Product Description
This album showcases his skills as a piano bluesman with a boogie-woogie number, "Harlem Bound," which has been reworked into a Chicago blues classic, and a number of tense, slow blues pieces. It also includes a re-recording of Jazz Gillam's signature song, "New Key to the Highway." [TRACKLIST] 1. Born with the Blues 2. Just Let Me Be 3. Red Haired Boogie 4. Blue and Disgusted 5. New Key to the Highway 6. I'd Take Her to Chicago 7. Harlem Bound 8. El Capitan 9. I Just Landed in Your Town 10. John Henry 11. I Believe I'll Settle Down 12. But Luck and Troubles 13. Late Afternoon V-Ruth 14. Memphis Slim USA Media Reviews etc. A passionate and ambitious work conceived by Memphis Slim himself, singing about wandering/travel, a major theme in the blues. (C)RS
