(Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew)
DISCOGRAPHY 1948-2008 (45CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995)
was an American blues pianist, who was born in the Mississippi Delta,
and later moved to Chicago, Illinois, to contribute to that city's
post-war scene as a center for blues music.Chicago's broadcaster and writer, Studs Terkel, said Sunnyland Slim was "a living piece of our folk history, gallantly and eloquently carrying on in the old tradition."
Sunnyland Slim was born on a farm in Quitman County, near Vance, Mississippi. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1925, where he performed with many of the popular blues musicians of the day. His stage name came from a song he composed about the Sunnyland train that ran between Memphis and St.Louis, Missouri.
In 1942 he followed the great migration of southern workers to the
industrial north in Chicago.
At that time the electric blues was taking shape there, and through the
years Sunnyland Slim played with such musicians as Muddy Waters, Howlin'
Wolf, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Little Walter. His piano style is
characterised by heavy basses or vamping chords in the left hand and
tremolos with his right. His voice was loud and he sang in a declamatory
style.
Sunnyland Slim's first recording was as a singer with Jump Jackson's
band on the Specialty label in September 1946. His first recordings as a
leader were on the Hy-Tone and Aristocrat labels in late 1947. Slim
continued performing until his death in 1995.
He released one record on RCA Victor using the moniker 'Dr. Clayton's
Buddy': "Illinois Central" b/w "Sweet Lucy Blues" (Victor
20-2733).
In 1988 he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship.
Sunnyland Slim died in March 1995 in Chicago, after complications from
renal failure, at the age of 88.
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