Elmore James

Born in 1919, Mississippi's Elmore Brooks took his father's last name and became arguably the most influential slide blues guitar player of the post-war era. As a sideman for Sonny Boy Williamson II (a/k/a/ Rice Miller), James' would write several songs made popular by Williamson including Look Over Yonder Wall and One Way Out. After serving in the military, stationed in Guam, like many from the agricultural south, James' moved north to Chicago and recorded most of his iconic songs for the Modern Recording label. James died in 1963 from a long-term heart ailment.

Geils Band / Struttin' with My Baby
Harvey Brindell / Mississippi Medicaid
BB King / See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Bonnie Raitt / Ain't Gonna Let You

The Influence of Elmore James
1. Keb Mo / Look on Yonder Wall
2. Elmore James / Blacksnake Blues
3. Fleetwood Mac / Got to Move
4. Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac) / Bleeding Heart
5. The Beatles / For You Blue ("Elmore James' got nothing on this baby...")
6. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Rollin' and Tumblin'
7. Rodney Crowell / Shake Your Moneymaker
8. Eric Clapton / It Hurts Me Too
9. Lowell Fulsom / Every day I have the Blues
10. Kansas City Jay McShann / Confessin' the Blues
11. Etta James / Dust My Broom
12. Johnny Winter & Ben Harper / I Can't Hold Out (Talk to Me)
13. Allman Brothers / One Way Out
14. Gov't Mule / Blues Before Sunrise
15. Jimi Hendrix / My Bleeding Heart
16. Shelby Lynne & Allison Moore / Strange Angels
17. George Thorogood / Madison Blues
18. Tom Petty / Done Somebody Wrong
19. Stevie Ray Vaughan / The Sky is Crying