Elmore James & John Brim – Whose Muddy Shoes (1969)

01 Ice Cream Man
02 Whose Muddy Shoes
03 Madison Blues play
04 I See My Baby
05 You Got Me
06 My Best Friend
07 The Sun Is Shining
08 Lifetime Baby
09 Talk to Me Baby
10 Rattlesnake
11 Be Careful
12 Dust My Broom
13 Tool Bag Boogie
14 Tough Times
15 Stormy Monday
16 The Sun Is Shining play
17 Gary Stomp

This collection of 17 songs by legendary blues guitarist, Elmore James,
 features a collaboration with John Brim.

Elmore James had recorded a session for Chess in 1953 before settling down with the Bihari Brothers and again in 1960, shortly before starting his final recordings for Bobby Robinson's Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels. This collects up all of them on CD with the bonus addition of an alternate take of "The Sun Is Shining," which can be interpreted as a precursor to his later hit "The Sky Is Crying." The earlier sides from 1953 lack his inimitable slide, but the 1960 session produced classics like "Talk to Me Baby," "Madison Blues" and a powerful reading of T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday." These tracks of James working with the Chess production team are delightfully fleshed out with a half-dozen gems by the highly underrated John Brim, some of which include stellar harp work by Little Walter ("Rattlesnake," "Be Careful" -- on which Walter stops playing in several spots to become an ad-lib backup vocalist -- and "You Got Me") as well as the original version of "Ice Cream Man," better known to rock fans from Van Halen's cover version of it from their debut album. ---Cub Koda, allmusic.com

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