Elmore James


 * Career outline (no more than two paragraphs, please)
 * Links to Peel (no more than two paragraphs, please)
 * Links to Peel (no more than two paragraphs, please)

Festive Fifty Entries

 * None

Sessions

 * None

Peelenium

 * Peelenium 1951: Dust My Broom

John Peel's Record Box

 * The Sky Is Crying / Standing At The Crossroads (Flashback Records) 1965

Other Shows Played
(The list below was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive. Please add more information if known.)


 * 1960s


 * 14 August 1967: Dust My Broom (also played versions by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Howlin' Wolf) (final Perfumed Garden)


 * 1970s
 * 25 July 1970: Hawaiian Boogie (LP - Black Cat Trail - Various Artists) Mamlish
 * 20 December 1978: It Hurts Me Too (unknown release)


 * 29 August 1979: Something Inside Of Me (single?) Bell (40th birthday 40 selection)
 * 24 September 1979: Quarter Past Nine (LP – Original Folk Blues / The Resurrection Of Elmore James) United
 * 26 September 1979: Early In The Morning (unknown release)


 * 1980s
 * 05 February 1980: Stranger Blues
 * 06 February 1980: Shake Your Moneymaker (LP - Best of Elmore James)
 * 11 February 1980: Rolllin' And Tumblin' (LP - Best Of)


 * 09 April 1981: Every Day I Have The Blues (LP - Got To Move) Charly (JP: 'I think - you can write to me on this one if you think I'm wrong, but I suspect that what Elmore is trying to say there is that every day he has the blues. And of course, death has that effect on one.')
 * 13 May 1981: Early One Morning (Album: Got To Move) Charly R&B
 * 01 June 1981: unknown
 * 02 June 1981: My Bleeding Heart (unknown source)
 * 09 December 1981: The Sky Is Crying (unknown release)


 * 01 December 1982: Something Inside Me (7") Sphere Sound


 * 12 December 1983: The Sky Is Crying (7") Fire
 * 14 December 1983: Standing At The Crossroads (7" - The Sky Is Crying/Standing At The Crossroads) Flashback


 * 29 January 1985: Snippet of start of track, played by JP as demonstration of a great intro.
 * 26 March 1985: Pickin' The Blues
 * 25 November 1985: Babay Please Set A Date (LP - Shake Your Moneymaker) Charly R&B
 * 26 November 1985: Something Inside Me (7") Sphere Sound


 * 27 July 1987: Something Inside Of Me
 * 13 August 1987 (Rockradio): Something Inside Of Me (LP - Something Inside Of Me) Bell


 * Peel Late 1988: Talk To Me Baby
 * 18 October 1988: The Sky Is Crying
 * 01 November 1988: Rolling And Tumbling (unknown release)


 * Summer 1989 (Rockradio): Stranger Blues (LP - Come Go with Me) Charly
 * 01 August 1989: Baby Please Set A Date


 * 1990s
 * 02 June 1991: Baby Please Set A Date (album - Come Go With Me) Charlie
 * 15 December 1991: Shake Your Money Maker
 * 28 December 1991: Early One Morning


 * 17 April 1992: The Sky Is Crying (7 inch) Fire
 * 19 September 1992: Anna Lee (LP - Standing At The Crossroads) Charly
 * 26 September 1992: Stranger Blues (CD - Standing at the Crossroads) Charly
 * 24 October 1992: Standing At The Crossroads (CD-The Sky Is Crying: The History Of Elmore James) Rhino
 * 18 December 1992: Stranger Blues (JP: 'I think for once I'll not tell you the story about the first time that I heard that...)


 * 10 January 1993 (BFBS): Stranger Blues
 * 03 April 1993: The Sky Is Crying (box set - King of The Slide Guitar) Capricorn
 * 08 April 1993 (John Peel Is Jakki Brambles): Dust My Broom
 * 23 April 1993: The Sun Is Shining (Various Artist CD Box Set – King Of The Slide Guitar) Charly


 * 28 October 1995 (BFBS): (JP: 'Last weekend, we were sitting around, a bunch of us, in the evening with a couple of bottles of red wine, I think it was, chatting of this and that, discussing if there's one particular noise in all of popular music that always made you feel good, whenever you heard it, you immediately knew what it was, could immediately identify it and immediately made you feel, "Oh great! I'm glad somebody put this one on." Ultimately, I advanced the cause of the noise that you're about to hear: well, nobody disagreed with me.')


 * Dust My Broom' (the 1955 version, source unknown)


 * 05 April 1996: Dust My Broom (CD - King Of The Slide Guitar) Charly R&B


 * 19 March 1997: Something Inside Me
 * 24 July 1997: Hand in Hand (LP - The Classic Early Recordings: 1951-1956) Ace
 * 29 July 1997: That's My Blues (LP - Culver City to the Crescent City)
 * 14 August 1997 (BFBS): Dust My Blues (CD-Dust My Blues) Universe
 * 01 October 1997: Something Inside Of Me


 * 21 September 1999: Dust My Broom (Peelenium 1951)


 * 2000s
 * 05 January 2000: (JP: I always regret that I never went in to see the Velvet Underground, cos they must have time and away been at their absolute peak, and certainly at their most astonishing. I think I once told somebody that I had gone in to see them, but it wasn't true. It's like Andy Kershaw claims that I told him I'd been to see Elmore James playing, because it was possible he did play in Dallas when I lived in Dallas, but I didn't go and see him, but again, I really wish I had done.')


 * 11 January 2001: Rollin' and Tumblin' (LP - The Rest of Elmore James) Sue
 * 25 January 2001: Hoopin' & Hollerin' (5x7" - For The Love Of Jesus) Sympathy For The Record Industry/Fat Possum
 * 08 February 2001 (with Little Johnny Jones): Wait Baby (Compilation CD - Messing with the Blues) Ace


 * 27 February 2002: Dust My Broom (Elmore James classic raved over, would turn up again on the ‘John Peel: A Tribute’ album, having already been a 1951 choice for The Peelenium.)
 * 25 April 2002: Done Somebody Wrong


 * 05 March 2003: I'm Worried (LP- The Sky is Crying) Camden
 * 05 March 2003 (Radio Mafia): I'm Worried
 * 13 March 2003 (Radio Eins): I'm Worried (album - The Sky Is Crying) Camden
 * 24 June 2003: Rollin' and Tumblin' (LP- The Sky Is Crying) Camden
 * 30 July 2003: Something Inside Me (LP- The Sky Is Crying) Camden


 * 27 January 2004: Stranger Blues (Boxed Set - King of Slide Guitar) Charly
 * 07 October 2004: Stranger Blues (LP - The Sky is Crying) Camden
 * 31 October 2004 (Andy Kershaw): Something Inside Me