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T.V. Slim - Flatfoot Sam (1999)

T.V. Slim - Flatfoot Sam (1999)

BAND/ARTIST: T.V. Slim

  • Title: Flatfoot Sam
  • Year Of Release: 1999
  • Label: Official
  • Genre: Blues, Oldies
  • Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
  • Total Time: 01:13:09
  • Total Size: 276 Mb (covers)
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Tracklist:

01. Flatfoot Sam
02. Flatfoot Sam Meets Jim Dandy
03. Darling Forever
04. To Prove My Love
05. My Baby Is Gone
06. Gravy Round Your Steak
07. You Can't Love Me
08. Hold Me Close To Your Heart
09. Rockin' Little Baby
10. Tired Of Your Cheatin' And Lyin'
11. My Ship Is Sinking
12. Snake Dance
13. T-V Man
14. Flatfoot Sam Is Back
15. Don't Reach Across My Plate
16. Every Man Needs A Woman
17. Can't Be Satisfied
18. Juvenile Delinquent
19. You Just Won't Treat Me Right
20. I'm A Real Man
21. You Can't Buy Love
22. Love Bounce
23. The Fight
24. Bad Understanding Blues
25. You Can't Buy A Woman
26. Going To California
27. Henpecked Joe
28. Don't Knock The Blues
29. Dancing Senorita
30. Your Kisses Changed Me
31. Flatfoot Sam

Oscar "TV Slim" Wills's hilarious tale of a sad sack named "Flat Foot Sam" briefly made him a bankable name in 1957.
Sam's ongoing saga lasted longer than Slim's minute or two in the spotlight, but that didn't stop him from recording throughout the 1960s.
Influenced by DeFord Bailey and both Sonny Boy Williamsons on harp and Guitar Slim on axe while living in Houston, Wills sold one of his early compositions,
"Dolly Bee," to Don Robey for Junior Parker's use on Duke Records before getting the itch to record himself. To that end, he set up Speed Records, his own
label and source for the great majority of his output over the next dozen years.
The first version of "Flat Foot Sam" came out on a tiny Shreveport logo, Cliff Records, in 1957. Local record man Stan Lewis,
later the owner of Jewel/Paula Records, reportedly bestowed the colorful nickname of TV Slim on Wills; he was a skinny television repairman, so the handle fit perfectly.
"Flat Foot Sam" generated sufficient regional sales to merit reissue on Checker, but its ragged edges must have rankled someone at the Chicago label enough
to convince Slim to recut it in much tighter form in New Orleans with the vaunted studio band at Cosimo's. This time, Robert "Barefootin'" Parker blew a strong sax solo,
Chess A&R man Paul Gayten handled piano duties, and Charles "Hungry" Williams laid down a brisk second-line beat. It became Slim's biggest seller when unleashed on another Chess subsidiary, Argo Records.
Slim cut a torrent of 45s for Speed, Checker, Pzazz, USA, Timbre, Excell, and Ideel after that, chronicling the further adventures of his prime mealticket with "Flatfoot Sam Made a Bet,"
"Flat Foot Sam Met Jim Dandy," and "Flat Foot Sam #2." Albert Collins later covered Slim's Speed waxing of the surreal "Don't Reach Cross My Plate." Wills died in a car wreck outside
Klingman, AZ, in 1969 en route home to Los Angeles after playing a date in Chicago.



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