VARIOUS ARTISTS. "FOLK FESTIVAL OF THE BLUES" PYE INTERNATIONAL,UK 1963 LP.EX
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Description
Various ?– Folk Festival Of The Blues
Label: Pye International ?– NPL 28033 Format: Vinyl, LP, CompilationCountry: UK Released: 1963 Genre: Blues Style: Chicago Blues
TracklistHide Credits
A1 –Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon & Buddy Guy Wee, Wee Baby Written-By – Guy*, Waters*, Dixon* A2 –Muddy Waters Sitting And Thinking Written-By – Waters* A3 –Buddy Guy Worried Blues Written-By – Guy* A4 –Sonny Boy Williamson (2) Bring It On Home Written-By – Williamson* A5 –Howlin' Wolf Sugar Mama Written-By – Wolf* B1 –Muddy Waters Clouds In My Heart Written-By – Waters* B2 –Howlin' Wolf May I Have A Talk With You Written-By – Wolf* B3 –Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working Written-By – Morganfield* B4 –Buddy Guy Don't Know Which Way To Go Written-By – Guy* B5 –Muddy Waters 19 Years Old Written-By – Waters*Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Big Bill's Copa Cabana Club
Notes
Recorded Live.PYE International R&B Series.
AllMusic Review by Cub Koda [-]
This is a compilation album that isn't, a live album that isn't (at least in a couple of spots), and a Muddy Waters album that isn't, if one counts the appearances by four other artists on it. But for all things it isn't, it is also just happens to be one of the greatest and certainly most underrated live blues album of all time, unbelievably crude, raw, and as real as it gets. Originally issued on Chess' Argo label during the height of the folk music blues revival (hence the goofy title), this was a record that was aimed at a white market who responded in kind. But anybody purchasing it thinking they were getting some nice acoustic coffeehouse blues were in for the reality-check shock of their lives. Recorded on July 26, 1963 at a WPOA live radio broadcast emceed by local Chicago disc jockey Big Bill Hill emanating from the Copacabana Club (hence when this was reissued in 1967, it was retitled Blues From Big Bill's Copacabana), this features Buddy Guy's band as the backup band for everybody, augmented byMuddy's right hand man, pianist Otis Spann. Although Big Bill announces the presence of Little Walterand Sonny Boy Williamson on the album's intro, they're no-shows; the studio version of Williamson's"Bring It On Home" appears here with dubbed on applause (along with the studio version of Guy's"Worried Blues," one of the two bits of audio chicanery here). Everything else is just amazingly raw, crude and blistering, with some of the most electrifying Buddy Guy guitar ever committed to tape, droning saxes, thundering drums, and Otis Spann anchoring everything with consummate elegance, as nobody's bothered to check their tuning in the last half dozen drinks or more. The combination of performances of Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy in tandem with Waters would certainly checklist this one into 'various artists' category, but with half of the 10 tracks here being fronted by Waters, it's clearly Muddy's show all the way. His performances of "I Got My Mojo Working," "She's 19 Years Old," "Clouds In My Heart," "Sitting And Thinking," and the vocal trio effort with Guy and Dixonon the show opening "Wee Wee Baby" are nothing less than exemplary. No matter how you slice it or end up filing it, one would be very hard pressed indeed to find a live blues album that captures the spirit and a moment in time the way this one does. Unavailable on compact disc as of press time, but worth tracking down in its vinyl incarnations at any cost.
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