Sunnyland Slim

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Albert Sunnyland Slim Luandrew (September 5,

1906 March 17, 1995)[1] was an American blues pianist
who was born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to
Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar
blues.[2] The Chicago broadcaster and writer Studs Terkel
said Sunnyland Slim was a living piece of our folk
history, gallantly and eloquently carrying on in the old
tradition.[3]

[1] Campbell, Robert L.; Pruter, Robert; White, George R.;

Kelly, Tom (July 31, 2009). The Aristocrat Label. Red
Saunders Research Foundation. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906
(most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give the date as 1906).
[2] Sunnyland Slim. Brittanica Online Encyclopedia, www.
britannica.com. Retrieved 2008-06-05.

Biography

[3] Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson

to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books. p. 171. ISBN
1-85868-255-X.

Sunnyland Slim was born on a farm in Quitman County,

near Vance, Mississippi.[1][3] He moved to Memphis,
Tennessee, in 1925, where he performed with many of
the popular blues musicians of the day. His stage name
came from the song Sunnyland Train, about a railroad
line between Memphis and St. Louis, Missouri.[3] In
1942 he moved to Chicago, in the great migration of
southern workers to the industrial north.

[4] Howlin' Wolf Shake It for Me. YouTube. 2006-0915. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
[5] Oliver, Paul (1984). Blues O the Record: Thirty Years of
Blues Commentary. New York: Da Capo. pp. 201203.
ISBN 0-306-80321-6.
[6] Pruter, Robert; Robert L. Campbell; Tom Kelly (June 21,
2009). The Hy-Tone Label. Red Saunders Research
Foundation. Retrieved February 7, 2010.

At that time the electric blues was taking shape in

Chicago, and through the years Sunnyland Slim played
with such musicians as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf,[4]
Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Little Walter.[3] His piano
style is characterised by heavy basses or vamping chords
with the left hand and tremolos with the right. His voice
was loud, and he sang in a declamatory style.[5]

[7] Doc Rock. The Dead Rock Stars Club 19941995.

Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.

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Sunnyland Slims rst recording was as a singer with

Jump Jackson's band on the Specialty label in September
1946. His rst recordings as a leader were on the HyTone and Aristocrat labels in late 1947.[6] He continued
performing until his death, in 1995.

Sunnyland Slim at AllMusic

Discography, 19471970
Obituary from The Independent - accessed May
2009

He released one record on RCA Victor, Illinois Central

backed with Sweet Lucy Blues (Victor 20-2733), under
the name Dr. Clayton's Buddy.

Sunnyland Slim at the Internet Movie Database

In the late 1960s, Slim became friends with members

of the band Canned Heat and played piano on the track
Turpentine Moan on the album Boogie with Canned
Heat. In turn, members of the bandlead guitarist
Henry Vestine, slide guitarist Alan Wilson and bassist
Larry Taylorcontributed to Sunnyland Slims Liberty
Records album Slims Got His Thing Goin' On (1968),
which also featured Mick Taylor.

Works by or about Sunnyland Slim in libraries

(WorldCat catalog)

In 1988 Sunnyland Slim was awarded a National Heritage

Fellowship.[3]
He died in March 1995 in Chicago, after complications
from renal failure, at the age of 88.[7]
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