| Identifier | 3696759 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | flac 4 |
| Note | Let's Cut It!! The Ultimate Elmore James Collection Box Set |
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| Elmore James 1963-05-24 Let's Cut It!!, New York, NY | |
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| Set 1 | |
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| Set 3 | |
| Comment | ?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 |