Memphis Slim – Raining The Blues (1960)

01.	Beer Drinking Woman
02.	Leasing The Blues
03.	The I.C. Blues
04.	Baby Doll
05.	Just Blues
06.	Blue And Disgusted
07.	Blue Brew
08.	Rack Em Back Jack
09.	Motherless Child
10.	Brenda
11.	When Your Dough Is Gone
12.	Hey Slim
13.	Darling, I Miss You So
14.	Lonesome Traveler
15.	No Strain
16.	Don’t Think You’re Smart
17.	Raining The Blues
18.	You’re Gonna Reed My Help One Day
19.	Fast And Free
20.	My Baby Left Me
21.	Lucille
22.	Nice Stuff

Personnel: 
Memphis Slim (vocals, piano); 
Peter Chatman (vocals, piano); 
Lafayette Thomas (guitar); 
Harpie Brown (harmonica).

Unlike Mississippi Fred McDowell, who hailed from Rossville, TN, Memphis Slim was actually from Memphis, although his real name was Peter Chatman. By any name, Slim was a masterful blues pianist with a distinctive style. This satisfying drummerless two-fer was originally issued as 1960s albums Just Blues and No Strain, all songs written by the prolific pianist, recorded in the same session and re-released the year after he died in Paris in 1988. The 23-tune collection opens with "Beer Drinking Woman" (with sly Funeral March quotes), followed by one of his patented, totally believable spoken intros. Fully nine of these tracks feature just piano and voice, illustrating beyond a doubt that this bluesman was the real deal who needed no help to get his point across. ---Mark Allan, Rovi

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