It Came from Memphis

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Artist: It Came From Memphis
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-04-11
Music Label: Manteca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Same Thing On My Mind - Mose Vinson
  2. T Model Boogie - Rosco Gordon
  3. Red Hot - Billy Riley & The Little Green Men
  4. Last Night - The Mar-Keys
  5. Hook Or Crook - Alex Chilton
  6. Chicken Dog - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  7. Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Gus Cannon (Banjo Joe)
  8. Snake Drive - North Mississippi Allstars
  9. Slummer D Slum - Mud Boy And The Neutrons
  10. Rock And Roll Sermon (Part 1) - Elder Beck
  11. Rock And Roll Sermon (Part 2) - Elder Beck
  12. Cadillac Man - The Jesters
  13. I Shall Not Be Moved - Million Dollar Quartet
  14. Go Back To Your Used To Be - Jessie Mae Hemphill
  15. Things Get Better - Eddie Floyd
  16. Anyway The Wind Blows - Syl Johnson
  17. (I Feel Like) Breaking Up Somebody's Home - Ann Peebles
  18. Tina, The Go-Go Queen - Tav Falco's Panther Burns
  19. The Outlaw - Sid Selvidge
  20. By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Isaac Hayes
Music CD 2
  1. My Sweet Potato - Booker T. & The MG's
  2. Down In Mississippi - Jim Dickinson
  3. Jes' Like A Monkey - Johnny Woods
  4. Spanish Delight - The Bo-Keys
  5. Howlin' Wolf Boogie - Howlin' Wolf
  6. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane - Jerry Lee Lewis
  7. The Image Of Me - The Country Rockers
  8. Please, Please Little Girl - The Merits
  9. September Gurls - Big Star
  10. Whitewash Station Blues - Memphis Jug Band
  11. Scratchy - Travis Wammack
  12. Red Headed Woman - Sonny Burgess
  13. White Lie, Black Eye - Tearjerkers
  14. If You Can't Give Me Everything - Reigning Sound
  15. You Don't Miss Your Water - William Bell
  16. Breakfast In Bed - Donnie Fritts With Lucinda Williams
  17. I'm Only Human - The Country Soul Review
  18. Simply Beautiful - Al Green
  19. Sue - Bobby Rush

Music reviews of It Came from Memphis

Music Review: Music From the Secret Music Capital of the U.S.A.
Rating: 5 Stars

I have always thought that Memphis is the secret music capital of the U.S.A.. In comparasion with the products of Nashville, there has always been in Memphis music a certain "hairy vitality", as the late Jean Shepherd would say. I would say that Memphis music is more inclusive than Nashville music. Memphis music is the blending or collision of different elements, much like American society itself. Memphis music is so much more than Elvis, who nevertheless is its prime and most successful example.

This is the third complilation that Robert Gordon has produced with the title It Came From Memphis. What he lacks in imagination in titling is more than made up by the breath and depth of its contents. The major labels of Memphis musical history (Sun, Stax & Hi) are well represented here. Many of its leading lights are also represented. For example, Jim Dickinson appears on three songs, as part of Mud Boy & the Neutrons covering the "5" Royales "Slummer D Slum" (very good, but not as great as the original), as a solo doing "Down in Mississippi and finally as lead singer of the Jesters' "Cadillac Man", the last great Sun record, a '66 record with the spirit of '56. Although Otis isn't around for this particular date (& neither is Rufus Thomas), the Stax contingent is well represented with Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, Eddie Floyd, William Bell's "You Don't Miss Your Water" and Issac Hayes' epic version of "By The Time I Get to Phoenix". Hi Records is present & accounted for with songs from Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson and Al Green with one of my favorite songs of his, "Simply Beautiful". Alex "LX" Chilton pops up here with Big Star's "September Gurls" and solo with "Hook or Crook" (I would have added the Box Tops' "Soul Deep" to complete that particular trifecta). There's Sun rockabilly madness with Billy Riley, Sonny Burgess, Jerry Lee Lewis & even Elvis as part of the Million Dollar Quartet and blues in the personages of Howlin' Wolf, Bobby Rush and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

In the midst of all these riches, there are three tracks that really struck me. The first one was "Spanish Delight" by The Bo-Keys, made up of Memphis musical vets, which sounded like vintage Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Another song was "Whitewash Station Blues" by the Memphis Jug Band, which made me realize where the Lovin' Spoonful got most of their style from (& john Sebastian his voice). Finally, the Reigning Sound's "If You Can't Give Me Everything" sounds and feels like Blond on Blond Dylan.

To finally finish up, this is a great compilation that is well worth picking up. It's sad to note that this fine set of American music is a U.K. import. However, this is a fine representation of the music of the Secret Music Capital of the U.S.A..
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