''Slim's Shout'' is an album by blues musician

Sunnyland Slim Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906March 17, 1995), "Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906 (most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give t ...

recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label the following year.Sunnyland Slim discography
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Reception

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reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "You wouldn't think that transporting one of Chicago's reigning piano patriarchs to Englewood Cliffs, NJ would produce such a fine album, but this 1960 set cooks from beginning to end. Sunnyland Slim's swinging New York rhythm section has no trouble following his bedrock piano, and the estimable King Curtis peels off diamond-hard tenor sax solos in the great Texas tradition that also mesh seamlessly". ''

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'' reviewer Pete Welding gave the album 4 stars. He wrote, "In short, there is nothing coy or oblique about this stuff—it hits you squarely between the eyes. If you like spontaneous, emotive down-home blues, performed with fervor and excitement, this collection is for you".

Track listing

All compositions by Sunnyland Slim except where noted # "I'm Prison Bound" (

Brownie McGhee Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Life and career McGhee was bor ...

) – 3:19 # "Slim's Shout" (Sunnyland Slim, Ozzie Cadena) – 3:46 # "The Devil Is a Busy Man" – 3:49 # "Brownskin Woman" – 3:41 # "Shake It" (

Big Joe Turner Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him". Turner's greatest fa ...

) – 3:00 # "Decoration Day" – 4:35 # "Baby How Long" (McGhee) – 2:40 # "Sunnyland Special" – 4:39 # "Harlem Can't Be Heaven" – 2:15 # "It's You Baby" – 2:23 # "Everytime I Get to Drinking" ake 3– 2:40 Additional track on CD reissue # "Tired of You Clowning" – 3:09 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

Performance

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King Curtis Curtis Montgomery (February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), known professionally as King Curtis, was an American saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll. A bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musi ...

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Leonard Gaskin Leonard Gaskin (August 25, 1920 – January 24, 2009) was an American jazz bassist born in New York City. Gaskin played on the early bebop scene at Minton's and Monroe's in New York in the early 1940s. In 1944 he took over Oscar Pettiford' ...

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Belton Evans Samuel "Sticks" Evans (February 5, 1923 – April 11, 1994) was an American drummer, percussionist, music teacher, arranger and musical director. He was credited variously as Sammy "Stick" Evans, Samie Evans, Sammy Evans, Sammie Evans, Stick Eva ...

– drums

Production

Ozzie Cadena Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena (September 26, 1924 – April 9, 2008) was an American record producer with Savoy Records and Prestige Records who recorded gospel and jazz music in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and helped popularize jazz music in Los Ang ...

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Rudy Van Gelder Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Mil ...

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References

{{Authority control Sunnyland Slim albums 1961 albums Bluesville Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena