Junior Wells - Sings Live At The Golden Bear (1998)

Artist: Junior Wells
Album: Sings Live At The Golden Bear
Label: Mercury (3145585522)
Year: Original Release December 1969
Genre: Blues, Chicago electric blues
Format, bitrate: mp3 (320 kbps)
Time: 37:50
Size: 90 MB

Track Listing

1. So Tired 4:46
2. Fever 4:04
3. The Goat 3:40
4. My Babe 3:40
5. Driving Wheel 3:08
6. Don't Start Me Talking 3:34
7. How Many More Years 4:01
8. I'm Ready 3:52
9. Please, Please, Please 3:05
10. Elevate Me Mama 3:54

Personnel:

Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica)
Kenneth Britt (guitar)
Douglas Fagan (tenor saxophone)
Willie Monroe (bass); Bill Warren (drums)

Info:

Recorded live at The Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, California on September 18, 1968. Originally released on Blue Rock (64003). Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.
Digitally remastered by Suha Gur & Kevin Reeves (Polygram Studios).

This reissue of a live recording taken in Huntington Beach, California, and originally released in 1969, showcases harpster and singer Junior Wells's brash, intense Chicago style. The material is familiar–"Fever," "My Babe," "I'm Ready," and "Please, Please, Please," among others–but it's none the worse for that. Wells puts his own stamp on each performance with his growling voice and rich, aggressive harmonica, especially on "So Tired (I Could Cry)" and the aforementioned "My Babe." Wells and company rock out with "Don't Start Me Talking" and "How Many More Years," and lay back for "Elevate Me Mama." Even the CD reissue isn't completely clean;

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