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Hoodoo Man Blues

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Snatch It Back and Hold It; Ships on the Ocean; Good Morning Schoolgirl; Hound Dog; In The Wee Wee Hours; Hey Lawdy Mama; Hoodoo Man Blues; Early In The Morning; We're Ready; You Don't Love Me, Baby; Chitlins Con Carne; Yonder Wall; Studio Chatter 1; I Ain't Stranded; Studio Chatter 2; In The Wee Wee Hours, alt; Studio Chatter 3; Hoodoo Man Blues, alt; Studio Chatter 4; Chitlins Con Carne, alt; Studio Chatter 5; Yonder Wall, alt take 7; Studio Chatter 6; Yonder Wall, alt. take 11; Studio Chatter 7; Yonder Wall, alt. take 13.

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Article: Album Review

Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band: Hoodoo Man Blues

Read "Hoodoo Man Blues" reviewed by Nic Jones


Being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame could, in the overall scheme of things, mean everything or nothing, considering that Hoodoo Man Blues is as powerful an example of the Chicago Blues as has ever been captured on record. Singer/harmonicist Junior Wells was one of those surprisingly rare individuals who knew how ...

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News: Recording

Junior Wells, with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (1965, Reissue)

Junior Wells, with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (1965, Reissue)

For Junior Wells, there was just something about working with Buddy Guy. On Hoodoo Man Blues, a spark-filled mid-1960s Chicago blues album, Wells stops on more than one occasion, while letting loose these flying shards of harmonica blasts, to issue a pleased grunt. So very in the moment, his vocals start with an unguarded joy, a ...

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Article: Live From New York

Live From The Bell House: Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, Big Sandy And His Fly-Rite Boys, Dennis Coffey & Syl Johnson

Read "Live From The Bell House: Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, Big Sandy And His Fly-Rite Boys, Dennis Coffey & Syl Johnson" reviewed by Martin Longley


Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars The Bell House May 28, 2011 Down in Gowanus again, a few blocks away from its toxic canal, a proximity that doesn't impair The Bell House's ability to present great music, or even discourage folks from sitting outside in the newly-arrived swelter. How charming, to ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King and James Cotton to Perform in Wilmington

SMOKIN' JOE KUBEK & BNOIS KING AND JAMES COTTON TO PERFORM IN WILMINGTON! FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 Event: Riverfront Blues Festival Venue: Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park—Main Stage Address: South French St. and Water St. Wilmington, DE Phone: 302-376-6298 Ticket price: $15-$50, children 12 and under free Website: www.riverfrontbluesfest.com *See website for complete festival line-up and detailed ticket ...

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News: Recording

Historic "Buddy & The Juniors" Available at Hip-O Select, Retails June 28

Historic "Buddy & The Juniors" Available at Hip-O Select, Retails June 28

In 1969, guitarist Buddy Guy got together with his old Chicago blues buddy Junior Wells, added in jazz pianist Junior Mance, and cut a loose, “unplugged" session for Blue Thumb Records that became the now-legendary album Buddy And The Juniors. Now, on the occasion of Buddy Guy's 75th birthday, the album makes its first-ever domestic CD ...

Album

Live In Boston 1966

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Feelin' Good; It's A Man Down There; Worried Life Blues; Talk; Junior's Whoop; That's All Right; Talk; Look On Yonder's Wall; Talk; Messin' With The Kid; Talk; Hideaway; If You Gonna Leave Me; "Fattening Frogs For Snakes" Talk; I Don't Know; Talk; Got My Mojo Workin'; Theme.

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Video

The Hoodoo Man

Featuring the music of Junior Wells
Duration: 3:27

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Article: Album Review

Junior Wells & the Aces: Live In Boston 1966

Read "Live In Boston 1966" reviewed by Nic Jones


Here's a particularly potent exercise in musical archaeology. By the time the year of this recording rolled around, blues singer/harmonicist Junior Wells had been in the music game for nearly fifteen years, and it seems as though every one of those had been a period of learning. What's particularly interesting is that Wells elected to play ...

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News: Recording

New Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Live in Chicago Out September 28

Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records is excited to announce that latest signing Kenny Wayne Shepherd is releasing Live in Chicago, available on 9/28/10. Recorded in Chicago's House of Blues during the critically acclaimed 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads tour, Live in Chicago showcases Kenny and his band, Noah Hunt, Chris Layton, Scott Nelson and Riley ...


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