Sunnyland Slim: The Classic Sides 1947-1953

Sunnyland Slim SKU: 11981619
Sunnyland Slim: The Classic Sides 1947-1953

Sunnyland Slim: The Classic Sides 1947-1953

Sunnyland Slim SKU: 11981619

Format: CD

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Description

Title: The Classic Sides 1947-1953
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

Slim always had an angle, always had a sideline that brought in the cash. But... 'Music wasn't really his biggest ambition,' bass player Bob Stroger said. 'He always wanted to help people, it looked like. Johnny Littlejohn, Mighty Joe Young, Robert Covington, Sunnyland had some input in their lives...' He was born in 1906 in Vance, Mississippi. He was always interested in music: 'I was a lover to the minstrel shows, and to hear music - organ, guitar - kind of did me in and look like it would stay on my mind. I'd cut up all your wood and kindlin' to get a chance to play your organ.' He ran away when he was eleven but his father brought him home. 'Finally, I told my grandfather I just couldn't stay there and he gave me five dollars and so I ran away for good.' Big for his age, Albert travelled for some years, picking cotton, working in lumber camps and on section gangs, always looking out for a piano and someone to teach him. Albert roamed throughout Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri. 'I started messing around with the average musicians. I couldn't play but in three keys, you know.' Ma Rainey hired him for a gig. 'And the first thing she stepped out on, she said, "B flat", she patted her foot to the guitar, and when she started out, she wasn't in the key of the guitar or me.' He became one of a mobile fraternity: 'All them best piano players was running up and down them roads... a piano player had a pretty nice way to go. He'd get him a girl everywhere he went and he could holler.' Once established in Chicago in a basement apartment, Slim adopted an 'open house' policy, where musicians could gamble, play and eat a square meal. 'He'd give away more than he'd sell sometimes,' Jimmy Rogers saied, 'but he'd sell whiskey and food and everything...' Here he is, in the chaos of a raucous life with the music he made and the musicians he made it with. Some of them are featured here - including Robert Lockwood, Floyd Jones, J.B. Lenoir and Jimmy Rogers.

Tracks:
1.1 Farewell Little Girl
1.2 Broke and Hungry
1.3 Illinois Central
1.4 Nappy Head Woman
1.5 Across the Hall Blues
1.6 Walking with the Blues
1.7 Sweet Lucy Blues
1.8 No Whiskey Blues
1.9 Jivin' Boogie
1.10 Brown Skin Woman
1.11 My Heavy Load
1.12 Keep Your Hands Out of My Money
1.13 5 Foot 4 Gal
1.14 I've Done You Wrong
1.15 Roll, Tumble and Slip (I Cried)
1.16 Train Time (4 O'Clock Blues)
1.17 Hard Times
1.18 School Days
1.19 Blue Baby
1.20 I Want My Baby
1.21 Mud Kicking Woman
1.22 Every Time I Get to Drinking
1.23 Bad Times (Cost of Living)
1.24 Hard Time (When Mother's Gone)
1.25 Brown Skin Woman
1.26 I'm Just a Lonesome Man
2.1 Back to the Korea Blues
2.2 It's All Over Now
2.3 The Fat Man: You've Got to Stop This Mess
2.4 The Fat Man: Glad I Don't Worry No More
2.5 Down Home Child
2.6 Sunnyland Special
2.7 Leaving Your Town (No Names Blues)
2.8 Mary Lee
2.9 I Done You Wrong
2.10 Orphan Boy Blues
2.11 When I Was Young (Shake It Baby)
2.12 (Low Down) Sunnyland Train
2.13 Aint' Nothing But a Child
2.14 Brown Skinned Woman
2.15 Hit the Road Again
2.16 Gin Drinkin' Baby
2.17 Shake It Baby
2.18 Woman Trouble (Overnight)
2.19 City of New Orleans
2.20 When I Was Young
2.21 Bassology
2.22 Worried About My Baby
2.23 Troubles of My Own
2.24 Worried About My Baby
2.25 I Done You Wrong
2.26 Be My Baby
3.1 Going Back to Memphis
3.2 Devil Is a Busy Man
3.3 Shake It Baby
3.4 Bassology
3.5 Four Day Bound
3.6 That Woman
3.7 Be Mine Alone
3.8 Sad and Lonesome
3.9 Living in the White House
3.10 Please Don't
3.11 Dust My Broom
3.12 Pearly B
3.13 I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole
3.14 Dust My Broom
3.15 Glory for Man
3.16 My Daily Wish
3.17 Big World
3.18 Dark Road
3.19 Schooldays on My Mind
3.20 Ain't Times Hard
3.21 Floyd's Blues
3.22 Any Old Lonesome Day
3.23 Pet Rabbit
3.24 Louella
3.25 Late Hours at Midnight
3.26 Blues Is Killin' Me
4.1 I Wanna Play a Little While
4.2 Louise
4.3 Let's Roll
4.4 People Are Meddlin' in Our Affairs
4.5 I Have Married
4.6 The Mountain
4.7 I'll Die Tryin'
4.8 How Much More
4.9 The Mojo
4.10 Slow Down Woman
4.11 I Want My Baby
4.12 How Can I Leave
4.13 Ludella
4.14 I'm in Love
4.15 That's All Right
4.16 Shame on You Baby
4.17 I'm Not Satisfied
4.18 Trying to Change My Ways
4.19 Hard Work Boogie
4.20 Your Evil Ways
4.21 I Sit Up All Night
4.22 State Street Blues
4.23 Mother's Day
4.24 Chicago Woman Blues
4.25 Nervous Breakdown
4.26 Old Age Has Got Me
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