| Product Summary | | Label: Vanguard | | UPC: 00015707954921 | | Release Date: 1/25/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60378609 | | Item#: M7S5GP | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Help Me (A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson) - Junior Wells ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Messin' With The Kid - Junior Wells ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Stormy Monday Blues - Junior Wells ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Checking On My Baby - Junior Wells ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Early In The Morning - Junior Wells ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Blues Keep Falling, The - James Cotton ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Rocket 88 - James Cotton ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Honest I Do - James Cotton ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Coast Blues - James Cotton ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Hey, Hey - The Johnny Shines Blues Band ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Rockin' My Boogie - Big Walter Horton's Blues Band/Memphis Charlie ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Chicken Shack - Charlie Musselwhite ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Juke - Charlie Musselwhite ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Christo Redemptor - Charlie Musselwhite ~ Various Artists | | | 16. My Baby's Sweeter - Charlie Musselwhite ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Angel Food Cake - The Siegel-Schwall Band ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Tell Me - The Siegel-Schwall Band ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Blues With A Feeling - Paul Butterfield Blues Band ~ Various Artists | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes liner notes by Billy Altman. | | Personnel: Jim Schwall (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Johnny Shines (vocals, guitar); Corky Siegel (vocals, harmonica, piano); James Cotton , Junior Wells, Charlie Musselwhite (vocals, harmonica); James Madison, Harvey Mandel, James Cook, Buddy Guy (guitar); Big Walter Horton (harmonica); Martin Fierro (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Wayne Talbert (piano, organ); Otis Spann (piano); Fred Below, Little Al, S.P. Leary, Frank Kirkland (drums). | | Liner Note Author: Billy Altman. | | Recording information: Newport Folk Festival (1965-1968); Universal Studios, Chicago, IL (1965-1968). | | Photographers: Ray Flerlage; James Fraher. | | Subtitled "best of the great harp players," this pulls tracks from various Vanguard releases from the 1960s. Kicking off with five tracks from Junior Wells and five more from James Cotton, the set moves to pick up performances of Big Walter Horton behind Johnny Shines and a duet with a very young Charlie Musselwhite. Musselwhite has four tracks as solo artist, followed by two from the Siegel-Schwall Band. But the true highlight is a live at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival recording of the original Paul Butterfield Blues Band. With Mike Bloomfield on slide guitar, Butterfield tears into a version of Little Walter's "Blues With a Feeling" that would challenge his studio recording of the tune until Sam Lay inadvertently short circuits the tune a chorus too early, leaving Butterfield and the band scrambling for the ending -- a great moment. A classic compilation, especially if you don't already have these tracks on other sets. ~ Cub Koda |
Producer: Michael Chechik; Sam Charters; Bill Traut; Tom Vickers (Compilation) |
Engineer: Jeff Zaraya |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 01/25/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 79549 | | Label : Vanguard Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 69m : 22s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00015707954921 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Dirty Linen (6-7/00, pp.92-3)
- "...Brings together some of the choicest blues artists ever to pick up a harmonica....an excellent introduction to the blues genre with detailed liner notes on all songs and discography included..." |
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