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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
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
Original Folk Blues
Original Folk Blues
Released: 1964
Label: United Recordings
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Whose Muddy Shoes
Whose Muddy Shoes
Released: 1969
Label: Universal Distribution
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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 (10), Compilations (129)
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