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Bumble Bee Slim From Georgia to Chicago: 1931-1937 Release Date: 2002 07 30 Label: Fremeaux & Associes The music of Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim) provides a neat bridge between Southern country blues and the urban Chicago-style blues that featured tight, propulsive combos. Slim wasn't as edgy as Big Bill Broonzy, say, or Muddy Waters, but he was every bit a modernist, allowing his easy, laconic vocal style to bring tremendous warmth, humor, and personality to his material. This two-disc set has some of the essentials like "No Woman No Nickel" and the delightfully goofy "Greasy Greens," but it lacks too many other key sides like "Everybody's Fishing," "Bricks in My Pillow," "When the Music's Good" and "The Death of Leroy Carr" to be an ideal introduction to this charming bluesman, but it has enough solid tracks to make it an acceptable supplemental choice. Serious listeners may want to invest in the nine-disc Complete Recorded Works from Document Records. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 No Woman No Nickel Easton 3:29 2 Chain Gang Bound Easton 3:36 3 Greasy Greens Blind Blake 2:57 4 B & O Blues Easton 3:03 5 Dead and Gone Mother Easton 3:02 6 Policy Dream Blues Easton 2:47 7 If the Blues Was Whiskey Easton 2:51 8 I'm Needing Someone Easton 3:03 9 Smoky Mountain Blues Easton 3:12 10 Sail on Sail on Blues Easton 3:03 11 Fattening Frogs for Snakes Easton 2:49 12 My Old Pal Blues Easton 3:09 13 Sloppy Drunk Blues Carr 2:51 14 When Somebody Loses (Then Somebody Wins) Easton 2:49 15 This Old Life I'm Living Easton 2:47 16 Dumb Tricks Blues Easton 3:00 17 You Got to Live and Let Live Easton 2:45 18 I Done Caught My Death of Cold Easton 3:09 19 No More Biscuits Rolling Here Easton 2:42 20 Meet Me in the Bottom Easton 2:53 21 When the Music Sounds Good Nelson, Easton 2:52 22 New Policy Dream Blues Easton 3:00 23 Any Time at Night Easton 2:58 24 I'se Gonna Break 'Em Down Easton 3:22 25 Please Baby Easton 2:55 26 Jive of Mine Easton 2:41 27 Slave Man Blues Wheatstraw 3:15 28 My Big Moments Easton 3:15 29 Meet Me at the Landing Easton 2:50 30 Rough Treatment Easton 2:42 31 Rising River Blues Easton 3:04 32 She Never Easton 2:53 33 12 O'Clock Southern Train Easton 2:53 34 You Sure Look Good to Me Easton 2:47 35 Woman for Every Man Easton 3:16 36 Going Back to Florida Easton 3:11 Releases: Year Type Label 2002 CD Fremeaux & Associes

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