1. True Love
2. Suggestion Blues
3. Life Problem
4. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
5. Hep Cats in Big Town
6. What's Wrong, What's Wrong?
7. My Heart Cries Out for You
8. Poor Little Angel Child
9. Wee Wee Hours
10. Take Me Where You Go
11. Tomorrow Will Find Me the Same Way
12. My Love Is Here to Stay

Anson Funderburgh - Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Producer
Rory McLeod - Bass (Electric), Bass (Upright)
Sam Myers - Harmonica, Vocals
Doug Rynack - Piano
Wes Starr - Drum, Drums

Young Texas guitarist Anson Funderburgh and veteran harpist Sam Myers got along so well during the making of this fine set that they got their act together and took it on the road. Happily, it remains there, with Myers deftly fronting Funderburgh's Rockets. Myers's booming voice and rocking harp and Funderburgh's crisp, tradition-laden lead guitar mesh beautifully here -- the disc features brash remakes of Myers's past triumphs "My Love Is Here to Stay" and "Poor Little Angel Child" and a host of fresh titles. ---Bill Dahl, Rovi

This is the first pairing of the legendary blues duo on record in 1985. And, the title of this album is chiseled into the late Sam Myers headstone. Fate would have it that Anson asked Sam to sit in one night when Funderburgh and the Rockets were playing one of Sam's favorite joints, The George Street Grocery in Jackson, Mississippi. The rest, as they say, is history. ---amazon.com

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1- Waiting On You Mama
2- Sam's Boogie
3- Trying Hard
4- Sad & Lonesome
5- Moving To The Country
6- Looking For My Baby
7- Remembering Elmore
8- Snuff & More Snuff
9- Sleeping In The Ground
10- Heart Is Crying Out

Sam Myers - vocals, harmonica
Jesse 'Lightnin'' Russell – guitar
Robert Robinson – bass
Clarence Lee – drums

Rec. 1978 live in Jackson, MS

Sam Myers got a second chance at the brass ring, and he happily made the most of it. As frontman for Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, the legally blind Myers's booming voice and succinct harp work have enjoyed a higher profile recently than ever before.

Although he was born and mostly raised in Mississippi, Myers got into the habit of coming up to visit Chicago as early as 1949 (where he learned from hearing Little Walter and James Cotton). Myers joined a band, King Mose & the Royal Rockers, after settling in Jackson, MS, in 1956. Myers's 1957 debut 45 for Johnny Vincent's Ace logo, "Sleeping in the Ground"/"My Love Is Here to Stay," featured backing by the Royal Rockers. Myers played both drums and harp behind slide guitar great Elmore James at a 1961 session for Bobby Robinson's Fire label in New Orleans. Myers cut a standout single of his own for Robinson's other logo, Fury Records, the year before that coupled his appealing remake of Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have to Go" with "Sad, Sad Lonesome Day."

Myers made some albums with a loosely knit group called the Mississippi Delta Blues Band for TJ during the early '80s before teaming up with young Texas guitar slinger Funderburgh, whose insistence on swinging grooves presents the perfect backdrop for Myers. Their first collaboration for New Orleans-based Black Top Records, 1985's My Love Is Here to Stay, was followed by several more albums -- Sins, Rack 'Em Up, Tell Me What I Want to Hear, 1995's Live at the Grand Emporium -- each one confirming that this was one of the most enduring blues partnerships of the 1990s. In 2004, Myers released his first solo album, Coming from the Old School, just two years before he died, on July 17, 2006. --- jazzbluesclub.com

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01. A Man Needs His Loving (3:42)
02. Sloppy Drunk (3:26)
03. Can We Get Together (5:00)
04. Coming from The Old School (5:10)
05. Young Fashioned Ways (6:25)
06. Voodoo Woman (6:33)

Sam Myers - Harmonica & Vocals
Pelle Lindberg - Guitar
Dennis Westerberg - Guitar
Jan Boman - Bass Guitar
Lars Kristoffersson - Drums
Erland Jacobsson - Piano & Organ

Recorded at Skaftö Folkets Hus, Lysekil,
Sweden, February 26, 2005

Sam Myers, best known as a blues vocalist and harmonica player, had been with The Rockets as their featured vocalist since 1986. Myers, along with The Rockets, collectively won nine W.C. Handy awards, the blues community's equivalent to the Grammy awards. The Laurel, Miss., native had performed since his late teens dating back to the early 1950s. He moved to Dallas in the 1980s. Myers was a former drummer with blues great Elmore James from 1952 to 1963 and had performed with countless others.

Myers got started in music while living in Jackson. He became skilled enough at playing the trumpet and drums that he received a non-degree scholarship from the American Conservatory School of Music in Chicago. Myers attended school by day and at night frequented the nightclubs of Chicago's South Side, meeting and sitting in with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and Little Walter. In 1956, Myers wrote and recorded what was to be his most famous single, "Sleeping In The Ground," a song that has been performed by Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and others.

From the early 1960s until 1986, Myers worked the clubs in Mississippi. He toured Europe with Sylvia Embrey and the Mississippi All-Stars Blues Band. In 1986, Sam met Anson Funderburgh, from Plano, Texas, and joined Funderburgh's band, The Rockets. Their last album was 2003's "Which Way is Texas?"

Myers' final release was his 2004 solo album, "Coming from the Old School." His last appearance in Mississippi came in February when he was presented the blues ambassador award by Gov. Haley Barbour. Myers was diagnosed with cancer in February 2005, and had been unable to perform with his band since December 2004. Legendary bluesman Sam Myers died in July 2006 of oral cancer at his Dallas home, according to his sister, Eula Jones. He was 70. ---oralcancerfoundation.org

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1- What's Wrong
2- Bad Acting Woman
3- Things You Do
4- Homage To Elmo
5- Crutch And Cane
6- From Now On
7- Sad And Lonesome
8- Little Bit
9- What Have I Done
10- Jackson

Sam Myers – harmonica, vocals
Tommy Lee Thompson - guitar

Sam Myers, best known as a blues vocalist and harmonica player, had been with The Rockets as their featured vocalist since 1986. Myers, along with The Rockets, collectively won nine W.C. Handy awards, the blues community's equivalent to the Grammy awards. The Laurel, Miss., native had performed since his late teens dating back to the early 1950s. He moved to Dallas in the 1980s.

Myers was a former drummer with blues great Elmore James from 1952 to 1963 and had performed with countless others. Myers got started in music while living in Jackson. He became skilled enough at playing the trumpet and drums that he received a non-degree scholarship from the American Conservatory School of Music in Chicago. Myers attended school by day and at night frequented the nightclubs of Chicago's South Side, meeting and sitting in with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and Little Walter.

Sam myersIn 1956, Myers wrote and recorded what was to be his most famous single, "Sleeping In The Ground," a song that has been performed by Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and others. From the early 1960s until 1986, Myers worked the clubs in Mississippi. He toured Europe with Sylvia Embrey and the Mississippi All-Stars Blues Band. In 1986, Sam met Anson Funderburgh, from Plano, Texas, and joined Funderburgh's band, The Rockets. Their last album was 2003's "Which Way is Texas?" Myers' final release was his 2004 solo album, "Coming from the Old School."

His last appearance in Mississippi came in February when he was presented the blues ambassador award by Gov. Haley Barbour. Myers was diagnosed with cancer in February 2005, and had been unable to perform with his band since December 2004. Legendary bluesman Sam Myers died in July 2006 of oral cancer at his Dallas home, according to his sister, Eula Jones. He was 70. --- oralcancerfoundation.org

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1. I'm Tired Of Your Jive - 4:23
2. Ninety Nine - 3:36								play
3. I Got A Thing For The Voodoo Woman - 5:24
4. Burning Fire - 4:26
5. Waitin' On You Mama - 4:52
6. I Got The Blues - 4:47
7. My Daily Wish - 5:04
8. You Don't Know What Love Is All About - 3:59
9. Coming From The Old School - 4:28				play
10. Country Boy - 4:25
11. Money Is My Downfall - 5:36
12. After Hours When The Joint Is Closed - 6:13
13. Packing Up My Blues - 4:57
14. Let You Slowly Bring Me Down - 6:28

Personnel: 
Sam MYERS - Harmonica, Vocals
Mel Brown & Jack de Kayzer - Guitars;
Michael Fonfara - Piano & Organ;
Mel Brown - Piano tr.9,10;
Alec Fraser - Bass; Jim Boudreau - Drums;
Pat Carey – Saxophone

Sam Myers is a longtime veteran of the blues, and believe it or not, this is his first solo album. Backed by a nice combo led by guitar legend Mel Brown, he storms through a set of mostly original's that showcase his fine singing and heavily amplified harp playing perfectly. There are a few covers of lesser known blues song's including Robert Lockwood's "My Daily Wish" and Otis Spann's "Burning Fire". Pick up this cd if you like rough and lowdown blues. This may not be the most essential blues album of all-time, but it's still very good. --- Sam Mosley "The Junkyard Junky" (Toronto, Ontario), amazon.com

It's taken Sam Myers fully 50 years to make his first solo album. But he's no stranger to either stage or studio, having worked with Elmore James and Anson Funderburgh. For his debut he's assembled a top-notch band, led by guitarist Mel Brown, to work not so much behind him as with him. Brown is a standout as an accompanist, offering wonderful decoration to "I Got the Blues" and "Burning Fire." But understandably, it's Myers who's the star of the show, and his driving harmonica playing carries its own momentum, as on his version of Rice Miller's "Ninety Nine." But there's also a very pleasing grit to his singing, whether on the slow and deeply soulful"After Hours When the Joint Is Closed," or "Waitin' On Your Mama," which could have come directly from the Chicago school of blues. It might have taken him five decades to get to this, but from the music on the disc, not a single minute was wasted. --- Chris Nickson, AMG

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