• Elmore James (né Brooks; January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader. Noted for his use of loud...
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  • Elmore James was an American blues slide guitarist and singer who recorded from 1951 until 1963. His most famous song, "Dust My Broom", an electrified...
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    performers including Robert Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, and Muddy Waters popularized slide guitar in electric blues and influenced...
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  • Cross Road Blues (category Elmore James songs)
    versions of the song, usually as ensemble pieces with electrified guitars. Elmore James' recordings in 1954 and 1960–1961 have been identified as perhaps the...
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  • Shake Your Moneymaker (song) (category Elmore James songs)
    "Shake Your Moneymaker" or "Shake Your Money Maker" is a song recorded by Elmore James in 1961 that has become one of his best-known pieces. Inspired by earlier...
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  • The Sky Is Crying (song) (category Elmore James songs)
    Sky Is Crying" is a blues standard written and initially recorded by Elmore James in 1959. Called "one of his most durable compositions", "The Sky Is Crying"...
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    the slide guitar. He worked with his cousin, Elmore James, and with Sonny Boy Williamson II. Homesick James was born in Somerville, Tennessee, United States...
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  • Dust My Broom (category Elmore James songs)
    1951, Elmore James recorded the song as "Dust My Broom" and "made it the classic as we know it", according to blues historian Gerard Herzhaft. James' slide...
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  • credited on early editions to Elmore James but subsequently credited to Robert Johnson who recorded it in 1936. Elmore James had adapted and popularized...
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  • instrumental Side B "I'm Worried" (Elmore James) – 3:46 – vocals: Jeremy Spencer "I Held My Baby Last Night" (Elmore James, Jules Taub) – 5:16 – vocals: Jeremy...
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  • It Hurts Me Too (category Elmore James songs)
    chart at number 106, which was James' only single to do so. Subsequent versions of "It Hurts Me Too" often showed Elmore James' influences, either in the...
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    been referred to as Sonny Boy Williamson II. He first recorded with Elmore James on "Dust My Broom". Some of his popular songs include "Don't Start Me...
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  • produced hits by Wilbert Harrison, the Shirelles, Dave "Baby" Cortez, Elmore James, Lee Dorsey, Gladys Knight & The Pips, King Curtis, Spoonie Gee, Grandmaster...
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  • Done Somebody Wrong (category Elmore James songs)
    music, Elmore James recorded it as "Done Somebody Wrong" in 1960; he took sole writing credit for it and it came to be known as an Elmore James song. "Done...
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  • original recording sessions. It also adds the previously unreleased Elmore James track "Goodbye Baby". George Thorogood and the Destroyers received positive...
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  • cutting their middle fingers with a steel string said to have come from Elmore James's guitar. Belushi had become a star in 1978 as a result of both the Blues...
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  • It was a subsidiary of Modern Records. Its most famous artists were Elmore James, who released ten singles with this label (as listed below), Richard...
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    the slide guitar, and he was influenced by the American blues musician Elmore James. In the summer of 1967, Spencer came to the attention of ex-Bluesbreakers...
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  • performances. Precursors to blues rock included the Chicago blues musicians Elmore James, Albert King, and Freddie King, who began incorporating rock and roll...
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  • his songs and using his guitar techniques. Fellow Mississippi native Elmore James is the best known and is responsible for popularizing Johnson's "Dust...
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  • minus guitar histrionics", which "paid tribute to Robert Johnson and Elmore James". The album was included Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear...
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    Christopher Philip James Elmore (born 23 December 1983) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgend, previously...
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  • Look on Yonder Wall (category Elmore James songs)
    In 1961, Elmore James adapted the song, titled "Look on Yonder Wall", which was issued as single. Most subsequent renditions show James's influence....
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  • Robinson. Amongst others, it released records by Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, Buster Brown and Arthur Crudup. At one point it was thought Fire had...
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    time he was exposed to the work of many Delta blues artists, including Elmore James and Robert Nighthawk. In 1953, he moved north to Gary, Indiana where...
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  • One Way Out (song) (category Elmore James songs)
    was recorded in the early 1960s by both Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James. A reworking of the song by G. L. Crockett, titled "It's a Man Down Here"...
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  • "Done Somebody Wrong" follows, and is introduced by Duane as "an old Elmore James song ... This is an old true story ..." Thom Doucette takes a solo on...
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    Sunrise (Elmore James cover); Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed cover); Don't Stay Out All Night (Billy Boy Arnold cover); Happy Home (Elmore James cover). The...
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  • Music describes the album as "seminal". AllMusic noted the influence of Elmore James on Spencer's compositions and wrote that Green's "inspired playing, the...
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  • Last Night" (Elmore James) - 4:14 "Taylor's Rock" - 3:50 "It's Alright" - 3:10 "Phillips' Theme" - 5:27 "Wild About You, Baby" (Elmore James) - 3:35 "I...
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