We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago…..
In 1972 I was a freshman in high school in Wausau Wisconsin. I did not have an older brother or sister to turn me on to new music. I got what emanated from my transistor radio. It really didn’t pull in the big stations from Chicago and elsewhere so I did not get to hear the classic blues music of that day.
Like many of the albums I have reviewed, I discovered this stuff in college, in the stacks at 90FM in Stevens Point. By the way, I’ll be doing my annual reunion air-shift at 90fm tomorrow (Thursday August 11th from 2-6pm and I’ll be playing all music from 1972. you can find WWSP 90fm on the Tune In app and listen whereever you are.
Maybe I’ll find a spot from this LP…Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues. Two legends brought together in the studio after playing together on the Rolling Stones tour of 69-70. Most of these tracks were recorded in 1970 as Eric Clapton brought the two legends together. They didn’t get enough tracks recorded and it wasnt until April of 1972 that J.Geils and Magic Dick joined them in the studio to record the final two songs… “This Old Fool” and “Honeydripper”.
There is some really good stuff here. Buddy on “T-Bone Shuffle”…Junior on Sonny Boy Williamson’s “My Baby She Left Me” …and Buddy singing on “A Man Of Many Words”.
You also get the Wells classic “Messin With The Kid” with Dr. John on piano and Clapton plays slide on ‘Bad Bad Whiskey”.
You may recognize “I Don’t Know”…from this version….
But why settle for an imitation when you can get the real thang…..
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