Tag: Otis Spann

  • 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…

  • Sonny Boy Williamson, The Real Folk Blues, 1966 on Chess

    Sonny Boy Williamson, The Real Folk Blues, 1966 on Chess

    This album was first released in the UK in 1965 as In Memorium, (Williamson died in May of 1965). In the US it was retitled to The Real Folk Blues and released in 1966. Later reissues have appeared with either title in different regions. This is one of my favorite blues albums of all time…