Elmore James - Coming Home

[TheDutchGame]

This is what you call music.

[TheMusicalMrButcher]

This is so epically badass

[mielazul]

Anybody hear the interview with Elmore where he's talking about hunting snakes in the woods while riding a tractor? Can't remember the details, but it's hilarious. I love the guy, love his music, and love this slide show, by the way. He was an awesome, passionate musician, and he was a really proper upstanding guy, and a super tough bad-ass at the same time. Check out Rosetta West, "Underground," on Youtube for some good modern-day blues, raw and intense.

[brianharrisonmack]

@mielazul Yeah, it's Elmore talking during a session with Bobby Robinson (who asks him later on to play "Blacksnake Blues" after Elmore was talking about hunting on a tractor because of the snakes being bad down in Mississippi that past summer).

[mielazul]

@brianharrisonmack Thanks a lot for the info. I've tried to find it on youtube (typing in variations on "elmore james snakes" and ridiculous stuff like that). Nothing yet. Anyway, thanks again, and all the best.

[GrooveMetalMaster]

what about that friggin vocal range, his singing is incredible and its all from the heart!

[luigivocaturo]

thats it right there..that's the stuff im talking about

[DoubettheBluesman]

Old blues new blues who cares it's the blues. I dig it all

[snookerfan75]

Yeeees, his sound is sooo awesome :)

My friends think it's odd that I listen to that kind of music especially 'cause I'm just 16 years old so I not even lived in the time when this music was created ...

But I don't care, I love this music too much! :)

[6t4eldo]

@snookerfan75 tell tose friends of yours to f**k off! & keep listening. this music will never be duplicated again. check out howlin' wolf for THE greatest voice you've ever heard sing!

[snookerfan75]

@6t4eldo yes man, howlin' wolf ---> one of the best ever :)

[Mach1BluesMan]

I think Im going to make the 15 hr. trip to mississippi and go see his grave. Maybe sometime this summer.

[skullerr2012]

the King of Blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[srdhenin]

Elmore James or How feel good

[MultiGargiulo]

Take Elmore and H.D.Taylor: same style of playing and singing, even same songs, but the effect is totally different. Elmore is all drama and urge, while in Hound Dog you feel joy, dizziness, fun. One music, two worlds.

[YellowstoneJoe]

I discovered Elmore back in the early 60s after I graduated from high school. If Elmore wasn't the best, he was so close to the best there wasn't daylight between them.

[cchainsawc]

HOLY HELL I'M IN LOVE.

CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF HIS TONE.

THNX FOR THIS!*

[mpo1107]

I can't get enough of Elmore.

[jt123egypte]

A MASTERPIECE by the King of Blues!

[rgbrin]

This is how it all started....the man is a blues legend for sure.....just ask Eric

[LostChord13]

This is as good as it gets. Lotsa excellent blues players came after Elmore and disrespecting them is just wrong. The blues are universal and you are not a bigger fan or more enlightened blues guy because you diss SRV, Clapton, or anyone else. LOL Haters...

[LostChord13]

This is as good as it gets. Lotsa excellent blues players came after Elmore and disrespecting them is just wrong. The blues are universal and you are not a bigger fan or more enlightened blues guy because you diss SRV, Clapton, or anyone else. LOL Haters...

[loverplease]

thanks for this video!

[loverplease]

He is and will stay my favoprite bluesman!

[ichabodmudd1]

Well played Elmore!!!

[lazik48]

Le TOP du TOP ........Monseigneur pie 3.14

[jt123egypte]

There is only one King of the Blues and that's the great Elmo. You may keep the other rubbish!

[aaronfoster624]

calling stevie ray a "rather shallow virtuoso" is completely ridiculous.

[voodoochild85858]

the reason why old blues artists were good at blues is because they actually had the blues, and had the soul to express it , Robert johnson, Leadbelly, Bessie smith, Blind Blake are all fine examples

[johndawson420]

im not saying hes the only amazing blues guitarist but jimi hendrix played some killer blues. but he learned from the greats before him.

[buchananstreet]

its sad that too many people are deluded by mediocre blues players like clapton or rather shallow virtuosi like johnny winter and stevie ray vaughan when they could be listening to elmore james, albert collins, furry lewis, sleepy john estes, mississippi john hurt, hound dog taylor, kokomo arnold, washboard sam, jorma kaukonen, roy buchanan, duane allman, barbecue bob, johnny shines and many other REALLY GREATS instead ....

[TxKoyote]

NOTHING WQRONG WITH CLAPTON OR STEVIE RAY . THEY PAY HOMAGE TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME BEFORE THEM!OH YEA YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THE THREE KINGS ALBERT,FREDDIE AND BB!!!!!!!!!!! Also ONE OF THE LIVING LEGENDS OF PIANO BLUES PINETOP PERKINS, 90 Something and still playing!!!!

[Snoqmike]

@buchananstreet we would be listening to them if we had more access to them. thank goodness some people like woodjoewood here have a copy to share with us.

[LITTLEROCKER11111]

Been listening to BB, Buddy guy & Clapton for years, but just come across Elmore...Damn excellent - must buy a CD or two.

[woodjoewood]

ah man check out his first album blues after hours i think. its awsome

[PeaceAndJustice357]

Bad ass tune here

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

Blues is comin back. Its all over the map but you have to SEARCH your towns and cities.. try AOL live, blues. They need us. We need them. And yeah even the used cd's are a way to 'get a little bit.'

[frumplen]

abouslutly love slide gutair one of the few things that kept me sane in iraq

[MEEUZIKMAN]

EL-MORE-MORE-MORE-MORE!!!!

[Beezerjuice]

One of the best damn slide players of all time.

[smokedontcry]

he is "The King Of Slide Guitar"

[StingerNova]

@Beezerjuice THE BEST.

[Bucket1Head3]

the guitaring sound exactly like Dust my broom. but it still a great song

[jeba189]

you can notice only minor differences but the difference is there.

[barba666ruiva]

it´s like frank zappa said:

"elmore james only ever played one song, but he MEANT it"

feelin the blues is the most important thing, man.

[PeaceAndJustice357]

@barba666ruiva You can't be feeling the blues you gotta have the blues!!!

[MrMustard12345]

It certainly is my friend. I don't understand how this kind of music is more popular...it's got proper attitude and emotion

[CadillacL]

Blues at its best right here folks. Listen to that slide guitar work.

[zfish1995]

yes but you might have to look extra hard

[bdixon401]

does elmore and robert still have cds that you can buy at music cd stores caus eas it is now im strating to get into this stuff and im loving it

[memfisman]

You can find Elmore James easily online. Rhapsody, Lala, and many others have Elmore cd's.

[thebluesrockers]

Same guitar riff as dust my broom.

But since that was a Robert Johnson Tune and this is a Elmore James Riff and his song,

not to mention the most known slide sound of all time. who could get tired of it.

[beatlejim64]

The Blues DOESN'T get any better then this!!!

[grytbiten]

i named my dog after elmore , i love him so much

[PeaceAndJustice357]

This a bad tune here!!!!!

[BenardJenkins]

One of Elmore's greatest vocal efforts, and surely one the most Rockin Blues numbers ever recorded.

This how the great Blues Rock vocalist Robert Plant tried to sing......

[mrchew69]

I blame Mozart. For the depressing trend in untimely deaths in gifted musicians, I mean..there's something timeless about this guy's voice - and I can really hear Stevie Ray Vaughan in there.

[Bucket1Head3]

I dont here SRV, i hear Elmore James. i here elmore jame in SRV though.

[buchananstreet]

the greatest blues singer of all times, there can be no doubt

[generalbluka]

Rock N Roll meet your one of your daddy's

[stevemike84]

@generalbluka greatest comment Ive read in a while.

[callmemrblues]

you keep playing it and I will keep saying it!

Mr. Elmore James is a master of his craft and a legend of american history..His whole band are legends. it dont get any better than this. this is the blues at its best..

[robertbonadio]

How good is his voice in this one! Love his rhythm guitarist Eddy Taylor who features on many of Elmore's best tracks.

[itstheowner]

James, Skip and Elmore... the best.

[seethisthingsanother]

you got such good musical feel

[blueice0170]

Thank you so much for posting this MASTERPIECE!

[jt123egypte]

1 million stars for this true legend.Elmo R.I.P, you were the best.

[buchananstreet]

he was by far not " perfect " in any musical way - but there wasn´t anyone with his intensity, passion, suffering, charisma and huge , huge soul on the entire planet

[sucreh06]

I am desperately looking for a song, released somewhere in the early seventies called "elmore james". It seemed to be rather a gospel than blues tune. "Elmore james" was the refrain. Does anyone have an idea?

[cockneysontour]

Check out Chairman of the Board's Elmo James, I think it was released in 1971 or 72. Don't know if that helps.

[sucreh06]

It helped, thank you

[buchananstreet]

he died so young ! not older than 45 he became !

[chalky09]

Robert Johnson was only 27! so many of these great artists were around for such a short time.

im not sure, but maybe ike turner or t-bone walker didnt live much past 50 either? one of them, dont quote me! lol.

[BloozeDaddy76]

I used to sing this song with a local band I was with five years ago. Elmore James is my favorite blues vocalist ever with a gritty, tortured voice that grabs you by the throat.

[trevorduvall]

You ever hear of Howlin' Wolf?

[JulianThomePictures]

Eric Burdon has written a song about him, "No more Elmore". It's about loosing a record of him.

[gantock]

the greatest blues singer of all times

[scottcampbell1958]

Many thanks for posting this. What a great singer and guitarist James was. The man made grown men weep.

[cawthorne8]

brilliant vid

[gantock]

Frank Zappa said : " Elmore James always played but one song - but he MEANT it ".

[Winkiened]

Yeahhhh Mew generation is Sonny landreth now :-)

[Monthy1990]

I like Elmore James and other black Bluesmans

[danguitarflorida]

Whoever is listening to this is hearing the birth of ROCK N ROLL . The Rolling Stones , Led Zep and other HEARD THIS GUY AND MENTION HIM AS AN INFLUENCE .

[mattythumbs]

No problems here