Elmore James. Really what more need I say? His sound rests at the bottom of many a rock n roller's oeurvre, and a great many of them don't even know it. As a slide guitarist he certainly stood on the shoulders of giants, his style was heavily influenced by Son House, Willie McTell and Fred McDowell & others that wrote the vocabulary. Elmore was not the first to play electric slide....but ...
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Elmore James really did only have the one riff (ditto Chuck Berry), but when it's as good as *this* that hardly seems to matter
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Here are a couple covers of the Elmore James classic.First, the legendary Howlin' Wolf:This one's probably my favorite, though :)
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This should be required listening, Oh and by the way this is my way of teasing to get responses. Miscommunication is so easy on blogs.
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I was on YouTube looking for a good clip of people doing 'the Madison' to post as a bulletin on my Myspace page - didn't find one, but it remind me of the great Elmore James and his take on the Madison, 'Madison Blues'. Pretty darn irresistable, eh? If I didn't have my right foot in a cast right now, I'd be up doing the Madison...
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Elmore recorded in an era when very few 'Blues' artists recorded LP's. The only LP released in his lifetime (in 1961) was a budget compilation of old singles recorded by the Bihari Brothers (in common with Howlin' Wolf & BB King) - Blues After Hours (Crown 5168) this was re-released several times subsequent to his death.It Hurts Me Too was recorded in 1957 - Elmore's Contribution To Jazz (Chief...
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