Elmore James - The Best of the Modern Years (2005)

1	I Believe			
2	Baby What's Wrong		
3	Early In the Morning	
4	Hawaiian Boogie			
5	Strange Kinda Feeling			
6	Please Find My Baby		
7	Hand in Hand		
8	Make My Dreams Come True		
9	Sho' Nuff I Do		
10	Sunny Land			
11	Standing At The Crossroads
12	Mean & Evil			
13	Happy Home		
14	No Love in My Heart (For You)
15	Dust My Blues		
16	I Was a Fool, Too		
17	Blues Before Sunrise		
18	Goodbye Baby		
19	Wild About You

Elmore James - Guitar, Vocals
Boyd Atkins - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
J.T. Brown - Sax (Tenor)
Maxwell Davis - Sax (Tenor)
Jimmy Davis - Sax (Tenor)
Frank Fields - Bass
Edward Frank - Piano
Jewell L. Grant - Sax (Baritone)
Charles Hamilton - Bass
Raymond Hill - Sax (Tenor)
Johnny Jones - Piano
Ransom Knowling - Bass
Willard McDaniel - Piano
Odie Payne, Jr. 	- Drums,
Earl Palmer - Drums
James Parr - Trumpet
Jesse Sailes - Drums
Eddie Taylor - Guitar
Ike Turner - Guitar, Piano

This 19-track compilation focuses on Elmore James' crucial sessions recorded for the Modern Records subsidiaries Meteor and Flair between 1952 and 1956. At the time of these recordings, the distorted amplified sound of James' slide guitar with his unmistakable electrified Robert Johnson lick was helping map out the postwar blues idiom with such classics as "I Believe," "Blues Before Sunrise," "Wild About You," "Mean & Evil," and the extraordinary reworking of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" into "Dust My Blues." Even though roughly half of these tracks appear on the equally recommended 1986 Ace release Let's Cut It: The Very Best of Elmore James, this set is a great introduction to the dynamic slide guitarist's earliest recordings. --- Al Campbell, allmusic.com

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