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.
- She Got That Jive | 1977
- I Done You Wrong | 1977
- Levee Camp Moan | 1977
- Station Break | 1977
- Ain't Gonna Drink No More Whiskey | 1977
- It's You Baby | 1977
- Sad And Evil Woman | 1977
- Standing On The Corner | 1977
- She's Got A Thing Goin' On (alt) | 1977
- See My Lawyer | 1977
- Depression Blues | 1977
- Rocking My Blues Away | 1979
- Black Cat Cross My Trail | 1979
- Johnson Machine Gun | 1979
- Mr. Cool | 1979
- Bassology | 1979
- Long Tall Daddy | 1979
- Big Time Operator | 1979
- Patience Like Job | 1979
- Midnight Jump | 1979
- I Done You Wrong (alt) | 1979
- Have A Good Day Now | 1981
- You Can't Have It All | 1981
- I've Been Workin' Two Jobs | 1981
- Speak Once And Think Twice | 1981
- Be Careful How You Vote | 1981
- Chicago Jump | 1981
- Tired But I Can't Get Started | 1981
- Get Further Little Brother | 1981
- Shake It Baby | 1981
- Just You And Me | 1981
- Be Careful How You Vote (alt) | 1983
- I Done You Wrong (alt 2) | 1983
- Sunnyland Train | 1983
- You Have Heard Of A Woman | 1983
- Past Life | 1983
- She Got A Thing Going On | 1983
- Going Back To Memphis | 1983
- The Devil Is A Busy Man | 1983
- Woman Trouble Overnight | 1983
- We Gonna Jump | 1983
- Orphan Boy Blues | 1983
Get it here: The Airway Collection [Rapidgator] [FileFactory]
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