Blues for Aficionados

Muddy Waters

THE CHESS BOX

MCA Chess 1989 3CD Set

Disc Three:  1960 to 1972

I Feel So Good (Live At Newport Jazz Festival/1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MhcrGcca0I&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i...

Elevate Me Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUYTP5QXxm4&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i...

Things That I Used To Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg78YRPtOOU&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i...

Going Down Slow (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCGQ3wr_-A&list=OLAK5uy_nUUub8pT1q3NQ8DStmIaGsIbBcC1uCxpE&i...

Cheers

Junior Wells

BLUES HIT BIG TOWN

Delmark   1998

Notes: 'Blues Hit Big Town' contains the historic first recordings of Junior Wells.  Junior was still a teenager at the time of the first session and had replaced Little Walter in the Muddy Waters band. 
     In a Down Beat review Pete Welding said "In their power, directness, unerring taste and utter consistency of mood, these may well be the most perfectly distilled examples of Wells' music ever recorded, taking their place alongside of those of Waters, Walter, Wolf and other masters of the period.  Five stars."
     'Blues Hit Big Town' captures genius emerging from one of the greatest Blues personalities and harmonica players of all time."

Blues Hit Big Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsreuzjNro

Hoodoo Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fFLrKI-28

Lord Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jI6iKiwSxc

Junior's Wail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzdW7yxSv2o

Cheers

Junior Wells

HOODOO MAN BLUES

Delmark   1965

Notes: "I went to this pawnshop downtown and the man had a harmonica priced at $2.00.  I got a job on a soda truck...played hookey from school...worked all week and on Saturday the man gave me a dollar and a half.  A dollar and a half! For a week of work.  I went to the pawnshop and the man said the price was two dollars.  I told him I HAD to have that that harp.  He walked away from the counter--left the harp there.  So I laid my dollar-and-a-half on the counter and picked up the harp.  When my trail came up, the judge asked me why I did it.  I told him I HAD to have that harp.  The judge asked me to play it and when I did he gave the man the 50 cents and hollered "case dismissed!" -- Chicago 1948

Wells' initial LP appearance, and maybe the first LP by any Blues band.


Early in the Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBd3bN9Z3Y

Snatch It Back And Hold It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6TwTmFbEd4

Hoodoo Man Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdKRWaIaZ14

Yonder Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy5DFOo6Ar8

Good Morning Schoolgirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGIB1eBL9Y

Cheers

Willie Dixon

THE BIG THREE TRIO

CBS Records    1990

wiki:

Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues.

 A short list of his most famous compositions includes "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover". These songs were written during the peak years of Chess Records, from 1950 to 1965, and were performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a generation of musicians worldwide.

Dixon was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, his songs were adapted by numerous rock artists. He received a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.  --  wiki

Born July 1, 1915 Vicksburg, Mississippi
Died January 29, 1992 (aged 76) Burbank, California

Hard Notch Boogie Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXMThTIYpfI

Since My Baby Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDSvd_PYvw

You Don't Love Me No More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6k---0B4k4

Come Here Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sh9mt1BMaQ

Tell That Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8E7wtypIs

Cheers

Junior Wells

MESSIN' WITH THE KID

Paula Records     1957 to 1963

No notes.

It Hurts Me Too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQE0IY4uSIY

Come on in this House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv5r6f83TG4

Messin' With The Kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLz82AfE-R0

Little By Little
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEibNV4YA-E

So Tired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMQfgsnQz0

Calling All Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPE98v23kTY

Cheers