Music : Dust My Broom
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227038922
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: November 19, 1991
Sales Rank: 355042
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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elmore james, dust my broom albumn - blues with a "'tude"! classic blues - with feelings mixed with all elements (sound - "blues feeling words", string
steel guitar, harmonica, hand clapping, thumpin', good base and rythum. too jazzy
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Elmore James is one of the greatest bluesmen of all time. Although he may have not been a master musician, he had raw emotion. That is what makes a true artist.
This CD gives you a glimpse of that electric emotion. The uptempo blues of "Shake Your Money Maker" and "One Way Out" exude energy. Even the slower numbers like "The Sky is Crying" and "Something Inside of Me" are brimming with with real "heartfelt blues."
This CD is also important to find out what "the originals" sound like. I had only heard the Allman Bros. do "One Way Out" before, and Stevie Ray's cover of the "The Sky is Crying" is fantastic, but listening to this, one realizes why they chose to pay tribute to such a great bluesman.
Do yourself a favor and buy this album.
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Don't let the other review throw you, they are referring to the Ronn label, not Tomato. The Tomato release is wonderful, Tomato is under Rhino records. I have played it for a lot of my friends and they all have loved it. The guitar work is fantastic and Elmore James' voice fits perfectly with it. I'd have to pull my copy out to check, but I believe this session was recorded right before Elmore James' death. Probably my favorite blues album of all time, in the top 3 anyway. If you have never heard him, buy this. It will be one of those times you find something new and can't believe you never heard it before.
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With literally dozens of Elmore James CDs on the market, who woula thunk we could use yet another repackaging of the slide guitar master's work. But, here we go again! The secret approach that makes this CD standout far and below any other Elmore disc is that out of the measely ten tracks, only three are actually by Elmore James. We get James' signature tune "Dust My Broom," plus both sides of his seminal Chief/VJ single, "Cry For Me Baby," albeit dubbed from a very worn copy. As an unexpected bonus, we get two titles by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (who had a record issued on the Trumpet label as Elmer James), and the little heard flip-side of the aforementioned "Broom," performed by Bobo Thomas (NOT James), with Sonny Boy Williamson on harmonica.
Homesick James' four sides date from the early 60s (c. 1963/4), with "Crossroads" being one of his better rockin' efforts.
I have enjoyed other Ronn/Jewel/Paula CDs previously, but someone really let the standards slip here. As a final note, I enjoyed the sleeve insert, advertising other blues & related CDs from their catalog--some of which I hadn't known about, but would like to order.
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