Album DescriptionMagic Slim and the Teardrops have recorded and toured prolifically since the ?70s and still carry the torch as the hardest-driving Chicago blues band of all, even though Slim now lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. This would have been Magic Slim?s American debut album had it been released in 1977. Joe Carter, on the other hand, did little after his session, continuing to play a few South Side taverns until health problems forced him off the scene. His death on June 15, 2001, went virtually unnoticed by the blues media. Joe Carter?s music is the vintage, down-home postwar Chicago blues of the type popularized by Elmore James and Muddy Waters. Joe?s specialty is his repertoire of slide guitar numbers?Elmore?s in particular. Complete notes enclosed by Jim O'Neal, founding editor, Living Blues