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Article: Sunnyland Slim
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Sunnyland Slim
Blues pianist, singer
Practiced on a Shoe Box
Settled in Chicago, Played with Waters
Played Eastern Europe, Started Own Label
Selected discography
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Blues legend Sunnyland Slim made music over the course of eight decades, from the hard-luck Deep South of the 1920s to the enduring grit of Chicago
’
s South Side in the 1990s. One of the great singer-piano players of the century, Slim worked with blues greats like Ma Rainey and Little Brother Montgomery and fostered the careers of many others, most notably Muddy Waters.
In a recording career stretching from 1947 to 1985, Slim chalked up an impressive catalog of over 250 songs, or
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sides,
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as they
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