Tag: Buddy Guy

  • Junior Wells, Southside Blues Jam, 1970 on Delmark Records

    Junior Wells, Southside Blues Jam, 1970 on Delmark Records

    Junior Wells with Otis Spann, Buddy Guy (on sixe tracks), and Louis Myers (on 2 tracks), recorded Dec 30th, 1969 and Jan 8th, 1970. This was Spann’s last session before he died in 1970. We have tried to capture on this album what a listener would hear any Monday night at Theresa’s blues bar at…

  • Various Artists, The Best of Chess Blues, 1987 on Chess / MCA

    Various Artists, The Best of Chess Blues, 1987 on Chess / MCA

    Great 2xLP 80s compilation of the post-war blues that made Chess such a critical label, issued by MCA who acquired the rights to the Chess catalog in the mid-eighties. My copy—via Mel’s Record Shop in Amesbury MA—is a 1987 pressing by MCA Records’ plant in Gloversville, NY.

  • Junior Wells, It’s My Life, Baby, 1966 on Vanguard

    Junior Wells, It’s My Life, Baby, 1966 on Vanguard

    Junior Wells’ sophomore album, released on Vanguard in 1966 after Hoodoo Man Blues came out on Delmark. From the liner notes: Some of this album, Junior Wells’ first solo record for Vanguard, was recorded in Pepper’s Lounge on Chicago’s south side, to get the feeling of a blues band working with its blues audience. The…