I Was Checking Out...

I was searching for the somewhat obscure country music artist, Mississippi Slim, who is said to have influenced Elvis.

What I found was the rather obscure Mississippi Slim who wrote & recorded this relatable & way smooth love-gone-real-wrong song.

Slim can sell it too---I feel his pain. A cult classic I'm thinking. Enjoy.

It's more R&B than blues, more 70's sounding soul music.
Sorry I don't consider this blues at all.

a reply to: GuitaristRob

Yeah, it's Motown-y but nothing wrong with that in my book.

Genre wasn't really the point though, G-Rob.

Enjoyed

a reply to: The GUT

Good song enjoyed it but me thinks not about influencing elvis.

Dude was born too late. Here is his obituary

Oh, pretty sure the song that was posted was recorded in 2008.


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GREENVILLE – A popular blues musician from Mississippi and Chicago, known for his bright hair and mismatch socks and shoes has died. Walter Horn, better known as Mississippi Slim, passed away last week in Greenville. Horn was 66.

Horn was born in Shelby, Miss., on Aug. 13, 1943, and grew up in Greenville attending public schools. During his early 20s, Horn worked as a tractor driver on a plantation during the day and honed his skills as a blues singer at night performing at local clubs on Nelson Street. Horn decided to pursue a full-time career in music and moved to Chicago in 1968. He immediately changed his stage name to Mississippi Slim.

Touring with Junior Wells and other well known acts on Chicago’s west side, Horn’s reputation as a great blues artist quickly grew among his critics and his contemporaries.

Often compared to the likes of Z.Z. Hill and Johnnie Taylor, Horn soon carved his own niche in the blues industry recording his first single, “Crying in The Arms of Another Love,” for the Sunflower label in 1974. In 1994, Horn returned to his native Greenville to care for his aging mother, but continued to perform regularly at local clubs and social events in the Mississippi Delta and surrounding areas.

In 1996, Horn teamed up with fellow musician, John Horton, and performed at the Mississippi Blues and Heritage Festival. Because of that partnership, Horn was asked to participate in the Arts In Education: “Blues In Schools” project where students learned about the culture of the blues during Blues Week. Horn penned a special song for the event, “Get Your Education,” which he performed for his young audience. In 1999, Horn recorded a CD entitled, Miracles, with LaJam Records in Jackson, Miss., and he was set to release his second CD, Cotton Candy Love, later this year. A week before his death, Horn taped his last known television interview for Delta Renaissance on Delta Fox 10, hosted by cultural arts advocate C. Sade Turnipseed. The episode aired on Sat., April 17. Funeral arrangements for Horn are pending.

Mississippi blues baby

a reply to: TheAlleghenyGentleman

Yeah, I knew I hadn't found the Mississippi Slim I was originally looking for, but thank you for that info on this Mississippi Slim.

I was kind of curious about him and now I know more!

a reply to: The GUT

He is real enjoyable and I dig em’. I found this artist a couple months ago. It’s funny when you think you should know an artist and you just don’t.

a reply to: TheAlleghenyGentleman
Wow Ted is great! Another thank you!

originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: TheAlleghenyGentleman
Wow Ted is great! Another thank you!

He unfortunately died right when he was getting his recognition.

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a reply to: The GUT

What a tune to listen to with morning coffee looking out at brown leaves, naked trees and a glorious sunny cold morning. Man better have learnt his lesson. Dont be playing away, women know when you do. Fact.
And she with his best friend? Damn thats beyond painful..

Thanks for posting TG, that was totally smooth.

originally posted by: SecretKnowledge
And she with his best friend? Damn thats beyond painful..

Good to see you old friend! I thought he said his wife was his best friend--couldn't quite catch that part--and I was thinking this relationship just gets more complex & dysfunctional with every new line heh.

I'm not sure if the song is tongue-in-cheek or not. Slim sells it with such soul but the storyline cracks my ass up. Still l feel Slim's pain and, ahem, I can't say I'm unfamiliar with how life has a way of teaching us lessons.

a reply to: The GUT

Good to see you too mo chara.
Yeah i think i got that wrong. But hey, what a tune. Had me hanging on every line.
"Happy wife happy life" comes to mind..

Any more like that keep 'em coming