No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a wide influential trail behind him. And that influence continues to the present time -- in approach, attitude and tone -- in just about every guitar player who puts a slide on his finger and wails the blues. As a guitarist, he wrote the book, his slide style influencing the likes of Hound Dog Taylor, Joe Carter, his cousin Homesick James and J.B. Hutto, while his seldom-heard single-string work had an equally profound effect on B.B. King and Chuck Berry. His signature lick -- an electric updating of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and one that Elmore recorded in infinite variations from day one to his last session -- is so much a part of the essential blues fabric of guitar licks that no one attempting to play slide guitar can do it without being compared to Elmore James. Others may have had more technique -- Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker immediately come to mind -- but Elmore had the sound and all the feeling. - Amazon
Tracklist:1. I Believe
2. Baby What's Wrong
3. Early in the Morning
4. Hawaiian Boogie
5. Strange Kinda Feeling
6. Please Find My Baby
7. Hand in Hand
8. Make My Dreams Come True
9. Sho' Nuff I Do
10. Sunny Land
11. Standing at the Crossroads
12. Mean & Evil
13. Happy Home
14. No Love in My Heart (For You)
15. Dust My Blues
16. I Was a Fool, Too
17. Blues Before Sunrise
18. Goodbye Baby
19. Wild About You
The Best of the Modern Years
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