Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials

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Golden Rule 03:22 Tools
Tired of Crying 00:00 Tools
Hold That Train 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Fault But My Own 06:50 Tools
You Just Weren't There 00:00 Tools
It's Alright 00:00 Tools
Icicles In My Meatloaf 04:57 Tools
Leaving Here 00:00 Tools
Maybe Another Time 00:00 Tools
That's the Truth 00:00 Tools
I'm Your Santa 00:00 Tools
You Don't Exist Any More 00:00 Tools
Housekeeping Job 00:00 Tools
Don't Call Me 00:00 Tools
Pride and Joy 00:00 Tools
Tramp On Your Street 00:00 Tools
Never Miss Your Water 00:00 Tools
Broken Promises 00:00 Tools
Kick Me To The Curb 00:00 Tools
Spend Some Time With Me 00:00 Tools
Chicken, Gravy And Biscuits 00:00 Tools
Woman, Take a Bow 00:00 Tools
Christmas Time 00:00 Tools
Check My Baby's Oil 00:00 Tools
You Burnt Me 00:00 Tools
I Still Love You 07:55 Tools
You Know You're Wrong 00:00 Tools
First I Look At the Purse 00:00 Tools
Life Got In The Way 00:00 Tools
Love Don't Live Here Anymore 00:00 Tools
Dying to Live 00:00 Tools
If You Were Mine 00:00 Tools
S.D. Jones 00:00 Tools
Candy Sweet 00:00 Tools
Born Loser 00:00 Tools
It's a Beautiful World 00:00 Tools
Every Man Needs a Good Woman 00:00 Tools
Musical Mechanical Electrical Man 00:00 Tools
Take Five 00:00 Tools
Black Night 00:00 Tools
Compact Man 00:00 Tools
Packin' Up 00:00 Tools
My Baby Moves Me 00:00 Tools
Singing Slide 00:00 Tools
My Mind Is Gone 00:00 Tools
Jump Right In 00:00 Tools
Change My Way of Living 00:00 Tools
Can't Let These Blues Go 00:00 Tools
Weatherman 00:00 Tools
Life Is A Journey 00:00 Tools
Open Invitation 00:00 Tools
Older Woman 00:00 Tools
Mean Old Frisco 00:00 Tools
If You Change Your Mind 00:00 Tools
You Done Me Wrong for the Last Time 00:00 Tools
No Fast Food 00:00 Tools
Bluesmobile 00:00 Tools
20% Alcohol 00:00 Tools
House Of Cards 00:00 Tools
Four Leaf Clover 00:00 Tools
Moratorium On Hate 00:00 Tools
Natural Man 00:00 Tools
World of Love 00:00 Tools
Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Long, Long Way from Home 00:00 Tools
To late 00:00 Tools
Old Oak Tree 00:00 Tools
Ed Heads' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Master Charge 00:00 Tools
Blues for Jeanette 00:00 Tools
Living For Today 00:00 Tools
Walking the Dog 00:00 Tools
My Chains Are Gone 00:00 Tools
Car Wash Blues 00:00 Tools
Everything I Do Brings Me Closer to the Blues 00:00 Tools
Midnight Rider 00:00 Tools
She's Fine, She's Mine 00:00 Tools
You Don't Exist Anymore 00:00 Tools
The Monkey and The Rabbit 00:00 Tools
Out of the House 00:00 Tools
Travellin' Life 00:00 Tools
Giving up on Your Love 00:00 Tools
Standing On the Corner 00:00 Tools
Woman In the Castle 00:00 Tools
What Am I Gonna Do? 00:00 Tools
Face Like a Fish 00:00 Tools
Killing Floor 00:00 Tools
The Cannonball 00:00 Tools
Computer Girl 00:00 Tools
Find My Baby 00:00 Tools
Upset Man 00:00 Tools
Got to Be Wise 00:00 Tools
I Love My Baby 00:00 Tools
Toothache 00:00 Tools
Got My Mind Made Up 00:00 Tools
Once In a Lifetime 00:00 Tools
Life Is Like Gambling 00:00 Tools
Pet Cream Man 00:00 Tools
Independent Superwoman 00:00 Tools
Please Help 00:00 Tools
The Creeper 00:00 Tools
What You See Is What You Get 00:00 Tools
Lil' Ed's Home Cookin' 00:00 Tools
You Got to Stop 00:00 Tools
Nothing I Wouldn't Do 00:00 Tools
Blues Imperials Theme 00:00 Tools
Raining In Paris 00:00 Tools
Get Out! 00:00 Tools
Chicken, Gravy, And Biscuits 00:00 Tools
She Don't Love Me No More 00:00 Tools
Whiskey Flavored Tears 00:00 Tools
Empty House Tour 00:00 Tools
Young Thing 00:00 Tools
Shy Voice 00:00 Tools
Black Diamond Love 00:00 Tools
Troubled World 00:00 Tools
Mean Ole Frisco 00:00 Tools
Walkinhigh 00:00 Tools
I Like My Hot Sauce Cold 00:00 Tools
I Want It All 00:00 Tools
Deep In My Soul 00:00 Tools
GREEN LIGHT GROOVE 00:00 Tools
Is It You? 00:00 Tools
Chicken, Gravy And Biscuits - remastered 00:00 Tools
Poor Man’s Song 00:00 Tools
I’ll Cry Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Packin' Up - remastered 00:00 Tools
I’m Done 00:00 Tools
Get Out 00:00 Tools
She Don't Love Me 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Song 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Fault But My Own - remastered 00:00 Tools
I'll Cry Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Toothachehigh 00:00 Tools
Every Man Needs A Good Woman (2008) 00:00 Tools
Never Miss Your Water - Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials 00:00 Tools
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Hold That Train 00:00 Tools
Bluesgohigh 00:00 Tools
Nothing I Woudn't Do 00:00 Tools
Pride And Joy - remastered 00:00 Tools
Chickenhigh 00:00 Tools
Livinghigh 00:00 Tools
Packinhigh 00:00 Tools
Musical Mechanical Electrical Man - remastered 00:00 Tools
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Musical Mechanical Electrical Man 00:00 Tools
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Icicles In My Meatloaf 00:00 Tools
I'm Done 00:00 Tools
Check My Baby's Oil - remastered 00:00 Tools
Chicken Gravy and Biscuits 00:00 Tools
Lil' Ed And The Blues Imperials / Moratorium On Hate 00:00 Tools
Master Charge - remastered 00:00 Tools
Midnight Rider - remastered 00:00 Tools
Singing Side - Lil 'Ed & The Blues Imperial 00:00 Tools
Tired Of Crying - remastered 00:00 Tools
I Love My Baby - remastered 00:00 Tools
I Still Love You - remastered 07:55 Tools
Older Woman - remastered 00:00 Tools
Iciles In My Meatloaf 00:00 Tools
Chicken, Gravy And Biscuits (remastered) 00:00 Tools
Never miss tour water 00:00 Tools
My Chains Are Gone - remastered 00:00 Tools
Old Oak Tree - remastered 00:00 Tools
The Monkey And The Rabit 00:00 Tools
Deep In My Soul(2016) 07:55 Tools
Every Man Needs A Good Woman At Home - remastered 00:00 Tools
Jump Right In - remastered 00:00 Tools
20% Alcohol (remastered) 00:00 Tools
20% Alcohol - remastered 00:00 Tools
I Like My Hot Souce Cold 00:00 Tools
Packin' Up (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Never Miss Your Water - remastered 00:00 Tools
Older Women 05:01 Tools
Walking the Dog - Live 00:00 Tools
Tired Of Crying (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Fault But My Own (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Musical Mechanical Electrical Man (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Pride And Joy (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Icicles In My Meatloaf - remastered 00:00 Tools
You Gotta Stop 00:00 Tools
Icicles In My Meatloaf (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Master Charge (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blues Slide Guitar 00:00 Tools
What Am I Gonna Do 00:00 Tools
Older Woman (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Midnight Rider (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Never Miss Your Water (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Still Love You (Remastered) 07:55 Tools
Every Man Needs A Good Woman At Home (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Old Oak Tree (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Pride And Joy (live) 00:00 Tools
My Chains Are Gone (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Jump Right In (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Check My Baby's Oil (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Tired of Cryin' 00:00 Tools
Every Man Needs A Good Woman At Home 00:00 Tools
Hold That Train - remastered 00:00 Tools
S. D. Jones 00:00 Tools
Walkin 00:00 Tools
Hold That Train (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Love My Baby (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
It's Alright - Hound Dog Taylor-A Tribute 00:00 Tools
Master Charge - The Best 00:00 Tools
Full Tilt - Hold That Train 00:00 Tools
Mess Around (Live at The Mahindra Blues Festival 2014) 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Fault 06:49 Tools
Nobody's Fault But My Own - The Best 07:55 Tools
Mean Old Frisco (live) 00:00 Tools
Killing Floor (live) 00:00 Tools
Whiskey Flavoured Tears 00:00 Tools
Chicken, Gravy and Biscuits [*] 00:00 Tools
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Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials are among the premiere party bands to have come out of Chicago during the '80s. Often compared to Elmore James and Hound Dog Taylor, fiery, flamboyant slide guitarist Lil' Ed Williams and his group play dedicated, rough-edged and hard-rocking dance music and have established an international reputation. A native of Chicago, Williams was first inspired by his uncle, renowned slide guitarist J.B. Hutto, with whom he studied as a young teen. Hutto not only taught him slide, but also introduced Williams to bass and drums. Williams' half-brother, James Young, was also a student of Hutto, and later became the bassist for the Blues Imperials. The brothers co-founded their group in the early '70s and went professional in 1975, playing at Big Duke's Blue Flame on the West Side. The gig earned them a whopping six bucks, which the group members split evenly. In those early years, Williams worked days at a car wash while Young drove a school bus. Despite their humble start, Williams and the Blues Imperials kept performing at night and by the early '80s had developed a substantial regional following. Signing to Alligator in the mid-'80s, they released their debut album, Roughhousin', in 1986 and found themselves receiving national attention. They began playing urban clubs and festivals all over the country and eventually toured Canada, Europe and Japan. They released their second album, Chicken, Gravy & Biscuits, in 1989, and the success continued as the Blues Imperials began appearing with such artists as Koko Taylor and Elvin Bishop during the Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Tour. They released their third album What You See is What You Get in 1992. If Ed, half-brother Pookie Young, and the latest members of the revamped Blues Imperials never did much to modernize their blues or develop a new sound, that was just fine with the band's followers ("Ed Heads," no less), to whom the raucous, rocking slide guitar heritage of Hutto, Hound Dog Taylor, and Elmore James is blues nirvana. Following their third album, the group went on hiatus for a few years during which il' Ed Williams released two albums on Earwig, 1996's Keep On Walking with Dave Weld and 1998's Who's Been Talking with Willie Kent. In 1999 the band reconvened and released Get Wild. They followed it up with Heads Up, their fifth Alligator record, in 2002. Their sixth, Rattleshake, appeared in 2006. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.