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Alone with My Friends

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Released
  
1963

Studio
  
Levey's Sound, London

Artist
  
Memphis Slim

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

Recorded
  
April 25, 1961

Producer
  
Ed Michel

Release date
  
1963

Genre
  
Blues

Alone with My Friends (1963)
  
Aux Trois Mailletz (1963)

Blues albums
  
All Kinds of Blues, Willie's Blues, Sonny Boy Williamson and the Y, Blues, Live in Cook County Jail

Alone with My Friends is an album by American blues pianist Memphis Slim which was recorded in 1961 and released on the Battle label. The album, recorded in London during a European tour, is an exploration of the blues repertoire in terms of songs associated with blues singers Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon, Curtis Jones, St. Louis Jimmy, Sonny Boy Williamson and Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Contents

Reception

In his review for Allmusic, Richie Unterberger says "Not the first or last place to check out Slim on record."

Track listing

  1. "Highway 51 Blues" (Curtis Jones) - 4:15
  2. "I Feel So Good" (Big Bill Broonzy) - 2:45
  3. "Rock Me, Momma" (Big Bill Broonzy) - 3:50
  4. "Goin' Down Slow" (James B. Oden) - 3:40
  5. "Sittin' on Top of the World" (Carter-Jacobs) - 3:40
  6. "Sunnyland Train" (Memphis Slim) - 3:55
  7. "Goin' Down to the River" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) - 3:00
  8. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) - 3:55
  9. "I Can Hear My Name A-Ringin'" (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 4:00
  10. "Going Back to My Plow" (Big Bill Broonzy) - 4:45

Personnel

  • Memphis Slim - vocals, piano

    • Songs

    1Highway 51 Blues4:16
    2I Feel So Good2:49
    3Rock Me - Momma3:53

    References

    Alone with My Friends Wikipedia
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