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EPISODE · Apr 10, 2022 · 1H 24M

Episode 79: Elmore James' influence on Classic Rock

from Pacific Street Blues & Americana · host Rick Galusha

Born in 1919, Mississippi's Elmore Brooks took his father's last name and became arguably the most influential slide blues guitar player of the post-war era. As a sideman for Sonny Boy Williamson II (a/k/a/ Rice Miller), James' would write several songs made popular by Williamson including Look Over Yonder Wall and One Way Out. After serving in the military, stationed in Guam, like many from the agricultural south, James' moved north to Chicago and recorded most of his iconic songs for the Modern Recording label. James died in 1963 from a long-term heart ailment. Pacific St Blues & AmericanaApril 10, 20221. J Geils Band / Struttin' with My Baby 2. Harvey Brindell / Mississippi Medicaid3. BB King / See That My Grave is Kept Clean4. Bonnie Raitt / Ain't Gonna Let You The Influence of Elmore James5. Keb Mo / Look on Yonder Wall 6. Elmore James / Blacksnake Blues 7. Fleetwood Mac / Got to Move8. Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac)  / Bleeding Heart 9. The Beatles / For You Blue ("Elmore James' got nothing on this baby...") 10. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Rollin' and Tumblin' 11. Rodney Crowell / Shake Your Moneymaker12. Eric Clapton / It Hurts Me Too 13. Lowell Fulsom / Every day I have the Blues 14. Kansas City Jay McShann / Confessin' the Blues 15. Etta James / Dust My Broom16. Johnny Winter & Ben Harper / I Can't Hold Out (Talk to Me) 17. Allman Brothers / One Way Out18. Gov't Mule / Blues Before Sunrise19. Jimi Hendrix / My Bleeding Heart20. Shelby Lynne & Allison Moore / Strange Angels21. George Thorogood / Madison Blues22. Tom Petty / Done Somebody Wrong23. Stevie Ray Vaughan / The Sky is Crying 24. Warren Haynes (gov't mule), Billy Gibbons (zz top), Mickey Raphael / Mean Mistreatin' Mama

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Born in 1919, Mississippi's Elmore Brooks took his father's last name and became arguably the most influential slide blues guitar player of the post-war era. As a sideman for Sonny Boy Williamson II (a/k/a/ Rice Miller), James' would write several songs made popular by Williamson including Look Over Yonder Wall and One Way Out. After serving in the military, stationed in Guam, like many from the agricultural south, James' moved north to Chicago and recorded most of his iconic songs for the Modern Recording label. James died in 1963 from a long-term heart ailment. Pacific St Blues & AmericanaApril 10, 20221. J Geils Band / Struttin' with My Baby 2. Harvey Brindell / Mississippi Medicaid3. BB King / See That My Grave is Kept Clean4. Bonnie Raitt / Ain't Gonna Let You The Influence of Elmore James5. Keb Mo / Look on Yonder Wall 6. Elmore James / Blacksnake Blues 7. Fleetwood Mac / Got to Move8. Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac)  / Bleeding Heart 9. The Beatles / For You Blue ("Elmore James' got nothing on this baby...") 10. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Rollin' and Tumblin' 11. Rodney Crowell / Shake Your Moneymaker12. Eric Clapton / It Hurts Me Too 13. Lowell Fulsom / Every day I have the Blues 14. Kansas City Jay McShann / Confessin' the Blues 15. Etta James / Dust My Broom16. Johnny Winter & Ben Harper / I Can't Hold Out (Talk to Me) 17. Allman Brothers / One Way Out18. Gov't Mule / Blues Before Sunrise19. Jimi Hendrix / My Bleeding Heart20. Shelby Lynne & Allison Moore / Strange Angels21. George Thorogood / Madison Blues22. Tom Petty / Done Somebody Wrong23. Stevie Ray Vaughan / The Sky is Crying 24. Warren Haynes (gov't mule), Billy Gibbons (zz top), Mickey Raphael / Mean Mistreatin' Mama

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