Elmore James' early death kept him from seeing his style of playing come into vogue in the '60s and reemerge again in the '90s, but his influence lives on in the likes of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Earl Hooker, and Bonnie Raitt. This 3-CD set is a complete record of his sessions with Fire and Joy and is a must for collectors.
Tracks on Disc 1:
1.Make My Dreams Come True
2.Bobby's Rock
3.Sky Is Crying
4.Held My Baby Last Night
5.Dust My Broom
6.Baby Please Set A Date
7.Rollin' & Tumblin'
8.I'm Worried
9.Done Somebody Wrong
10.Fine Little Mama
11.I Can't Stop Lovin' You
12.Early One Morning
13.I Need You Baby
14.Strange Angels
15.She Done Moved
16.Something Inside Me
17.You Don't Have To Go (With Sam Myers)
18.Stranger Blues
19.Stranger Blues (Alternate Version)
20.My Bleeding Heart
21.Standing At The Crossroads
22.One Way Out
Tracks on Disc 2:
1.Got To Move
2.Person To Person
3.So Unkind
4.My Kind Of Woman
5.Woke Up Screamin' & Cryin' (With unknown vocalist)
6.Do It If You Wanna
7.Shake Your Money Maker
8.Look On Yonder Wall
9.Poor Angel Child (With Sam Myers)
10.Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 1 incomplete)
11.Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 2 alternate)
12.Mean Mistreatin' Mama
13.Sunnyland Train
14.You Know You're Wrong (Take 1, incomplete)
15.You Know You're Wrong (Take 2, alternate)
16.You Know You're Wrong (Take 3, master)
17.Going Back Home Again
18.Look Up On The Wall
19.Find My Kind Of Woman (Take 1)
20.Find My Kind Of Woman (Take 3)
21.Dust My Broom (Alternate Take)
22.My Baby's Gone
Tracks on Disc 3:
1.Hand In Hand (Take 1)
2.Hand In Hand (Take 3)
3.Hand In Hand (Take 4)
4.I've Got A Right To Love My Baby
5.Everyday I Have The Blues
6.Dust My Broom (Alternate Take)
7.It Hurts Me Too
8.Talk To Me Baby
9.Can't Stop Loving My Baby
10.She's Got To Go
11.Pickin' The Blues
12.Twelve Year Old Boy
13.Up Jumped Elmore (False Start)
14.Up Jumped Elmore
15.Up Jumped Elmore (Black Snake Slide)
16.I Believe
17.I Gotta Go Now
18.Make My Dreams Come True (Alternate Take)
19.Back In Mississippi (Studio Conversation)
Product Description:
Recorded between 1959 and 1963.
Contains 63 tracks.
Personnel: Elmore James (vocals, guitar); Sam Myers (vocals).