Label: Collectables.
Release Date: 1989.
Releases: 1989, 2006.
Recording Time: 35 minutes.
Recorded between 1959 and 1963.
Styles: Electric Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Regional Blues, Slide Guitar Blues.
Breaking down Elmore's Fire and Enjoy sessions into separate volumes makes sense for the casual fan who doesn't want to pop for the complete box set, available in two different configurations from Collectables and Capricorn. This first entry collects up 13 solid examples of Elmore's work for Bobby Robinson's labels, with "The Sky Is Crying," "Rollin' & Tumblin'," "Done Somebody Wrong," "Bobby's Rock," and "Baby Please Set a Date" being the notable tracks aboard. Not a greatest-hits package, but a solid chunk of late-period Elmore. - Review by Cub Koda.
Credits: Don Gibson - composer; Elmore James - composer, guitar, primary artist, vocals; Robert Johnson - composer; Clarence Lewis - composer; George A. Moonoogian - liner notes; Bob Robinson - composer; Bobby Robinson - composer, producer; Morgan Robinson - composer; James Sehorn - composer; Marshall Sehorn - composer.
Tracks: 1) The Sky Is Crying; 2) Baby Please Set a Date; 3) Held My Baby Last Night; 4) Bobby's Rock; 5) Dust My Broom; 6) Rollin' and Tumblin'; 7) Done Somebody Wrong; 8) I'm Worried; 9) Fine Little Mama; 10) I Need You; 11) Early One Morning; 12) I Can't Stop Loving You; 13) Strange Angels.