Latest Release
- 13 JUN 2024
- 15 Songs
- Memphis Slim · 1961
- 100 Cash Poor Blues · 2008
- Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon · 1960
- At the Gate of Horn · 1959
- Memphis Heat · 1981
- At the Gate of Horn · 1959
- The Sonet Blues Story · 1973
- Aux Trois Mailletz · 1963
- Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon · 1960
- Classic African-American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways · 2000
- 2006
- 1981
Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
- Jazz Gillum with Arbee Stidham and Memphis Slim
About Memphis Slim
Blues legend Memphis Slim combined the barrelhouse/boogie-woogie piano style of the pre-war era with a post-war sophistication. A prolific songwriter, his best-known composition, "Every Day I Have The Blues," has become a standard, covered by Count Basie and B.B. King, amongst others. Slim began his career in 1934, but made his name after relocating to Chicago at the end of the decade. In 1940, became the regular accompanist to Big Bill Broonzy before forming his own group in '44, scoring an R&B number 1 with "Messin’ Around." A string of successful singles followed. After successful appearances at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival, Slim moved to Paris in '61, recording and touring Europe extensively until his death in 1988.
- HOMETOWN
- Memphis, TN, United States
- BORN
- 3 september 1915
- GENRE
- Blues