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01. Memphis Slim - I'm Lost Without You
02. Memphis Slim - I'll Just Keep Singing The Blues
03. Memphis Slim - El Capitan
04. Memphis Slim - This Is A Good Time To Write A Song
05. Memphis Slim - Big Bertha
06. Memphis Slim - Train Has Gone
07. Memphis Slim - Going Down Slow]
08. Memphis Slim - All About Myself
09. Memphis Slim - The Blues Is Everywhere
10. Memphis Slim - All By Myself
11. Memphis Slim - My Gal Keeps Me Crying
12. Memphis Slim - Matt's Guitar Boogie
13. Memphis Slim - I'm Lost Without You
14. Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well
15. Memphis Slim - I'll Just Keep Singing The Blues
16. Memphis Slim - It's Too Late
17. Memphis Slim - Just A Dream
ARTIST
TITLE
1964 Live
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RANDB 070CD RANDB 070CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/11/2021

When Memphis Slim first visited Europe in 1960, he was already a twenty-year veteran recording artist, with many US 78 rpm releases behind him and a very solid reputation leading small bands in the 1940s and '50s. It's no wonder that he was able to captivate an entirely new kind of audience when he crossed the Atlantic, first as a visitor, then as a permanent resident, settling in Paris from 1962. The studios and concert halls of Europe were very different from the juke joints of the South or the nightclubs of Chicago, but it was all the same to Memphis Slim, who could grab and hold his listeners' attention wherever he played. Throughout the remainder of his life -- he died in Paris in 1988, and was buried back home in Memphis -- Slim made a great many albums, in all sorts of company, from duetting with Sonny Boy Williamson, to fronting big bands, or French beat groups, or Nashville session musicians. There were so many that the quality inevitably suffered. A blandness crept in, the performances sometimes seeming routine and even perfunctory, and his stock fell among many diehard blues fans. This is a great shame, as he deserves to be numbered among the true greats of the blues. Recordings such as the ones on this disc should help to restore him to his rightful place, as they capture him at the very start of that new era of his career, still sounding fresh, his rich and expressive voice still in its prime, still full of enthusiasm for sharing his own personal heritage of blues and boogie piano.