MEMPHIS SLIM

Memphis Slim (born John Len Chatman) was a black African American blues pianist, singer, and composer from the 1930s to the 1980s. 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 passed away in 1988 at the age of 72, and was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989.