Alfred Elkins

Alfred Elkins was a longtime blues bassist, energetic in recording a minimum of from the first 1930’s through the finish from the 1950’s. He spent a lot of his profession in Chicago, and performed and documented with Memphis Slim, Howlin’ Wolf, the very first Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo, and Tampa Crimson, and the like. Like lots of the even more talented blues music artists in the town through the 30’s and 40’s, he got a whole lot of sort out the production actions of Lester Melrose, and shifted to playing periods at Chess Information once that last mentioned label had become. His most broadly heard function today includes the Howlin’ Wolf recordings that he participated on the next fifty percent of the 1950’s, like the traditional 1957 studio edition of “Sittin’ Together with the planet”. For a while in the past due 1950’s, Elkins appeared to be the prepared option to Willie Dixon, a minimum of being a bassist, playing in the Wolf periods which Dixon didn’t participate.