Browsing: Memphis Slim

This double vinyl captures the historic American Folk Blues Festival performances in 1962 and 1963, showcasing artists like John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson II, T-Bone Walker, and Willie Dixon at their peak. Restored to impeccable quality, these recordings offer a front-row experience of the blues’ transformative impact on European audiences, forever influencing the global music landscape.

This edition focuses on the album ‘The Come Back’ by Memphis Slim and His House Rockers featuring Matt “Guitar” Murphy.

Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne’s ‘Blues From Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon’ is available March 4th, 2022 via Stony Plain Records.

This is the latest from The Bluesmobile’s C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the…

No one would ever say Pete Seeger was a blues singer, or even close. And yet…

This time in our Behind The Keys series, we’ll take a look at the life of Memphis Slim. Slim brought his unique blues piano to the masses and helped to pioneer the popular sound of the blues in it’s 1950’s heyday.

Holy cow, Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) is one hardcore blues fan with amazingly insightful things to say about the blues and his many, often very early blues favorites.