BLUES BY JAZZ GILLUM SINGING PLAYING HIS HARMONICA

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Label
FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date
May 30, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      JAZZ GILLUM
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 30, 2012
    • UPC
      093070382626
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FOWY3826.2
    • LABEL
      FOLKWAYS RECORDS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Blues
    Works ⌄

    1. The Race of the Jim Lee and the Katy Adam

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    2. A Small Town They Call Bessemer

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    3. Walkin' the Blues Away

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    4. My Last Letter

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    5. Key to the Highway

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    6. Harmonica Boogie

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    7. I Wonder Why

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Arbee Stidham, Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    8. You've Got To Reap Just What You Sow

      Composer: Arbee Stidham

      Performer: Arbee Stidham, Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    9. Let It Be Me

      Composer: Arbee Stidham

      Performer: Arbee Stidham, Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    10. I'll Always Remember You

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Arbee Stidham, Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    11. You've Got To Meet Me Halfway

      Composer: Arbee Stidham

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim

    12. Gillum Blues

      Composer: Jazz Gillum

      Performer: Jazz Gillum, Arbee Stidham, Memphis Slim


An influential figure in the growth of the Southern blues tradition, William "Jazz" Gillum (1904-1966) had the kind of life from which the blues spring. Orphaned, starved, threatened, shot at, beaten, and discriminated against, Gillum's style, as heard throughout this recording-and as described in the liner notes-is unsurprisingly "sometimes harsh, sometimes poetic, with it's expressive delayed beat and strong rhythm, and it's bitterness tinged with nostalgia." He is joined on this album by Arbee Stidham (vocals and guitar) and Memphis Slim (organ and piano), associates from his early professional jobs in Chicago in the 1930s. Liner notes include song lyrics and a biography of Gillum, who lived and sang the blues his whole life.