Lightnin Slim - The King of Blues (Remastered) '2020

Tracks list

The acknowledged kingpin of the Louisiana school of blues, Lightnin Slim built
his style on his grainy but expressive vocals and rudimentary guitar work, with
usually nothing more than a harmonica and a drummer in support. It was down-home
country blues edged two steps further into the mainstream, first by virtue of
his electric guitar, and second by the sound of the local Crowley, LA musicians
who backed him being bathed in simmering, pulsating tape echo. As the first
great star of producer J.D. Millers blues talent stable, Lightnin Slim had a
successful formula that scored regional hits on the Nashville-based Excello
label for over a decade, with one of them, Rooster Blues, making the national
R&B charts in 1959. Combining the country ambience of a Lightnin Hopkins with
the plodding insistence of a Muddy Waters, Lightnin Slims music belonged
uniquely to him, the perfect blues raconteur, even when he was reshaping others
material to his dark, somber style.

He also possessed one of the truly great blues voices, unadorned and unaffected,
making the world-weariness of a Sonny Boy Williamson sound like the second
coming of Good Time Charlie by comparison. His exhortation to blow your
harmonica, son has become one of the great, mournful catch phrases of the blues,
and even on his most rockin numbers, theres a sense that you are listening less
to an uptempo offering than a slow blues just being played faster. Lightnin
always sounded like bad luck just moved into his home approximately an hour
after his mother-in-law did.

Tracklisting:
01. Lightnin Slim - G. I. Slim (Remastered) (2:28)
02. Lightnin Slim - Mean Ole Lonesome Train (Remastered) (3:12)
03. Lightnin Slim - Hoodoo Blues (Remastered) (2:21)
04. Lightnin Slim - Rooster Blues (Remastered) (2:34)
05. Lightnin Slim - Its Mighty Crazy (Remastered) (2:37)
06. Lightnin Slim - Im Grown (Remastered) (2:50)
07. Lightnin Slim - My Starter Wont Start (Remastered) (2:52)
08. Lightnin Slim - Rock Me Mama (Remastered) (2:46)
09. Lightnin Slim - Bad Luck (Remastered) (3:00)
10. Lightnin Slim - Long Leanie Mama (Remastered) (2:09)
11. Lightnin Slim - Feelin Awful Blues (Remastered) (2:58)
12. Lightnin Slim - I Cant Live Happy (Remastered) (3:01)
13. Lightnin Slim - Im Leavin You (Remastered) (2:29)
14. Lightnin Slim - New Orleans Bound (Remastered) (2:48)
15. Lightnin Slim - Ethel Mae (Remastered) (3:16)
16. Lightnin Slim - Sweet Little Woman (Remastered) (2:15)
17. Lightnin Slim - Bugger Bugger Boy (Remastered) (2:06)
18. Lightnin Slim - Lightnins Troubles (Remastered) (2:43)
19. Lightnin Slim - Lightnin Slim Boogie (Remastered) (2:36)
20. Lightnin Slim - Bad Feeling (Remastered) (3:00)
21. Lightnin Slim - Lightnin Blues (Remastered) (2:58)
22. Lightnin Slim - Tom Cat Blues (Remastered) (2:44)
01. Lightnin Slim - Bed Bug Blues (Remastered) (2:36)
02. Lightnin Slim - I Cant Be Successful (Remastered) (3:02)
03. Lightnin Slim - Sugar Plum (Remastered) (2:48)
04. Lightnin Slim - Too Close Blues (Remastered) (1:58)
05. Lightnin Slim - Just Made Twenty-One (Remastered) (2:11)
06. Lightnin Slim - My Little Angel Chile (Remastered) (2:43)
07. Lightnin Slim - Cool Down Baby (Remastered) (2:14)
08. Lightnin Slim - Goin Home (Remastered) (2:41)
09. Lightnin Slim - Nothin but the Devil (Remastered) (3:00)
10. Lightnin Slim - Wonderin and Goin (Remastered) (2:55)
11. Lightnin Slim - Bad Luck and Trouble (Remastered) (2:56)
12. Lightnin Slim - I Just Dont Know (Remastered) (2:14)
13. Lightnin Slim - Have Your Way (Remastered) (2:39)
14. Lightnin Slim - Somebody Knockin (Remastered) (3:07)
15. Lightnin Slim - Im Tired Waiting Baby (Remastered) (2:47)
16. Lightnin Slim - Hello Mary Lee (Remastered) (2:44)
17. Lightnin Slim - Im a Rollin Stone (Remastered) (2:26)
18. Lightnin Slim - Mind Your Own Business (Remastered) (2:20)
19. Lightnin Slim - Love Me Mama (Remastered) (2:29)
20. Lightnin Slim - Youre Old Enough to Understand (Remastered) (2:46)
21. Lightnin Slim - Im Warning You Baby (Remastered) (2:09)
22. Lightnin Slim - Wintertime Blues (Remastered) (2:43)

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