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Elmore James

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Elmore James (Elmore Brooks, Richland, Mississippi, 27th January 1918 – Chicago, Illinois, 24th May 1963) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was known as "The King of the Slide Guitar". James was born fifty miles north of Jackson (not to be confused with another Richland just south of Jackson). He began playing as a teen, under the names "Cleanhead" and "Joe Willie James", alongside musicians such as the first Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson.

Top songs

  1. Dust My Broom
  2. The Sky Is Crying
  3. It Hurts Me Too
  4. Standing at the Crossroads
  5. Shake Your Money Maker
  6. Look On Yonder Wall
  7. Shake Your Moneymaker
  8. Rollin' and Tumblin'
  9. Dust My Blues
  10. One Way Out
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  1. Talk to Me Baby
  2. Done Somebody Wrong
  3. Held My Baby Last Night
  4. Madison Blues
  5. Fine Little Mama
  6. Something Inside of Me
  7. Stranger Blues
  8. Something Inside Me
  9. Anna Lee
  10. Person to Person
  11. I Believe
  12. Cry for Me Baby
  13. Early One Morning
  14. I'm Worried
  15. The Sun Is Shining
  16. Coming Home
  17. Got to Move
  18. Mean and Evil
  19. My Bleeding Heart
  20. Hawaiian Boogie
  21. Whose Muddy Shoes
  22. Sho' Nuff I Do
  23. Baby Please Set A Date
  24. Sunnyland
  25. My Best Friend
  26. Rollin' & Tumblin'
  27. Elmore's Contribution to Jazz
  28. Hand in Hand
  29. Blues Before Sunrise
  30. Mean Mistreatin' Mama
  31. I Need You
  32. Take Me Where You Go
  33. Make My Dreams Come True
  34. Please Find My Baby
  35. The Twelve Year Old Boy
  36. Can't Stop Loving My Baby
  37. Pickin' the Blues
  38. Strange Angels
  39. Happy Home
  40. Dark and Dreary
  41. Long Tall Woman
  42. I Can't Hold Out
  43. Sunny Land
  44. Sunnyland Train
  45. Goodbye Baby
  46. My Kind of Woman
  47. My Baby's Gone
  48. Wild About You Baby
  49. So Unkind
  50. Baby, Please Set A Date
  51. She Done Moved
  52. Can't Stop Lovin' My Baby
  53. Early in the Morning
  54. Bobby's Rock
  55. Knocking At Your Door
  56. Strange Kinda Feeling
  57. The 12 Year Old Boy
  58. So Mean to Me
  59. No Love in My Heart
  60. Rock My Baby Right
  61. I Gotta Go Now
  62. I Was a Fool
  63. Sinful Woman
  64. I Held My Baby Last Night
  65. Fine Little Mamma
  66. Go Back Home Again
  67. Everyday I Have the Blues
  68. Make a Little Love
  69. You Know You Done Me Wrong
  70. Shake Your Moneymaker - Original
  71. I Needed You
  72. I Can't Stop Lovin' You
  73. Hawaiian Boogie (No. 2)
  74. Find My Kind of Woman
  75. Country Boogie
  76. I See My Baby
  77. Rollin and Tumblin
  78. Canton, Mississippi Breakdown
  79. Late Hours at Midnight
  80. Crossroads
  81. I Can't Stop Loving You
  82. Every Day I have the Blues
  83. 1839 Blues
  84. Fine Line Mama
  85. Twelve Year Old Boy
  86. I've Got a Right to Love My Baby
  87. You Know You're Wrong
  88. I Done Somebody Wrong
  89. Dust My Broom (with Sonny Boy Williamson)
  90. She's Got To Go

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