WILLIE DIXON & MEMPHIS SLIM "WILLIE'S BLUES" AP, LE, NE, SO, RVG, NEW/SEALED
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WILLIE DIXON WITH MEMPHIS SLIM "WILLIE'S BLUES"
2015 NEW/SEALED ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS "THE PRESTIGE/BLUESVILLE MONO SERIES" 25 LP SET WITH ONLY THE FIRST 250 COPIES NUMBERED (THIS IS #66), THIS SOLD-OUT EDITION, ORIGINAL RECORDING WAS 1959 BY RUDY VAN GELDER, REMASTERED (0N 180 GRAM VIRGIN VINYL) BY KEVIN GRAY AT COHEARENT AUDIO USING THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES, PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM, PRESSED AT QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS, SALINA, KS,
"SINCE THE EARLY 1950'S, WILLIE DIXON HAS BEEN THE STUDIO KINGPIN OF CHICAGO BLUES, HAVING WRITTEN, PRODUCED, AND PLAYED BASS ON COUNTLESS CLASSICS BY MUDDY WATERS, HOWLIN' WOLF, OTIS RUSH, KOKO TAYLOR, AND MANY OTHERS. DIXON HAS ALWAYS MANAGED TO FIND TIME AWAY FROM THE STUDIO TO WORK AS A PERFORMER, SLAPPING HIS UPRIGHT BASS AND SINGING HIS OWN TUNES IN A HIGHLY COMPELLING, CONVERSATIONAL BARITONE. HE WAS WORKING THE COFFEEHOUSE CIRCUIT WITH PIANIST MEMPHIS SLIM WHEN HE CUT THIS, HIS FIRST ALBUM AS A LEADER, IN 1959. BESIDES HIS UNIQUE INTERPRETATIONS OF "NERVOUS" AND "BUILT FOR COMFORT", IT INCLUDES EIGHT LESSER KNOWN COMPOSITIONS FROM DIXON'S PROLIFIC PEN. IT IS UNLIKE ALL OTHER ALBUMS BY DIXON, AS HE AND SLIM ARE ACCOMPANIED, NOT BE THE USUAl CREW OF CHICAGO BLUES PLAYERS, BUT BY A GROUP OF NEW YORK MAINSTREAM JAZZMEN, INCLUDING TENOT SAXOPHONIST HAL ASHBY, GUITARIST WALLY RICHARDSON AND DRUMMER GUS JOHNSON."
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