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01/11/2005
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All Music Guide Review
This 19-track compilation focuses on Elmore James' crucial sessions recorded for the Modern Records subsidiaries Meteor and Flair between 1952 and 1956. At the time of these recordings, the distorted amplified sound of James' slide guitar with his unmistakable electrified Robert Johnson lick was helping map out the postwar blues idiom with such classics as "I Believe," "Blues Before Sunrise," "Wild About You," "Mean & Evil," and the extraordinary reworking of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" into "Dust My Blues." Even though roughly half of these tracks appear on the equally recommended 1986 Ace release Let's Cut It: The Very Best of Elmore James, this set is a great introduction to the dynamic slide guitarist's earliest recordings. ~ Al Campbell, All Music Guide
The Best of the Modern Years Track Listing
Credits of The Best of the Modern Years
- Willard McDaniel
- Piano
- Earl Palmer
- Drums
- James Parr
- Trumpet
- Jesse Sailes
- Drums
- Billy Vera
- Liner Notes, Reissue Producer, Compilation
- Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
- Sax (Tenor)
- Odie Payne, Jr.
- Drums
- Joe Josea
- Arranger
- Boyd Atkins
- Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
- J.T. Brown
- Sax (Tenor)
- Michael Cuscuna
- Executive Producer
- Frank Fields
- Bass
- Edward Frank
- Piano
- Jewell L. Grant
- Sax (Baritone)
- Charles Hamilton
- Bass
- Raymond Hill
- Sax (Tenor)
- Ike Turner
- Guitar, Piano
- Elmore James
- Guitar, Vocals, Arranger
- Ransom Knowling
- Bass
- Eddie Taylor
- Guitar
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