In Memorium

Album cover  
  • Recording date: 1957-63
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: Chess Records
  • Catalogue #: CRL 4510
  • Length: 32 minutes
  • Available: No

TRACK LIST

  1. One Way Out (2:44)
  2. Too Young To Die (2:52)
  3. Trust My Baby (2:41)
  4. Checkin' Up On My Baby (1:53)
  5. Sad To Be Alone (2:54)
  6. Got To Move (2:24)
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  7. Bring It On Home (2:33)
  8. Down Child (2:30)
  9. Peach Tree (2:32)
  10. Dissatisfied (2:41)
  11. That's All I Want (2:13)
  12. Too Old To Think (2:47)

MUSICIANS

  • Fred Below (drums)
  • Willie Dixon (bass)
  • Al Duncan (drums)
  • Lafayette Leake (piano)
  • Lafayette Leake or Billy Emerson (organ)
  • Robert Jr. Lockwood (guitar)
  • Eddie King Milton (guitar)
  • Matt Murphy (guitar)
  • Odie Payne (drums)
  • Milton Rector (bass)
  • Otis Spann (piano)
  • Luther Tucker (guitar)

NOTES

In Memorium was an unimaginative way to remember Sonny Boy Williamson. It is simply a cut-for-cut reissue of The Real Folk Blues with (uncredited and edited) liner notes by British critic Paul Oliver taken from Portrait In Blue.

Sonny Boy had taken Europe by storm and Chess could not even ask the brilliant bluesmen (Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Spann, etc.) who were there with him on the 1963 and 1964 American Folk Blues Festivals to tell America about it. The result is today, few Americans remember or ever knew about Sonny Boy's phenomenal European success except for a few overlooked Yardbirds, Animals and Storyville albums many pass over for his "real" Chess and Trumpet classics.

A Jukebox EP was also issued.

Many thanks to Finn M. Reinhardtsen of Horten, Norway, for providing image of the album cover and description of the LP contents.

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