Memphis Slim – Memphis Slim, U.S.A (CD)
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Memphis Slim spent decades as one of the most eloquent ambassadors the blues ever had, carrying Chicago's South Side piano tradition to concert halls and festivals across Europe long before American audiences fully reckoned with the music he helped shape. Born Peter Chatman in Memphis in 1915, he recorded prolifically from the late 1930s onward, but sessions like this one capture something his studio work rarely could: the casual, unguarded conversation between musicians who had nothing left to prove.
An intimate recording from the Blues hall-of-famer that puts you in the room with 3 Blues legends!Remastered by multiple Grammy winner Michael Graves.One of Candid's historic blues releases, Memphis Slim, U.S.A. finds the Blues Hall Of Fame inductee in a rare, relaxed setting with two close friends and fellow blues icons, Jazz Gillum and Arbee Stidham. The intimacy-from their loose interplay and improvisation to the eerie realism of the recording-is palpable and feels more like an invitation to their inner circle than a commercial release.Grammy-winner Michael Graves' sensitive remastering brings Memphis Slim, U.S.A. to life, letting listeners in as the piano legend and his buddies offer a musical history of the blues from it's Southern juke-joint roots up to it's Chicago-style move toward R&B.Memphis Slim, U.S.A. is an essential document that Candid is proud to bring back to the blues canon.
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UPC: 708857334926
Label: Candid
Release Date: 3.14.25
Format: CD