Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James
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Artist: Elmore JamesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-04-06
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Dust My Broom
- The Sun Is Shining
- Hawaiian Boogie
- Sho' Nuff I Do
- Please Find My Baby
- TV Mama - Elmore James, Turner, Joe
- My Best Friend
- Madison Blues
- Cry for Me Baby
- The Sky Is Crying
- Sunnyland
- I Can't Hold Out
- Look on Yonder Wall
- I Need You
- Done Somebody Wrong
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- The 12 Year Old Boy - Elmore James, London
- It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James, London, Mel
- Rollin' and Tumblin' - Elmore James, Robinson, Morgan
- Something Inside Me
- Standing at the Crossroads
Music reviews of The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James
Music Review: The first Elmore record to own
Rating: 5 Stars
Elmore's blues, of all the major blues, had in them the most rock & roll kind of excitement. This is the first Elmore record to own. Next, go for Charly's 3 CD compilation box set King Of The Slide Guitar: The Complete Trumpet, Chief & Fire Sessions, and finally another 3 CD compilation, The Classic Early Recordings 1951-1956 from Ace. This one though - The Sky Is Crying: The History Of Elmore James - still has several tracks, all mighty fine, unavailable on either of those other collections ("The Sun Is Shining", "T.V. Mama", "Madison Blues" and "I Can't Hold Out").
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Other post-WWII Chicago bluesmen are better known, but the work of Elmore James holds up as well as any of theirs. If he never had the technical accomplishment of, say, Earl Hooker, he did have as much depth of emotional expression as Muddy Waters; just listen to the sweetness of "I Need You" or the pain of "It Hurts Me, Too." The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James contains some of the most important work of a man who still reigns as the king of slide guitar; anyone who wears a bottleneck today owes a debt to James. Highlights include Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom," which James made his signature tune, as well as the title track, which contains some of the sweetest licks in blues history. --Genevieve WilliamsChicago Blues CDs
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