LIGHTNIN SLIM, ROOSTER BLUES. ORIGINAL 1960 LP-8000.

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Hello, and welcome to my listing. Most of my LP's are from a magnificient collection that belonged to my Father who worked at a record store as a young man. I have many duplicates and many still unopened in mint condition. Some of coarse i picked up at record stores in my youth and some are from elder relatives, all this meaning that most are true first editions.

I am not a certified record grader but have spent much time researching and handling the LP's which i list. I grade according to the standards set by Record Pricing Guides and other sellers aspect to standarized  grade expectations. I do my best according to my visual aspect. PLEASE SEE BELOW MY GRADING SCALE AS I WANT ALL CUSTOMERS TO ALWAYS FEEL THEY RECEIVED EXACTLY WHAT THEY PURCHASED. Should i feel need or am requested to play any LP before shipping i will also verifiy it is in working condition.

I DO COMBINE SHIPPING BASED ON TOTAL WEIGHT AS OPPOSED TO OTHERS WHO CHARGE ??? FOR EACH ADDITIONAL ITEM. YOU SAVE MORE THIS WAY BECAUSE IM NOT CHARGING YOU EXTRA JUST TO PUT ANOTHER ITEM INTO THE SAME PACKAGE.

• Condition: USED
• Sleeve: G
• Vinyl: VG
• Addtional Info: COVER HAS ABOUT A THREE INCH SPLIT IN TOP SEEM OTHERWISE COVER WOULD BE AT LEAST GRADED VG AS ORIGINAL 1960 RELEASE. 

  The acknowledged kingpin of the Louisiana school of blues, Lightnin' Slim built his style on his grainy but expressive vocals and rudimentary guitar work, with usually nothing more than a harmonica and a drummer in support. It was down-home country blues edged two steps further into the mainstream, first by virtue of his electric guitar, and second by the sound of the local Crowley, LA musicians who backed him being bathed in simmering, pulsating tape echo. As the first great star of producer J.D. Miller's blues talent stable, Lightnin' Slim had a successful formula that scored regional hits on the Nashville-based Excello label for over a decade, with one of them, "Rooster Blues," making the national R&B charts in 1959. Combining the country ambience of a Lightnin' Hopkins with the plodding insistence of a Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Slim's music belonged uniquely to him, the perfect blues raconteur, even when he was reshaping others' material to his dark, somber style.

  He also possessed one of the truly great blues voices, unadorned and unaffected, making the world-weariness of a Sonny Boy Williamson sound like the second coming of Good Time Charlie by comparison. His exhortation to "blow your harmonica, son" has become one of the great, mournful catch phrases of the blues, and even on his most rockin' numbers, there's a sense that you are listening less to an uptempo offering than a slow blues just being played faster. Lightnin' always sounded like bad luck just moved into his home approximately an hour after his mother-in-law did.

  He was born with the unglamorous handle of Otis Hicks in St. Louis, MO, on March 13, 1913. After 13 years of living on a farm outside of the city, the Hicks family moved to Louisiana, first settling in St. Francisville. Young Otis took to the guitar early, first shown the rudiments by his father, then later by his older brother, Layfield. Given his recorded output, it's highly doubtful that either his father or brother knew how to play in any key other than E natural, as Lightnin' used the same patterns over and over on his recordings, only changing keys when he used a capo or had his guitar detuned a full step.

  But the rudiments were all he needed, and by the late '30s/early '40s he was a mainstay of the local picnic/country supper circuit around St. Francisville. In 1946 he moved to Baton Rouge, playing on weekends in local ghetto bars, and started to make a name for himself on the local circuit, first working as a member of Big Poppa's band, then on his own.

  The '50s dawned with harmonica player Schoolboy Cleve in tow, Lightnin' and Schoolboy working club dates and broadcasting over the radio together. It was local disc jockey Ray "Diggy Do" Meaderswho then persuaded Miller to record Lightnin'. He recorded for 12 years as an Excello artist, starting out originally on Miller's Feature label. As the late '60s found Lightnin' working and living in Detroit, a second career blossomed as European blues audiences brought him over to tour, and he also started working the American festival and hippie ballroom circuit with Slim Harpo as a double act. WhenHarpo died unexpectedly in 1970, Lightnin' went on alone, recording sporadically, while performing as part of the American Blues Legends tour until his death in 1974. Lazy, rolling, and insistent, Lightnin' Slim is Louisiana blues at its finest.

  GRADING SCALE

MINT: UNOPENED SEALED

ML: MINT LIKE, OPENED AND USED BUT SO VERY CLEAN WITH OR WITHOUT SHRINK OVER COVER IT APPEARS UNUSED.

NM: NEAR MINT, WITH SUCH GREAT LUSTER AND CLEAN BUT HAVING SOME MINOR SCUFFS.

VG: VERY GOOD. MAY SHOW SOME AGE BUT HAS GREAT LUSTER AND MOSTLY CLEAN. AGE DOES FACTOR INTO THIS EQUASION AND IF A LP IS 40, 50, 60 YEARS OLD IT MAY BE GRADED VG IN REGARDS TO HOW OLD IT IS AND HOW WELL IT HAS HELD UP DESPITE VISUAL FLAWS.

VG+: MEANING IF NOT FOR ONE OR TWO FLAWS WOULD GRADE NM.

VG-: MEANING HAS SOME VISUAL FLAWS BUT SHOWS LESS USE AND TOO GOOD TO BE GRADED "G".

G: GOOD MEANING IT HAS VISUAL FLAWS SUCH AS WRITING ON COVER, HEAVY WARE ON EDGES, LABELS PLACED OR GLUED ON BY PREVIOUS OWNERS. WORKING ORDER WITH NO SKIPS BUT HAS SCUFFS AND SHOWS WARE ON VINYL.

G+: GOOD PLUS MEANING VERY CLOSE TO VG SUCH AS ALL LOOKS VERY GOOD BUT IF NOT FOR ONE FLAW SUCH AS FOREIGN LABELS OR WRITING BY PREVIOUS OWNER IT WOULD CERTAINLY GRADE VG.

AC: ACCEPTABLE MEANING WORKING CONDITION WITH MULTIPLE VISUAL FLAWS SUCH AS COVER MAY HAVE SPLIT POCKET SEEMS. OR HEAVY WARE ON VINYL WITH SCRATCHES.

THERE ARE MINOR VARIATIONS OF THESE DEFINITIONS BETWEEN GRADES GIVEN TO COVERS AND GRADES GIVEN TO VINYL SO, AS A RECORD LOVER I WOULD RECOMMEND ASKING QUESTIONS SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY A ITEM WAS GRADED ANYTING LESS THAN VG AS IT MAY BE ONLY A SMALL FLAW THAT AS A SELLER IN GOOD CONCIOUS COULD  NOT SEND YOU ANYTHING LESS THAN WHAT YOU EXPECT.

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