Memphis Slim
- MatchMemphis Slim
- 100%Otis Spann
- 93%Eddie Boyd
- 90%Jimmy Rogers
- 78%Lightnin' Hopkins
- 76%Champion Jack Dupree
- 72%Otis Rush
- 67%Lowell Fulson
- 66%Little Walter
- 66%Muddy Waters
- 65%Big Joe Williams
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