Memphis Slim
- MatchMemphis Slim
- 100%Jimmy Witherspoon
- 91%Champion Jack Dupree
- 89%Smiley Lewis
- 83%Willie Dixon
- 81%Elmore James
- 79%Tampa Red
- 73%Eddie Boyd
- 73%Otis Spann
- 73%T-Bone Walker
- 71%Sonny Boy Williamson
Biography
John Peter Chatman, 3 September 1915, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, d. 24 February 1988, Paris, France. One of the most popular performers of the blues idiom, Memphis Slim combined the barrelhouse/boogie-woogie piano style of the pre-war era with a sophisticated vocal intonation. A prolific songwriter, his best-known composition, Every Day I Have The Blues, has been the subject of numerous interpretations, and versions by Count Basie and B.B. King helped establish the song as... Read more