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Homesick James was born in 1910 in Summerville, Tennessee not far from Memphis. It was the title of one of his songs, Homesick , that provided him with the name he was best known to blues fans, "Homesick James". In the early 1930's he hooked up with harmonica player Snooky Pryor and they remained lifelong musical partners. Sometime in the 1940's he ended up in Chicago like many other Delta musicians of the era and in no time was working with the likes of Robert Lockwood, Sunnyland Slim, Little Walter and most importantly, Elmore James, who was a distant cousin and played on many of his best known recordings. When Elmore James died in 1963 Homesick found himself as the successor to the slide guitar throne vacated by Elmore. He toured the world and recorded for a variety of labels over the next 20 years and in the early 1990's Homesick moved back to Tennessee, settling in Nashville. Homesick had relocated to Missouri shortly before he died there in December 2006. The time is now right to release these wonderful live recordings of a great artist, taken from a Swiss club date in 1999 - a fitting tribute to the last of the broom dusters. This is the real stuff!