Elmore James : Shake Your Moneymaker - The Best of the Fire Sessions
Genre: Electric Blues	Dates: 1959-1961

If you’ve listened to the music of Robert Johnson (see below) and it excited you...and you wondered what it would have sounded like plugged into an amp, James was one of the first to try it—in fact, he made a career of it. His trademark lick—not completely lifted from RJ—is an essential tool for every aspiring blues guitarist, and you can hear it, marginally differentiated, on almost every track here. Clapton, The Yardbirds, The Allman Brothers, and Stevie Ray Vaughan worshipped at Elmore’s altar—shouldn’t you?

Playlist:

1. Shake Your Moneymaker
2. Look On Yonder Wall
3. Sky Is Crying, The
4. Rollin' And Tumblin'
5. Held My Baby Last Night
6. I'm Worried
7. Done Somebody Wrong
8. Fine Little Mama
9. Anna Lee
10. Stranger Blues
11. Something Inside Me
12. Early One Morning
13. Sunnyland
14. Standing At The Crossroads
15. My Bleeding Heart
16. Dust My Broom