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SINGLES
| MODERN 849 (78rpm) |
DRIFTING SLIM |
My Little Machine / Down South Blues | 1951 US |
| MODERN 849 (78rpm) |
DRIFTING SMITH |
My Little Machine / Down South Blues | 1951 US |
| RPM 320 (78rpm) |
JUNIOR BROOKS (poss. with Elmon Mickle:hca) |
Whiskey Head Woman / Young And Good Lookin' | 1951 US
| | RPM 343 (78rpm) |
JUNIOR BROOKS (with Elmon Mickle:hca on b-side) |
Lone Town Blues / She's The Little Girl For Me | 1952 US
| | RPM 370 (78rpm) |
DRIFTIN' SLIM |
Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman | 1952 US
| | ELKO 003 |
ELMON MICKLE |
Flat Foot Sam / I Got To Get Some Money | 1959 US
| | E.M. 132 |
ELMON MICKLE |
Jackson Blues / Lonesome Highway (instr.) | 1960 US
| | E.M. AND E.P. 133 |
ERNIE PRUITT, ELMON MICKLE |
Whatever You're Doing, Keep On Doing It To Me / Short 'n Fat | 1960 US
| | JGEMS 1908 |
ELMON MICKLE AND RHYTHM ACES (feat. Ernie Pruitt:vcl on b-side) |
Independent Walk / Short And Fat | 1962 US
| | LA-BREA 1001 |
ELMON MICKLE (feat. Ernie Pruitt:vcl on b-side) |
Nothin' But The Blues (Independent Walk) / Short And Fat | 196? US
| | SOULIN' 100 |
HARMONICA HARRY |
Nothin' But The Blues (Independent Walk) / (reverse by the Rampart Ramblers) | 19?? US
| | BLUE HORIZON 45-1005 |
DRIFTING SLIM |
Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman | 1966 UK
| | MAGNUM 45-739 |
MODEL "T" SLIM |
Jackson, Tennessee / Shake Your Boogie | 1966 US
| | WONDER 15001/2 |
MODEL T. SLIM |
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl / Shake Your Boogie | 1966 US
| | WONDER 1401/2 |
MODEL "T" SLIM |
"T"-Model Ford / Burnt Out | 1966 US
| | SOLID STATE 1401/2 |
MODEL T. SLIM |
"T"-Model Ford / Burnt Out | 1966 US
| | AUDIO BLUES AB 1932 |
MODEL "T" SLIM |
Somebody Hoodooed The Voodoo Man / You're Growing Old Baby | 1967 US
| | AUDIO BLUES AB 1933 |
MODEL "T" SLIM |
Take My Hand / Woman's The Glory Of A Man | 1967 US
| | KIM 1001 |
ORIGINAL MODEL "T" SLIM SINGS |
15 Years My Love Was In Vain [= remixed version of Woman's The Glory Of A Man] / Lead Me Where You Wanna [= Take My Hand] | 19?? US
| | STYLETONE 392 |
THE ORIGINAL MODEL "T" SLIM |
Flat Foot Sam / Oh Babe | 19?? US
| | KENT 504 |
MODEL T SLIM |
Christine / Baby, Don't Tear My Clothes
(recorded in 6/1967) | 1969 US
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ALBUMS
| MILESTONE MLP 3004/MSP 93004 |
DRIFTIN' SLIM AND HIS BLUES BAND: SOMEBODY HOO-DOO'D THE HOO-DOO MAN (LP)
Jackson Blues / How Many More Years / Hoo-Doo Man Blues / Mama Blues / Standing Around Crying / Give An Account / Jack O'Diamonds / My Little Machine / Mama Don't Tear My Clothes / This World Is None Of My Home / Dip Of Snuff And A Narrow Escape / Till I Got Sixteen / Christine Blues / Jonah / I'm Hunting Somebody
| 1968 US
| | FLYRIGHT FLY 559 |
MODEL T. SLIM: SOMEBODY DONE VOODOO - THE HOODOO MAN (LP)
Somebody Done Voodoo The Hoodoo Man / Flat Foot Sam Always In A Jam (take 1) / Sit There Mama / Sir-C-Lee / Come Take My Hand Darling / Short And Fat / 15 Years My Love Was In Vain / Oh Baby / You're Getting Old Baby / Black Gal / Flat Foot Sam Always In The Jam (take 2) / Whose Mule Is That In My Stable
| 1980 UK
| | MILESTONE/ORIGINAL BLUES CLASSICS 590 |
DRIFTIN' SLIM AND HIS BLUES BAND: SOMEBODY HOO-DOO'D THE HOO-DOO MAN (CD)
Jackson Blues / How Many More Years / Hoo-Doo Man Blues / Mama Blues / Standing Around Crying / Give An Account / Jack O'Diamonds / My Little Machine / Mama Don't Tear My Clothes / This World Is None Of My Home / Dip Of Snuff And A Narrow Escape / Till I Got Sixteen / Christine Blues / Jonah / I'm Hunting Somebody
| 1999 US
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COMPILATIONS
| BLUE HORIZON SPR 31/CBS SPR 34 |
V/A: THE BLUES (2-LP, with gatefold sleeve)
Driftin' Slim & his Blues Band: Jackson Blues
| 1968 GER
| | KENT KST-9007 |
V/A: ANTHOLOGY OF THE BLUES : ARKANSAS BLUES - ARCHIVE SERIES, VOL.5 (LP)
Driftin' Slim: My Little Machine / Good Morning Baby / Robert "Dudlow" Taylor (with Driftin' Slim on hca): Lonesome / Old Helena Blues / James "Peck" Curtis (with Driftin' Slim on hca): Jerusalem Blues / Junior Brooks (with Driftin' Slim on hca): She's The Little Girl For Me
-- reissues: United Superior US-7784/Musidisc 30 AB 5607/P-Vine PCD 3040, 1995 JPN --
| 1969 US
| | BLUES CLASSICS BC 15 |
V/A: MEMPHIS AND THE DELTA - 1950S (LP)
Drifting Slim: Good Morning Baby
| 196? US
| | BLUES OBSCURITIES BOV10 |
V/A: SHAKE YOUR BOOGIE - BLUES OBSCURITIES, VOLUME 10 (LP)
Model T Slim: Shake Your Boogie / Jackson, Tennessee / Take My Hand / Somebody Voodooed The Hoodoo Man / You're Growing Old Baby
| 1971 UK
| | CBS 66278 |
V/A: NOTHING BUT THE BLUES (2-LP)
Model 'T' Slim: Woman's The Glory Of Man
(issued in company with Hanover Publications' book "Nothing But The Blues" compiled by the Editors of Blues Unlimited)
| 1971 UK
| | BLUES CLASSICS BC 5 |
V/A: COUNTRY BLUES CLASSICS, VOL.1 (LP)
Driftin' Slim: Good Morning Baby
| 197? US
| | STYLETONE I.G.W.T. 001 |
V/A: BLUES IS HERE TO STAY!! - OLDIES BUT GOODIES..! (LP)
Model T Slim: Somebody Voodooed The Hoodoo Man / 15 Years My Love Was In Vain / Flatfoot Sam Always In A Jam (take 1) / Oh Babe
-- cd reissue available --
| 1973 US
| | MUSKADINE M 102 |
V/A: PACKIN' UP MY BLUES - BLUES OF THE DEEP SOUTH 1950-1961 (LP)
Driftin' Slim: Down South / My Sweet Woman
| 1973 US
| | P-VINE SPECIAL PLP-2-704 |
V/A: MR. FULBRIGHT'S BLUES (2-LP)
Elmon Mickle: Flat Foot Sam / I Got To Get Some Money
-- reissues: P-Vine PCD 2008/"Mr. Fullbright's Blues, Vols. 1 & 2", Diving Duck DD 4314/5, 1990 --
| 1976 JPN
| | CHICAGO CH-LP-210 |
V/A: COLLECTOR'S BLUES SERIES, VOLUME 3 (LP)
Elmon Mickle: Jackson Blues
| 1977 US |
| JSP 1075 |
V/A: GOING TO CALIFORNIA (LP)
Model T. Slim: Woman's The Glory Of Man / Take My Hand
| 1984 UK
| | SUNDOWN CG 709-06 |
V/A: JUICY HARMONICA (LP)
Model T. Slim: Shake Your Boogie
| 198? HOL
| | MOONSHINE BLP 117 |
V/A: TAKE A GREYHOUND BUS AND RIDE (LP)
Model T. Slim: Woman's The Glory Of A Man
| 198? HOL
| | SAVAGE KICK SK 506 |
V/A: SAVAGE KICK, VOL.6 - BLACK ROCK'N'ROLL (LP)
Model T. Slim: Shake Your Boogie
| 19?? UK
| | STOMPIN' ST 122 |
V/A: STOMPIN', VOL.22 (LP)
Elmon Mickle: Jackson Blues
| 19?? UK
| | PLAY BACK 107 |
V/A: CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE, VOL.7 (CD)
Elmon Mickle: Flat Foot Sam
| 199?
| | ALLEY MUSIC CD-AM 001 |
V/A: BUMPIN'N'BLUES ROCKIN' - 30 R&B ORIGINALS (CD)
Model T. Slim: Shake Your Boogie
| 199? US
| | WOLF 120.614 |
V/A: ELKO BLUES, VOL.1 (CD)
Elmon Mickle: Flat Foot Sam / I Got To Get Some Money / Jackson Blues / Lonesome Blues / Elmon Mickle with Ernie Pruit: Short And Fat
| 1994 AUT
| | P-VINE PCD-3040 |
V/A: ANTHOLOGY OF THE BLUES : ARKANSAS BLUES - ARCHIVES SERIES, VOL.5 (CD)
Driftin' Slim: My Little Machine / Good Morning Baby / Down South / My Sweet Woman / I Feel So Good / You're Getting Old Lady (You're An Old Lady) / Shout (Shout Sister Shout) / Robert "Dudlow" Taylor (with Driftin' Slim on hca): Lonesome / Old Helena Blues / I Know / Dudlow's Blues / James "Peck" Curtis (with Driftin' Slim on hca): Jerusalem Blues / Bus Fare / 44 Blues / Junior Brooks (with Driftin' Slim on hca): She's The Little Girl For Me
| 1994 JPN
| | COLUMBIA 488992 2 |
V/A: THE BLUE HORIZON STORY 1965-1970, VOL.1 (3-CD)
Driftin' Slim: Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman
| 1997 UK
| | TESTAMENT TCD 6011 |
V/A: DOWN HOME HARP (CD)
Elmon 'Driftin' Slim' Mickle: Slow Train Through Arkansas / T-Model And The Train (prev. unissued Los Angles 1/1967 recordings)
| 1998 US
| | ACE CDCHD 813 |
V/A: THE TRAVELING RECORD MAN - HISTORIC DOWN SOUTH RECORDING TRIPS OF JOE BIHARI & IKE TURNER (CD)
Driftin' Slim: My Sweet Woman / My Little Machine
| 2001 UK
| | PAST PERFECT 220256-325 |
V/A: RHYTHM & BLUES GOES ROCK & ROLL, VOL.2 (15-CD)
Model T. Slim: Shake Your Boogie
| 2002 GER
| | FREMEAUX & ASSOCIES FA 5059 |
V/A: HARMONICA BLUES, VOL.2 : 1946-1952 (2-CD)
Drifting Slim: Down South Blues
| 2003 FRA
| | ACE CDCHD 876 |
V/A: THE MODERN DOWNHOME BLUES SESSIONS, VOL.1 (CD)
Drifting Slim: Down South Blues / My Little Machine / Junior Brooks (with Elmon Mickle:hca): She's The Little Girl For Me
| 2003 UK
| | ACE CDCHD 982 |
V/A: THE MODERN DOWNHOME BLUES SESSIONS, VOL.2 (CD)
Drifting Slim: Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman / You're An Old Lady / Shout Sister Shout / I Feel So Good (prev. unissued Modern recording)
| 2003 UK
| | INDIGO/SANCTUARY IGOTD 2536 |
V/A: BLOWING THE BLUES - A HISTORY OF BLUES HARMONICA 1926-2002 (3-CD)
Drifting Slim: Down South Blues
| 2003 UK
| | CRAWDAD CD-001 |
V/A: WE'RE GONNA BOOGIE - RAW 60'S DOWNTOWN BLUES (CD)
Model "T" Slim: Shake Your Boogie / Jackson, Tennessee
| 200? GER
| | ACE CDCHK 1076 |
V/A: ACE 30TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION : BLUES AND R&B (CD)
Drifting Slim: You're An Old Lady
| 2005 UK
| | B-SHARP LP 666/8 |
V/A: DOWNTOWN ROCKIN' AT THE STRIPTEASE CLUB 500 (LP)
Model "T" Slim: Jackson, Tennessee / Shake Your Boogie
| 2005
| | STOMPIN' ST 326 |
V/A: STOMPIN' 26 (CD)
Elmon Mickle: Short And Fat / Independent Walk | 2005 UK |
| STOMPIN' ST 327 |
V/A: STOMPIN' 27 (CD)
Elmon Mickle: Jackson Blues / Lonesome Highway | 2005 UK |
| SONY 4889924 |
V/A: THE BLUE HORIZON STORY, 1965-1970, VOL.1 (3-CD)
Drifting Slim: Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman
| 2006 UK |
| SUNDOWN CD 4001 |
V/A: JUICY HARMONICA (CD)
Model T. Slim: Somebody Voodooed The Hoodooman / You're Growing Old Baby / Take My Hand
| 2009
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RELATED RECORDINGS BY BABY FACE TURNER, SUNNY BLAIR & JUNIOR BROOKS
| 78 | MODERN 849 |
DRIFTIN' SLIM (with Baby Face Turner:gtr, Junior Brooks:gtr & Bill Russell:dms)
My Little Machine / Down South Blues
| 1951
| | 78 | RPM 320 |
JUNIOR BROOKS (poss. with Baby Face Turner:gtr, Driftin' Slim:hca & Bill Russell:dms)
Whiskey Head Woman / Young And Good Lookin'
| 1951
| | 78 | RPM 343 |
JUNIOR BROOKS (with Baby Face Turner:gtr, Bill Russell:dms & Driftin' Slim:hca on b-side)
Lone Town Blues / She's The Little Girl For Me
| 1952
| | 78 | RPM 354 |
SUNNY BLAIR (with Baby Face Turner:gtr, Junior Brooks:gtr & Bill Russell:dms)
Five Foot Three Blues / Glad To Be Back Home
| 1952
| | 78 | RPM 370 |
DRIFTIN' SLIM (with Baby Face Turner:gtr, Sunny Blair:hca, Ike Turner:pno & Bill Russell:dms)
Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman
| 1952
| | 78 | MODERN 882 |
BABY FACE TURNER (with Sunny Blair:hca, Ike Turner:pno & Bill Russell:dms)
Blue Serenade / Gonna Let You Go
| 1952
| | 78 | METEOR 5006 |
SUNNY BLAIR WITH RHYTHM ACC. (a) / BABY FACE TURNER WITH RHYTHM ACC. (b) (feat. Sunny Blair:hca/vcl on a-side + hca on b-side, Baby Face Turner:gtr on a-side + vcl/gtr on b-side, Ike Turner:pno & Bill Russell:dms)
Please Send My Baby Back / Gonna Let You Go
(Note: This release is also available as an identical 2010 UK 45rpm repro edition)
| 1953
| | LP | NESHOBA N-11 |
V/A: LETS GO DOWN SOUTH - POST WAR BLUES AS SUNG FROM MEMPHIS DOWN TO DALLAS
Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Blue Serenade / Gonna Let You Go
| 19?? US
| | LP | BLACKHAWK LP 109 |
V/A: DOWNHOME DELTA BLUES 1949-1952
Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Please Send My Baby Back Home / Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Gonna Let You Go
| 19?? US
| | LP | BLUES CLASSICS 15 |
V/A: MEMPHIS AND THE DELTA - 1950S
Junior Brooks (with Baby Face Turner,Drifting Slim & Bill Russell): She's The Little Girl For Me / Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair,Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Gonna Let You Go
| 197? US
| | LP | KENT KST-9007 |
V/A: ANTHOLOGY OF THE BLUES : ARKANSAS BLUES - ARCHIVES SERIES, VOL.5
Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Blue Serenade (take 3) / Gonna Let You Go / Best Days / Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): My Little Machine / Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Good Morning Baby / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Step Back Baby / Send My Baby Back / My Baby's Gone / Junior Brooks (with Baby Face Turner, Drifting Slim & Bill Russell): She's The Little Girl For Me
-- reissues: United Superior US-7784/Musidisc 30 AB 5607/P-Vine PCD 3040, 1995 JPN --
| 1969 US
| | LP | MUSKADINE M 102 |
V/A: PACKIN' UP MY BLUES - BLUES OF THE DEEP SOUTH 1950-1961
Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Five Foot Three Blues / Glad To Be Back Home / Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Down South / My Sweet Woman
| 1973 US
| | LP | POLYDOR 2383 257 |
V/A: BLUES FOR MR. CRUMP - JUKE BLUES, VOL.12
Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Please Send My Baby Back
| 1974 UK
| | LP | ACE CH 276 |
V/A: KINGS OF THE BLUES
Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Blue Serenade
| 1988 UK
| | CD | P-VINE PCD-3040 |
V/A: ANTHOLOGY OF THE BLUES : ARKANSAS BLUES - ARCHIVES SERIES, VOL.5
Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Blue Serenade / Gonna Let You Go / Best Days / Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): My Little Machine / Down South / I Feel So Good / You're Getting Old / Shout / Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Good Morning Baby / My Sweet Woman / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Step Back Baby / Send My Baby Back / My Baby's Gone / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Five Foot Three Blues / Glad To Be Back Home / Junior Brooks (with Baby Face Turner, Drifting Slim & Bill Russell): She's The Little Girl For Me / Junior Brooks (with Baby Face Turner & Bill Russell): Lone Town Blues
| 1994 JPN
| | CD | ROWYNA RW 5026 |
V/A: DR. BOOGIE, VOL.5 - CHECK THE OIL
Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Five Foot Three Blues
| 199? BEL
| | CD | ACE CDCHD 813 |
V/A: THE TRAVELING RECORD MAN - HISTORIC DOWN SOUTH RECORDING TRIPS OF JOE BIHARI & IKE TURNER
Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): My Sweet Woman / Drifting Slim (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): My Little Machine / Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Blue Serenade / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Please Send My Baby Back Home a.k.a. Step Back Baby
| 2001 UK
| | 2-CD | FREMEAUX & ASSOCIES FA 5059 |
V/A: HARMONICA BLUES, VOL.2 : 1946-1952
Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Five Foot Three
| 2003 FRA
| | CD | ACE CDCHD 876 |
V/A: THE MODERN DOWNHOME BLUES SESSIONS, VOL.1
Junior Brooks (with Baby Face Turner & Bill Russell): Lone Town Blues / Junior Brooks (with Baby Face Turner, Drifting Slim & Bill Russell): She's The Little Girl For Me / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Five Foot Three Blues / Glad To Be Back Home
| 2003 UK
| | CD | ACE CDCHD 982 |
V/A: THE MODERN DOWNHOME BLUES SESSIONS, VOL.2
Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Blue Serenade (prev. unissued take 1) / Gonna Let You Go / Best Days / Blue Serenade (take 1) / Blue Serenade (take 3) / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Step Back Baby (a.k.a. Please Send My Baby Back) / My Baby's Gone / Step Back Baby / Send My Baby
| 2003 UK
| | 3-CD | INDIGO/SANCTUARY IGOTD 2536 |
V/A: BLOWING THE BLUES - A HISTORY OF BLUES HARMONICA 1926-2002
Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner:gtr, Junior Brooks:gtr & Bill Russell:dms): Glad To Be Back Home
| 2003 UK
| | 2-CD | ACE CDCH2 1090 |
V/A: THE COMPLETE METEOR BLUES, R&B & GOSPEL RECORDINGS
Baby Face Turner (with Sunny Blair, Ike Turner & Bill Russell): Gonna Let You Go / Sunny Blair (with Baby Face Turner, Junior Brooks & Bill Russell): Please Send My Baby Back (a.k.a. Step Back Baby)
| 2006 UK
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Note: In the early 1950s, Drifting Slim a.k.a. Elmon Mickle (vcl/hca) led the downhome blues band consisting of Edgar "Baby Face" Turner (vcl/gtr), Junior Brooks (vcl/gtr), Sunny Blair (vcl/hca) and Bill Russell (dms). During 1951 and 1952, they were recorded in various consistencies by Joe Bihari and Ike Turner, who also appeared as a pianist on some of these sessions. Except RPM 370, Drifting Slim doesn't play on recordings that feature Sunny Blair on harmonica.
© Compiled by Pete Hoppula
Acknowledgments: Benoit Billot
Published sources: Blues Records 1943 To 1970 Volume One (Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven, 1987) | Blues Records 1943-1970 Volume Two (Mike Leadbitter-Leslie Fancourt-Paul Pelletier, 1994) | The Blues Discography 1943-1970 (Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath, 2006)
Online sources: www.allmusic.com | www.recordmaster.com | www.singlesdb.com | www.bsnpubs.com | www.ebay.com | www.gemm.com | www.musicstack.com | www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads | www.wirz.de/music/micklfrm.htm
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Revised on September 4, 2011
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