ELMORE JAMES - Dust My Broom (1951) Chicago Blues Slide Guitar Legend

[mesoseph]

I'm gonna get my root-suit out-of-naphtalin(e) ! Love'mich"

[arkee71]

take that..little wayne!:)

[HoboGus]

This is a KILLER blues tune. Long live the Blues!!!!!

[Mr1963chevy]

sum uf dee bes bwues saingin i eber hearded! wew!

[TheBoneRanger1968]

Happy Birthday Elmore!



[dbm561]

Just to let y'all know I was #200 to like this track. I guess ill go dust my broom.

[Washburn5206]

This is the first of many times that Elmore did this song. Recorded in Jackson Mississippi by Lilian McMurry in 1951 for her own Trumpet label. Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) is playing harp.

[LynneGo]

mmmmmmmmmmmm you can dust me anytime baby

[sjasin102460]

sweet

[gitfiddlejim1]

This version of Broom was first one he recorded,and it was im Ms, not Chicago.

[vania1917]

What a fine looking young man.

[dubfortheyouth]

I'm a fetus and I think Elmore is awesome. Lolz omg Omg

[MetalAndRockGuru]

@dubfortheyouth I'm dubfortheyouth and my head's so far up my ass that I haven't seen how majority of today's youth like fucking shit music. Lolz omg omg

[TheBigKat77]

Wow, nothing better than Elmore James.

[ClemenzaLTGTTC]

My son loves the blues and hes 8 almost 9 years old. I love my son!!!! If you don't dig the blues you gotta hole in your soul.

[nollie93enter]

18 years old listening to elmore james... damn i'm rare!

[IntoTheLungsOfHell94]

@nollie93enter im 17 :P

[cornholio51]

@IntoTheLungsOfHell94 16. Not even kidding :P But who cares, this music is damn great, and that's all that it really comes down to, yeah?! :D

[gitfiddlejim1]

@nollie93enter

Well nollie I started listenin to the blues at your age, im almost 67, & still knocked out with it.

Love of my life. (The music)

[mesoseph]

@nollie93enter Damn'you'so'late' but Welcomed,elmore's fine...always !

[KingRam33]

I'm 33 and I think Elmore James is the shit!!!

[8dakota6]

BLUES......the only REAL music!!!!!

[cyberspore00]

Great stuff!

[BullCricket75]

Elmore James's version of this song is my absolute favorite blues song! Thanks for the post! 

[birdmanphil4]

This was recorded in Jackson Mississippi. Trumpet Records. Not Chicago. This is Delta blues. Not Chicago blues! It is nonetheless excellent!

[duncanstpt]

Great ending to the song.

[whemadre]

One of my favorite song. I have 12 covers of this song and all are excellent.

[silveryad]

Magnificent!

[spoildn8410]

People don't get it...or listen to it. It's like Monk's teacher, Coleman Hawkins. I'm not going to talk about that subject., that is not why I posted. Those musicians were geniuses. Market researchers are

not. Blues is like jazz---doesn't make the market.

[MyBluesGuitar]

The real deal

[DancingOwl]

Bloody fantastic...awesome slide guitar, and what incredible harp from Sonny Boy No.2

Un grand merci Dorian !



[MrHexode]

Thanks for that :) Trying to learn blues on my new guitar ;)

[JSGuitar80]

So, according to Robert Palmer this tune was first recorded clandestinely at a rehearsal session with the latter-day Biscuit band without James' consent as the woman paying for and running the sessions--someone named Lillian McMurry--had attempted to persuade him to play it a ton of times before. Who knows why he wouldn't play it, but who wants to bet that he wasn't too angry with her the minute that fucking thing hit the top of the charts and everyone wanted a piece of him?

[d820m]

@JSGuitar80 Lillian McMurray was probably the most honest record label owner of that time....her artists got royalties if there were any, and she was genuinely fond of those who recorded for her...she called it high-powered stealing when Elmore jumped contract and signed with the Biharis and recorded the many versions of Dust My Broom under different titles......

[lewars1912]

@JSGuitar80 I read that it was because he was far too shy.

[DAVO1984FI]

This features Sonny Boy the second " Rice Miller " on harp!!!

Heavyweight tune!!!

[kidcalabria]

Elmore James recorded lots of different versions of this song over the years - it seems to have made a career out of this song he learned from Robert Johnson during the last weeks of the latter's life - some good, some not so good, some with piano and horns. This is the first, original and best one, cut at the end of a Sonny Boy Williamson (who plays harmonica on it) session for Trumpet Records and released as a b-side of a Sonny Boy single, if I remember well. Thank you so much for posting this

[d820m]

@kidcalabria the b-side of Dust My Broom was Catfish Blues by Bobo Thomas...Sonny Boy may have played on that as well

[docorazius]

one of the best recording blues ever!

[Herve1955]

Après cela tout était dit. Tous les autres n'ont plus qu'à aller se rhabiller

[d820m]

Sonny Boy Williamson II on harp.......

[aaronboi07]

Great Song! Fleetwood Mac do a great cover of this!

[saguaroboy]

Sleazy...

[SuperSPOKENWORD]

check this out history of the blues

[rosesredvioletsblue]

a great classic!!!

it's always a pleasure coming to your channel!!! :)

[buffalobilly]

this actually a rehearsal cause elmore was a very shy person. producer didn't tell him there were recording.

[Tobious3000]

I was about to hurt myself jammin' to this one.  outstanding.

[willgonow]

wot a tune, thanks !

[Bumblebee38]

This is the real Mc COY from 1951

GREAT STUFFF indeed

THANKS

[borntobewildpascal]

jaime ste jenre la ......

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

I'll try :-)

You know, I've bought a banjo (6 strings).

What do you think about that ?

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

yes !

you live in France ?

[OfficialArmonist]

God this is good

[titsh]

cool stuff... :)

[12Radius]

NICE, COOL , love it!!