Elmore James - South Side Blues Eddie Taylor / Jimmy Reed 1971 original CST 9001
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Description
Elmore James
South Side Blues
Eddie Taylor & Jimmy Reed
1971 original 1st pressing.
Cobblestone Records - CST 9001
Vinyl is EX++ to Mint-
Vinyl looks EX++ (or better) : light marks, small, faint scuffs.
Vinyl plays EX++ to Mint-, mostly Mint- : some light background crackle faintly in a few, quiet passages.
Labels are Mint-
Cover is EX : drill-holes top-right; bends, wear, indentations; sticker on back and lamination-separations; intact seams.
The original inner-sleeve has drill-holes to match the cover and edge and center-tears.
Includes a HQ inner-sleeve (pictured) that the vinyl is stored in after machine-cleaned and graded.
Out of print original ~
No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a wide influential trail behind him. And that influence continues to the present time -- in approach, attitude and tone -- in just about every guitar player who puts a slide on his finger and wails the blues. As a guitarist, he wrote the book, his slide style influencing the likes of Hound Dog Taylor, Joe Carter, his cousin Homesick James and J.B. Hutto, while his seldom-heard single-string work had an equally profound effect on B.B. King and Chuck Berry. His signature lick -- an electric updating of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and one that Elmore recorded in infinite variations from day one to his last session -- is so much a part of the essential blues fabric of guitar licks that no one attempting to play slide guitar can do it without being compared to Elmore James. Others may have had more technique -- Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker immediately come to mind -- but Elmore had the sound and all the feeling.
-allmusic
Packaged protectively for safe and secure shipping with USPS tracking
Thank you and have the best day ever ~
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