Memphis Heat

SSC3047 2006-07-18

Track List

When I Were Young - 2:44
Whizzle - 1:44
Boogie Duo - 3:02
Black Cat - 3:05
Down That Big Road - 3:02
Mr Longfinger - 7:03
Mother Earth - 3:15
You Dont Know My Mind - 6:29
Five Long Years - 5:05
Trouble Everwhere I Go - 3:50
Paris - 2:14
Five Long Years (Alternate) - 7:30
Menphis Heat - 3:55

Musicians

Memphis Slim - vocals, piano with Canned Heat
Henry Vestine, James Shane - guitar Joel Scott Hill - vocal, guitar
Alfredo de la Barreda, Richard Hite - bass
Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra - drums

The Memphis Horns
Wayne Jackson - trumpet
andrew Love, Ed Logan - tenor saxophone
Jack Hale - trombone
James Mitchell - baritone Saxophone
Terry Manning - harmonica

Memphis Slim and the rock group Canned Heat, joined by the most famous horn-section in the USA, the Memphis Horns, give these recordings a richness that is seldom heard on a modern blues album; to hear them filling out Memphis Heat is a real pleasure. Made in the fall of 1970 and the summer of 1973, this album features Memphis Slim’s piano and strident vocals, but the other musicians have con¬tributed enormously to make the record “hot.” It is difficult to single out any one musi¬cian for special praise, so suffice it to say that this album is best heard as a group effort, one on which the fusion of piano and horns with one of the finest rock groups to have an understanding of the blues produces the real Memphis Heat.