Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band - Hoodoo Man Blues (Expanded Ed.)

Year: 1965/2011
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:03
Size: 145,2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Snatch It Back And Hold It (2:54)
2. Ships On The Ocean (4:08)
3. Good Morning Schoolgirl (3:55)
4. Hound Dog (2:09)
5. In The Wee Wee Hours (3:46)
6. Hey Lawdy Mama (3:14)
7. Hoodoo Man Blues (2:07)
8. Early In The Morning (4:48)
9. We're Ready (3:40)
10. You Don't Love Me, Baby (2:24)
11. Chitlins Con Carne (2:14)
12. Yonder Wall (4:10)
13. Studio Chatter 1 (0:11)
14. I Ain't Stranded (3:09)
15. Studio Chatter 2 (0:07)
16. In The Wee Wee Hours (Alt.) (4:33)
17. Studio Chatter 3 (0:09)
18. Hoodoo Man Blues (Alt.) (2:53)
19. Studio Chatter 4 (0:06)
20. Chitlins Con Carne (Alt.) (3:14)
21. Studio Chatter 5 (0:35)
22. Yonder Wall (Alt. Take 7) (2:07)
23. Studio Chatter 6 (1:00)
24. Yonder Wall (Alt. Take11) (2:34)
25. Studio Chatter 7 (0:32)
26. Yonder Wall (Alt. Take 13) (2:11)

This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don't shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of "Good Morning Little School Girl" is a proper update, still menacing, with less of a country blues feel. Also not to be missed is the instrumental workout "Chitlin Con Carne."

Hoodoo Man Blues is considered by most blues aficionados and fans to be one of the best blues albums of all time. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was chosen by the readers of Living Blues magazine as a top ten Desert Island Blues disc. Recorded on September 22 & 23, 1965 Hoodoo Man Blues was the first studio album to capture a working Chicago blues band doing essentially what they did on stage without time constraints to accommodate the singles market. Of course both Junior Wells & Buddy Guy went on to become international blues stars. This new digipak re-issue contains 17 performances: the 12 songs from the original LP, 3 alternates that have been available on CD plus 2 never-before-released performances. There's one completely unissued song, I Ain't Stranded, and an alternate take to Yonder Wall in which Buddy Guy is playing through the Leslie speaker as he did on the title track, something guitar players are still copying to this day.

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