Elder Curry

Elder Curry was a performing preacher and an underrated guitarist whose fervent, righteous sermons/music featured staccato electric guitar lines, the entire tilt barrelhouse piano of Elder Beck, as well as the stomping foot, clapped hands, and raised voices of his whole congregation, which produce his records appear to be a combination between a Sunday night speakeasy along with a Weekend morning prayer conference. He documented 12 monitors (three of the were never released) along with his congregation and Elder Beck for Okeh Information at the Ruler Edward Resort in Jackson, MS, on Dec 16 and 18, 1930, like the wonderful “Memphis Flu,” which retains some state to being the very first rock and roll & move record available. A song in regards to the 1918/1919 influenza outbreak that wiped out some 700,000 Us citizens, “Memphis Flu” includes a generating, relentless 4/4 defeat that’s as startlingly contemporary as the Aged Testament fire-and-brimstone-styled lyrics are chillingly frosty, putting the blame for the epidemic on those sinners who provoked the wrath of God. Hardly ever has a melody in regards to the flu been therefore cold-hearted yet sounded therefore joyous and (forgive the pun) infectious.