Title: In Paris Artist: Memphis Slim & Dixon, Willie Label: Fantasy Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 888072360303 Genre: Blues
Vinyl LP repressing. Recorded live in Paris, this has the two blues legends accompanying each other (Slim on piano, Dixon on bass) and trading lead vocals, backed by drummer Phillipe Combelle. 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. 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."
Tracks: 1.1 Rock and Rolling the House 1.2 Baby Please Come Home 1.3 How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 1.4 The Way She Loves a Man 1.5 New Way to Love 1.6 African Hunch with a Boogie Beat 1.7 Shame Pretty Girls 1.8 Baby, Baby, Baby 1.9 Do de Do 1.10 Cold Blooded 1.11 Just You and I 1.12 Pigalle Love 1.13 All By Myself
