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Memphis Slim

Learning his trade in the Tennessee honky tonks and juke joints of the 1930s, Memphis Slim went on to play with Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and became one of the finest blues pianists of his generation. Raised in Memphis, John Chatman settled in Chicago in 1939, where he acquired his nickname and quickly integrated himself into the vibrant blues and jazz scene. He was recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax in the mid-1940s and his classic track Every Day I Have The Blues became one of the great standards of the genre, covered by B.B. King, Joe Williams, Ella Fitzge...