Product Details
- SKU: 408741LP
- Format: LP
- UPC: 8436559466486
- Street Date: 09/13/19
- PreBook Date: 08/09/19
- Label: WaxTime 500 »
- Genre: Blues
- Run Time: 40 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2019
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: US
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Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying
180 gram. Audiophile Pressing. Lp Collector's Edition Strictly Limited To 500 Copies!
- List Price: $21.99
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The legendary bluesman Elmore James is the most influential slide guitarist of thepostwar period. He's been credited as one of the primary architects of blues-rock byvirtue of his energizing primal riffs and raw, driving intensity. His influence (in approach,attitude and tone) is incalculable, and can be heard in just about every guitar player whoputs a slide on his finger and wails the blues. This essential LP release includes the cream of the crop of Elmore James' inimitablediscography - 20 superb recordings from the peak of the blues legend's career.Although James had been on the scene since 1939, he recorded the lion's share of hisfinest work between the early '50s and '60s, for different labels like Trumpet, Flair, Kent,Chief, Chess, and Fire Records. Including here are 20 blues classics like his signaturetune "Dust My Broom" (an electric updating of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust MyBroom"), as well as classic numbers like "Shake Your Moneymaker," "Standing at theCrossroads," and the soulful ballad "The Sky Is Crying." (The latter tune has become ablues standard, performed by many artists, such as Eric Clapton, Albert King, StevieRay Vaughan, and The Allman Brothers Band, to name a few.) The aforementionedtracks, and other great songs, have been included on this remastered collector's edition.This is a solid introduction to one of the post-war blues' biggest icons."The missing link between Robert Johnsonand Hound Dog Taylor. "-- Robert Christgau
