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Article: Albert Luandrew, Blues Musician Who Performed as Sunnyland Slim
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 19, 1995
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Award-winning blues artist Sunnyland Slim, a favorite in Chicago
whose career spanned seven decades and generated more than than 20
albums, is dead at age 87.
The pianist, singer and composer - whose real name was Albert
Luandrew - died Friday of natural causes, said a news release from
Alligator records.
Luandrew was born in Vance, Miss., and began his career playing
piano and organ accompaniment in the local church. In 1924, he got
his first job in a small Mississippi movie theater. He later
migrated north, eventually joining Chess Records and bringing blues
great Muddy Waters to the label.
Blues writer Robert Palmer once noted in the New York Times,
"Sunnyland Slim's rolling, ...