Tag: Blues
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Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Sam Lay, and Buddy Miles – Fathers and Sons, 1969 on Chess
Vinyl Me Please just credits the LP to Muddy Waters, but the back cover really credits everyone in the all star band. It was Waters’s biggest seller. One LP is studio recordings from Chicago (Ter Mar Studios), the other LP is a live recording from the Super Cosmic Joy-Scout Jamboree. This Vinyl Me Please reissue…
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Big Joe Williams, Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick, 1969 on World Pacific
World Pacific was an imprint of Liberty Records. Recorded in London in 1968, when Williams was ~65 years old and was regularly touring European and American festivals. My copy must have been at some point in the collection of WRSU, the record station at Rutgers – but came to me via Academy Records in NYC.
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Washboard Sam, with Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Slim, Feeling Lowdown, 1971 on RCA Victor
Released as part of the RCA Victor Vintage Series, “created to bring you selected reissued performances, unavailable for some years, by great personalities of the popular, jazz and folk music worlds.” Washboard Sam, aka Robert Brown, recorded for Victor and Bluebird between 1935 and 1949 – these recordings all come from sessions in 1941 and…
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ZZ Top, Rio Grande Mud, 1972 on London Records
Second album from the Texas blues/rock trio of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard. London Records basically represented Decca in the US from 1947 to 1980. I love all of their output up to (and including) Eliminator in 1983 – after that I feel like there is a bit of a fall off into…
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John Mayall, Jazz Blues Fusion, 1972 on Polydor
Mayall is joined here by Larry Taylor, Freddy Robinson, Ron Selico, Clifford Solomon and Blue Mitchell – adding sax and trumpet to his traditional blues approach. Recoded in Boston (venue unstated) November 18th, 1971 and then at Hunter College in New York on December 3rd and 4th. My copy via a record fair at Mill…
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Muddy Waters, McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters, 1971 on Chess Records.
2xLP collection of songs from 1948 to 1964 – hugely influential post-war era Chicago blues. Liner notes by Pete Welding. There are a ton of Muddy Waters compilations including a dozen plus just on Chess records, but I was really happy to find this one in good condition. My copy via a vinyl fair at…
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The Butterfield Blues Band, Keep on Moving, 1969 on Elektra
Only Butterfield himself remains from the original lineup on this LP, produced by Jerry Ragovoy (who also wrote “Except You” and “Where Did My Baby Go”). Not maybe as successful as some of the earlier outings but still worth the price of admission – more in the R&B/soul vein that would also show up on…
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The Blues Project, Live at the Cafe Au Go Go, 1966 on Verve Folkways
Credited on the cover as “featuring Tommy Flanders,” who had left the group by the time it was released. My copy is a 1966 mono version which I found at Island Music on Martha’s Vineyard. The lineup on this release includes Andy Kulberg on bass and flute, Roy Blumenfeld on drums, Danny Kalb on lead…
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Freddie King, My Feeling for the Blues, 1970 on Cotillion
One of the “three kings” of the blues, this is King’s second album after signing with Atlantic (Cotillion is a subsidiary) before moving to Shelter records (Leon Russell’s label). My copy is a 2021 pressing from Vinyl Me, Please, with listening notes by Andrew Winistorfer and new lacquers cut from the original types by Ryan…
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John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Bare Wires, 1968 on Decca
French pressing from 1968. This was the fourth Bluesbreaker’s LP, and the last of the peak 60s era (the name was used again for other releases in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s) with a lineup including Mick Taylor, Mayall, Tony Reeves, and Jon Hiseman – a bit more jazz influenced than some of the earlier…
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John Mayall / Jerry McGee / Larry Taylor, Memories, 1971 on Polydor
More blues without drums from Mayall accompanied by Jerry McGee on dobro & guitar and Larry Taylor (from Canned Heat) on bass. Recorded in 1971 in LA. Via a Thread & Groove record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA.
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John Mayall, The Blues Alone, 1967 on London Records.
John Mayall, The Blues Alone, 1967 on London Records. Drums on some tracks from Kerf Hartley otherwise all Mayall.
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Jimmy Reed, Let The Bossman Speak!, 1971 on Blues on Blues.
Jimmy Reed, Let The Bossman Speak!, 1971 on Blues on Blues. Blues on Blues was a label founded and run by Al Smith out of Chicago – this was the second LP released on the label
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Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals, The Night Time is the Right Time, 1976 on Springboard.
Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals, The Night Time is the Right Time, 1976 on Springboard. Live recordings from Club a’Gogo in Newcastle UK, from 1963. First released in 1972 in France on BYG, also issued as Newcastle-on-Tyne, December 1963 by Charly Records. (There are two different blues musicians named Sonny Boy Williams- this is…
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Pinetop Perkins, Live at Antone’s Vol. 1, 2000 on Antone’s Records.
Pinetop Perkins, Live at Antone’s Vol. 1, 2000 on Antone’s Records. My copy is the 2xLP reissue from 2015 through New West Records. Great live blues recorded in 1995 for @antonesnightclub 20th anniversary
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Johnny Winter, Second Winter, 1969 on Columbia.
Johnny Winter, Second Winter, 1969 on Columbia. 3 sided LP (4th side blank) because they couldn’t edit down ton an LP. These days there would be an etching on side 4. With Edgar Winter, Tommy Hannon, Uncle John Turner. Via Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain
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Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lightnin’ Strikes, 1962 on Vee Jay Records.
Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lightnin’ Strikes, 1962 on Vee Jay Records. My copy is a 2022 Vinyl Me, Please reissue One of two 60s Lightnin’ Hopkins albums by this title – the other is a 1966 Verve Folkways release that was later reissued as Nothin’ But the Blues.
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Robert Cray, Strong Persuader, 1986 on Mercury.
Robert Cray, Strong Persuader, 1986 on Mercury. Labels say The Robert Cray Band, front cover just Robert Cray. Either way a solid guitar driven blues album