Sunnyland Slim
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Biography
[Edit]Exhibiting truly amazing longevity that was commensurate with his powerful, imposing physical build, Sunnyland Slim's status as a beloved Chicago piano patriarch endured long after most of his peers had perished. For more than 50 years, the towering Slim had rumbled the ivories around the Windy City, playing with virtually every local luminary imaginable and backing the great majority in the studio at one time or another.
He was born Albert Luandrew in Mississippi and received his early training on a pump organ. After entertaining at juke joints and movie houses in the Delta, Luandrew made Memphis his home base during the late '20s, playing along Beale Street and hanging out with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery and Ma Rainey. He adopted his colorful stage name from the title of one of his best-known songs, the mournful "Sunnyland Train." (The downbeat piece immortalized the speed and deadly power of a St. Louis-to-Memphis locomotive that mowed down numerous people unfortunate enough to cross its tracks at the wrong instant.)
Slim moved to Chicago in 1939 and set up shop as an in-demand piano man, playing for a spell with John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson before waxing eight sides for RCA Victor in 1947 under the somewhat misleading handle of "Doctor Clayton's Buddy." If it hadn't been for the helpful Slim, Muddy Waters may not have found his way onto Chess; it was at the pianist's 1947 session for Aristocrat that the Chess brothers made Waters' acquaintance.
Aristocrat (which issued his harrowing "Johnson Machine Gun") was but one of a myriad of labels that Slim recorded for between 1948 and 1956: Hytone, Opera, Chance, Tempo-Tone, Mercury, Apollo, JOB, Regal, Vee-Jay (unissued), Blue Lake, Club 51, and Cobra all cut dates on Slim, whose vocals thundered with the same resonant authority as his 88s. In addition, his distinctive playing enlivened hundreds of sessions by other artists during the same time frame. In 1960, Slim traveled to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to cut his debut LP for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary with King Curtis supplying diamond-hard tenor sax breaks on many cuts. The album, Slim's Shout, ranks as one of his finest, with definitive renditions of the pianist's "The Devil Is a Busy Man," "Shake It," "Brownskin Woman," and "It's You Baby."
Like a deep-rooted tree, Sunnyland Slim persevered despite the passing decades. For a time, he helmed his own label, Airway Records. As late as 1985, he made a fine set for the Red Beans logo, Chicago Jump, backed by the same crack combo that shared the stage with him every Sunday evening at a popular North side club called B.L.U.E.S. for some 12 years.
There were times when the pianist fell seriously ill, but he always defied the odds and returned to action, warbling his trademark Woody Woodpecker chortle and kicking off one more exultant slow blues as he had done for the previous half century. Finally, after a calamitous fall on the ice coming home from a gig led to numerous complications, Sunnyland Slim died of kidney failure in 1995. He's sorely missed.
Title: Blues Legends (Digitally Re-Mastered Recordings) (feat. Blueshakers)
Artist: Sunnyland Slim
Genre: Blues
Title: Barrelhouse, Blues & Boogie Woogie Vol. II
Artist: Eddie Boyd, Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Memphis Slim
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Summit with J. B. Lenoir & Sunnyland Slim
Artist: Sunnyland Slim, J. B. Lenoir
Genre: Blues
Title: Sounds Of Music pres. Sunnyland Slim (Digitally Re-Mastered Recordings)
Artist: Sunnyland Slim
Genre: Blues
Title: Barrelhouse, Blues & Boogie Woogie Vol. 4
Artist: Eddie Boyd, Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Memphis Slim
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Barrelhouse, Blues & Boogie Woogie Vol. III
Artist: Eddie Boyd, Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Memphis Slim
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Heavy Timbre Chicago Boogie Piano
Artist: Sunnyland Slim, Willie Mabon, Blind John Davis, An, Jimmy Walker
Title: Barrelhouse, Blues & Boogie Woogie Vol. I
Artist: Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Memphis Slim
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Collections
Title: Chicago Is Just That Way: 1938 - 1954 (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: 50 Electric Blues Classics
Title: I Heard The Blues A Calling Me
Genre: Soul
Title: 100 Tubes Blues (CD4)
Genre: Blues
Title: Downtown Chicago Blues 2019
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Hits The Blues (CD5)
Genre: Blues
Title: 100% Blues Ballads & Slow Blues 5CD Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Old Blues Feeling
Genre: Blues
Title: Rockin' Blues Party 2020 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Rock, Punk Rock
Title: Juke Joint Essentials
Genre: Blues
Title: Wolf Pack: Who's Afraid Of Them
Genre:
Title: 20 Greatest Chicago Blues Songs (All Tracks Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: An Anthology Of 20th Century Blues (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Featuring albums
Title: From Mississippi To Chicago the Blues Road Classic Blues
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues
Title: He Wille Dixon Story 1940-1960 (CD4: The Record Company Man)
Artist: Willie Dixon
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Jazz
Title: I Wanna Play A Little While: The Complete Singles Collection 1950-1960 (CD2)
Artist: J. B. Lenoir
Genre: Blues
Title: Eddie Taylor In Session: Diary Of A Chicago Bluesman 1953-1957
Artist: Eddie Taylor
Genre: Blues
Title: Rising Sun: The Birth of Modern Blues
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: The Snooky Pryor Story Vol. 1: Chicago Blues Harmonica Pioneer
Artist: Snooky Pryor
Genre: Blues