10   Stranger Blues
11   Something Inside Me
12   Early One Morning
13   Sunnyland
14   Standing At The Crossroads
15   My Bleeding Heart
16   Dust My Broom
 

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Review

Dirty Linen (8-9/01, p.53) - "...An excellent intro to the giant's music..."
Living Blues (7-8/01, p.81) - "...This is a disc to recommend for fans of James who don't already own these recordings in other forms..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Elmore James (vocals, guitar); Jimmy Spruill, Riff Ruffin (guitar); Sam Myers (harmonica); J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); Paul Williams (baritone saxophone); Danny Moore (trumpet); Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, Johnny Jones, Johnny Acey (piano); Sammy Lee Bully, Homesick James (bass); King Mose, Belton Evans, Johnny Williams, Odie Payne (drums).

Producer: Bobby Robinson.

Compilation producers: Rob Santos, John Broven.

Recorded between 1959 & 1961. Includes liner notes by John Broven.

Digitally remastered by Elliott Federman (SAJE Sound, New York, New York).

SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER brings together the best tracks Elmore James cut for Fire Records. James did a lot of label-hopping in his 12-year recording career (tragically, he died of a heart attack at 45), but his tenure at Fire (during 1959-'61) yielded some of his finest work. Two Robert Johnson tunes, "Standing at the Crossroads" and "Dust My Broom," were essential to James's repertoire, and were cut in superb versions for Fire. (The Fire version of "Dust My Broom," a tune he recorded numerous times throughout his career, is characterized by a thunderous, bass-heavy pounding.)

One of the most influential slide-guitar players ever, James employed slashing, wiry lines that can sound like a cattle prod jammed in an electric toaster (in the best possible way). His yelping tenor is desperate, poignant, and often sounds on the verge of breaking. In both playing and singing, James is passionately intense on slow blues ("The Sky Is Crying"), rolling groovers ("Fine Little Mama"), and dance-oriented shuffle boogies ("Stranger Blues"). SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER works well as a sampler of James's Fire work, and as an introduction to his blues artistry.

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