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Side 1 Ice Cream Man* (5-4-53) Whose Muddy Shoes* (1-17-53) Madison Blues* (4-60) I See My Baby* (1-17-53) You Got Me (4-5-56) My Best Friend* (1-17-53) The Sun Is Shining (4-60) Side 2 Talk To Me Baby (4-60) Rattlesnake (3-53) Be Careful (4-5-56) Dust My Broom (1-17-53) Tool Bag Boogie (1-17-53) Tough Times (3-54) Call It Stormy Monday (4-60) Vintage Series compiled, edited and produced by T.T. Swan Engineer: Dave Purple Originally produced by Leonard and Phil Chess Album design: Cathy Swan Layout and typography: Michael Reid Design Cover photo courtesy of Willie Dixon Backliner photo: Elmore James-George Adins John Brim, courtesy of Grace Brim Album Supervision: Marshall Chess Assistance and encouragement: Pete Welding Little Walter blows harp on tracks 1,5,9 and 10 Jimmy Reed blows harp on track 13 Elmore James. . . Canton, Mississippi, January 18, 1918. . . one of the most influential and widely imitated postwar blues stylists whose recordings, with his Broomdusters in the early 1950’s, achieved phenomenal popular acceptance. . . started on guitar at age 12 and over the next few years developed a fully integrated style that was based and extended aspects of the earlier approaches of the gifted Delta blues man Robert Johnson. . . James was particularly adept at the slide guitar style that Johnson had refined in such songs as Dust My Broom, a tune Elmore in fact recorded several times during his career. . . Elmore James was no imitator. . . rather he adapted the style
