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Junior Wells – South Side Blues Jam
Junior Wells – South Side Blues Jam Delmark 628 We have tried to capture on this album what a listener would hear any Monday night at Theresa’s Blues Bar (now defunct) at 48th and Indiana on Chicago’s Southside. The Blues Monday regulars, including Buddy Guy are joined by the late Otis Spann, the greatest blues…
Otis Rush – Cold Day In Hell
Otis Rush – Cold Day In Hell Delmark 638 Guts. That’s what this record is all about: Otis Rush’s days in hell, and the tentative joys of returning above ground. Everything about Otis Rush says guts: his squeezing, piercing guitar, his raw-boned, blood-tinged vocals, his lyrics, full of a profound sense of the trips men…
Magic Sam – Magic Sam Live
Magic Sam – Magic Sam Live Delmark 645 Live recordings from the Alex Club in Chicago (1963-64) and at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival (1969).
Jimmy Johnson – North / South
Jimmy Johnson – North / South Delmark DD 647 Compact Disc Jimmy Johnson came dramatically to the attention of the blues world with the release of his first American album, Johnson’s Whacks (Delmark 644), in 1979, one of the few albums around that time to project a new and distinctive blues personality. Originally issued in…
Dave Specter & Barkin’ Bill Smith – Bluebird Blues (feat. Ronnie Earl)
Dave Specter & Barkin’ Bill Smith – Bluebird Blues (feat. Ronnie Earl) Delmark 652 Dave Specter and Barkin’ Bill Smith will be unfamiliar names to most listeners (as of the release of this album). But the music the two of them generate along with Ronnie Earl, Deitra Farr, and the Bluebirds is a lot of…
Jesse Fortune – Fortune Tellin’ Man (w/ Dave Specter)
Jesse Fortune – Fortune Tellin’ Man (w/ Dave Specter) Delmark 658 It doesn’t happen very often anymore… An obscure blues figure, revered by aficionados for a handful of memorable recordings, leaps right out of the dusty discographical pages and materializes in the flesh with something new to say musically. In Jesse Fortune’s case, that’s precisely…
Barkin’ Bill – Gotcha!
Barkin’ Bill – Gotcha! Delmark 627 Stylistically, Barkin’ Bill owes much to the great (but little) Joe Williams, whose warm, reassuring vocals, says Bill, have always been “like a friend.” He’s in debt as well to singers like Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Witherspoon, Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Brook Benton, and other crooners and shouters of…
Magic Sam – Live At The Avant Garde
Magic Sam – Live At The Avant Garde Delmark 833 Before Magic Sam scored with 1967’s West Side Soul (Delmark 615) his recorded legacy included a handful of sides for Cobra in the late `50s, Chief in the early `60s and a few miscellaneous 45s in the mid-`60s. But just when it looked like things…