lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009

Memphis SLIM and Willie DIXON - Baby Please Come Home!In Paris 1962


Memphis SLIM and Willie DIXON -  Baby Please Come Home!In Paris 1962

Blues

In Paris: Baby Please Come Home! would have historical importance just because the early-'60s European tours by the blues-titan duo of Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim laid the foundation for the American Folk Blues Festival tours to bring more extensive packages of blues artists to Europe  and that genuinely changed music history. The songs are pretty evenly split between the two, and both individuals ironically show better on the other's tracks. Dixon's playing is a big revelation here, starting with an extended slapping solo on the opening boogie-woogie "Rock and Rolling the House." Even with all the blues and rock & roll foundations his playing laid on Chess sessions, there aren't many chances to hear Dixon the bass player putting to use his 20-odd years of live playing experience. Listening to his countermelodies and solid foundation, you understand why blues label chiefs chose him for session work, and Slim shines here too as an accompanist, be it on the slow blues "New Way to Love" or leaning on the left hand for the up-tempo "African Hutch With a Boogie Beat." You won't find Dixon's trademark songs here  "Do De Do" (aka "Do the Do") is the best known of the bunch  and most of them are pretty light I-got-a-girl-who-loves-me-right blues. Slim deals more with archetypes: the exuberant "Baby Please Come Home" mixes "Baby Please Don't Go" with "Boom Boom," and "How Come You Do Me Do Like You Do?" is effectively spare. Gotta bear in mind, too, that what are blues clichés now were undoubtedly revelatory to a Paris audience in 1962, and Slim's haunting "Pigalle Love" is a great example of adapting universal blues to the specific locale. In Paris: Baby Please Come Home! is hardly the best disc you can hear from either artist, but the performances are lively enough, and French drummer Philippe Combelle unobtrusively anchors the music. And In Paris does offer an intriguing glimpse into one style of
blues performance just before the Brits turned the whole thing around.
By Don Snowden, All Music Guide.
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Willie Dixon- Bass
Memphis Slim- Piano
Phillipe Combelle- Drums.
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01. Rock And Rolling The House   3:39        
02. Baby Please Come Home   2:14       
03. How Come You Do Me Like You Do   4:39       
04. The Way She Loves A Man   3:06       
05. New Way To Love   5:31       
06. African Hunch With A Boogie Beat   3:40       
07. Shame Pretty Girls     3:11       
08. Baby Baby Baby   3:05     
09. Do De Do   2:35       
10. Cool Blooded   5:32       
11. Just You And I   2:37        
12. Pigalle Love    3:59       
13. All By Myself   1:43
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