Lightnin’ Slim – Blue Lightning (1992)

01. Mama Talk To Your Daughter (4:23)
02. My Baby Left Me This Morning (3:52)
03. It's Mighty Crazy (3:15)
04. Caress Me Baby (5:16)
05. I Love You Baby (3:10)			play
06. The Sky Is Crying (6:26)
07. G.I. Slim (3:15)
08. Help Me Spend My Gold (3:04)
09. My Little Angel Chile (4:19)
10. Too Close Blues (4:03)			play
11. I Want You To Love Me (6:42)
12. Bed Bug Blues (4:03)
13. I'm Tired Waitin' Baby (3:51)
14. Ah'w Baby (4:48 )

Lightnin' Slim - Guitar & Vocals 
Laurie Garman - Harmonica
Pete Wingfield - Piano 
Paul Butler - Guitar 
Rick Hayward - Guitar 
John Best - Bass Guitar 
Kenny Lamb - Drums

Recorded at The Marquee Club, London, 1972

Lightnin' Slim (born, Otis Hicks, 1913-1974), was an American blues musician (the acknowledged kingpin of the Louisiana school of blues). Lightnin' Slim moved from Missouri (where he was born) to Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the age of thirteen. Taught guitar by his older brother Layfield, Slim was playing in bars in Baton Rouge by the late 1940s. He debuted on J. D. 'Jay' Miller's Feature Records label in 1954 with 'Bad Luck' ('If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all'). Slim then recorded for Excello Records for twelve years, starting in the mid 1950s, often collaborating with his brother-in-law, Slim Harpo and with harmonica player Lazy Lester.

In the 1970s Slim performed on tours in Europe, both in the United Kingdom and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where he was often accompanied by Moses 'Whispering' Smith on harmonica. Blue Lightning is one of his European albums and one of his last. He is playing on stage in London, in the early '70s, and is backed up by one outstanding band! The harp player, is nothing short of excellent, and Lightnins' little asides between the songs, make you feel like you know the guy. This is not one of these 'sessions', where the blues singer goes overseas and is playing with a bunch of rock musicians, but rather a live performance, in a theatre in London, UK.

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