{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox album | name = Slim's Shout | type = Album | artist = Sunnyland Slim | cover = Slim's Shout.jpeg | released = 1961 | recorded = September 15, 1960 | studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | genre = Blues | length = 40:54 <small>CD reissue with additional tracks</small> | label = Bluesville<br />{{small|BVLP 1016}} | producer = Ozzie Cadena | chronology = Sunnyland Slim | prev_title = Chicago Blues Session | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = I Done You Wrong | next_year = 1965 }}
'''''Slim's Shout''''' is an album by blues musician Sunnyland Slim recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label the following year.<ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-bluesville-1000-series/#bvlp-1016 Jazzdisco: Prestige Records Catalog: Bluesville 1000 series] accessed May 14, 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.bsnpubs.com/fantasy/bluesville/bluesville.html Both Sides Now: Prestige/Bluesville Album Discography] accessed May 14, 2019</ref><ref>[http://blueslim.m78.com/discography.html#Anchor75540 Sunnyland Slim discography] accessed May 14, 2019</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = ''AllMusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic" /> | rev2 = ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings'' | rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=Tony |last2=Smith |first2=Chris |title=The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |year=2006 |edition=|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-140-51384-4|page=616}}</ref> | rev4 = ''DownBeat'' | rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=":0" /> }} AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "You wouldn't think that transporting one of Chicago's reigning piano patriarchs to Englewood Cliffs, NJ would produce such a fine album, but this 1960 set cooks from beginning to end. Sunnyland Slim's swinging New York rhythm section has no trouble following his bedrock piano, and the estimable King Curtis peels off diamond-hard tenor sax solos in the great Texas tradition that also mesh seamlessly".<ref name="AllMusic">{{AllMusic|first=Bill|last=Dahl|class=album |id=mw0000106762 |title= Sunnyland Slim: ''Slim's Shout'' – Review |accessdate= May 14, 2019}}</ref>
''DownBeat'' reviewer Pete Welding gave the album 4 stars.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Welding |first=Pete |date=March 16, 1961 |title=In Review |journal=DownBeat |volume=28 |issue=6 |pages=32}}</ref> He wrote, "In short, there is nothing coy or oblique about this stuff—it hits you squarely between the eyes. If you like spontaneous, emotive down-home blues, performed with fervor and excitement, this collection is for you".<ref name=":0" />
==Track listing== All compositions by Sunnyland Slim except where noted # "I'm Prison Bound" (Brownie McGhee) – 3:19 # "Slim's Shout" (Sunnyland Slim, Ozzie Cadena) – 3:46 # "The Devil Is a Busy Man" – 3:49 # "Brownskin Woman" – 3:41 # "Shake It" (Big Joe Turner) – 3:00 # "Decoration Day" – 4:35 # "Baby How Long" (McGhee) – 2:40 # "Sunnyland Special" – 4:39 # "Harlem Can't Be Heaven" – 2:15 # "It's You Baby" – 2:23 # "Everytime I Get to Drinking" [take 3] – 2:40 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small> # "Tired of You Clowning" – 3:09 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
==Personnel== ===Performance=== *Sunnyland Slim – piano, vocals *King Curtis – tenor saxophone *Robert Banks – organ *Leonard Gaskin – bass *Belton Evans – drums
===Production=== *Ozzie Cadena – supervision *Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
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Category:Sunnyland Slim albums Category:1961 albums Category:Bluesville Records albums Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Category:Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena