FOUNDERS KEEPERS: After the Fire is Gone; The Last Sessions of Bluesman Elmore James

FOUNDERS KEEPERS: After the Fire is Gone; The Last Sessions of Bluesman Elmore James

It began here, in the safety of the suburbs, black vinyl spinning in someone’s back room, George Harrison bragging on John Lennon during the bridge in the Beatles’ “For You Blue,” a minor track from 1970’s Let It Be“: “Elmore James got nothin’ on this, baby.” Elmore James was 45 when he died of a heart attack on May 24, 1963, while staying with his cousin Homesick James in Chicago, with his first tour of Europe weeks away. He was, thus, in 1970,…