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Released
  
September 4, 2001

Release date
  
4 September 2001

Label
  
Label M

Artist
  
James Blood Ulmer

Producer
  
Vernon Reid

Genre
  
Blues

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Recorded
  
April 10, 11 & 12, 2001

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Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in and released on the Hyena label in 2001. The album features Ulmer covering fourteen blues standards recorded at Sun Studio.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "some of the greasiest, knottiest, most surreal blues music ever... Memphis Blood is a fresh injection of blues truth... Ulmer delivers here, big time".

Track listing

  1. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) - 2:58
  2. "I Want to Be Loved" (Dixon) - 3:15
  3. "Little Red Rooster" (Dixon) - 4:22
  4. "Dimples" (James Bracken, John Lee Hooker) - 3:31
  5. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Dixon) - 3:30
  6. "Evil" (Muddy Waters) - 2:50
  7. "Death Letter" (Son House) - 9:41
  8. "Fattening Frogs for Snakes" (Willie Williamson) - 2:51
  9. "Money" (Hooker) - 3:34
  10. "I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" (Dixon) - 3:30
  11. "Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous to Steal" (Daylie Holmes, Marl H. Young) - 2:36
  12. "Double Trouble" (Otis Rush) - 4:56
  13. "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" (Chester Burnett) - 8:25
  14. "Back Door Man" (Dixon) - 3:18
  • Recorded at Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee on April 10, 11 & 12, 2001

    • Personnel

  • James Blood Ulmer - guitar, vocals
  • Vernon Reid - guitar
  • Charles Burnham - violin
  • Rick Steff - piano, wurlitzer electric piano, hammond B3 organ
  • David Barnes - harmonica
  • Mark Peterson - bass
  • Aubrey Dayle - drums

    • Songs

    1Spoonfull2:58
    2I Want to Be Loved3:15
    3Little Red Rooster4:22

    References

    Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions Wikipedia
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