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Article: Sunnyland Slim with Big Time Sarah: Long Tall Daddy.(musicians)(Brief Article)
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- Sing Out!
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- June 22, 2005
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A Chicago piano blues patriarch for more than five decades, Sunnyland Slim's music has rarely been presented as well as on this combination interview/performance project. Recorded on producer Bob West's Seattle houseboat in 1976, Slim loquaciously relates a series of fascinating remembrances (name-dropping legends like Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson along the way) in between playing always imaginative, strong left-handed barrelhouse piano, alternately sprightly and moody, and singing loud and clear, like his life depended on it.
It's mainly Slim and a great sounding piano throughout. Then-girlfriend, ...