Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Elmore blues

This two-LP album is Blue Horizon 7-66230, entitled Elmore James: To Know a Man. It includes multiple takes of some songs. This has some pops in it (side one, first and last tracks) and probably plenty of good New Mexico springtime red sandstone dust. This is not light-footed stuff but it sure fits some moods really well. This is truly influential guitar work. And speaking of moods, I only just noticed that the All Music Guide has a column called "moods" and the moods assigned to James are: fierce, gritty, intense, passionate, organic, exuberant, earthy, rollicking, boisterous, brash, cathartic, and fiery.

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