Prestige

Just Blues

Memphis Slim

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Recorded	1965
Label	Prestige
Catalog	PRLP 1018
Released	1965
Personnel	7 credited players
Discogs	master 712036

The record

Lafayette Thomas's guitar and a harmonica player credited only as "Harpie" Brown give Memphis Slim's piano and vocals a full band to work with, Wendell Marshall on bass. Twelve sides, from 'Beer Drinking Woman' to 'When Your Dough Roller Is Gone,' on a 1965 mono Prestige repress with an Esmond Edwards cover and Joe Goldberg's notes.

Tracks

Beer Drinking Woman
Teasing The Blues
The I. C. Blues
Baby Doll
Just Blues
Blue And Disgusted
Blue Brew
Rack 'Em Back Jack
Motherless Child
Brenda
When Your Dough Roller Is Gone
Hey Slim

Session personnel

Wendell Marshall — Bass
Esmond Edwards — Cover
Lafayette Thomas — Guitar
"Harpie" Brown — Harmonica
Joe Goldberg — Liner Notes
Memphis Slim — Piano
Memphis Slim — Vocals

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1961	Prestige Bluesville · 1018 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove; laminated sleeve
—	Prestige · PR 1018 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · RVG stamp
1961	Prestige Bluesville · 1018 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · laminated sleeve
1965	Prestige · PRLP 1018 — Vinyl LP Album Repress Mono
1982	Prestige · HBS 8019 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
2014	Dol · DOL1018 — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Album