BUDDY GUY & JUNIOR WELLS Play The Blues LP ATLANTIC 1972 UK orig w/ERIC CLAPTON
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BUDDY GUY & JUNIOR WELLS
with
ERIC CLAPTON, A.C. REED, MIKE UTLEY, DR. JOHN, LEROY STEWART,
ROOSEVELT SHAW, CARL RADLE, JIM GORDON, J. GEILS, MAGIC DICK,
SET JUSTMAN, DANNY KLEIN, STEPHEN BLADD, JUKE JOINT JIMMY
and special tanks to PETER WOLF
Contender for the title of greatest blues guitarist ever, with a fiery, screechy,
super-quick technique that influenced countless followers, Buddy Guy is one of the most celebrated
blues guitarists of his generation (and arguably the most celebrated), possessing a sound and style
that embodied the traditions of classic Chicago blues while also embracing the fire and flash of rock & roll.
Regarded as the last of the great Chicago harmonica players, Junior Wells was an impressive stylist
and a leading practitioner of postwar blues harmonica. He was one bad dude, strutting across
the stage like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking
Chicago blues attack. Amazingly, Junior Wells kept at precisely this sort of thing for over 40 years;
he was an active performer from the dawn of the '50s until his death in the late '90s
"PLAY THE BLUES"
Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, October, 1970;
and at Intermedia Studios, Boston, Mass., April, 1972
Produced by Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun & Tom Dowd;
Boston sessions produced by Michael Cuscuna
1972 LP ATLANTIC RECORDS K40240 STEREO
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
UNLAMINATED SINGLE SLEEVE
This version: initial UK release, red/white/blue Atlantic labels with no WEA logo,
'All Rights...' circular label text in the red section only.
wrong label on Side A, "Sam & Dave The Best Of" instead of "BG & JW Play the Blues"
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: ATLANTIC - RED/WHITE/BLUE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: K40240
Catalog on labels: K 40240 (K 40240 A / K 40240 B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): K 40240-A1
Other / Runout (Side A, Etched): RAYS
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): K 40240-B1
On labels: rim text reads "All rights........prohibited"
Produced by Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun & Tom Dowd
An Atco Recording
?1972
(on Side B): Copyright Control (1, 2) Republic Music (MCPS) (3)
Mills Music (4) Leeds Music (5)
On Back Sleeve: Photography: Jim Marshall
An Atco Record distributed by WEA Records Ltd.
? 1972
Shorepak by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: A MAN OF MANY WORDS - MY BABY SHE LEFT ME (SHE LEFT ME A MULE TO RIDE)
COME ON IN THIS HOUSE / HAVE MERCY BABY
T-BONE SHUFFLE - A POOR MAN'S PLEA
Side B: MESSIN' WITH THE KID - THIS OLD FOOL
I DON'T KNOW - BAD BAD WHISKEY - HONEYDRIPPER
grading
RECORD NEAR EX but (please, also read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Considering the troubled background of this album (Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun, and Tom Dowd
only ended up with eight tracks at a series of 1970 sessions in Miami; two years later, the J. Geils Band
was brought in to cut two additional songs to round out the long-delayed LP for 1972 release),
the results were pretty impressive. Buddy Guy contributes dazzling lead axe to their revival
of "T-Bone Shuffle"; Junior Wells provides a sparkling remake of Sonny Boy's "My Baby She Left Me,"
and Guy is entirely credible in a grinding Otis Redding mode
on the Southern soul stomper "A Man of Many Words."...(AllMusic)
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