MAGIC SLIM ALONE AND UNPLUGGED
Label Wolf
Orig Year 1995
Format:Flac
Magic Slim was forced to give up playing the piano when he lost his little finger in a cotton gin mishap. He moved first to nearby Grenada. He first came to Chicago in 1955 with his friend and mentor Magic Sam. The elder Magic (Sam) let the younger Magic (Slim) play bass with his band, and gave him his nickname. At first Slim was not rated very highly by his peers. He returned to Mississippi to work and got his younger brother Nick interested in playing bass. By 1965 he was back in Chicago and in 1970 Nick joined him in his group, the Teardrops. They played in the dim, smoke-filled juke joints popular in Chicago in the 1970s on band stands barely large enough to hold the band.Slim's recording career began with the 1966, with the song "Scufflin'", followed by a number of singles into the mid 1970s. He recorded his first album in 1977, Born Under A Bad Sign, for the French MCM label. During the 1980s, Slim released titles on Alligator, Rooster Blues and Wolf Records and won his first W.C. Handy Award. In 1980 he recorded his cover version of Mustang Sally.
Recorded in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Morris "Magic Slim" Holt (vocals, acoustic guitar).
1.Mixed up About You
2.Bring Me My Shotgun
3.Boogie Chillen
4. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
5.Iky and Mikey
6.Don't Look Now I've Got the Blues
7.Tough Enough
8.I'm a Poor Man But a Good Man
9.Sadie
10.Bring Your Fine Self Home
11.Bye Bye Pretty Baby
12.You Laugh and Grin
13. A Little Instrumental
14.Nothin' for Nothin'
15.Interview With Slim
