"Bobby's Rock" / "Make My Dreams Come True" "Cry for Me Baby" / "Take Me Where You Go"Īlso released by Vee-Jay 269, USA 815, and S&M 101 " It Hurts Me Too" / "Elmore's Contribution to Jazz" "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" / "I Wish I Was a Catfish" "Late Hours at Midnight" / "The Way You Treat Me" " Standing at the Crossroads" / "Sunny Land" "Hand in Hand" / "Make My Dreams Come True" "Please Find My Baby" / "Strange Kinda Feeling" "Can't Stop Lovin" / "Make a Little Love" "Country Boogie" / "She Just Won't Do Right" "Early in the Morning" / "Hawaiian Boogie" "I Believe" / "I Held My Baby Last Night" Singles Edit List of singles with year, notes, label, and reference(s) Yearīobo Thomas performs B-side without James re-released in 1966 by Jewel 764 On record releases, Elmore James is sometimes listed as "Elmo James", "Elmore James and the Broomdusters", and "Elmore James and His Broomdusters". The Chess, Capricorn, and Virgin America/ Flair collections also include some previously unreleased material and alternate takes. However, some box sets have appeared that collect most or all of James' recordings for a particular label or time period. With the advent of compact discs, this trend continued. These various labels also began releasing numerous compilation albums, often with significant overlap in song selection. After his death in 1963, his former companies began re-issuing a number of his singles on subsidiaries and leasing them out to other companies. In 1960, the Biharis released the compilation, Blues After Hours, on their budget Crown label, which was the only album released during James' career. Brown, Big Joe Turner, Little Johnny Jones, and Junior Wells. He also played guitar on several recordings by other artists, including J. In 1953 and again in 1960, James also recorded some songs that appeared on Checker/ Chess Records. In 1957, he recorded for Mel London's Chief Records and from 1959 to 1963, for Bobby Robinson's Fire Records. From 1952 to 1956, he recorded for the Bihari brothers, who issued singles on their Meteor, Flair, and Modern labels. Shortly thereafter, James began recording for several larger companies. "Dust My Broom" was first issued by the small Trumpet Records label in 1951. Elmore James discographyĪs with most blues artists in the 1950s and early 1960s, James' recordings were originally issued on two-song record singles. Other popular James' songs, such as " I Can't Hold Out", "" Madison Blues", " Shake Your Moneymaker", " Bleeding Heart", and " One Way Out", have been recorded by several other artists, including Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, and the Allman Brothers Band. James' composition " The Sky Is Crying" (which became a blues standard) and his rendition of " It Hurts Me Too" were among his most successful singles on the record charts. His most famous song, " Dust My Broom", an electrified adaptation of a Robert Johnson tune, was his first hit and features one of the most identifiable slide guitar figures in blues.
Elmore James was an American blues slide guitarist and singer who recorded from 1951 until 1963.
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