Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - In Paris - Baby Please Come Home!

Piano pumper Mephis Slim (1915 - 1988) and bass thumper Willie Dixon (1915 - 1992) were kindred spirits. Both men were commanding vocalists and brilliant songwriters who played key roles in shaping the Chicago blues sound of the 50s, though their roots were in an earlier era.

The tow blues men usually worked separately, but duting the late 50s and early 60s they frequently teamed up for recordings, club dates, and concerts, often in Europe.

This recording of a 1962 show in Paris is a vital document of that accosication. It's not a landmark event in either of the blues legends' distinguished recording careers, but it's a nice enough outing with a friendly, low-key tone. Slim recorded a lot of LPs in the early '60s, often as a solo pianist/vocalist, and this is frankly more lively than his norm for the era, if for nothing else than the fact that he's playing in a band. The Dixon-sung tracks are interesting inasmuch as he didn't record much during this period, though he's really adequate at best as a singer. When Slim sings, he sticks mostly to self-penned material; the Dixon-fronted cuts may stir some curiosity among blues fans due to the inclusion of some of Willie's more obscure compositions, like the novelty-tinged "African Hunch with a Boogie Beat."

Tracklist:

1	Rock And Rolling The House	4:28
2	Baby Please Come Home	2:16
3	How Make You Do Me Like You Do	4:59
4	The Way She Loves A Man	3:08
5	New Way To Love	5:30
6	Afican Hunch With A Boogie Beat	3:35
7	Shame Pretty Girls	3:24
8	Baby-Baby-Baby	3:04
9	Do De Do	2:41
10	Cold Blooded	5:37
11	Just You And I	2:55
12	Pigalle Love	3:59
13	All By Myself	1:44

Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon -  In Paris - Baby Please Come Home!
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