Tag: Sonny Boy Williamson
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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.
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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…
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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…