01	Heart Fixing Business						04:55
	02	Sweet Pea						03:57
	03	Dyin' To Do Wrong						03:48
	04	Can't Play That Way						04:11
	05	I'v Got To Use My Imagination						04:51
	06	I Got to Moan						04:25
	07	I'll Be Loving You						05:30
	08	The Other Side Of Town						03:45
	09	Days Of Old						02:55
	10	Slingshots And Bommerangs						04:04
	11	Let's Think About It						03:58

Kingpin
Date of Release Mar 2000

Ellis turns in a strong set of originals and choice covers, all fueled by his usual strong guitar work. Highlights include "Dyin' to Do Wrong," "I'll Be Loving You," and "Slingshots and Boomerangs." - Cub Koda

1. Heart Fixing Business (Banks/Jones) - 4:55
2. Sweet Pea (Burdette/Ellis) - 3:57
3. Dyin' to Do Wrong (Ellis) - 3:48
4. Can't Play That Way (Ellis) - 4:11
5. I've Got to Use My Imagination (Goffin/Goldberg) - 4:51
6. I Got to Moan (Boyer) - 4:25
7. I'll Be Loving You (Williams) - 5:30
8. The Other Side of Town (Rice/Tiven/Tiven) - 3:45
9. Days of Old (King/Taub) - 2:55
10. Slingshots and Boomerangs (Adcock/Egan) - 4:04
11. Let's Think About It (Alexander/Tiven) - 3:56

Tinsley Ellis - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Vocals, Slide Guitar
Chad Brown - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Assistant Engineer
John Clark - Assistant
David Z. - Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards, Recorder, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Richard Hayward - Drums
Jim Hoke - Saxophone
Jack Holder - Guitar, Guitar (Baritone)
George Marino - Mastering
Kevin McKendree - Organ
Reese Wynans - Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Piano (Electric)
Dave Smith - Bass
Frank Gargiulo - Art Direction, Stylist
Kim Parent - Vocals (bckgr)
Esther Bell Watson - Illustrations, Illustration Concept
Steve Crowder - Mixing
David Smith - Bass
Brandon Lively - Design
Tinfly Adams - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Little Joey Hoegger - Harmonica
David Smith - Bass

2000 CD Capricorn 2021
2000 CD Capricorn 546215




Tinsley Ellis
Born Jun 4, 1957 in Atlanta, GA

A hard rocking, high-voltage blues guitarist most often compared to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tinsley Ellis is hardly one of the legions of imitators that comparison might imply. Schooled in a variety of Southern musical styles, Ellis draws not only from fiery Vaughan-style blues-rock, but also Texas bluesmen like Freddie King and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the soulful blues of B.B. King, the funky grit of Memphis soul, and numerous other electric bluesmen. Ellis has been praised in many quarters for the relentless, storming intensity of his sound, and criticized in others for his relative lack of pacing and dynamic contrast (he's also been dubbed a much stronger guitarist than vocalist). Yet no matter which side of the fence one falls on, it's generally acknowledged that Ellis remains a formidable instrumentalist and a genuine student of the blues.
Tinsley Ellis was born in Atlanta in 1957, and spent most of his childhood in southern Florida. He began playing guitar in elementary school, first discovering the blues through the flagship bands of the British blues boom: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, the Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac, the Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, and so on. He soon moved on to a wide variety of original sources, becoming especially fond of B.B. King and Freddie King. After high school, Ellis moved back to Atlanta in 1975 to attend Emory University, and soon found work on the local music scene, joining a bar band called the Alley Cats (which also featured future Fabulous Thunderbird Preston Hubbard). In 1981, Ellis co-founded the Heartfixers with singer/harmonica player Chicago Bob Nelson, and they recorded an eponymous debut album for the tiny Southland imprint. They soon signed with the slightly larger Landslide and issued Live at the Moon Shadow in 1983, by which point they were one of the most popular live blues acts in the South. However, Nelson left the group shortly after the album's release, and Ellis took over lead vocal chores.

The Heartfixers' first project in their new incarnation was backing up blues shouter Nappy Brown on his well-received 1984 comeback album Tore Up. Ellis debuted his vocals on record on the Heartfixers' 1986 LP Cool on It, which brought him to the attention of Alligator Records. Ellis left the Heartfixers to sign with Alligator as a solo artist in 1988, and they picked up his solo debut Georgia Blue for distribution. The album helped make Ellis a fixture on the blues circuit, and he toured heavily behind it, establishing a hard-working pattern he would follow for most of his career. The follow-up Fanning the Flames appeared in 1989 and explored similar territory. 1992's Trouble Time helped land Ellis on album rock radio thanks to the track "Highwayman," but it was 1994's Storm Warning that really broke Ellis to a wider blues-rock audience, earning more media attention than any of his previous recordings; additionally, guitar prodigy Jonny Lang later covered Ellis' "A Quitter Never Wins" on Lie to Me. For 1997's Fire It Up, Ellis worked with legendary blues-rock producer Tom Dowd (the Allman Brothers, Derek & the Dominoes), as well as Booker T. & the MG's bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn. Ellis subsequently left Alligator and signed with Capricorn; unfortunately, shortly after the release of 2000's Kingpin, Capricorn went bankrupt, leaving the album high and dry. Still, Ellis soon caught on with Telarc, returning with Hell or High Water in 2002. - Steve Huey



1983 Live at the Moon Shadow Landslide
1986 Cool on It Alligator
1989 Fanning of the Flames Alligator
1989 Georgia Blue Alligator
1992 Trouble Time Alligator
1994 Storm Warning Alligator
1997 Fire It Up Alligator
2000 Kingpin Capricorn
2002 Hell or High Water Telarc