Not my words, but ........ "No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a ........"
Sitting here listening to "Whose Muddy Shoes" (another £3.00 bargain bin special) I wanted to know more about this man. My usual first call in these situations is to get to the AMG site. Sometimes logging on takes a while as I guess their servers are under strain. Anyway - please click HERE to get to this fine mini-biography.