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Now in a gatefold jacket with new artwork!
Plated and pressed on 180-gram 2LP at Quality Record Pressings!
New additional liner notes by Jim ONeal, co-founder of Living Blues Magazine!
This viscerally punchy electric blues is anchored by unimprovable harp playing from Junior Wells, a young Buddy Guy by his side. From the kick of up-tempo numbers like Snatch It Back and Hold It to the deep, sexy, slow moan of Early in the Morning, you just cant top this. Current audiophile bona fides are in excellent order, thanks to fine remastering by Kevin Gray and Analogue Productions for 45 RPM, LP, SACD/CD, and DSD download. Sasha Matson, Stereophiles Records To Die For, February 2018
this album is DYNOMITE and this pressing is sweet. A truly great album done truly well. Music = 11/11; Sound = 10/11 Mark Schlack
One of the all-time great urban blues records and the best-seller in the famed Delmark catalog. Hoodoo Man Blues is so full of bravado and snap itll make you feel tough just listening to it. Not all of the Delmark titles were recorded very well, but this one certainly was. And at 45 RPM 2LP, plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings, this now stands as the undisputed definitive version. For 2020 weve added a redesigned gatefold jacket with new artwork, plus, additional liner notes from Jim ONeal, co-founder of Living Blues Magazine.
Hoodoo Man Blues, which features Buddy Guy on guitar, is not only Junior Wells first LP appearance, its damn near the first LP by a Chicago blues band. Chess and a few other labels had reissued 45s by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, etc., but virtually no one had tried to capture the Chicago blues sound free of the limitations of juke box/airplay promotion. Hoodoo Man Blues went a long way in the popularization of real Chicago blues and of Junior Wells.
Originally released in 1965.
Junior Wells, harmonica, vocals
Buddy Guy, guitar
Jack Myers, bass
Billy Warren, drums
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