Tag: Hoodoo
Hoodoo Man Blues
Posted by admin on Jun.14, 2010, under General Comments Off
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This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don’t shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of “Good Morning Little School Girl” is a proper update–still menacing, with less of a country blues feel. Also not to be missed is the instrumental workout “Chitlin Con Carne.” –Robert Gordon
Hoodoo Man Blues is not only Junior Well’s initial LP appearance, it is damn near the first LP by a Chicago blues band. Chess and a few other labels had issued 45′s by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howling Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, etc. but virtually no one had t (more…)
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