LIGHTNING SLIM 45 on FEATURE Orig 1954
$
461
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Description
Up for auction is this Unbelievably rare 45
"ROCK ME MAMA"/" BAD LUCK"
By LIGHTNING SLIM (and his Guitar)
On the early & Super Rare FEATURE RECORDS Label
Feature F-3006 issued on its Original Purple Label with the Silver Print
Release date: 1954
The group's Very 1st 45 and 1st 45 on Feature!!
Vinyl: Solid VG+
Label: VG range
All records are Visually Graded except when noted
I play tested this one and it is an absolute historic delight.
Lightning Slim has these great blues rock vocals and the recording is quite good.
You'll understand why this 45 is priced very high in record catalogues. It is very special!
(You'll be able to hear how the musical roots shown here influenced many great bands such as Canned Heat (which nearly stole his blues boogie style)
Bid with confidence. See seller's feedback and other Rare 45/Lp auctions.
Prompt careful shipping in a special Record mailer with additional insert provided for extra protection. ($3.25 within US Proper). Please email for international. Thanks and Enjoy!
The acknowledged kingpin of the Louisiana school of blues, Lightnin' Slim's style was built on his grainy but expressive vocals and rudimentary guitar work, with usually nothing more than a harmonica and a drummer in support. It was down-home country blues edged two steps further into the mainstream; first by virtue of Lightnin's electric guitar, and secondly by the sound of the local Crowley musicians who backed him being bathed in simmering, pulsating tape echo. As the first great star of producer J.D. Miller's blues talent stable, the formula was a successful one, scoring him regional hits that were issued on the Nashville-based Excello label for over a decade, with one of them, "Rooster Blues," making the national R&B charts in 1959. Combining the country ambience of a Lightnin' Hopkins with the plodding insistence of a Muddy Waters, Slim's music remained uniquely his own, the perfect blues raconteur, even when reshaping other's material to his dark, somber style. He also possessed one of the truly great voices of the blues; unadorned and unaffected, making the world-weariness of a Sonny Boy Williamson sound like the second coming of Good Time Charlie by comparison. His exhortation to "blow your harmonica, son" has become one of the great, mournful catchphrases of the blues, and even on his most rockin' numbers, there's a sense that you are listening less to an uptempo offering than a slow blues just being played faster. Lightnin' always sounded like bad luck just moved into his home approximately an hour after his mother-in-law did.
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