Sunnyland Slim "Slim's Shout" 1993

This is a great CD - you can sit and really listen or you can just play it in the background and it will draw your attention back to it. It's lively music and great songs. Sunnyland's piano shines even when accompanied by an organ! The brass is good and the beat really drives forward. It makes me wish I could've seen them recording these songs.You wouldn't think that transporting one of Chicago's reigning piano patriarchs to Englewood Cliffs, NJ would produce such a fine album, but this 1960 set cooks from beginning to end. Sunnyland Slim's swinging New York rhythm section has no trouble following his bedrock piano, and the estimable King Curtis peels off diamond-hard tenor sax solos in the great Texas tradition that also mesh seamlessly. Slim runs through his standards -- "The Devil Is a Busy Man," "Shake It," "It's You Baby" -- in gorgeous stereo, and two unissued bonus cuts (including another of his best-known tunes, "Everytime I Get to Drinking") make the CD reissue of Slim's Shout even more appealing. --Bill Dahl, AllMusic

trax:

01. I'm Prison Bound 02. Slim's Shout 03. The Devil Is A Busy Man 04. Brownskin Woman 05. Shake It 06. Decoration Day 07. Baby How Long 08. Sunnyland Special 09. Harlem Can't Be Heaven 10. It's You Baby 11. Everytime I Get To Drinking (take 3) 12. Tired Of You Clowning

Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 15, 1960

...served by Toxxy...