John Len Chatman (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988), known professionally as Memphis Slim, was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, “Every Day I Have the Blues”, has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500 recordings. He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989. Memphis Slim historic home in Memphis, at 1130 College Street – now restored and housing the Memphis Slim Collaboratory, Memphis Slim was born John Len Chatman, in Memphis, Tennessee. For his first recordings, for Okeh Records in 1940, he used the name of his father, Peter Chatman (who sang, played piano and guitar, and operated juke joints); it is commonly believed that he did so to honor his father. He started performing under the name “Memphis Slim” later that year but continued to publish songs under the name Peter Chatman. He spent most of the 1930s performing in honky-tonks, dance halls, and gambling joints in West Memphis, Arkansas, and southeast Missouri.
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The Blues is Everywhere
Every Day I Have The Blues
St. Louis Boogie
I’m lost without you
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Little Lonely Girl
Empty Room Blues Lyrics
You Got To Help Me Some
When Your Dough Roller Is Gone
Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim Studs Terkel Paris, France. 1962
Memphis Slim | Sonny Boy Williamson – Live at Jazz House 1963 – Full Album
Memphis Slim – Chatman corner 2011 full album
Cambridge, Massachusetts 1986
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