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King of the Slide Guitar | 
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| Artist: Elmore James
Label: Snapper UK
Category: Music
List Price: $32.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 98637
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 803415572229
EAN: 0803415572229
ASIN: B00008IUX8
Release Date: November 11, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Dust My Broom (I Believe My Time Ain't Long) | | • | The Twelve Year Old Boy - Elmore James, London, Mel | | • | Coming Home | | • | It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James, James, Elmore | | • | Knocking at Your Door | | • | Elmore's Contribution to Jazz | | • | Cry for Me Baby - Elmore James, London, Mel | | • | Take Me Where You Go | | • | Bobby's Rock | | • | The Sky Is Crying - Elmore James, James, Elmore | | • | Baby, Please Set a Date | | • | Held My Baby Last Night | | • | Dust My Broom | | • | Rollin' and Tumblin' | | • | I'm Worried | | • | Done Somebody Wrong | | • | Fine Little Mama | | • | I Need You (Baby) | | • | I Can't Stop Lovin' You | | • | Strange Angels | | • | Early One Morning | | • | She Done Moved |
Disc 2
| • | Something Inside Me | | • | Stranger Blues | | • | Anna Lee | | • | Standing at the Crossroads - Elmore James, James, Elmore | | • | My Bleeding Heart | | • | My Kind of Woman | | • | Got to Move | | • | So Unkind | | • | Person to Person - Elmore James, Singleton | | • | One Way Out | | • | Strange(r) Blues | | • | Shake Your Moneymaker | | • | Look on Yonder Wall | | • | Go Back Home Again | | • | Mean Mistreatin' Mama | | • | Sunnyland Train | | • | You Know You Done Me Wrong | | • | Mean Mistreatin' Mama | | • | Mean Mistreatin' Mama [Take 2} | | • | You Know You're Wrong | | • | Find My Kind of Woman |
Disc 3
| • | My Baby's Gone | | • | Find My Kind of Woman | | • | Look on Yonder Wall (Look Up on the Wall) | | • | Dust My Broom | | • | It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James, James, Elmore | | • | Pickin' the Blues (Manhattan Slide) | | • | Everyday I Have the Blues - Elmore James, Chatman, Peter | | • | I Have a Right to Love My Baby | | • | Twelve Year Old Boy - Elmore James, London, Mel | | • | Got to Move (She's Got to Go) | | • | I Gotta Go Now | | • | Talk to Me Baby | | • | Make My Dreams Come True | | • | Hand in Hand | | • | Can't Stop Loving My Baby | | • | Dust My Broom | | • | Elmore Jumps One (Up Jumped Elmore) | | • | I Believe | | • | Back in Mississippi | | • | Hand in Hand | | • | Hand in Hand |
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Album Description
The complete Trumpet, Chief & Fire Sessions, 64 remastered tracks. Includes a 24-page illustrated booklet. 3 papersleeves packaged in a cardboard flip-top box. 'Elmore James was a major, maybe even the main reason, why the Stones came about.' - Bill Wyman
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| Customer Reviews:
 Mixed bag for Elmore James scholars only June 13, 2008
Wild Bill (New Jersey)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My thirst for a library of Elmore James recordings led me to purchase this collection. I could hardly wait the time it took to arrive! My collection previously consisted of 3 overlapping compilations of his most popular recordings, "Whose Muddy Shoes" on Chess, "Blues After Hours" on Crown, and a set of Big Joe Turner recordings on Atlantic with James providing backup.
This 3-CD box set, however, was a disappointment. An uneven collection consisting mostly (about half) of late recordings after his second heart attack and self-imposed temporary retirement, it finds James trudging through uninspired and often tedious re-recordings of much of his earlier material. Even the liner notes confess, "It marked the return of Elmore to the studio, but the results were perhaps too raw for release at the time... Robinson was trying out unfamiliar material on Elmore which was taking up a lot of studio time. Instead of seeking perfection, Abramson suggested instead that they try running through Elmore's repertoire as if it were a live set. The results [were] enough for a double-album..."
Don't misinterpret "too raw for release" or "running through Elmore's repertoire" as complimentary. Your time and money is better spent on the aforementioned titles unless you place a high value on listening to everything James ever recorded, if only once. Even then you might find it a let-down. Stick to his earlier stuff and let his memory RIP.
 Incendiary! June 24, 2007
Adam Fuller (Rochester, NY)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What can I say but WOW! "King of the Slide Guitar" is an apt title for James who was taken from us before his time.
The man could flat out play and belt out a tune from the bottom of his heart.
If you love the blues, heck if you love music I highly recommend picking up this set!
The King of the Blues! June 8, 2007
Michael D Shelfer (Gold Coast, Queensland Australia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Look, this guy was magic and this 3 CD set is just great! You must add this to your collection!!
A fantastic box set June 7, 2003
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
This reissue of the original 50-track "King Of The Slide Guitar" box set, with an additional 14 tracks, is magnificent. It presents every song Elmore James recorded for the Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels in the early 60s, with great sound and a few interesting rarities and alternate takes.
You'll need to hear Elmore's earlier recordings as well, of course (available on the fine "The Classic Early Recordings" box set, ASIN: B000000W62), but the fact that a few of his best early songs weren't re-recorded for Bobby Robinson's labels, and thus are missing from this collection, doesn't really detract anything from its greatness.
There are still so many blues classics here it's unbelievable - "Dust My Broom", "It Hurts Me Too", "The Sky Is Crying", "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "The Twelve Year Old Boy" are the best-known, obviously, but the rest of this material is not sub-par in any way...every song is good, most are great, and a lot of them are just magnificent, some of the most powerful electric blues you'll ever hear.
The brand of fiery electric blues that Elmore James played more than forty years ago packed an incredible punch. It is supremely gritty (in spite of the urbane arrangements featuring piano and saxophone), and Elmore had one of the greatest, most intense and expressive voices you'll ever hear. His slashing slide guitar playing has made him more influential than any other single guitarist.
"King Of The Slide Guitar" also includes several terrific instrumentals, like the smouldering "Up Jumped Elmore" and the dance-friendly boogie "Bobby's Rock". And even though most of the approximately fifty different songs aren't well known outside the circle of fanatical Elmore James-fan, there is an incredible number of high-quality cuts here.
The tough raver "Rollin' & Tumblin'" easily matches anything Cream or the Yardbirds ever did, "Done Somebody Wrong" is virtually hard rock, and the slide leads and saxophone fills on the funky "Can't Stop Loving My Baby" all blend together to create the kind of blues song you normally only dream about.
This wonderful collection of music can easily match any of the great Chess box sets, and that is saying something! Elmore James and the Broomdusters rock incredibly hard on their definitive reading of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom", and they smoulder on the ultimate slow blues, James' own "The Sky Is Crying".
There are so many excellent songs here that rarely or never show up on various Elmore James-compilations: "Got To Move", "Person To Person", "Strange Angels", "You Know You're Wrong", "Hand In Hand", "I've Got A Right To Love My Baby", "She's Got To Go"...well, just get it, allright?
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