Various Artists

Folk Festival of the Blues (Recorded Live) (6785500)

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Folk Festival of the Blues (Recorded Live)

Various Artists

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8436544171012

LPS 152688

6785500

BLUES

1

LP 14,98 €

4 1/2 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

This edition presents a who’s who of the Chicago blues from the 1960s. Featured here are such talents as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Willie Dixon, performing at the peak of their careers. This WPOA live radio broadcast was emceed in the early 1960s by local disc jockey Big Bill Hill at Chicago’s intimate Copacabana Club. (When the album was reissued in 1967, it was retitled Blues from Big Bill’s Copacabana.)

PERSONNEL:

SIDE A-1: Muddy Waters (vocals), Willie Dixon (vocals),
Jarrett Gibson (tenor sax), Donald Hankins (baritone sax),
Otis Spann (piano), Buddy Guy (vocals & guitar), Jack
Meyers (bass), Fred Below (drums).

SIDE A-2 / SIDE B-1, B-3 & B-5: Muddy Waters (vocals),
Jarrett Gibson (tenor sax), Donald Hankins (baritone sax),
Otis Spann (piano), Buddy Guy (guitar), Jack Meyers (bass),
Fred Below (drums)

SIDE A-3 / SIDE B-4: Buddy Guy (vocals & guitar),
Jarrett Gibson (tenor sax), Donald Hankins (baritone sax),
Otis Spann (piano), Jack Meyers (bass), Fred Below (drums).

SIDE A-5 / SIDE B-2: Howlin’ Wolf (vocals), Jarrett
Gibson (tenor sax), Donald Hankins (baritone sax), Otis
Spann (piano), Buddy Guy (guitar), Jack Meyers (bass), Fred
Below (drums).
All above tracks recorded live at the Copa Cabana Club,
Chicago, Illinois, July 26, 1962.

SIDE A-4: Sonny Boy Williamson (vocals & harmonica),
Lafayette Leake (organ), Matt Murphy (guitar), Milton
Rector (bass), Al Duncan (drums).
Recorded in Chicago, January 1962.
[This is a studio recording with overdubbed applause]

SIDE 1

1. WEE, WEE BABY
2. SITTING AND THINKING
3. WORRIED BLUES
4. BRING IT ON HOME
5. SUGAR MAMA

SIDE 2

1. CLOUDS IN MY HEART
2. MAY I HAVE A TALK WITH YOU
3. GOT MY MOJO WORKING
4. DON’T KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO
5. (SHE’S) 19 YEARS OLD