Artist: Magic Slim
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Grand Slam
Year: 1982
Tracks: 14
Highway Is My Home
Year:
Tracks: 10
Collection
Year:
Tracks: 10
Magic Slim & the Teardrops proudly uphold the custom of what a Chicago blues band should heavy like. Their emphasis on ensemble playing and a whopping repertoire that allegedly ranges upward of a few one C songs give the eminent guitarist's live performances an adorable ad-lib quality: You never cognise what obscurity he'll overstretch out of his outsized lid next.
Born Morris Holt on August 7, 1937, the Mississippi native was forced to reach up playing the piano when he lost his small finger in a cotton noose mishap. Boyhood chum Magic Sam bestowed his magic soubriquet on the budding guitarist (and times change as Slim's no yearner slender). Holt first base came to Chicago in 1955, merely establish that breaking into the competitive local blues circumference was a tough proposition. Although he managed to guarantee a steady gig for a while with Robert Perkins' band (Mr. Pitiful & the Teardrops), Slim wasn't good enough to onward motion into the upper berth ranks of Chicago bluesdom.
So he retreated to Mississippi for a spell to perfect his chops. When he returned to Chicago in 1965 (with brothers Nick and Lee Baby as his new rhythm section), Slim's detractors were quickly forced to change their tune. Utilizing the Teardrops discover and belongings onto his Magic Slim handle, the big man cut a yoke of 45s for Ja-Wes and established himself as a redoubtable strength on the South side. His guitar work on dripped vibrato-enriched spitefulness and his hollering vocals were as ill-humoured and sturdy as anyone's on the setting.
All of a sudden, the recording floodgates opened up for the Teardrops in 1979 after they cut quartet tunes for Alligator's Surviving Chicago Blues anthology series. Since then, a series of nails-tough albums for Rooster Blues, Alligator, and a skid for the Austrian Wolf logo experience fattened Slim's discography considerably. The Teardrops weathered a potentially annihilative change when longtime second guitarist John Primer cut his have major-label debut for Code Blue, merely with Slim and bass-wielding brother Nick Holt still on display board, it's doubtful the quartet's boilers suit legal volition change dramatically in Primer's absence. In 1996, Slim gestural with Blind Pig and has cut some of the most-celebrated albums of his vocation, including Scufflin' in 1996, Pitch-dark Tornado in 1998, Snakebite in 2000, and Blue Magic in 2002. A alive recording taped in 2005 at the Sierra Nevada Brewery was released that same class on both DVD and CD as Anything Can Happen. 2006 proverb the release of Atomic number 50 Pan Alley, a set of recordings made between 1992 and 1998 in Chicago and Europe, on Austria's Wolf Records.
