1. Entertainment  Elmore James Profile   Elmore James' The Sky
Is Crying  Elmore James' The Sky Is Crying  Photo courtesy Price
Grabber  Elmore James Profile:  Born: January 27, 1918 in
Richland MS  Died: May 24, 1963 in Chicago IL  Elmore James
remains, perhaps, the most important slide guitarist to break
out of the blues. James' distorted, ramshackle, highly-amped
sound would not only make believers out of contemporaries like
Hound Dog Taylor, Homesick James, and J.B. Hutto, it would also
influence a generation of blues-rock guitarists like Eric
Clapton and Duane Allman, and even indirectly impact heavy metal
music.  King of the Slide Guitar  Elmore James was destined to
play the blues ... as a young man in Mississippi, he would play
"slide guitar" with an instrument made of a lard can and broom
handle. As a teenager, he performed in local juke joints with
legends Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf. Forming his first band
in the late-1930s, James toured with Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice
Miller) until the beginni