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Elmore James

Born: Jan 27, 1918 in Richland, MS

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Died: May 24, 1963 in Chicago, IL

Genre: Blues

Styles: Electric Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Slide Guitar Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Delta Blues

Biography: No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a wide influential ...Read full biography

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Original Folk Blues

Released: 1964

Label: United

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Whose Muddy Shoes

Released: 1969

Label: Universal

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Elmore James had recorded a session for Chess in 1953 before settling down with the Bihari Brothers and again in 1960, shortly before starting his final recordings for Bobby Robinson's Fire, Fury and Enjoy ...Read full review

More Elmore James albums: Main Albums (11), Compilations (82)

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