Elmore James 1963-05-24
Let's Cut It!!, New York, NY

Set 1


Set 2


Set 3


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?Let?s Cut It, Let?s Cut It, Let?s Cut It!!?

The Complete Ultimate Elmore James Flac Box Set
1958-63

Elmore James 1918-1963 RIP

This 4 disc box set is lovingly converted from discs I bought in Amsterdam in 1992. These have been digitally remastered and constitute virtually every known Elmore James recording from 1958 up until his death on May 24, 1963, and a selection of the best from 1953-1957. You will no doubt recognize quite a few of these songs have been covered by artists like ABB, the Band, BB King, Elvis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Black Crowes, Gov?t Mule, Clapton, Cream, etc, to name a few off the top of my head.

At some point I will amass and compile a more thorough set for the years 1951 (from the first known Elmore recording, playing guitar on Sonny Boy Williamson?s ?Eyesight to the Blind?) through 1957.

Elmore?s first song credited to him, ?Dust My Broom? (with Sonny Boy on harmonica) was released in 1952, and he spent much time in Chicago as a sessions musician. Ekmore was not well known among whites in his lifetime, and never had an album released in his lifetime. Yet he is one of the most influential bluesmen on the rock and roll world.

The first 3 discs consist of every known recording he made under his Fire, Fury, and Enjoy Records contracts. These studio recordings were made in Chicago, New Orleans and New Orleans between 1958 and 1963 and were produced by Bobby Robinson. The discs are remastered from the acetate reels off the mixer in the studio and sound extremely good.

Some may say it is for ?collectors only? because of the alternate takes, but it shows the searing power and seriousness of Elmore?s wrenching blues talent.

The fourth disc is less clear in its origin. It is titled ?The Very Best Of Elmore James?, but does not contain any of the Fire, Fury or Enjoy material (so the title is a clear misnomer). I believe after much listening these tracks are from 1953-1956, and were recorded for either the Chess or Sue labels. While most sound like remastered tapes, a few tracks are probably sourced from vinyl 78?s.


?The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings?

Disc 1:

1. Make My Dreams Come True
2. Bobby?s Rock
3. The Sky is Crying
4. Held My Baby Last Night
5. Dust My Broom
6. Baby Please Set a Date
7.
a. Rollin? and Tumblin?
8. I?m Worried
9. Done Somebody Wrong
10. Fine Little Mama
11. I Can?t Stop Loving You
12. Early One Morning
13. I Need You Baby
14. Strange Angels
15. She Done Moved (instr.)
16. Something Inside Me
17. You Don?t Have to Go (Sam Myers on vocals)
18. Stranger Blues
19. Stranger Blues (alt.)
20. My Bleeding Heart
21. Standing At the Crossroads
22. One Way Out


Disc 2:

1. Got to Move
2. Person to Person
3. So Unkind
4. My Kind of Woman
5. Woke Up Screaming and Crying (unknown vocalist)
6. Do It If You Wanna (unknown vocalist)
7. Shake Your Money Maker
8. Look On Yonder Wall
9. Poor Little Angel Child (Sam Myers on vocals)
10. Mean Mistreatin? Mama (take 1; incomplete)
11. Mean Mistreatin? Mama (take 2)
12. Mean Mistreatin? Mama
13. Sunnyland Train
14. You Know You?re Wrong (take 1; incomplete)
15. You Know You?re Wrong (take 2; alternate)
16. You Know You?re Wrong (take 3; master)
17. Going Back Home Again
18. Look Up On The Wall
19. Find My Kind of Woman (take 1)
20. Find My Kind of Woman (take 3)
21. Dust My Broom (alt.)
22. My Baby?s Gone

Disc 3:

1. Hand in Hand (take 1)
2. Hand in Hand (take 2)
3. Hand in Hand (take 4)
4. I?ve Got a Right to Love My Baby
5. Every Day I Have the Blues
6. Dust My Broom (alt.)
7. It Hurts Me Too
8. Talk To Me Baby
9. Can?t Stop Loving My Baby
10. She?s Got to Go
11. Pickin? the Blues
12. Twelve Year Old Boy
13. Up Jumped Elmore (false start)
14. Up Jumped Elmore
15. Up Jumped Elmore (black snake slide)
16. I Believe
17. I Gotta Go Now
18. Make My Dreams Come True (alt.)
19. Back in Mississippi (studio conversation)

?The Very Best of Elmore James?

Disc 4:

1. Dust My Blues
2. Blues Before Sunrise
3. No Love in My Heart
4. Sho Nuff I Do
5. Standing at the Crossroads
6. I Was a Fool
7. Sunnyland
8. Canton, Mississippi Breakdown
9. Happy Home
10. Wild About You Baby
11. Long Tall Woman
12. So Mean to Me
13. Hawaiian Boogie (No. 2)
14. Mean and Evil
15. Dark and Dreary
16. My Best Friend
17. I Believe
18. Goodbye Baby

Anyone with suggestions, criticisms, comment or corrections please email me at cathy_liebchen@yahoo.com


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