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Some years back, Jay Sheffield was doing the booking for the first B.B. King's Club, on Beale Street in Memphis. I had just gotten a hold of a great compilation of Junior Wells' early recordings on the Chief label. I dropped by Jay's office, told him he ought to bring Junior in to B.B.'s, handed Jay the CD for proof, and took my leave. A week or so later I started hearing he was playing the thing
This is the first Cold Shot that features a whole album. We (that’s all my personalities combined) are pretty psyched about that. See, Buddy Guy’s a favorite of the Cold Shot space: the man not only inspired two-thirds of Jimi Hendrix’s act, making him the grandfather of all those 1970s and ’80s guitar heroes from Page [...]
Personnel: Memphis Slim (vocals, piano); Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); Phillip Guy (guitar); Junior Wells (harmonica); Jimmy Conley (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); A.C. Reed (tenor saxophone); Ernest Johnson (bass guitar); Roosevelt Shaw (drum). Pianist/singer Peter "Memphis Slim" Chatman (1915-1988) enjoyed one of the longest and most successful careers in blues history. His trademarks were hearty,...
A rollicking vocalist and gifted harmonica player, Syl Johnson has forged a career in both blues and soul. The brother of bassist Mac Thompson and guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Johnson, Syl Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, and Junior Wells in the '50s before recording with Jimmy Reed for Vee-Jay in 1959. He made his solo debut that same year with Federal. Johnson toured...
Budget-priced 1992 release on Beehive featuring 45 historicblues recordings spread out on three CDs. Contains classicsfrom Buddy Guy, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Albert Collins,Little Milton, John Lee Hooker, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, PeterGreen, Big Joe Williams, Junior Wells, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy,Muddy Waters, Charlie Musselwhite & dozens of others! Comesas three standard jewel cased CDs within a slipcase....
You have all heard Buddy's Grammy winning discs, so here is a little gem recorded in 1969 originally on Blue Thumb BTS 20, you've got to have. The "juniors" in the title are Junior Wells on harp and Junior Mance on piano. The real suprise is Buddy on acoustic guitar! This is an intimate and spontaneous set that sounds as if you are in the studio with the performers. And in 1969 that was quite a feat...
Back in the late '50s and early '60s, Chicago blues was at its peak, and for the price of a drink or two one could hear the unbearably exciting guitar work of Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Robert Nighthawk, and Hubert Sumlin blasting out of small clubs along the south and west sides of the city. But if you were to ask any of these fretboard whizes who was...
This weekend I finally stopped in to a record store that's a ten minute walk from my house, a store that I've passed by hundreds of times in the past six months. It was a long-held assumption that prevented me...
His place on the honor roll of Chicago blues harpists long ago assured, Carey Bell truly came into his own in the '90s as a bandleader with terrific discs for Alligator and Blind Pig. He learned his distinctive harmonica riffs from the Windy City's very best (both Walters -- Little and Big -- as well as Sonny Boy Williamson II), adding his own signature effects for good measure (an otherworldly moan...
You are cordially invited to attend a showcase by one of the world's premier blues harpists ‘Sugar Blue’. The Borderline, London 2nd April 2008. “He is a very strange and talented musician” -Mick Jagger “A powerful and fluent harmonica player who is also an effective and heartfelt singer in addition to being a superior writer of blues-oriented [...]
