Artist:Elmore James
Song :Coming Home
Album:Blues Masters:The Very Best Of Elmore James
Elmore James was a great innovator of the blues slide guitar. Anyone who has ever played the blues on guitar was influenced by James. He started out as a radio repairman in his native Mississippi. He was a part time musician and experimented with amplifiers. His first big hit was Dust My Broom and eventually took his band The Broomdusters to Chicago. He was a very powerful vocalist too. James was one of the most popular musicians of the 50s. The problem was he recorded for so many different labels and there are so many comps it's hard to know what to get. This Blues Masters comp issued by Rhino in 2000 is OK but an earlier Rhino comp called The Sky Is Crying is a little better. in 2005, Charly released the 4CD box set King Of The Slide Guitar and that looks definitive to me. Unfortunately Elmore James did not reap the benefits of the 60s blues revival. He had a history of heart problems and died of a heart attack on May 24, 1963 at age 45.
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