Elmore James
エルモア・ジェイムス
- BORN: January 27, 1918, Richland, Mississippi
1918年1月27日、ミシシッピ州リッチランド生まれ - DIED: May 24, 1963, Chicago, Illinois
1963年5月24日、イリノイ州シカゴにて死去 - vocals guitar
彼の猛烈な歌声、そして焼けつくようなエレクトリック・スライド・ギターのリフは、ロックン・ロールにインスピレーションを与えた。ロバート・ジョンソンから学んで自分流に作り変えた「ダスト・マイ・ブルーム」のような歌でのリックは、無数のミュージシャンに模倣され、ブルース、ロックのスタイルとしてスタンダードとなっている。マディ・ウォーターズ同様、ジェイムスもミシシッピ出身。シカゴに移って、どのバンドよりも汗臭いバンド、ブルームダスターズを率いた。ウォーキング・ベースを弾きながら、ウォーターズに匹敵する独自性を構築。B.B.キング、ジミー・リードといったブルース・アーティストから、ロック系のローリング・ストーンズ、ジョージ・サラグッドに至るまで、後続アーティストへの影響力も絶大。
Recordings
- July 25, 1951, Scott Radio Service, Jackson, Mississippi
-
- Everybody's Fishing (by Willie Love)
- My Own Boogie (by Willie Love)
- August 5, 1951, Scott Radio Service, Jackson, Mississippi
-
- Stop Crying (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Do It If You Wanna (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Cool, Cool Blues (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Come On Back Home (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- I Cross My Heart (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- West Memphis Blues (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Pontiac Blues (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Dust My Broom (I Believe My Time Ain't Long)
- October 22, 1951, WHBQ Radio Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
-
- Have You Heard About The Farmer's Daughter? (by Tiny Kennedy)
- December 4, 1951, Cedars of Lebanon Club, Jackson, Mississippi
-
- She Brought Life Back To The Dead (78) (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- She Brought Life Back To The Dead (45) (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Too Close Together (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Stop Now Baby (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- Mr. Down Child (by Sonny Boy Williamson II)
- January 25/26, 1952, probably Club Bizarre, Canton, Mississippi
- probably November 22, 1952, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
- January 17, 1953, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Country Boogie (Tool Bag Boogie)
- My Best Friend
- I See My Baby
- She Just Won't Do Right (Dust My Broom)
- Whose Muddy Shoes
- probably April 1, 1953, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
- June 8, 1953, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Hoodoo Man (by Junior Wells)
- August 1953, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Make My Dreams Come True (My Best Friend) (take 1)
- Make My Dreams Come True (take 2)
- Make My Dreams Come True (take 3) (false start)
- Make My Dreams Come True (take 4)
- Make My Dreams Come True (take 7)
- Strange Kinda' Feeling (take 1)
- Strange Kinda' Feeling (take 2)
- Strange Kinda' Feeling (take 3)
- Strange Kinda' Feeling (take 4) (false start)
- Strange Kinda' Feeling (take 5)
- Strange Kinda' Feeling (take 6)
- Dark And Dreary (take 1) (false start)
- Dark And Dreary (take 2)
- Dark And Dreary (take 4)
- October 7, 1953, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
- November 9, 1953, probably Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Wait Baby (by Johnny Jones)
- Hoy Hoy (by Johnny Jones)
- Hoy Hoy (alternate take) (by Johnny Jones)
- Chicago Blues (by Johnny Jones)
- Doin' The Best I Can (Up The Line) (by Johnny Jones)
- probably April 5, 1954, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Where Can My Baby Be (take 7) (false start)
- Where Can My Baby Be (take 8)
- Where Can My Baby Be (take 9)
- Please Come Back To Me (Sho' Nuff I Do)
- Sho' Nuff I Do (takes 5/6) (false start)
- Sho' Nuff I Do (probably take 8) - @YouTube
- Sho' Nuff I Do (take 9) (false start)
- Sho' Nuff I Do (take 10) (false start)
- Sho' Nuff I Do (probably take 11)
- 1839 Blues - @YouTube
- Quarter Past Nine (I Got A Strange Baby) (probably one of takes 1-3)
- I Got A Strange Baby (take 4) (false start)
- Canton, Mississippi Breakdown
- August/September 1954, Modern Records Studios, Culver City, California
- August 1955, J & M Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana
-
- Dust My Blues - @YouTube
- Blues Before Sunrise
- I Was A Fool
- Goodbye (Baby)
- January 4, 1956, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
-
- So Mean To Me (take 1) (false start)
- So Mean To Me (take 2)
- So Mean To Me (take 3)
- So Mean To Me (take 4)
- Wild About You Baby (takes 1-3) (false start)
- Wild About You Baby (take 4)
- Wild About You (take 22)
- Elmo's Shuffle (take 3)
- Elmo's Shuffle (Part 2) (take 4)
- Elmo's Shuffle (take 5)
- Long Tall Mama (take 1)
- Long Tall Mama (take 2)
- probably April 12, 1957, Chicago, Illinois
-
- The 12 Year Old Boy
- Coming Home
- It Hurts Me Too - @YouTube
- Knocking At Your Door
- Elmore's Contribution To Jazz
- circa October 1957, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Cry For Me Baby - @YouTube
- Take Me Where You Go
- possibly November 3/4, 1959, Chicago, Illinois
-
- Bobby's Rock
- The Sky Is Crying
- Held My Baby Last Night
- Dust My Broom
- Baby Please Set A Date
- April 14, 1960, Chess Records Studios, Chicago, Illinois
- possibly May 23/24, 1960, Beltone Studios, New York
-
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- I'm Worried
- Done Somebody Wrong
- Fine Little Mama
- I Can't Stop Lovin' You
- Early One Morning
- I Need You (Baby) (edited version)
- I Need You (Baby)
- Strange Angels
- She Done Moved
- Something Inside Me (edited version)
- Something Inside (Of) Me
- possibly circa late February or early March 1961, Beltone Studios, New York
-
- Stranger Blues
- Strange Blues (alternate take)
- Anna Lee (edited version)
- Anna Lee
- Bleeding Heart (edited version)
- My Bleeding heart
- Standing At The Crossroads
- One Way Out
- Got To Move
- Person To Person
- So Unkind
- My Kind Of Woman
- August 1961, J & M Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana
-
- Look On Yonder Wall
- Shake Your Moneymaker (take 1) (false start)
- Shake Your Moneymaker (take 2)
- (Poor Little) Angel Child (by Sammy Myers)
- Little Girl (by Sammy Myers)
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 1) (incomplete)
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 2)
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama (take 3)
- Sunnyland (Train)
- You Know You're Wrong (take 1) (incomplete)
- You Know You're Wrong (take 2)
- You Know You Done Me Wrong (take 3)
- Go Back Home Again
- Footrace To A Resting Place (by Johnny "Big Moose" Walker)
- February 13, 1963, probably A-1 Studios, New York
-
- Look On Yonder Wall (Look Up On The Wall)
- Find My Kind Of Woman (take 1)
- Find My Kinda Woman (take 2)
- Dust My Broom (take 4)
- My Baby's Gone (take 4)
- You Can Do It If You Want To (by Marshall Jones)
- Woke Up Happy (by Marshall Jones)
- February 21, 1963, A-1 Studios, New York
-
- Hand In Hand (take 1)
- Hand In Hand (take 2) (incomplete)
- Hand In Hand (take 3)
- Hand In Hand (take 4)
- I Have A Right To Love My Baby
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- Dust My Broom
- It Hurts Me Too
- Talk To Me Baby (I Can't Hold Out)
- I Can't Stop Loving My Baby
- She's Got To Go (Go To Move)
- Pickin' The Blues (edited version)
- Manhattan Slide (Pickin' The Blues)
- Twelve Year Old Boy
- Elmore Jumps One (false starts)
- Elmore Jumps One
- Up Jumped Elmore (Black Snake Slide)
- I Believe
- I Gotta Go Now
- Make My Dreams Come True (false start)
- Make My Dreams Come True (take 3)
- Second Fiddle Man (by Johnny "Big Moose" Walker)
- Back In Mississippi
Influences
影響関係
Infl by: Robert Johnson
受けた影響←ロバート・ジョンソン
Infl to: Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, J.B. Hutto, George Thorogood
与えた影響→ハウンド・ドッグ・テイラー、B.B.キング、J.B.ハットー、ジョージ・ソログッド