Fire Records owner Bobby Robinson got these propulsive performances out of the Chicago slide-guitar god in the early ’60s. Includes So Unkind; My Kind of Woman; I Gotta Go Now; Pickin’ the Blues; Hand in Hand; Dust My Broom; My Baby’s Gone; So Unkind; Person to Person , and more blistering blues!

Elmore James
Hits and Rarities

Format: LP
Label: Sunset Blvd Records
Release date: 10 July 2020

Side 1 – Hit Side:
1. The Sky Is Crying (Fire 1016)
2. Shake Your Moneymaker (Fire 504)
3. It Hurts Me Too (Enjoy 2015)
4. Something Inside Me (Fire 5001)
5. Look On Yonder Wall (Fire 504)
6. Stranger Blues (Fire 1503)
7. Dust My Broom (Fire LP 102) (Chicago-Cut Mono Version)

Side 2 – Rarities:
1. My Kind Of Woman
2. Strange Angel
3. One Way Out
4. Person To Person
5. So Unkind
6. Mean Mistreatin’ Mama (Alternate – Disc 3, Track 11 On 3-CD Set)
7. I Gotta Go Now

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