Sunnyland Slim - The Airway Collection

Born in Mississippi in 1907, Sunnyland Slim (b. Albert Luandrew) relocated to Chicago in the early 1940's, where he became an important contributor to the Post-War Chicago Electric Blues sound.

The list of people Sunnyland played with reads like a Who’s Who of the Blues: Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Jimmy Rogers, Snooky Prior, Hubert Sumlin, and more. His piano style was characterised by heavy basses or vamping chords in the left hand and tremolos with his right.

After recording for a number of smaller labels (including the Specialty, Hy-Tone, Aristocrat, and J.O.B. imprints), both as as an accompanist or backup for other bluesmen, as well as leading his own bands, in 1973 he decided to take a more hands-on control of his recordings and started Airway Records, on which he issued four long out-of-print albums, of which the tracks are collected here.

Sunnyland Slim was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship in 1988, and died from medical complications in Chicago in 1995, at the age of 88.

1. She Got That Jive | 1977
2. I Done You Wrong | 1977
3. Levee Camp Moan | 1977
4. Station Break | 1977
5. Ain't Gonna Drink No More Whiskey | 1977
6. It's You Baby | 1977
7. Sad And Evil Woman | 1977
8. Standing On The Corner | 1977
9. She's Got A Thing Goin' On (alt) | 1977
10. See My Lawyer | 1977
11. Depression Blues | 1977
12. Rocking My Blues Away | 1979
13. Black Cat Cross My Trail | 1979
14. Johnson Machine Gun | 1979
15. Mr. Cool | 1979
16. Bassology | 1979
17. Long Tall Daddy | 1979
18. Big Time Operator | 1979
19. Patience Like Job | 1979
20. Midnight Jump | 1979
21. I Done You Wrong (alt) | 1979
22. Have A Good Day Now | 1981
23. You Can't Have It All | 1981
24. I've Been Workin' Two Jobs | 1981
25. Speak Once And Think Twice | 1981
26. Be Careful How You Vote | 1981
27. Chicago Jump | 1981
28. Tired But I Can't Get Started | 1981
29. Get Further Little Brother | 1981
30. Shake It Baby | 1981
31. Just You And Me | 1981
32. Be Careful How You Vote (alt) | 1983
33. I Done You Wrong (alt 2) | 1983
34. Sunnyland Train | 1983
35. You Have Heard Of A Woman | 1983
36. Past Life | 1983
37. She Got A Thing Going On | 1983
38. Going Back To Memphis | 1983
39. The Devil Is A Busy Man | 1983
40. Woman Trouble Overnight | 1983
41. We Gonna Jump | 1983
42. Orphan Boy Blues | 1983

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