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 48th and Indiana o Chicago’s South Side. The Blue Monday regulars, including Buddy Guy . . . are joined by the late Otis Spann, the greatest blues pianist of his generation, making his last studio appearance and to whom this album is respectfully dedicated by Junior, the musicians, and – The Delmark Staff”

My copy, via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN, is a 1990 reissue on blue Delmark labels with an insert advertising “best selling CD titles” with barcodes.

peter chauncey’s VIDEO OF THE WEEK: “Share Our News 2”

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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 – Williams is backed here by Willie Dixon, Luther Tucker, Otis Spann, Fred Bellow, Matt Murphy, […]

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Midday blues playlist : Otis Spann and James Cotton, from Muddy Waters band, doing their thing + Hank Crawford on bluesy soul jazz pièces.

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Sister Rosetta was a pioneer.
And a red hot singer and guitarist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6L5grLqkA0

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If you have the slightest interest in #ChicagoBlues, you want a copy of “Chicago / The Blues / Today!” I previously only had Vol. 2 — picked up this Vol. 1 reissue from this incredible series two weeks back. This one’s heavy with Junior Wells with Buddy Guy, J.B. Hutto and Otis Spann.

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