Elmore James
Studio Archive Volumes 1-6
Studio Recordings
Dates & Locations Vary
Sources Vary
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included
Vol.1
01 I Believe My Time Ain't Long (Dust My Broom)
02 Please Find My Baby
03 Please Find My Baby (alt)
04 Hawaiian Boogie
05 Hand In Hand
06 Long Tall Woman
07 Rock My Baby Right
08 One More Drink
09 My Baby's Gone
10 One More Drink
11 Lost Woman Blues
12 I Believe
13 I Held My Baby Last Night
14 Baby What's Wrong
15 Sinful Woman
16 Round House Boogie
17 Dumb Woman Blues
18 Sax Only Boogie
19 Kicking The Blues Around
20 Country Boogie
21 I See My Baby
22 She Just Won't Do Right
23 My Best Friend
24 Whose Muddy Shoes
track 01 Jackson MS 08-05-1951
tracks 02-04 Canton, Madison County, MS xx-xx-1952
tracks 05-11 Canton, Madison County, MS 01-xx-1952
tracks 12-15 Universal Studios, 11-xx-1952
tracks 16-19 J.T. Brown Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 11-xx-1952
tracks 19-24 Canton, Madison County, MS 01-17-1953
Vol.2
01 I May Be Wrong
02 Sweet Little Woman
04 Can't Stop Lovin'
05 Hawaiian Boogie
06 Make A Little Love
07 My Best Friend {Make My Dreams Come True tk1)
08 Make My Dreams Come True tk2
09 Make My Dreams Come True tt3
10 Make My Dreams Come True tk4
11 Make My Dreams Come True
12 Strange Kinda Feeling tk1
13 Strange Kinda Feeling tk2
14 Strange Kinda Feeling tk3
15 Strange Kinda Feeling tk4
16 Strange Kinda Feeling tk5
17 Strange Kinda Feeling tk6
18 Dark And Dreary tk1
19 Dark And Dreary tk2
20 Dark And Dreary tk4
21 Quarter Past Nine
22 Where Can My Baby Be tk7
23 Where Can My Baby Be tk8
24 Where Can My Baby Be tk9
25 Please Come Back To Me (Sho' Nuff I Do)
26 Sho' Nuff I Do
27 Sho' Nuff I Do
28 Sho' Nuff I Do
29 1839 Blues
30 I Got A Strange Baby
31 Canton Mississippi Breakdown
tracks 01-06 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 04-xx-1953
tracks 07-20 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 08-xx-1953
tracks 21-30 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 03-04-1953
Vol.3
01 Standing At The Crossroads
02 Late Hours At Midnight
03 Happy Home
04 Sunny Land
05 Way You Treat Me (Mean & Evil)
06 No Love In My Heart
07 Dust My Blues
08 I Was A Fool
10 Goodbye (Baby)
11 So Mean To Me tk2
12 So Mean To Me tk3
13 So Mean To Me
14 Wild About You tk1,2,3
15 Wild About You tk4
16 Wild About You (Baby)
17 Elmo's Shuffle tk3
19 Elmo's Shuffle tk5
20 Long Tall Woman
21 Long Tall Woman
22 The Twelve Year Old Boy
23 Coming Home
24 It Hurts Me Too
25 Knocking At Your Door
26 Elmore's Contribution to Jazz
27 Cry For Me Baby
28 Take Me Where You Go
01-06 Modern Studios, Culver City, LA 08-09-1954
07-10 J & M Studios, New Orleans, LA 08-xx-1955
11-22 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 01-04-1956
23-28 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL xx-xx-1957
Vol.4
01 Bobby's Rock
02 The Sky Is Crying
03 Baby Please Set A Date
04 Held My Baby Last Night
05 Dust My Broom
06 Strange Angel
07 Rollin' And Tumblin'
08 Done Somebody Wrong
09 Something Inside Me
10 Something Inside Of Me
11 I'm Worried
13 I Need You
14 I Need You (alternate)
15 She Done Moved
16 I Can't Stop Lovin You
17 Early One Morning
18 My Baby's Gone
20 The Sun Is Shining (alternate)
21 The Sun Is Shining
22 I Can't Hold Out (Talk To Me Baby)
23 Stormy Monday Blues
24 Madison Blues
01-05 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 11-xx-1959
06-18 Beltone Studios, New York City, NY Circa Early 1960
19-24 Universal Studios, Chicago, IL 04-14-1960
Vol.5
01 Stranger Blues (Echo)
02 Stranger Blues
03 Anna Lee
04 Standing at the Crossroads
05 My Bleeding Heart
07 My Kind of Woman tk1
08 Got To Move
09 So Unkind
10 Person to Person
11 One Way Out
12 Go Back Home Again
13 Look On Yonder Wall
14 Look on Yonder Wall
15 Shake Your Moneymaker
16 Mean Mistreatin Mama
17 Mean Mistreatin Mama
18 Mean Mistreatin Mama
19 Sunnyland
20 You Know You're Wrong
21 You Know You Done Me Wrong
Tracks 01-11 Beltone Studios, New York City, NY, Circa Early 1961
Tracks 12-21 Cosimo Studios, New Orleans, LA Circa Summer 1961
Vol.6
01 It Hurts Me Too
02 Dust My Broom
03 Everyday I Have The Blues
04 Have A Right To Love My Baby
05 Twelve Year Old Boy
06 Got To Move
08 Talk To Me Baby
09 Make My Dreams Come True
10 Make My Dreams Come True
11 Hand In Hand (1)
12 Hand In Hand (2)
13 Hand In Hand (3)
14 Hand In Hand (4)
15 Back In Mississippi (Conversation)
17 Manhattan Slide
18 Elmore Jumps (false start)
19 Elmore Jumps tk1
20 I Believe
All Tracks A-1 Recording Studio, New York City, NY February 21, 1963
Another post for our Origins Of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal series.
This is a huge collection of session outtakes from The Immortal Elmore James. Elmore James was known as The King Of Slide Guitar and was actually inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1992 for his influence on Rock And Roll.
The Blues was a huge influence on the early Heavy Blues/Hard Rock acts such as The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, Free and Foghat. The Blues was also a big influence on the development of Heavy Metal. Black Sabbath's 1st album marries Blue and Jazz then breaks it down to the riff. Judas Priest started out as a Heavy Blues band. When K.K. Downing auditioned for the original line-up of Priest, he was passed over because he was too Heavy Metal. Blues can still be heard in Judas Priest's music, just not as blatant as Sabbath. Vanilla Fudge played it the same way, taking songs down to the riff then delivering them with all the emotional power of the Blues. Van Halen might have covered "Dancing In The Streets" but Vanilla Fudge's "You Keep Me Hanging On" & Beck, Bogat & Appice's "Superstition" are tied for the best Heavy Metal cover of a Motown tune. Thrash Metal Titans Metallica even broke down into a Bluesy solo on "Orion".
Elmore James passed away from a heat attack May 24, 1963, he was 45.
This is a huge collection so the Flac has been uploaded each CD separately. The MP3 has been uploaded in 3 sets of 2 CDs. All unzip separately.
Flac CD1
Flac CD2
Flac CD3
Flac CD4
Flac CD5
Flac CD6
MP3 CD1 & CD2
MP3 CD3 & CD4
MP3 CD5 & CD6
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