Live at the Golden Bear
Released: December 1969
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Released: December 1969
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The swaggering harpman took his act on the road to Huntington Beach, CA to do this live set with his touring quartet of the moment. Virtually nothing but blues and soul standards that show his wide...
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In My Younger Days
Released: 1972
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Released: 1972
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Although not an essential release by this fine blues harmonica frontman, there are some tracks on this collection of early recordings that are outstanding. Blues harmonica players will want the set...
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Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues
Released: 1972
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Released: 1972
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Buddy Guy and Junior Wells seldom made more effective records than this celebrated album (reissued on CD in 1992). There were none of the erratic vocals, questionable song selection or rambling...
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Coming at You
Released: 1968
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Released: 1968
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Another eminently solid outing by the legendary harpist that captures his trademark barroom bravado in a studio setting. The band is quite tight -- Buddy Guy and Lefty Dizz are the guitarists,...
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Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite
Released: June 1982
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Released: June 1982
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Live at Montreux, featuring Jr. and Buddy. ~ Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
You're Tuff Enough
Released: 1968
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Released: 1968
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Another period of the veteran Chicago harp man's career that awaits CD documentation -- and one of the most exciting. Wells's late-'60s output for Bright Star and Mercury's Blue Rock subsidiary...
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Hoodoo Man Blues
Released: 1965
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Released: 1965
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One of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s, and one of the first to fully document the smoky ambience of a night at a West side nightspot in the superior acoustics of a recording studio....
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It's My Life, Baby!
Released: 1966
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Released: 1966
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Although It's My Life, Baby! was decent mid-'60s electric Chicago blues, coming so soon after Junior Wells' 1965 classic Hoodoo Man Blues -- one of the greatest blues LPs ever -- it was something...
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South Side Blues Jam
Released: 1970
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Released: 1970
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Enjoyable but less electrifying follow-up to Hoodoo Man Blues, cut in 1969-1970 -- looser, with longer songs that afford more room to stretch out instrumentally but don't quite equal the stunning...
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