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Memphis Slim
Person · male · United States · Memphis · born 1915 · died 1988 · recording since 1940
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer (1915–1988)
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Also known as John Len Chatman · Memphis Sim · Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman) · Mephis Slim · P Chatman · Peter Chatman · +1 more
Timeline
42 events▣ Album 39◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1910s
1940s
· Debut release
Debut release: Beer Drinking Woman / Grinder Man Blues
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1950s
1960s
· Album
Album: Memphis Slim’s Tribute to Big Bill Broonzy, Leroy Carr, Cow Cow Davenport, Curtis Jones, Jazz Gillum
Album
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1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Biography
English biography1,265 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1349770890
Biography
John Len Chatman (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988), known professionally as Memphis Slim, was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues
Every Day I Have The BluesSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 25 tracks1Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have the Blues)2:332Beer Drinking Woman3:213Old taylor2:444Lend Me Your Love3:145Empty Room Blues2:536Diggin' My Potatoes No. 22:517Blues at Midnight2:418Two of a Kind2:589You Didn't Mean Me No Good2:5610Kilroy Has Been Here2:4511Last Pair of Shoes Blues2:5712Angel Child2:5313The Jive Blues2:4614Grinder Man Blues3:0915Whiskey and Gin Blues2:4416I Believe I'll Settle Down3:0717Miss Ora Lee Blues3:0118You Got to Help Me Some2:5919Maybe I'll Lend You a Dime2:5020You Gonna Worry Too Much2:5121Me, Myself and I2:5022I See My Great Mistake3:0123You and I2:1124Throw This Poor Dog a Bone2:5225Rockin' the House2:46", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500 recordings.
He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989.
Biography
Memphis Slim was born John Len Chatman, in Memphis, Tennessee. For his first recordings, for Okeh Records in 1940, he used the name of his father, Peter Chatman (who sang, played piano and guitar, and operated juke joints); it is commonly believed that he did so to honor his father. He started performing under the name "Memphis Slim" later that year but continued to publish songs under the name Peter Chatman.
He spent most of the 1930s performing in honky-tonks, dance halls, and gambling joints in West Memphis, Arkansas, and southeast Missouri. He settled in Chicago in 1939 and began teaming with the guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy in clubs soon afterwards. In 1940 and 1941, he recorded two songs for Bluebird Records that became part of his repertoire for decades, "Beer Drinking Woman" and "Grinder Man Blues
Grinder Man BluesSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 20 tracks1Jasper's Gal2:542Blues at Midnight2:433Last Pair of Shoes Blues2:584Me, Myself and I2:515Whiskey and Gin Blues2:466Old Taylor2:457The Jive Blues2:488Maybe I'll Loan You a Dime2:509Miss Ora Lee Blues3:0210I Believe I'll Settle Down3:0711Beer Drinking Woman3:2212You Didn't Mean Me No Good2:5713Diggin' My Potatoes, No. 22:5114Grinder Man Blues3:0915I See My Great Mistake3:0116You Gonna Worry Too2:5017Two of a Kind3:0018Empty Room Blues2:5319You Got to Help Me Some2:5920Lend Me Your Love3:14". These were released under the name "Memphis Slim," given to him by Bluebird's producer, Lester Melrose. Slim became a regular session musician for Bluebird, and his piano talents supported established stars such as John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Washboard Sam, and Jazz Gillum. Many of Slim's recordings and performances until the mid-1940s were with Broonzy, who had recruited Slim to be his piano player after the death of his accompanist Joshua Altheimer in 1940.
After World War II, Slim began leading bands that generally included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues. With the decline of blues recording by the major labels, Slim worked with emerging independent labels. Starting in late 1945, he recorded with trios for the small Chicago-based Hy-Tone Records. With a lineup of alto saxophone, tenor sax, piano, and string bass (Willie Dixon played the instrument on the first session), he signed with the Miracle label in the fall of 1946. One of the songs recorded at the first session was the ebullient boogie "Rockin' the House," from which his band would take its name. Slim and the House Rockers recorded mainly for Miracle through 1949, with some commercial success. Among the songs they recorded were "Messin' Around" (which reached number one on the R&B charts in 1948) and "Harlem BoundHarlem BoundSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Harlem Bound3:122El Capitan2:573Just Landed in Your Town3:474John Henry2:215Baby Gone3:416Cow Cow Blues3:547Miss Ida B.4:498Forty Four Blues4:019Trouble in My Mind3:3310Worried Life Blues3:2111Don't Want My Rooster Growin' After the Sun Goes Down2:3912Lonesome in My Bedroom4:5413Diggin' My Potatoes2:2614In the Evening3:5815Red Haired Boogie4:1916Blue and Disgusted3:35". In 1947, the day after producing a concert by Slim, Broonzy, and Williamson at New York City's Town Hall, the folklorist Alan Lomax brought the three musicians to the Decca Records studios and recorded with Slim on vocal and piano. Lomax presented sections of this recording on BBC Radio in the early 1950s as a documentary, The Art of the Negro, and later released an expanded version as the LP Blues in the Mississippi Night. In 1949, Slim expanded his combo to a quintet by adding a drummer; the group was now spending most of its time on tour, leading to off-contract recording sessions for King Records in Cincinnati and Peacock Records in Houston.
One of Slim's 1947 recordings for Miracle, released in 1949, was originally titled "Nobody Loves Me". It has become famous as "Every Day I Have the BluesEvery Day I Have The BluesSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 25 tracks1Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have the Blues)2:332Beer Drinking Woman3:213Old taylor2:444Lend Me Your Love3:145Empty Room Blues2:536Diggin' My Potatoes No. 22:517Blues at Midnight2:418Two of a Kind2:589You Didn't Mean Me No Good2:5610Kilroy Has Been Here2:4511Last Pair of Shoes Blues2:5712Angel Child2:5313The Jive Blues2:4614Grinder Man Blues3:0915Whiskey and Gin Blues2:4416I Believe I'll Settle Down3:0717Miss Ora Lee Blues3:0118You Got to Help Me Some2:5919Maybe I'll Lend You a Dime2:5020You Gonna Worry Too Much2:5121Me, Myself and I2:5022I See My Great Mistake3:0123You and I2:1124Throw This Poor Dog a Bone2:5225Rockin' the House2:46." The song was recorded in 1950 by Lowell Fulson and subsequently by numerous other artists, including B. B. King, Elmore James, T-Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Mahalia Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Carlos Santana, John Mayer and Lou Rawls. Joe Williams recorded it in 1952 for Checker Records; his remake from 1956 (included on the album Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992.
Early in 1950, Miracle succumbed to financial troubles, but its owners regrouped to form the Premium label, and Slim remained on board until the successor company faltered in the summer of 1951. His February 1951 session for Premium saw two changes in the House Rockers' lineup: Slim started using two tenor saxophones instead of the alto and tenor combination, and he made a trial of adding the guitarist Ike Perkins. His last session for Premium kept the two-tenor lineup but dispensed with the guitar. During his time with Premium, Slim first recorded his song "Mother Earth".
Slim made just one session for King, but the company bought his Hy-Tone sides in 1948 and acquired his Miracle masters after that company failed in 1950. He was never a Chess artist, but Leonard Chess bought most of the Premium masters after the demise of Premium.
After a year with Mercury Records, Slim signed with United Records in Chicago; the A&R man, Lew Simpkins, knew him from Miracle and Premium. The timing was propitious, because he had just added the guitarist Matt "Guitar" Murphy to his group. He remained with United through the end of 1954, when the company began to cut back on blues recording.
After 1954, Slim did not have a steady relationship with a record company until 1958, when he signed with Vee-Jay Records. In 1959 his band, still featuring Murphy, recorded the album Memphis Slim at the Gate of the Horn, which featured a lineup of his best-known songs, including "Mother Earth", "Gotta Find My Baby", "Rockin' the Blues
Rockin' the BluesSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracksA1Gotta Find My BabyA2The ComebackA3Messin' AroundA4Sassy MaeA5Lend Me Your LoveA6Guitar Cha ChaA7Stroll On Little GirlA8Rockin' the HouseB1Wish Me WellB2Blue and LonesomeB3My Gal Keeps Me CryingB4Slim's BluesB5Steppin' OutB6Mother EarthB7What's the MatterB8This Time I'm Through", "Steppin' Out", and "Slim's Blues". In December 1959, Willie Dixon's debut album, Willie's Blues, was released. Memphis Slim was given almost equal credit on the album as Dixon's piano accompanist. Memphis Slim played on all of the tracks, and wrote the two numbers that were not penned by Dixon.
Slim first appeared outside the United States in 1960, touring with Willie Dixon, with whom he returned to Europe in 1962 as a featured artist in the first of the series of American Folk Festival concerts organized by Dixon, which brought many notable blues artists to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. The duo released several albums together on Folkways Records, including Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon at the Village Gate with Pete Seeger (1962).
In 1962, Slim moved permanently to Paris, and his engaging personality and well-honed presentation of playing, singing, and storytelling about the blues secured his position as one of the most prominent blues artists for nearly three decades. He appeared on television in numerous European countries, acted in several French films and wrote the score for À nous deux France (1970), and performed regularly in Paris, throughout Europe, and on return visits to the United States. In the last years of his life, he teamed up with the respected jazz drummer George Collier. The two toured Europe together and became friends. After Collier died in August 1987, Slim rarely appeared in public, although he reunited with Matt "Guitar" Murphy for a gig at Antone's in Austin, Texas, in 1987.
Two years before his death, Slim was named a Commander in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of France. In addition, the U.S. Senate honored Slim with the title of Ambassador-at-Large of Good Will.
Memphis Slim died of renal failure on February 24, 1988, in Paris, at the age of 72. He is buried at Galilee Memorial Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989. He was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 24 | 85.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 98 | 97.8th |
| Studio albums | 40 | 98.9th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 42 | 98.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 48 | 89th |
| Genres | 8 | 94.5th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (98 release groups · 40 studio albums)
Albums · 40
Memphis Slim at the Gate of Horn
1959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 33:06
A1The Comeback2:20A2Steppin' Out2:01A3Blue and Lonesome3:09A4Rockin' the Blues2:07A5Slim's Blues3:10A6Gotta Find My Baby2:21B1Messin' Around3:08B2Wish Me Well2:42B3My Gal Keeps Me Crying2:39B4Lend Me Your Love3:14B5Sassy Mae2:46B6Mother Earth3:29The Real Boogie Woogie: Memphis Slim Piano Solos
1959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 41:00
A1Walkin' the Boogie3:25A2Cow Cow Blues3:35A3Jefferson County Blues3:05A4Four O'Clock Blues2:40A5Mister Freddie2:40A6Trouble in Mind3:10A744 Blues3:40B188 Boogie3:20B2Sail on Blues2:30B3Down Home Blues2:30B4Down That Big Road2:15B5Roll and Tumble2:10B6Crowing Rooster, Vocal2:50B7Woman Blues Boogie, Vocal3:101960 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 39:35
A1The Bells2:35A2The Lord Have Mercy on Me2:50A3My Baby Don't Love Me No More3:20A4I Left That Town (Harlem Bound)2:15A5Boogie After Midnight3:25A6The Train Is Gone3:30B1Pinetop Boogie4:10B2Whiskey Drinking Blues3:15B3San Juan Blues2:25B4In the Evening3:05B5How Long Blues3:10B6Sail on Little Girl3:20B7John Henry2:151961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
A1The Race of the Jim Lee and the Katy AdamA2A Small Town They Call BessemerA3Walkin' the Blues AwayA4My Last LetterA5Key to the HighwayA6Harmonica BoogieB1I Wonder WhyB2You've Got to Reap Just What You SowB3Let It Be MeB4I'll Always Remember YouB5You've Got to Meet Me Half-WayB6Gillum Blues1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 29:53
1I Guess I’m a Fool2:592Rockin' the Pad2:363Havin’ Fun2:204Marack2:305Mother Earth2:386Really Got the Blues2:357Tia Juana2:498I’m Crying3:149Reverend Bounce2:3510Slim’s Blues2:5711Blues for My Baby2:401961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 38:35
1Mean Mistreatin' Mama3:402Soon One Morning4:503Steady Rolling Blues4:354Celeste's Boogie3:425Big Legged Woman2:146Rock Me Baby2:487Goin' Down Slow5:128Sweet Root Man3:499Mr. Freddie Boogie3:5610Three Women Blues3:49The World's Foremost Blues Singer
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 31:47
A1Lonesome2:27A2Cold Blooded Woman3:40A3One Man's Mad2:51A4Let the Good Times Roll Creole2:33A5What Is the Mare-Rack2:48A6Pigalle Love2:21B1Four Walls2:45B2It's Been Too Long2:40B3Big Bertha2:07B4I'm Lost Without You2:03B5I'll Just Keep on Singing the Blues2:39B6True Love2:53This Is a Good Time to Write a Song
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 34:38
A1El Capitan2:34A2This Is a Good Time to Write a Song3:37A3I’m So All Alone2:36A4True Love2:42A5Two of a Kind3:03A6Big City Girl1:59B1Three and One Boogie1:43B2Bertha May6:33B3Celeste Boogie6:21B4Three Women Blues3:301961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 47:26
A1Born With the Blues3:35A2Just Let Me Be3:42A3Red Haired Boogie4:20A4Blue and Disgusted3:40A5New Key to the Highway2:45A6I’d Take Her to Chicago2:01A7Harlem Bound3:10B1El Capitan2:58B2I Just Landed in Your Town3:44B3John Henry2:19B4I Believe I’ll Settle Down3:53B5Bad Luck and Troubles3:48B6Late Afternoon Blues4:36B7Memphis Slim, U.S.A.2:55Memphis Slim’s Tribute to Big Bill Broonzy, Leroy Carr, Cow Cow Davenport, Curtis Jones, Jazz Gillum
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 43:52
A1I Feel So Good3:20A2Rockin’ Chair Blues3:20A3Baby Gone3:41A4Cow Cow Blues3:52A5Miss Ida-B4:49A6Fourty-Four Blues3:59B1Trouble in Mind3:33B2Worried Life Blues3:21B3I Don’t Want My Rooster Crowin’ After the Sun Goes Down2:39B4Lonesome in My Bedroom4:54B5Diggin’ My Potatoes2:25B6In the Evening3:591961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 37:06
A1John Henry3:07A2Rock Me3:17A3Stack Alee4:00A4How Long2:23A5All This Piano Boogie1:28A6Bye Bye Baby4:17B1Love My Baby2:52B2When the Sun Goes Down3:39B3Sunrise Blues3:00B4Someday Baby3:02B5Swim's Slow Blues1:47B6Gee Ain't It Hard to Find Somebody4:141961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks
A1Highway 51A2I Feel So GoodA3Rock Me, BabyA4Goin' Down SlowA5Sittin' On Top of the WorldB1Sunnyland TrainB2Goin' Down to the RiverB3Love to YouB4I Can Hear My Name A-Ringin'B5Plowhand Blues1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
A1Darling I Miss You SoA2Lonesome TravelerA3No StrainA4Don't Think You're SmartA5Raining The BluesB1You're Gonna Need My Help One DayB2Angel ChildB3Fast And FreeB4My Baby Left MeB5LucilleB6Nice Stuff1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
A1Beer Drinking WomanA2Teasing The BluesA3The I. C. BluesA4Baby DollA5Just BluesA6Blue And DisgustedB1Blue BrewB2Rack 'Em Back JackB3Motherless ChildB4BrendaB5When Your Dough Roller Is GoneB6Hey Slim1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
1We've Been Together Too Long2Sassy Mae3The Driving Wheel4Life Is Like That5All by Myself6Next Time You See Me7Misery8Kansas City9The Comeback10HCF Boogie11The Blues Is Everywhere12Boogie JamChicago Boogie-Woogie And Blues
1963 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 35:40
A1Boogie-Woogie Piano Styles5:40A2Alberta4:05A3Scandinavian Boogie3:10A4Between Midnight And Dawn3:00A546th Street Boogie2:45B1The Big Race5:50B2Chicago Rent Party3:55B3Down South7:151965 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
A1Clap Your HandsA2Not So Stuck On MeA3Rainin' in My HeartA4Steppin' Out TonightA5Too Late Too LateA6Two of a KindB1Fat and FortyB2House CleaningB3So LonelyB4That's the Way the Cookie CrumblesB5Baby DollB6Double Crossin' Mamma1968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 34:33
A1Don't Doubt Me2:04A2People, People3:39A3Bluesingly Yours2:22A4Waiting Game2:59A5Watch Out Baby2:27A6Feeling the Blues4:42B1The Girl I Met Last Night2:06B2Christina2:29B3The Animal in Me2:15B4Mississippi Water4:15B5My Dog Is Mean3:05B6Paris Scene2:101968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 31:56
A1Sweet Root Man2:36A2Lord Have Mercy On Me2:15A3Whisky Drinkin Man3:05A4Between Midnight and Dawn2:55A5Blue and Lonesome2:52A6Misery2:08B1Messin Around3:00B2Big Town Girl1:40B3Alberta3:45B4Three and One Boogie3:15B5St. Juan Blues1:55B6Wish Me Well2:301970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 42:08
A1Born in Memphis, Tennessee3:31A2Chicago0:34A3Me and My Piano1:23A4Handyman1:55A5Feel Like Screaming and Crying3:35A6Riding on the Blues Train1:39A7Boogin’ and Bluesin’1:47A8Wind Gonna Rise4:06B1Youth Wants to Know4:46B2Boogie Woogie 1-9-7-03:17B3Chicago Seven4:34B4Otis Span and Earl Hooker3:49B5Mason Dixon Line7:121971 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1I Hear The Blues EverywhereA2Slim Boogie WoogieA3Too LateA4Burnin' The JackA5Baby Please Come HomeA6El CaptainA7Rock 'em Back JackA8All By MyselfB1In The EveningB2Wish Me WellB3T.B. BluesB4My BabyB5StewballB6Shake, Rattle and RollB7I May Be Wrong 2:!5B8Pigalle Love, All By Myself and Bye Bye Blues1971 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 38:28
A1Born With the Blues3:29A2Get Ready3:04A3I Wanna Dance3:19A4Chicago Bounce No. 24:23A5Misery2:26A6Memphis Slim U.S.A2:39B1My Baby Left Me3:08B2Rocking the House2:48B3Letter Home3:51B4Bye! Bye! Will Be on My Way4:33B5Grinder Man Blues4:481974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 42:06
A1Back to Mother Earth3:14A2Trouble Everywhere I Go3:49A3Black Cat Cross My Trail3:04A4Mr Longfingers7:03A5Five Long Years5:06B1When I Was Young2:40B2You Dont Know My Mind6:29B3Boogie Duo3:06B4Down That Big Road3:33B5Whizzle Wham1:47B6Paris2:151974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 31:44
A1Lonesome2:27A2Cold Blooded Woman3:40A3One Man's Mad2:51A4Good Time Roll Creole2:30A5What Is the Mare Rack2:48A6Pigalle Love2:21B1Four Walls2:45B2It's Been Too Long2:40B3Big Bertha2:07B4I'm Lost Without You2:03B5I'll Just Keep On Swingin' With the Blues2:39B6True Love2:531975 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 33:52
A1Chunkin She's Gone for Twelve Hours2:21A2My Walking Shoes3:00A3When I'm Gone2:24A4Blues Universal1:55A5The Big Dream1:56A6Pretending I'm Happy2:48B1Easy Going3:37B2Sweet as She Can Be2:35B3Fiddling Around1:29B4You Got a Lot of Soul3:56B5The Natural Fact2:13B6Lonely Night1:38B7Walk On4:001975 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 37:04
A1Going Back to Tennessee3:04A2Bootleggin'3:03A3Good Blues Bad3:41A4Shake That Thing2:40A5Losers Weepers3:17A6A Good Woman Is Hard to Find2:34B1Blues Cowboy3:54B2Poor Man Blue3:01B3I'd Like to Be Loved2:48B4Boxcar3:25B5What Is the Blues2:29B6Headed for Nashville3:081975 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:09:57
Disc 1A1Only Fools Have Fun2:54A2Little Lonely Girl2:17A3Forty Years or More4:44A4Ballin' the Jack2:29A5Let's Get With It2:32B1Broadway Boogie3:10B2A Long Time Baby2:40B3Strollin' Thru the Park4:49B4This Little Woman3:41B5Sassy Mae2:48Disc 2C1Freedom5:46C2I Am the Blues2:50C3Ramble This Highway2:57C4Gambler's Blues4:09C5Every Day I Have the Blues3:02D1Rock Me, Baby5:17D2Lend Me Your Love5:02D3Gone Again4:16D4All by Myself2:20D5Caledonia2:141980 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 30:00
A1Rockin’2:28A2E. E. C. Boogie2:39A3C’est normal c’est normand2:09A4Jefferson County2:39A5Fourth and Beale2:43B1This Is the Way I Feel4:06B2Three, Two, One Boogie3:33B3Mid Nite Tempo2:24B4Cooky Boogie4:24B5C and L Boogie2:551983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 42:09
1Reminiscin' with M.S10:182Memphis Boogie3:453St Louis Boogie3:054Santa Fee Blues3:525Chicago,New Home of the Blues5:016Chicago Rent Party Blues3:537Arkansas Road House Blues4:438Midnight Jump3:089Good Bye Blues4:24Boogie-woogie duos: Jazz à La huchette
1984 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
1Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie2Four O’Clock Boogie3Blues for Jimmy Yancey4Drums Boogie Woogie5Short Boogie6New Three and One Boogie7Huchette Blues8Tribute to Willie Dixon9All by Myself10Boogie for Chuck Berry11Blues in the Evening12I’m Lost Without You13Bye Bye Blues14Celestial Boogie15Huchette Boogie Woogie16Boogie and Drums1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 30:00
1Rockin`2:282E. E. C. Boogie2:393C`Est Normal C`Est Normand2:094Jefferson County2:395Fourth And Beale2:436This Is The Way I Feel4:067Three, Two, One Boogie3:338Mid Nite Tempo2:249Cooky Boogie4:2410C And L Boogie2:551988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:13:17
1Introducing "The Grinder Man" and The Honey Dripper0:372Mr. Sykes Blues4:253Eagle Rock3:164Miss Ida Bee4:245Going Down Slow3:59644 Blues3:007Soft and Mellow1:438The Churning Man2:31947th Street Boogie2:0510MNO Blues3:3711Roosevelt Daddy's Blues2:0312When Buddy Comes to Town6:2613How Long Blues2:3314Good Time Charlie3:0815You Called Me at Last7:3516Ain't Nothing but a Texas Boogie on a Harpsichord1:5617You're the One3:2318No5:3419Help Me Some4:1320Rolling and Tumbling5:5921Ain't Nothing but a New Orleans Boogie on the Same Harpsichord0:501990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 45:31
1Blues Is Troubles3:252Grinder Man Blues4:3733-In-1 Boogie4:294Letter Home3:405Churnin' Man Blues6:326Two of a Kind4:167The Blacks5:108If You See Kay4:299Frankie and Johnny Boogie4:1010Mother Earth4:431993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 48:08
1Salute to Albert and Pete3:352176 Train Blues4:023New H.C.F. Boogie3:574Cafe Society Blues3:335Trois Mailletz Boogie2:426Low Down Harpsichord2:497Crazy Boogie2:508Specially for Anne3:089Cambridge Boogie2:5510Blues in the Afternoon4:4911Boogie for 2 Pianos3:3512Meade Lux Special3:4713Money Honey4:5414Woogie1:321995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 26 tracks · 1:26:36
Disc 11Born in Memphis Tennessee3:322Going Back to Tennessee6:503What Is the Blues2:594Headed for Nashville3:295Didn't We, Babe2:596Rockin' the House2:507The Animal in Me2:248Slim's Boogie2:289Misery3:3710Three-And-One-Boogie3:2611Wish Me Well3:5812Prodigal Son3:1713All by Myself1:29Disc 21Born in Memphis Tennessee3:322Going Back to Tennessee6:503What Is the Blues2:594Headed for Nashville3:295Didn't We, Babe2:596Rockin' the House2:507The Animal in Me2:248Slim's Boogie2:289Misery3:3710Three-And-One-Boogie3:2611Wish Me Well3:5812Prodigal Son3:1713All by Myself1:29Memphis Slim featuring J.P. Armouroux
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 34:46
1Pinetop's Boogie Woogie2:322Blues For Jimmy Yancey3:433Drums Boogie Woogie3:284New Three And One Boogie2:375Huchette Blues3:456All By Myself1:007Boogie For Chuck Berry1:478I'm Lost Without You1:549Bye Bye Blues1:5310Celestial Boogie3:2511Huchette Boogie Woogie3:2312Boogie And Drums5:192002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:00:40
1Boogie for Roosevelt4:092Going Back to Memphis4:163Boogie for Pinetop3:474Boogie for Pete3:425Roll and Tumble3:106Boogie for Albert2:497Boogie for Meade2:198Boogie for Sammy3:459Slim's Blues3:5810Boogie for Jay4:2311Boogie for Lloyd3:4312Boogie for Willie2:0413Shoemaker Blues3:4314Boogie for Eddie2:3815Boogie for Jimmy3:2716Boogie for Otis3:5817Boogie for Booker T.2:3118Boogie for Cow Cow2:18The Legacy of the Blues, Volume 7
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 32:24
1Everyday I Have the Blues3:012I Am the Blues2:513A Long Time Gone2:394Ballin' the Jack2:315Let's Get With It2:306Only Fools Have Fun2:547Broadway Boogie3:098Gambler's Blues4:119Freedom5:5710Sassy Mae2:412006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:05:57
1Mellow One4:392Rolling3:363Paris on Rolls2:234Stomping at the Caveau de La Huchette4:245Talk to Me2:216Long Long Boogie11:157Nathalie's Boogie2:548Boogie Woogie at the Penthouse4:159Roll'em Slim4:5010Ouargla3:4411Christina Boogie4:5812Mistral Boogie2:4813Just Playing Boogie3:0914Discotheque Boogie3:5415Funky and Nice4:5616Hudson Boogie1:51— · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 36:54
1Pinetop's Blues2:582Blue This Evening6:013Caught the Old coon at Last3:204We're Just Two of the Same Old Kind2:505Don't Think You're Smart5:006I'm Going to Kansas City1:577Got a Little Old Mama6:178Rock Me Baby3:169In the Evening3:2910Memphis Slim, U.S.A.1:46
Single · 8
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 1940 | Beer Drinking Woman / Grinder Man BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks1Beer Drinking Woman 2Grinder Man Blues | 13 December 1940 | ||
| 1941 | Old Taylor / I Believe I'll Settle DownSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks1Old Taylor 2I Believe I'll Settle Down | December 1941 | ||
| 1949 | Frisco Bay / Timsy's WhimsySearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracksAFrisco Bay BTimsy's Whimsy | February 1949 | ||
| 1950 | Slim's Blues / Havin' FunSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:36ASlim's Blues3:08 BHavin' Fun2:28 | September 1950 | ||
| 1951 | Mother Earth / Really Got the BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks1Mother Earth 2Really Got the Blues | January 1951 | ||
| 1958 | Stroll On Little Girl / Guitar Cha Cha ChaSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 4:45AStroll On Little Girl2:35 BGuitar Cha Cha Cha2:10 | 1958 | ||
| 1958 | What's the Matter / This Time I'm ThroughSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 4:38AWhat's the Matter2:19 BThis Time I'm Through2:19 | October 1958 | ||
| 1959 | Steppin' Out / My Gal Keeps Me CryingSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks1Steppin' Out 2My Gal Keeps Me Crying | 1959 |
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Old Times, New TimesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 32 tracksDisc 1 A1Introducing "The Grinder Man" and "The Honeydripper" A2Mr. Sykes Blues A3Roosevelt Sykes Meets Memphis Slim in Memphis, Tennessee A4Eagle Rock A5Down on Beale Street, "The Midway" A6Miss Ida Bee A7Talking About Miss Ida Bee A8Going Down Slow A9Going to Chicago Bootlegging and Other Things A10M and S Boogie B1Talking About the 44 Blues B244 Blues B3Improvising New Blues B4Soft and Mellow B5Introducing the Churning Man B6The Churning Man B7The Life of the Piano Player in the South During the Late Thirties B847th. Street Boogie B9Chicago - The Life in the Clubs, Walter Davis B10Mno Blues B11K.M.A. Hoboing and Freight Trains B12Roosevelt Daddy's Blues Disc 2C1When Buddy Comes to Town C2How Long Blues C3Good Time Charlie C4You Called Me at Last C5Ain't Nothing but a Texas Boogie on an Harpsichord... D1You're the One D2No D3Help Me Some D4Roll and Tumble D5Ain't Nothing but a New Orleans Boogie on That Same Harpsichord... | Compilation | 1972 | |
| 1973 | Very Much Alive and in MontreuxSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 34:33A1Baby, You've Been Gone Too Long!1:54 A2Wish Me Well3:30 A3Didn't We, Babe2:22 A4Montreux Boogie5:00 A5My Little Angel Child4:53 B1Watergate5:28 B2Baby, Please Come Home1:20 B3Everyday I Have the Blues4:00 B4All by Myself2:42 B5Bye, Bye Blues3:24 | Live | 1973 | |
| 1974 | Recital Memphis Slim a LausanneSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 11 tracks · 34:22A1Everyday I Have the Blues2:45 A2Memphis Boogie4:13 A3My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating A4I Hear the Blues Everywhere3:40 A5I Got a Woman in Kansas City / Come to Me Baby7:03 B1Christine3:11 B2Shake and Roll2:11 B3How, Long3:12 B4Baby Please Come Home2:03 B5Stormy Monday4:13 B6Living Town1:51 | Live | 1974 | |
| 1981 | Rockin' the BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracksA1Gotta Find My Baby A2The Comeback A3Messin' Around A4Sassy Mae A5Lend Me Your Love A6Guitar Cha Cha A7Stroll On Little Girl A8Rockin' the House B1Wish Me Well B2Blue and Lonesome B3My Gal Keeps Me Crying B4Slim's Blues B5Steppin' Out B6Mother Earth B7What's the Matter B8This Time I'm Through | Compilation | 1981 | |
| 1986 | The Collection Memphis Slim - 20 Golden GreatsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:08:05A1Baby Please Come Home1:46 A2Sassy Mae3:55 A3Rock Me Baby5:25 A4Caledonia2:09 A5Strollin' Thru the Park4:52 A6Ballin' the Jack2:29 A7Forty Years or More4:49 A8Pigalle Love1:55 A9Ramble This Highway2:58 A10Gone Again4:18 B1Piney Brown Blues3:00 B2Only Fools Have Fun2:55 B3Little Lonely Girl2:16 B4A Long Time Baby2:36 B5Careless Love3:55 B6Freedom5:59 B7All by Myself2:18 B8Everyday I Have the Blues2:58 B9I Am the Blues2:52 B10This Little Woman4:40 | Compilation | 1986 | |
| 1986 | Live at Ronnie Scott’sSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 56:031Health Shaking2:12 2Mother Earth4:45 3Rock This House Tonight3:32 4If You See Kay6:39 5Feel So Good3:14 6Tribute To Gaillard4:55 7Four Hundred Years4:36 8Steppin’ Out1:59 9Baby Please Come Home1:33 10Where Do I Go From Here3:36 11Didn’t We3:25 12Christina3:29 13Animal2:53 14Beer Drinking Woman3:20 15What Is This World Coming To?3:45 16Bye Bye Blues2:10 | Live | 1986 | |
| 1987 | The Real Folk BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 33:211My Baby3:06 2Trouble Trouble2:43 3Slim's Blues3:03 4Tiajuana2:56 5I Guess I'm a Fool3:06 6Really Got the Blues2:40 7Feeling Low2:33 8For a Day2:44 9Mother Earth2:45 10Blues for My Baby2:47 11Marack2:36 12Having Fun2:22 | Compilation | 1987 | |
| 1989 | Memphis Slim - The StorySearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:11:071All by Myself2:19 2Sassy Mae2:43 3Baby Please Come Home (1st. version)1:53 4Gone Again4:17 5Rock Me Baby5:20 6Careless Love4:00 7Gamblers Blues4:10 8Broadway Boogie3:09 9Ballin’ the Jack2:30 10Pigalle Love2:03 11Ramble This Highway2:59 12Baby Please Come Home (2nd. version)1:33 13Little Lonely Girl2:16 14Caledonia2:10 15This Little Woman3:35 16Strollin’ Thru’ the Park4:46 17I Am the Blues2:50 18A Long Time Baby2:34 19Freedom5:49 20Only Fools Have Fun2:53 21Let’s Get With It2:30 22Forty Years or More4:48 | Compilation | 1989 | |
| 1989 | I Guess I'm A FoolSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 49:311Slim's Blues3:03 2Mother Earth2:41 3Trouble Trouble2:42 4Tiajuana2:54 5For A Day2:41 6I Guess I'm A Fool3:06 7Rockin The Pad2:42 8Really Got The Blues2:40 9My Baby3:04 10Marack2:31 11Reverend Bounce2:41 12Having Fun2:21 13Feeling Low2:31 14I'm Crying3:19 15Fattening Frogs For Snakes5:36 16Boogie Jam4:59 | Compilation | 1989 | |
| 1989 | Raining the BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 1:15:411Beer Drinking Woman3:27 2Teasing the Blues3:42 3The I.C. Blues2:51 4Baby Doll2:09 5Just Blues3:35 6Blue and Disgusted2:31 7Blue Brew4:25 8Rack 'em Back Jack2:30 9Motherless Child3:04 10Brenda3:47 11When Your Dough Roller Is Gone2:40 12Hey Slim4:16 13Darling, I Miss You So3:11 14Lonesome Traveler2:46 15No Strain6:17 16Don't Think You're Smart3:33 17Raining the Blues3:47 18You're Gonna Need My Help One Day3:15 19Angel Child3:07 20Fast and Free1:59 21My Baby Left Me3:05 22Lucille2:16 23Nice Stuff3:28 | Compilation | 1989 | |
| 1989 | Live In Paris, 1963Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 59:361Jamboree Boogie2:42 2I’Lost Without You2:10 3Nervous Man3:53 4All Day Long4:42 5Kansas City1:55 6For My Baby2:50 7Summertime3:35 8Comin’ Baby3:55 9Every Day I Have the Blues3:12 10Baby Please Come On2:24 11TV Blues3:39 12Baby Doll3:10 13Careless Love3:55 14Shake, Rattle and Roll3:04 15Pigalle Love2:18 16Kansas City2:30 17Corine Corina2:36 18I’m a Lonesome Traveller3:19 19Et 1 Boogie3:47 | Live | 1989 | |
| 1990 | Together Again One More Time/Still Not Ready for EddieSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 1:05:241Wish Me Well4:06 2Steppin' Out4:07 3Havin' Fun4:22 4Movin' On3:58 5Black Cat Blues3:15 6Boogie, Juggie4:47 7My Baby5:26 8Bad Boy4:15 9If You Don't Want Me Baby3:25 10Clouds in My Heart4:49 11Knockin' at Your Door4:22 12Sittin' Here Thinkin'5:44 13Big Town Playboy4:19 14Anna Lee5:40 15Boogaloo Farm2:49 | Compilation,Live | 1990 | |
| 1990 | Harlem BoundSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 57:271Harlem Bound3:12 2El Capitan2:57 3Just Landed in Your Town3:47 4John Henry2:21 5Baby Gone3:41 6Cow Cow Blues3:54 7Miss Ida B.4:49 8Forty Four Blues4:01 9Trouble in My Mind3:33 10Worried Life Blues3:21 11Don't Want My Rooster Growin' After the Sun Goes Down2:39 12Lonesome in My Bedroom4:54 13Diggin' My Potatoes2:26 14In the Evening3:58 15Red Haired Boogie4:19 16Blue and Disgusted3:35 | Compilation | 1990 | |
| 1990 | Memphis BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks · 1:04:421That's Where I'm Coming From4:32 2Call Me The Boogie Man3:39 31040 Form Blues2:43 4You'll Soon Be Singing The Blues2:21 5He Flew The Coop2:42 6Going Back To Memphis3:36 7Do You Think I've Got The Blues?1:38 8Fore Day Train2:44 9Shaking That Thing2:44 10Early In The Morning2:44 11Memphis Blues3:38 12Fip, Fil And Fim3:15 13Christina2:56 14Zorba The Freak4:00 15Movin'On2:50 16Down In Alabama2:14 17Keep The Blue Alive4:45 18Violin Boogie2:50 19Sassy Mae4:02 20All By Myself2:14 21Bye Bye Bye Blues2:35 | Compilation | 1990 | |
| 1990 | Life Is Like ThatSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks1Life Is Like That 2Nobody Loves Me 3Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 4Pacemaker Boogie 5Harlem Bound 6Darling I Miss You 7Lend Me Your Love 8Cheatin' Around 9A Letter Home 10Now I Got the Blues 11Grinder Man 12Don't Ration My Love 13Slim's Boogie 14Little Mary 15Mistake in Life 16Messin' Around With the Blues 17Midnight Jump | Compilation | 1990 | |
| 1991 | Blue This EveningSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 1:07:411Pinetop's Blues3:04 2Blue This Evening6:12 3Caught The Old Coon3:29 4We're Just Two Of The Same Old2:58 5Don't Think You're Smart2:41 6I'm Going To Kansas City2:10 7Got A Little Old Mama5:07 8Rock Me Baby4:07 9In The Evening4:08 10Memphis Slim U.S.A.2:00 11Chicago Boogie2:48 12Sad And Lonesome3:40 13Memphis Woman4:38 14Bertha Mae4:02 15Ain't Nobody's Business2:22 16I Love You More And More2:46 17Frisco Bay Blues2:38 18Slow And Easy4:53 19I Believe I'll Settle Down / Darling I Miss You / Roll N' Tumble3:58 | Compilation | 1991 | |
| 1991 | Worried LifeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 1:01:521Baby Gone3:39 2Cow Cow Blues3:50 3Miss Ida B5:17 4Forty-Four Blues3:30 5Trouble in My Blues3:33 6Worried Life Blues3:21 7Don't Want My Rooster Crowin' After The Sun Goes Down2:39 8Lonesome In My Bedroom4:54 9Diggin' My Potatoes2:26 10In The Evening3:58 11Red Haired Boogie4:19 12Blue And Disgusted3:38 13New Key To The Highway2:44 14I'd Take Her To Chicago2:00 15Harlem Bound3:08 16El Capitan2:57 17I Just Landed In Your Town3:43 18John Henry2:16 | Compilation | 1991 | |
| 1992 | Beer Drinkin' WomanSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 55:171Late Afternoon Blues4:36 2I Believe I’ll Settle Down3:52 3Born With the Blues3:34 4Bad Luck and Troubles3:46 5Memphis Slim U.S.A.2:57 6Just Let Me Be3:40 7Rockin’ Chair Blues3:17 8I Feel So Good3:18 9Slow Blues4:50 10Frisco Bay2:37 11Beer Drinkin’ Woman4:26 12Blues for Bertha May4:11 13In the Evening4:05 14If You See Kay6:08 | Compilation | 17 January 1992 | |
| 1993 | 1960 London SessionsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 53:081Help Me Some3:20 2Ain't Nobody's Business3:10 3Fattening Frogs for Snakes2:29 4Messin' Around2:33 5I Feel So Good3:27 6Worried Life Blues3:33 7Everyday3:21 8Angel Child3:17 9One More Time3:00 10Messin' Around2:39 11I Feel So Good Take 23:04 12Ain't Nobody's Business3:14 13Every Day Take 13:59 14Fattening Frogs for Snakes1:57 15Blues in London, Pt. 1-210:05 | Compilation | 15 December 1993 | |
| 1995 | Jazz & Blues Collection 8: Memphis SlimSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 43:171Rockin' the House2:09 2Mother Earth3:34 3Stroll On Little Girl2:43 4Gotta Find My Baby2:22 5Sassy Mae2:46 6Slim's Blues3:11 7Guitar Cha Cha2:16 8Lend Me Your Love3:16 9Messin' Around3:08 10The Comeback2:20 11This Time I'm Through2:29 12What's the Matter2:25 13My Gal Keeps Me Crying2:40 14Blue and Lonesome3:13 15Steppin' Out2:03 16Wish Me Well2:42 | Compilation | 1995 | |
| 1996 | Come Back & Other ClassicsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 28:591Sassy Mae2:06 2Gotta Find My Baby2:19 3My Gal Keeps Me Crying2:36 4Mother Earth3:30 5Next Time You See Me2:56 6Life Is Like That4:31 7All by Myself2:12 8Misery2:25 9Kansas City2:29 10Come Back3:55 | Compilation | 1996 | |
| 1997 | Memphis Slim Members EditionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 59:281Messin' Around3:06 2Cold Blooded Woman3:39 3I'd Take Her to Chicago1:47 4Harlem Bound2:58 5What Is the Move-Rack3:00 6Memphis Slim U.S.A.2:34 7Big Bertha2:09 8Red Haired Boogie4:18 9Let the Good Times Roll Creole2:37 10Pigale Love2:22 11New Key to the Highway2:33 12John Henry2:05 13One Man's Mad2:52 14It's Been Too Long2:44 15Born With the Blues2:55 16The Comeback2:19 17Four Walls2:45 18Sassy Mae2:44 19Slim's Blues3:08 20Lonesome2:28 21Rockin' the Blues2:08 22I'm Lost Without You2:17 | Compilation | 1997 | |
| 1997 | The Bluebird Recordings: 1940-1941Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 1:07:461Beer Drinkin' Woman3:00 2Beer Drinkin' Woman (Take 2)3:18 3You Didn't Mean Me No Good2:54 4Grinder Man Blues3:07 5Empty Room Blues2:51 6Shelby County Blues2:57 7I See My Great Mistake2:57 8I See My Great Mistake (Take 2)2:56 9Old Taylor2:41 10I Believe I'll Settle Down3:05 11Jasper's Gal2:51 12You Got To Help Me Some2:55 13Two Of A Kind2:57 14Whiskey Store Blues2:58 15Maybe I'll Loan You A Dime2:47 16Me, Myself And I2:48 17Whiskey And Gin Blues2:41 18You Gonna Worry Too2:47 19This Life I'm Livin'2:53 20Caught The Old Coon At Last2:59 21Don't Think That You're Smart3:05 22Lend Me Your Love3:14 23Lend Me Your Love (Take 2)3:05 | Compilation | 1997 | |
| 1998 | Memphis Slim U.S.A.Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 56:461Memphis Slim U.S.A.2:58 2Sassy Mae2:50 3Little Piece of Mind2:58 4Got to Find My Baby2:41 5Banana Oil2:20 6Blue and Lonesome3:49 7Two of a Kind2:40 8She's All Right2:41 9Blues All Around My Head3:05 10Wish Me Well3:03 11Four Years of Torment3:00 12Got to Find My Baby (alternate take)3:00 13Slim Was Just Kiddin'4:13 14Jive Time Bounce2:55 15Backbone Boogie3:03 16Memphis Slim USA (alternate take)3:00 17She's Allright (alternate take)2:40 18Blues All Around My Head (alternate take)2:56 19Blue and Lonesome (alternate take)2:54 | Compilation | 1998 | |
| 1998 | The Very Best Of Memphis Slim: The Blues Is EverywhereSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 40:021We've Been Together Too Long4:00 2Sassy Mae2:03 3The Driving Wheel2:56 4Life If Like That4:29 5All By Myself2:11 6Next Time You See Me2:57 7Misery2:22 8Kansas City2:27 9The Comeback3:54 10HCF Boogie3:30 11The Blues Is Everywhere4:16 12Boogie Jam4:57 | Compilation | 1998 | |
| 1999 | I Am the BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:08:441Strange, Strange Feelin'2:22 2Lend Me Your Love4:59 3Little Lonely Girl2:12 4Rock Me Woman5:16 5(I Feel Like) Ballin' the Jack2:28 6Only Fools Have Fun2:50 7Sassy Mae2:40 8This Little Woman3:36 9A Long Time Baby2:32 10Easy Blues3:05 11I Am the Blues2:48 12Freedom5:52 13Everyday I Have the Blues2:58 14Forty More Years or More4:43 15Gambler's Blues4:07 16Strolling Thru the Park4:44 17Ramble this Highway2:56 18Gone Again4:13 19All By Myself2:16 20Caledonia2:07 | Compilation | 1999 | |
| 1999 | Born To BoogieSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 53:271Bye Bye Will Be on My Way4:31 2Letter Home3:49 3Memphis Slim USA2:37 4Born With the Blues3:27 5Rocking the House2:48 6I Wanna Dance3:18 7Coco Boogie1:05 8Fat Cat2:20 9Chunkin'2:28 10Lonely Nights2:54 11Walk On2:20 12Pretending I'm Happy1:58 13The Big Dream1:42 14The Natural Fact1:59 15Blues Universal2:46 16She's Gone for Twelve Hours2:30 17My Walking Shoes3:15 18When I'm Gone2:30 19T.W.A.5:10 | Compilation | 1999 | |
| 2000 | The Folkways Years: 1959-1973Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks · 1:06:031Joggie Boogie3:27 2I Left That Town - Harlem Bound2:20 3Key to the Highway2:58 4Chicago Rent Party3:57 5Stewball3:36 6The Dirty Dozens2:52 7Beer Drinking Woman2:32 8Walking Blues3:12 9Pinetop's Boogie Woogie4:12 10San Juan Blues2:23 11Prison Bound3:27 12If the Rabbit Had a Gun3:02 13Backwater Blues3:46 14You Name It2:17 15M & O Blues3:40 16Everyday I Have the Blues2:26 17Just a Dream4:14 18Midnight Special1:51 19The Bells2:37 20Mean Old Frisco3:24 21The Gimmick3:50 | Compilation | 2000 | |
| 2000 | The Complete Recordings Vol. 2 1946-1948Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:07:011(Now I) Got the Blues2:38 2Don't Ration (My) Love2:45 3Mistake in Life2:46 4Grinder Man Blues3:06 5Sliim's Boogie2:41 6Little Mary3:10 7Cheatin' Around2:52 8A Letter Home2:35 9Kilroy Has Been Here2:47 10Rockin' the House2:46 11Lend Me Your Love2:57 12Darling I Miss You3:05 13Pacemaker Boogie2:47 14(Sometimes I Feel Like A) Motherless Child2:53 15Harlem Bound2:42 16Life Is Like That2:54 17Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have the Blues)2:31 18Nobody Loves Me - Master2:46 19Believe I'll Settle Down2:44 20Throw This Poor Dog a Bone2:53 21Help Me Some2:23 22Country Girl2:48 23Blue and Lonesome2:38 24Angel Child2:54 | Compilation | 2000 | |
| 2000 | Messin' Around with the BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks1Diggin' My Potatoes, N°2 2Beer Drinking Woman 3Old Taylor 4Now I Got the Blues 5Don't Ration My Love 6Mistake in Life 7Grinder Man Blues 8Slim's Boogie 9Little Mary 10Cheatin' Around 11A Letter Home 12Lend Me Your Love 13Darlin, I Miss You 14Pacemaker Boogie 15Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 16Harlem Bound 17Life Is Like That 18Nobody Loves Me 19Angel Child 20Midnight Jump 21Messin' Around (With the Blues) | Compilation | 2000 | |
| 2000 | Messin’ AroundSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 42:181Messin’ Around3:05 2Blue and Lonesome3:08 3Mother Earth3:30 4Gotta Find My Baby2:17 5The Comeback2:16 6Sassy Mae2:43 7Lend Me Your Love3:12 8Guitar Cha Cha2:12 9Stroll on Little Girl2:39 10Rockin’ the House2:05 11Wish Me Well2:40 12My Gal Keeps Me Crying2:37 13Slim’s Blues3:07 14Steppin’ Out1:59 15What’s the Matter2:20 16This Time I’m Through2:28 | Compilation | 13 November 2000 | |
| 2001 | The Complete Recordings Vol. 3: 1948-1950Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 1:03:131Midnight Jump2:49 2Messin' Around2:52 3Lovin' Man Blues2:51 4Lonesome2:27 5You and I2:12 6Timsy's Whimsy3:00 7Frisco Bay2:52 8Restless Nights2:50 9If You Live That Life2:04 10Love at Sight3:02 11Jumping Bean2:52 12A Letter Home2:50 13Grinder Man Blues2:54 14Slim's Boogie2:44 15Mistake in Life2:48 16The Girl I Love2:43 17Mean Little Woman2:49 18Slim's Blues2:59 19Having Fun2:25 20Flock Rocker2:41 21I Guess I'm a Fool3:05 22Really Got the Blues2:40 23Mother Earth2:44 | Compilation | 2001 | |
| 2001 | Blue and LonesomeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 1:04:541Now I Got the Blues2:40 2Don't Ration My Love2:46 3Mistake in Life2:48 4Grinder Man Blues3:07 5Slim's Boogie2:42 6Little Mary3:11 7Cheatin' Around2:52 8A Letter Home2:36 9Kilroy Has Been Here2:48 10Rockin' the House2:47 11Lend Me Your Love2:58 12Darling I Miss You3:06 13Pacemaker Boogie2:47 14Motherless Child2:54 15Harlem Bound2:42 16Life Is Like That2:55 17Everyday I Have the Blues2:48 18I Believe I'll Settle Down2:46 19Throw This Poor Dog a Bone2:54 20Help Me Some2:24 21Country Girl2:50 22Blue and Lonesome2:40 23Angel Child2:53 | Compilation | 2001 | |
| 2001 | Blues at MidnightSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:11:271Blues at Midnight2:49 2Diggin' My Potatoes No.22:53 3The Jive Blues2:45 4Last Pair of Shoes Blues2:49 5Miss Ora Lee Blues3:00 6Blue Evening Blues3:02 7Beer Drinking Woman3:23 8You Didn't Mean Me No2:58 9Grinder Man Blues3:12 10Empty Room Blues2:55 11Shelby County Blues2:59 12I See My Great Mistake3:03 13Old Taylor2:47 14I Believe I'll Settle Down3:09 15Jasper' Gal2:56 16You Got to Help Me Some3:01 17Two of a Kind3:01 18Whiskey Store Blues2:59 19Maybe I'll Loan a Dime2:52 20Me, Myself and I2:52 21You Gonna Worry Too2:52 22This Life I'm Living2:54 23Caught the Old Coon Last Night3:04 24Lend Me Your Love3:12 | Compilation | 2001 | |
| 2004 | Paris Mississippi BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 30 tracks · 1:45:56Disc 1 1Lord Have Mercy On Me2:28 2Rock And Rolling The House4:02 3Pigalle Love4:04 4Baby Please Come Home2:33 5Going Down Slow3:58 6Just Playing Boogie3:09 7Mississippi Water4:15 8Big Town Girl1:44 9Paris On Rolls2:22 10Wish Me Well2:33 11Eagle Rock3:17 12Mr. Sykes Blues4:26 13M & S Boogie3:16 14Whiskey Drinking Man3:10 15The Churning Man2:31 16Three In One Boogie3:23 Disc 21When Buddy Comes To Town6:18 2My Dog Is Mean3:05 3Raining In My Heart3:18 4I've Got The Blues2:02 5Shake That Thing2:42 6You're The One3:18 7That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles1:59 8Rolling And Tumbling6:01 9Black Cat Cross My Trail3:04 10Otis Spann And Earl Hooker4:27 11Didn't We Babe / Montreux Boogie Woogie7:31 12Everyday I Have The Blues4:03 13Losers Weepers3:18 14The Prodigal Son3:39 | Compilation | 2004 | |
| 2004 | Grinder Man BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 59:001Jasper's Gal2:54 2Blues at Midnight2:43 3Last Pair of Shoes Blues2:58 4Me, Myself and I2:51 5Whiskey and Gin Blues2:46 6Old Taylor2:45 7The Jive Blues2:48 8Maybe I'll Loan You a Dime2:50 9Miss Ora Lee Blues3:02 10I Believe I'll Settle Down3:07 11Beer Drinking Woman3:22 12You Didn't Mean Me No Good2:57 13Diggin' My Potatoes, No. 22:51 14Grinder Man Blues3:09 15I See My Great Mistake3:01 16You Gonna Worry Too2:50 17Two of a Kind3:00 18Empty Room Blues2:53 19You Got to Help Me Some2:59 20Lend Me Your Love3:14 | Compilation | 2004 | |
| 2006 | Rockin' This House (Chicago Blues Piano 1946-1953)Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 2006 | |
| 2007 | Double-Barreled BoogieSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 54:241Introducing the Grinder Man and The Honeydripper0:39 2Mr Sykes Blues4:24 3Roosevelt Sykes meets Memphis Slim in Memphis, Tennessee1:16 4Eagle Rock3:16 5Down on Beale Street, "The Midway"0:53 6Miss Ida B.4:23 7Talking about Miss Ida B.1:03 8Going Down Slow3:58 9Going to Chicago, bootlegging and other things2:31 10M & S Boogie3:14 11Talking about the "44 Blues"0:46 1244 Blues3:00 13Improvising new Blues1:24 14Soft and Mellow1:36 15Introducing the Churning Man0:07 16The Churning Man2:29 17The life of Piano players in the South in the late 1930's2:32 1847th Street Boogie2:04 19Chicago, the life in the Clubs, Walter Davis4:47 20M&O Blues3:36 21The KMA, hoboing and freight trains1:44 22Roosevelt Daddy's Blues2:03 23Lost My Boogie2:39 | Compilation | 9 October 2007 | |
| 2008 | USA 1961Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 26 tracks · 1:19:491Born With The Blues2:29 2Just Let Me Be3:40 3Red Haired Boogie2:52 4Blue And Disgusted2:38 5New Key To The Highway3:01 6I'd Take Her To Chicago (Big City Girl)2:23 7Harlem Bound2:45 8El Capitan2:44 9I Just Landed In Your Town2:08 10John Henry2:18 11I Believe I'll Settle Down2:39 12Bad Luck And Troubles2:54 13Late Afternoon Blues3:34 14Memphis Slim U.S.A.3:41 15Lonesome (Blue Blues)4:19 16Cold Blooded Woman3:39 17One Man's Mad2:44 18Let The Good Times Roll, Creole2:00 19What Is The Mare-Rack3:08 20Pigalle Love2:58 21Four Walls3:43 22It's Been Too Long2:18 23Big Bertha3:53 24I'm Lost Without You3:48 25I'll Just Keep On Singin' The Blues4:36 26True Love2:57 | Compilation | 2008 | |
| 2008 | Soul BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 32:291I'll Just Keep on Swingin' with the Blues2:39 2I'm Lost Without You2:18 3Lonesome2:28 4What Is the Mare-Rack3:01 5Big Bertha2:08 6It's Been Too Long2:44 7One Man's Mad2:53 8Pigalle Love2:22 9True Love2:55 10Four Walls2:45 11Cold Blooded Woman3:40 12Let the Good Times Roll Creole2:36 | Compilation | 2008 | |
| 2011 | BD Blues: Memphis Slim 1940-1960Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 48 tracks · 2:21:54Disc 1 1Beer Drinking Woman3:33 2Diggin’ My Potatoes No. 22:54 3Grinder Man Blues3:12 4Whiskey and Gin Blues2:47 5Lend Me Your Love3:17 6Rockin’ the House2:48 7(Sometimes I Feel Like a) Motherless Child2:55 8Harlem Bound2:43 9Messin’ Around2:54 10Blue and Lonesome2:45 11Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have the Blues)2:55 12If You Live That Life2:07 13Slim’s Boogie2:47 14Having Fun2:27 15Mother Earth2:46 16Trouble Trouble (Misery)2:46 17My Baby (Left Me)3:09 18The Question2:57 19Train Is Comin’2:49 20Drivin’ Me Mad2:47 21No Mail Blues2:49 22Blue Evening2:31 23Tia Juana2:55 24Living the Life I Love2:47 Disc 21The Come Back2:47 2Wish Me Well3:02 3Memphis Slim U.S.A.2:58 4Treat Me Like I Treat You2:43 5What’s the Matter2:27 6The Saddest Song (Rollin’ and Tumblin’)3:16 7How Long4:09 8Gotta Find My Baby2:24 9Slim’s Blues3:14 10Sassy Mae2:51 11My Gal Keeps Me Crying2:44 12Stewball3:38 13Slim’s Thing3:26 14The Lord Have Mercy on Me2:53 15In the Evening3:11 16Raining the Blues3:50 17Rack ’Em Back Jack2:35 18We’re Just Two of the Same Old Kind2:57 19El Capitan2:37 20This Is a Good Time to Write a Song3:44 21True Love2:46 22Angel Child3:11 23The I.C. Blues2:55 24You’re Gonna Need My Help One Day3:16 | Compilation | 27 June 2011 | |
| 2012 | Boogie After MidnightSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 44 tracks · 2:17:14Disc 1 1Messin' Around3:07 2Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have The Blues)2:33 3Harlem Bound2:57 4Mother Earth2:42 5Steppin' Out2:02 6Rockin' The Blues2:07 7Gotta Find My Baby2:20 8John Henry3:30 9I Feel So Good2:50 10Boogie Woogie2:34 11Roll And Tumble2:12 12Beer Drinking Woman3:21 13Highway 51 Blues4:18 1446th Street Boogie (Fast Boogie)2:45 15Chicago House Rent Party Blues3:48 16Big Legged Woman2:13 17Sail On Blues2:34 18Boogie After Midnight3:26 19Sweet Root Man3:47 20Good Rockin' Blues3:13 21In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down3:03 22I Just Want To Make Love To You3:59 Disc 21Rock Me Baby2:48 2Whiskey Drinking Blues3:13 3Sitting On Top Of The World3:41 488 Boogie3:20 5Goin' Down To The River3:04 6How Long Blues2:02 7Trouble In Mind3:10 8Goin' Down Slow3:44 9Three Women Blues3:52 10Four O'Clock Blues2:38 11Mean Mistreatin' Mama3:39 12Late Afternoon Blues4:35 13I Can Hear My Name A-Ringin'4:06 14Woman Blues Boogie3:11 15Whiskey And Gin Blues2:44 1644 Blues3:36 17Mister Freddie2:41 18Maybe I'll Loan You A Dime2:50 19Walkin' The Boogie3:26 20Red Haired Boogie4:18 21San Juan Blues2:22 22Kilroy Has Been Here2:53 | Compilation | 2012 | |
| 2018 | Live in Paris - 27 Mai 1961Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 1:17:311Chicago Boogie Woogie5:03 2How Long, How Long3:21 3Beer Drinkin' Woman4:47 4Pee Wee's Blues4:00 5Keep Your Han on Your Heart4:57 6All by Myself1:50 7Miss Ida B4:55 8Shake Rattle and Roll3:27 9A Letter Home4:40 10Laisse Les Bons Temps Rouler2:22 11Chicago Stomp1:22 12Pigalle Love3:45 13Introduction to Kansas City1:17 14Kansas City Blues (Jim Jackson Style)2:36 15Kansas City Blues (Big Joe Turner Style)3:37 16K.C. Loving (Kansas City) [Little Willie Littlefield Style]3:12 17Frankie & Johnny2:42 18Unidentified Boogie5:01 19Three Women Blues4:21 20I Feel So Good2:46 21I Just Want to Make Love to You3:37 22If You See Kay2:14 23Roll 'Em Pete1:39 | Live | 2018 | |
| 2020 | The Greatest Hits of Memphis SlimSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 28:521Kansas City2:29 2The Comeback3:55 3Sassy Mae2:04 4Gotta Find My Baby2:17 5My Gal Keeps Me Crying2:35 6Mother Earth3:29 7Next Time You See Me2:53 8Life Is Like That4:31 9All By Myself2:13 10Misery2:26 | Compilation | 10 September 2020 | |
| 2021 | London, Paris, Brussels, Baden Baden 1964 LiveSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks1I'm Lost Without You 2I'll Just Keep Singing The Blues 3El Capitan 4This Is A Good Time To Write A Song 5Big Bertha 6Train Has Gone 7Going Down Slow 8All By Myself 9The Blues Is Everywhere 10All By Myself 11My Gal Keeps Me Crying 12Matt’s Guitar Boogie 13I'm Lost Without You 14Wish Me Well 15I'll Just Keep Singing The Blues 16It's Too Late 17Just A Dream | Live | 1 April 2021 | |
| 2024 | Bluesville PresentsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 48:501Let the Good Times Roll Creole2:33 2Frankie and Johnny Boogie4:06 3Lonesome Traveler2:46 4Wish Me Well2:44 5Rock Me Baby2:45 6I’ll Just Keep on Singin’ the Blues2:42 7Steppin’ Out2:03 8Mother Earth4:43 9Cold Blooded Woman3:42 10One Man’s Mad2:52 11Grinder Man Blues4:33 12Three‐In‐One‐Boogie4:25 13The Comeback2:22 14Steady Rolling Blues4:32 15I’m Lost Without You2:02 | Compilation | 13 June 2024 | |
| — | I Am the BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 46:241I Am the Blues2:48 2Everyday I Have the Blues2:59 3Broadway Boogie2:15 4Rock Me Baby5:12 5Little Lonely Girl2:18 6Let's Get With It2:25 7Sassy Mae2:46 8Only Fools Have Fun2:51 9Strollin' Thru the Park4:43 10Freedom5:54 1140 Years or More4:40 12All by Myself2:15 13Ramble This Highway2:53 14Ballin' the Jack2:25 | Compilation | — | |
| — | Every Day I Have The BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 25 tracks · 1:11:531Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have the Blues)2:33 2Beer Drinking Woman3:21 3Old taylor2:44 4Lend Me Your Love3:14 5Empty Room Blues2:53 6Diggin' My Potatoes No. 22:51 7Blues at Midnight2:41 8Two of a Kind2:58 9You Didn't Mean Me No Good2:56 10Kilroy Has Been Here2:45 11Last Pair of Shoes Blues2:57 12Angel Child2:53 13The Jive Blues2:46 14Grinder Man Blues3:09 15Whiskey and Gin Blues2:44 16I Believe I'll Settle Down3:07 17Miss Ora Lee Blues3:01 18You Got to Help Me Some2:59 19Maybe I'll Lend You a Dime2:50 20You Gonna Worry Too Much2:51 21Me, Myself and I2:50 22I See My Great Mistake3:01 23You and I2:11 24Throw This Poor Dog a Bone2:52 25Rockin' the House2:46 | Compilation | — |
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Blues Archive - The Story Of The Blues Chapter 7Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 30 tracksDisc 1 1Bye Bye Will Be On My Way 2Letter Home 3Memphis Slim USA 4Born With The Blues 5Rocking The House 6I Wanna Dance 7Coco Boogie 8Fat Cat 9Chunkin’ 10Lonely Nights 11Walk On 12Pretending I’m Happy 13The Natural Fact 14Blues Universal 15She’s Gone For Twelve Hours 16My Walking Shoes 17When I’m Gone 18T.W.A. Disc 21Worried Life Blues 2I Don't Want My Rooster Crowin` After The Sun Goes Down 3Lonesome In My Bedroom 4Diggin` My Potatoes 5In The Evenin' 6I Feel So Good 7Rockin' Chair Blues 8Baby Gone 9Cow Cow Blues 10Miss Ida B. 11Fourty-Four Blues 12Trouble In Mind | Compilation | 2004 | |
| — | Lonesome: Solo PianoSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 41:241Slow And Easy4:46 2Panic Street3:58 3The Hustler2:22 4Carried Out5:08 5Bluesnik2:34 6Back Home2:28 7Olympia Boogie1:57 8Sonophone Boogie2:28 9Blue Slim5:07 10Musing3:30 11West Side Trot3:44 12Hotfan's Delight3:22 | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Memphis Slim head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 24 | 85.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 98 | 97.8th |
| Studio albums | 40 | 98.9th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 42 | 98.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 48 | 89th |
| Genres | 8 | 94.5th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | won | |
| — | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | won |
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Chatman & His Washboard Band(band) | — | present | original |
| Peter Chatman & His Washboard Band(band) | — | present | |
| Memphis Slim Trio(band) | — | present | piano |
| Memphis Slim Trio(band) | — | present | lead vocals |
| Memphis Slim & His Orchestra(band) | — | present | eponymous,original |
| Memphis Slim and The Houserockers(band) | — | present | eponymous,original |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memphis_Slim.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e4cfb284-9ab1-47f0-a725-082f84275a16discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e4cfb284-9ab1-47f0-a725-082f84275a16core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1068404genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1068404seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Slimbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Slim
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #147
Memphis Slim | 1915 | 1988 | Tennessee | Urban blues |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
Image: Lionel decoster · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q1068404 · MusicBrainz: e4cfb284-9ab1-47f0-a725-082f84275a16
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