Alabama Slim - Rock With Me Mamma

Alabama Slim was born Milton Frazier in Vance, Alabama, in 1939. His father built trains at the Pullman plant and his mother did housework to survive. In their home they had an old spinning record player and a box full of 78s. Slim fell in love with the blues of Bill Broonzy and Lightnin ’Hopkins, and that’s when the journey began for the ever-elegant bluesman, who was about to burst at the end of his life in 2020 with a scheduled appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. It is incredible that the genius of Alabama Slim, until recently, flew under the blues radar of the world. Slim turned 82 in March and his juke joints in the 50s and 60s inevitably improved his skills, Freddie King’s cousin, his escapades from Hurricane Katrina were played on the 2007 album, The Mighty Flood with King’s guitar and Slim’s wonderful blues vocals painting images from that unforgettable time. Cornelius Chapel Records teamed up with the Music Maker Relief Foundation for this album “The P