Elmore James - Best Of The Modern Years

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:12
Size: 121.8 MB
Styles: Slide guitar blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. I Believe
[2:49] 2. Baby What's Wrong
[2:45] 3. Early In The Morning
[2:16] 4. Hawaiian Boogie
[2:34] 5. Strange Kinda Feeling
[3:02] 6. Please Find My Baby
[2:48] 7. Hand In Hand
[2:39] 8. Make My Dreams Come True
[2:49] 9. Sho' Nuff I Do
[3:15] 10. Sunny Land
[2:45] 11. Standing At The Crossroads
[2:12] 12. Mean And Evil
[2:43] 13. Happy Home
[2:21] 14. No Love In My Heart (For You)
[3:08] 15. Dust My Blues
[2:49] 16. I Was A Fool
[2:41] 17. Blues Before Sunrise
[2:56] 18. Goodbye Baby
[3:16] 19. Wild About You

This 19-track compilation focuses on Elmore James' crucial sessions recorded for the Modern Records subsidiaries Meteor and Flair between 1952 and 1956. At the time of these recordings, the distorted amplified sound of James' slide guitar with his unmistakable electrified Robert Johnson lick was helping map out the postwar blues idiom with such classics as "I Believe," "Blues Before Sunrise," "Wild About You," "Mean & Evil," and the extraordinary reworking of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" into "Dust My Blues." Even though roughly half of these tracks appear on the equally recommended 1986 Ace release Let's Cut It: The Very Best of Elmore James, this set is a great introduction to the dynamic slide guitarist's earliest recordings. ~Al Campbell

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