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King of the Slide Guitar: The Fire/Fury/Enjoy Recordings,Elmore James

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Elmore James
Released 1992

Hand in Hand
03:04
98 plays

Up Jumped Elmore
03:12
97 plays

You Know You're Wrong
03:09
96 plays

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songs

- 1
- The Sky Is Crying
- 02:47
- 184 plays

- 2
- Baby Please Set a Date
- 02:56
- 149 plays

- 3
- Held My Baby Last Night
- 02:55
- 126 plays

- 4
- Dust My Broom
- 02:57
- 206 plays

- 5
- Bobby's Rock
- 02:15
- 153 plays

- 6
- Rollin' and Tumblin'
- 02:34
- 144 plays

- 7
- Done Somebody Wrong
- 02:24
- 141 plays

- 8
- Something Inside Me
- 05:03
- 122 plays

- 9
- I'm Worried
- 00:00
- 107 plays

- 10
- Fine Little Mama
- 02:35
- 121 plays

- 11
- I Need You
- 03:32
- 109 plays

- 12
- Early One Morning
- 02:47
- 116 plays

- 13
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- 02:39
- 116 plays

- 14
- Strange Angels
- 03:10
- 109 plays

- 15
- She Done Moved
- 01:53
- 119 plays

- 16
- My Baby's Gone
- 02:55
- 120 plays

- 17
- Stranger Blues
- 02:56
- 128 plays

- 18
- Anna Lee
- 02:59
- 117 plays

- 19
- My Bleeding Heart
- 03:05
- 128 plays

- 20
- Standing at the Crossroads
- 02:59
- 111 plays

- 21
- One Way Out
- 02:25
- 102 plays

- 22
- My Kind of Woman
- 02:56
- 107 plays

- 23
- Person to Person
- 02:28
- 114 plays

- 24
- Find My Kind of Woman [Alternate Version]
- 03:03
- 115 plays

- 25
- Find My Kind of Woman
- 00:00
- 102 plays

- 26
- So Unkind
- 02:31
- 109 plays

- 27
- Got to Move
- 02:46
- 110 plays

- 28
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- 02:49
- 199 plays

- 29
- Look on Yonder Wall
- 02:29
- 146 plays

- 30
- Sunnyland Train
- 02:21
- 89 plays

- 31
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama
- 02:39
- 144 plays

- 32
- Go Back Home Again
- 02:14
- 77 plays

- 33
- You Know You're Wrong
- 03:09
- 96 plays

- 34
- You Know You Done Me Wrong
- 03:39
- 85 plays

- 35
- I've Got a Right to Love My Baby
- 02:49
- 79 plays

- 36
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- 03:29
- 221 plays

- 37
- Dust My Broom
- 00:00
- 186 plays

- 38
- It Hurts Me Too
- 03:20
- 122 plays

- 39
- Talk to Me Baby
- 02:45
- 103 plays

- 40
- Can't Stop Lovin' My Baby
- 02:27
- 85 plays

- 41
- She's Got to Go
- 04:09
- 107 plays

- 42
- Hand in Hand
- 03:04
- 98 plays

- 43
- Pickin' the Blues
- 03:54
- 220 plays

- 44
- Twelve Year Old Boy
- 03:53
- 122 plays

- 45
- I Believe
- 03:34
- 561 plays

- 46
- I Gotta Go Now
- 03:41
- 82 plays

- 47
- Up Jumped Elmore
- 03:12
- 97 plays

- 48
- Make My Dreams Come True
- 02:53
- 66 plays

- 49
- Back in Mississippi (A Conversation)
- 03:40
- 64 plays

- 50
- Black Snake Blues
- 02:49
- 343 plays

album review

Elmore's last great recordings occurred in the 1960s when he was signed by New York producer/label-owner Bobby Robinson. Unlike many of his contemporaries, James seemingly got better as the years went by and while none of the sides feature a slide guitar anywhere near as nasty as his early Modern and Flair recordings, he's still obviously giving it all on each and every side. These recordings are the ones most commonly issued on James and have surfaced on so many different compilations -- all with varying levels of sound quality--that it would be futile to list them all here. Fortunately, to make things easier we have this two-disc 50-song box set rounding up at least one extant take of everything Elmore recorded with Robinson at the helm. While some of the material are recuts of his best known tunes ("Dust My Broom" resurfaces here in two versions from two different sessions and the version of "It Hurts Me Too" included here -- it was originally cut for Chief in the late '50s -- became a posthumous hit for him), the majority of it breaks new ground and stands as some of Elmore's most emotion-laden work. Nice essays in the booklet make up for the disgusting art work that adorns the box. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide