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Magic Slim and The Teardrops

Title: Raising the Bar

Label: Dixiefrog

Cat No:DFGCD8690
Format:CD

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• “Raising The Bar”, the new Magic Slim record, is an outstanding collection of older and newer songs culled from Slim’s vast repertoire.

• From R&B gems like “Breaking Up Somebody's Home” and Little Milton's “4:59 A.M.” to Roosevelt Sykes’ “Sunny Road Blues” and J.B. Lenoir's “Mama Talk To Your Daughter” to his own perennial crowd favourites, “Shame”, “Do You Mean It” and “Treat Me The Way You Do”, Slim once again proves that when it comes to complete mastery of the blues in all its aspects, he has few if any equals on the scene today.

• Back in the mid 1970’s, when many specialists questioned the future of the primary musical art form of African-Americans, Magic Slim belonged to the exclusive category of ‘the last of the Mohicans’ who refused to forgo their traditions and renounce their urbanized Mississippian roots.

• Slim epitomized this post-war school of Southern sharecroppers who migrated to Chicago where they hoped to “better their conditions,” bringing along a sack full of blue notes that they put to good use when fronting heavily amplified combos on week-ends in neighbourhood bars.

• Impervious to fads, trends and vogues, Slim has remained the real deal ever since. True to the tradition of the Mississippi blues griot, he has become the living embodiment of what is widely known across the planet as Chicago Blues.

Track Listing for Raising the Bar
1. Part Time Love
2. Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
3. do You Mean It
4. Cummins Prison Farm
5. Mama Talk To Your Daughter
6. I Can’t Hole Out
7. Shame
8. Sunny road Blues
9. Gonna Move To Kansas City
10. 4.59 a.m.
11. Treat Me The Way You do

Reviews

Juke Blues - Chris Smith

He's been cutting LPs and CDs since 1976, and not all of them are outstanding but a surprising number are. This is one such.

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