An amazingly prolific artist who brought a brisk air of urban sophistication to his frequently stunning presentation, John "Peter" Chatman -- better known as Memphis Slim -- assuredly ranks with the greatest blues pianists of all time. He was smart enough to take Big Bill Broonzy's early advice about developing a style to call his own to heart, instead of imitating that of his idol, Roosevelt Sykes. Soon enough, other 88s pounders were copying Slim rather than the other way around; his thundering ivories attack set him apart from most of his contemporaries, while his deeply burnished voice possessed a commanding authority. (Bill Dahl, Allmusic)
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01 Grinder Man Blues 02 You Got To Help Me Some 03 You Didn't Mean Me No Good 04 Maybe I'll Loan You A Dime 05 Caught The Old Coon At Last 06 Beer Drinkin' Woman 07 This Life I'm Living 08 Lend Me Your Love 09 Two Of A Kind 10 You Gonna Worry Too 11 Jasper's Gal 12 Empty Room Blues 13 Diggin' My Potatos No.2 14 Old Taylor 15 I See My Great Mistake 16 I Believe I'll Settle Down
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PETER CHATMAN (Memphis Slim) "This Life I'm Living"
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FRED McDOWELL - Amazing Grace (Testament) (1966) @320
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The connection between rural blues and spiritual music is sometimes overlooked. This 1966 recording, featuring McDowell, his guitar, and the Hunter's Chapel Singers of Como, Mississippi (including his wife Annie Mae), is one of the best illustrations of how closely the styles can be linked. McDowell and company perform what the record subtitle calls "Mississippi Delta spirituals" on this stark and moving set, which includes a version of one of his signature tunes, "You Got to Move." The CD reissue adds three previously unreleased tracks. (Allmusic)
This spellbinding blues-gospel blend from 1966 is one of the best (albeit not particularly broadly celebrated) revivalist records of the '60s. Tennessee-born Mississippi Fred McDowell was 64 when he cut the 16 tracks found here. Still, he was only a half-dozen years into a recording career that would end with his death in 1972. For this outing, the Delta bluesman explores his reverent side with assistance from his wife, Annie Mae, and their church choir from Como, Mississippi. With McDowell's assured guitar and fiery but friendly vocals in the fore, the choristers wrap themselves around the songs with enraptured ebullience. A few of these tunes will feel familiar to pop fans; "Jesus on the Main Line" was covered by Ry Cooder, while the Rolling Stones adopted "You Got to Move." Everything here, however, makes a deep connection. --Steven Stolder, Blues World
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BONUS 5 OF 7
K.C. DOUGLAS - The Country Boy (1974) @320
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Fine country blues album, recorded in 1973-1974. This album is now out of print.
One of the last great rural blues stylists in the San Francisco/Oakland area, K.C. Douglas produced a blues classic when he recorded.
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Fanny Lou
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Hear Me Howling
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Your Crying Won't Make Me Stay
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Country Girl
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Black Cat Bone
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God Looking Women
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Woke Up This Morning
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High Water Rising
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Mercury Boogie
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My Mind's Going Back To 1929
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Catfish Blues
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BONUS 6 OF 7
THE JUKE JOINT PIMPS - The Gospel Pimps (2011) @320
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The Juke Joint Pimps meet their alter Ego the Gospel Pimps , trashed Up wild frantic Raw Rhythm n Blues chicago stlyE ( the Juke Joint Pimps) meets Holy grail Preaching Gospel action Louisiana soul ( the Gospel Pimps) not only on that record as well live on stage the Band Jumps into two Suits.. once the buzz guzzler and sinner Juke joint pimps and getting saved by Gospel music the Gospel Pimps with authentic Gospel Choir and Roman Catolic preacher uniforms brings you that band the perfect match in both styles.. what does a sinner want more the whole album starts up with EAT FOR ME a song that could be written by R.L. Burnside back in the days when Fat Possum was still a good interesting label , and has slow songs as well like the I NEED MY BABY or SWEETEST HYMNS the flipside of the album is dominated by the gospel music of the early and mid 50's THE STAPLE SINGERS the Peacock catalogue inspired them to do such a recording..invited a gospel chir into the studio and start recording I FEE GUILTY is a fine example of very strange gospel and raw rhythm n blues .. sung by sinners
1. Eat For Me
2. Delta Trip
3. I Need My Baby
4. Boogie 65
5. Sweetest Hymns
6. Old School Boogie
7. Blues Power
8. I Feel Guilty
9. Juke Joint In The Sky
10. Boogie The Church Down
11. Keep Your Arms Around Me
12. King Roland's Prayer
13. Feeling Lonely
14. The Pimps Don't Like I
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BONUS 7 OF 7
THREE DOG NIGHT - Hard Labor (1974) [2013 Japan SHM-CD UICY-75571] @320
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Indeed, the last Gold album for the group, "Hard Labor" comes forth like a project that was not easily delivered. Changing producers to Jimmy Ienner was supposed to regroom the dog but "Teeth" bit too hard on his bubblegum and the once respected band sounds very wimpy on most of these songs. Clocking in at a paltry 36 minutes, this collection is short on both length and top drawer material. <>
First of all, 3 of the cuts are simply mindless preludes or interludes that go nowhere. That leaves you with just 8 songs, and 4 of those are stretched redundantly beyond tolerence for a normal closure - fleshing out for a minute or two past the pleasure point.
<> The hit songs were catchy 3 DOG NIGHT choices, although the biggest one --Leo Sayer's "The Show Must Go On" was more of a too-much-fun novelty and hasn't aged well. The other two hits, John Hiatt's "Sure As I'm Sitting Here", and Allen Toussaint's "Play Something Sweet" (Brickyard Blues) are engaging and memorable and still sound great some 30 years hence. There is one other song that should have been a hit. "I'd Be So Happy" has the earmarks of classic 3 Dog Night and it's a mystery why this was never singled. < >
The others are the throwaway Daniel Moore songs which an earlier Dog would have passed on, and a forgetable Larry Weiss number.
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3 or 4 songs do not a good release make and 3 DOG NIGHT never recovered from Hard Labor. All of us who plopped down our hard earned felt very ripped when we took this one home and we never really gave the band another chance. And they never deserved one. (Rolling Stone)
The last studio album from Three Dog Night to crack the Top 20, Hard Labor shows the growing cracks in the band's armor. Where on previous albums they had selected songs that highlighted their harmonic prowess, most of the tracks on Hard Labor are essentially solo efforts with group backing vocals. As a result, the band loses much of their soul and spirit. The lightweight hits, "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" and "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)," both with Cory Wells singing lead, are most representative of the record. However, the highlights are the Chuck Negron-sung "The Show Must Go On" (written and originally performed by Leo Sayer) and the dramatic, emotional ballad "I'd Be So Happy" (penned by Skip Prokop of Lighthouse fame). More a compilation of individual tracks than a true band effort, Hard Labor is an inconsequential entry in the Three Dog Night catalog. (Allmusic)
INFO
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Labor-Three-Dog-Night/dp/B000008LKP
http://www.allmusic.com/album/hard-labor-mw0000202894
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Thanks for Memphis Slim, and for me a great discovery, KC Douglas! Slim was the first blues album I bought (a comp. I think), I was mesmerized by his vocals and the blues feeling of his piano-playing.
What a blues feast lately, including Fred McDowell!
Cheers Daniel, from Spain...
Gyro, thank you for K.C.Douglas.
Ok. I don't comment perhaps as often as I should. This site is a daily addiction and I'm not sure how to fully express how thankful I am for all of the contributors and what each of you brings to the community. The sheer onslaught of quality music given daily is slightly overwhelming. I am in a constant struggle to keep up and listen to maybe not everything shared but doggone close to it. Pop, Country, Blues, Soul - and all of their offshoots, both new and old releases. Phew! Please accept my sincere thanks to you all. Now I'm off to listen to some Augie (killer great guy btw, did a show with him and Freddy Fender years ago) and Fred and Picadilly and Martin - oh happy day!
BTW - I am only a moderate Three Dog Night fan, but I figured others may be interested in their complete output, especially since it's a Japanese reissue treatment. The later albums I have never heard before.
Always a 3 Dog fan
Thanks
Gyro, I appreciate your effort on TDN. There must be lots of fans out there. But I just wanted to say, it would have to be a very very cold night for me to play their albums.
Thanks Gyro
for The Juke Joint pimps , Picadilly Line , Steve Young and all this collection of Three dog Night albums. It' eclectic and very good to hear.
LittleJack
Brrrr! Sure is cold here tonight
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Thanks
- TR
Lemonflag - very well put, I usually reach for a greatest hits package if I ever get in the mood! But that's not to say that the earlier albums do not have their charm.
Thanks Zyderock for taking the time to leave such a nice message. This is what makes this place so much fun, hearing the feedback from regular visitors.
Thanks for all the Three Dog Night, the first five or six in particular - they sound amazing, and it's fun to revisit my misspent adolescence. Not that I liked them at the time. When I was sixteen or seventeen my girlfriend loved TDN, and I exerted a lot of fruitless effort trying to explain that she should be listening to Canned Heat and the Byrds and Cream. She never came around, 45 years later I have to admit they're pretty good musically, and they had excellent taste in songwriters.
Gyro
I think that the earliest music you hear leaves a grove in your head that is the standard by which you measure all music. My groves were set be The Beatles, Otis Redding, Motown etc. So when I hear TDN copying all that stuff they fail to impress me. Now if TDN were the first records you heard, they would be the standard for you. And so it goes. I feel sorry for todays listeners because their music standards are so low.
The earliest music i remember liking was top 40 radio of the early seventies, which actually was very good. The first album i bought with my own money was Led Zeppelin at the age of ten. Then I got into Roxy Music, early Queen "Sheer Heart Attack" , then finally I saw punk on TV via The Sex Pistols, Damned, buying the first Ramones record, and everything that came out around that time. I was hooked on rock n' roll forever.
Friday 4th December 1964 I walked into the record shop and bought Beatles For Sale with my own earned money. I was 13 years old and worked at a grocery store after school. I had pre-ordered it weeks before and counted the days. We had all the other Beatle records at home but that was the first I paid for.
Fantastic start, Lemonflag. I didn't have any help in forming my taste around the house. I did listen to top 40 radio like WABC, and I made it a point to know the hits in the late 60's and early 70's. I bought Led Zeppelin at 10 years old after a kid in music class played one song of theirs for us. After that, it was a deep search for classic rock of the day, including buying any magazines I could afford. But by 1976 or so, groups like The Ramones, and later, the first Elvis Costello album changed my listening tastes. Again I credit the rock magazines that helped me deepen my appreciation of rock n roll.
Thanks for everything and the great discussion. I bought my first 45 in fall of 1962 - Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum! Robert may not be much of a rocker, but that song rocks! Does anyone know who played the lead guitar on it?
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