Artist	Song
Elmore James	Dust My Broom
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	The Sky Is Crying
from The Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Madison Blues
from The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook (1997)
Elmore James	It Hurts Me Too
from Elmore James' the Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Standing at the Crossroads
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	One Way Out
from Dust My Broom (2005)
Elmore James	Canton, Mississippi Breakdown
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Shake Your Money Maker
from Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions (2007)
Elmore James	Sho Nuff I Do
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Done Somebody Wrong
from Dust My Broom (2005)
Elmore James	Rollin and Tumblin
from The Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Wild About You Baby
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Knockin' At You Door
from Blues Guitar Heroes (2006)
Elmore James	Dust My Blues
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	I Can't Stop Lovin' You
from The Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Fine Little Mamma
from Dust My Broom (2005)
Elmore James	Sunnyland
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Cry for Me Baby
from Got to Move (2008)
Elmore James	Im Worried
from The Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Long Tall Woman
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Can't Stop Lovin'
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	Goodbye Baby
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	My Bleeding Heart
from Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions (2007)
Elmore James	Standing at the Crossroads
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	So Mean to Me
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	12 Year Old Boy
from Come Go With Me (2006)
Elmore James	Look On the Yonder Wall
from The Best of Elmore James (2009)
Elmore James	Something Inside Me
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Happy Home
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Anna Lee
from Dust My Broom (2005)
Elmore James	Stranger Blues
from The Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Dark and Dreary
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Baby Please Set a Date
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	I Believe
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Blues Before Sunrise
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Hawaiian Boogie
from Bottleneck Blues Guitar Legends (2009)
Elmore James	I Need You Baby
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Sunnyland
from Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions (2007)
Elmore James	Bobby's Rock
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	The Sun Is Shining
from History of Elmore James, Vol. 1 (2006)
Elmore James	Held My Baby Last Night
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Person to Person
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Sunnyland Train
from Come Go With Me (2006)
Elmore James	So Unkind
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	She Won't Do Right (Dust My Broom)
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	My Kind of Woman
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Up Jumped Elmore
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Stormy Monday Blues
from History of Elmore James, Vol. 1 (2006)
Elmore James	Do It If You Wanna
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Country Boogie (Tool Bag Boogie)
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	Coming Home
from The King of the Slide Guitar (2008)
Elmore James	I Was a Fool
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	Mean Mistreatin' Mama
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Baby, What's Wrong
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	No Love in My Heart
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	She Done Moved (Instrumental)
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Strange Angels
from The Sky Is Crying (2006)
Elmore James	Mean Mystery Mama
from Come Go With Me (2006)
Elmore James	You Know You're Wrong (Take 1 - Incomplete)
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Early In the Morning
from The Very Best Of (2007)
Elmore James	Hand In Hand
from Come Go With Me (2006)
Elmore James	Everyday I Have the Blues
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Make My Dreams Come True
from Come Go With Me (2006)
Elmore James	Whose Muddy Shoes
from Chess Blues (1993)
Elmore James	Talk to Me Baby
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	Hawaiian Boogie, No. 2
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Pickin' the Blues
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	My Best Friend
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Elmore James	Got to Move
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	1839 Blues
from Got to Move (2008)
Elmore James	Going Back Home Again
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	I've Got a Right to Love My Baby
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Elmore James	The Sun Is Shining
from Chess Blues (1993)
Elmore James	My Baby's Gone
from The Complete Fire and Enjoy Recordings (1995)
Big Joe Turner	TV Mama
from Big Joe Turner: The Rhythm & Blues Years (2005)

Comment:

The influence of Elmore James on guitar-playing as we know it today is incalculable. The Mississippi-born six-string slinger electrified the Delta blues slide guitar style, making it howl and wail above the industrial din of '50s Chicago, and blazing a trail that's been followed by everyone from Albert King and Hound Dog Taylor to the Rolling Stones and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Even Jimi Hendrix went by the name Jimmy James early in his career in homage to the King of the Slide Guitar. As if his phenomenal fretwork wasn't enough, James was also one of the most soulful singers ever to sink his teeth into a blues tune. Even though the hard-living legend died young, he still left behind a mountain of monumental tracks. Lucky for you, we've done the legwork, singling out the most indispensible cuts from the man who changed the face of blues guitar forever.

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