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Track List
Dust My BroomShake Your MoneymakerLook Over Yonder WallGot to LoveOne Way OutSky Is Crying, TheAnna LeeRollin' and Tumblin'Done Somebody WrongBaby Please Set a DateIt Hurts Me TooTwelve Year Old Boy, TheCry for Me BabyKnockin' at Your DoorStanding at the CrossroadsMean and Evil (The Way You Treat Me)Rock My Baby RightHand in HandEarly in the MorningHawaiian BoogieDust My Broom [1951 Studio Version]Album Notes
Personnel: Eddie Taylor, Homesick James Williamson (guitar); Sonny Boy Williamson II (harmonica); Ike Turner, Johnny Jones (piano); Fred Below, Odie Payne, Jr., Sam Myers (drums).
Liner Note Author: Alfie Falckenbach.
Elmore James (a former radio repairman) spent a good deal of time re-wiring his amplifiers, giving him a raw, distorted, and urgent sound on electric guitar that, coupled with his killer slide style, made him essentially the Godfather of modern electric guitar. This 21-track collection leads off with James' signature tune, a reworking of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom." The roaring slide riff from "Dust" is repeated many times on this set, since labels constantly demanded it, and James delivered it under a range of different titles, and amazingly, no one ever seems to get tired of it. Truthfully, James never recorded a lame track (even if dozens of them were variations on "Dust My Broom"), and that signature, roaring slide guitar sound will forever be his calling card. ~ Steve Leggett
