Chicago Blues Festival 1964

Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B0000DI4UR
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #481,843 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The orignal Blues Brothers, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells are back together again on this magnificent live album recorded at the legendary Chicago Blues Festival 1964!

Superb performances of the blues classics Buddy s Blues, Junior s Shuffle, Everday I Have The Blues, and The Rolling Stones classic (I Can t Get No) Satisfaction!

Special bonus tracks are live studio sessions of Buddy Guy with various studio musicians, recorded in the mid-60s!

Nobody did blues like Guy & Wells and this incredible live album proves it! --Cleopatra Records

Product Description

1. Buddy s Blues
2. Stormy Monday
3. Everday I Have The Blues
4. Woman Blues
5. (I Can t Get No) Satisfaction
6. Messin With The Kid
7. No Use Cryin
8. Just To Be With You
9. Junior s Shuffle
10. Out Of Sight

BONUS TRACKS
11. Broken Hearted Blues
12. Stone Crazy
13. Slop Around

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Concert, Awful Sound, March 23, 2005

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Marc Winter (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (Audio CD)

The Concert is great, typical Buddy/Junior Gig full of great music and energy, harp and guitar fantastic. But the sound on the first few tracks, especially on "Stormy Mondy" is so bad, it is not to be understood why it was released.

There are many great recordings of these two fabulous blues-artists, but this bad bootleg is only to be recommended for the die-hard fan or completist.

This being said, I can admit that I am both, when it comes to these two genuises. I enjoy the record, but it reminds one of sitting way too far in the back of a badly engineered concert.

BEWARE!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing..., October 12, 2005

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B. Bowman "Double B" (Jersey, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (Audio CD)

After giving this CD one listen I can say that an otherwise great performance was not recorded well. It seems like the horns were closer to the mic than the guitar or the harmonica. The vocals are muddy sounding and really weren't recorded well at all. The last three "bonus tracks" are studio recordings and don't feature Junior Wells either, so overall this release was a disappointment to me.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good music, bad recording, January 12, 2004

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (Audio CD)

This music is actually really good. Smouldering guitar playing from Buddy Guy, and great renditions of "Stormy Monday", "Leave My Girl Alone" (which is oddly titled "Woman Blues" on the cover), and "Messin' With The Kid" - in addition to a horrible "Satisfaction".

But the vocals are terrible. Not badly sung, you understand, but badly recorded, at times impossible to understand unless you know the words by heart. The only exceptions are the three bonus tracks, and they are studio tracks, not live recordings.
This is rather strange, since most of the instruments are decently recorded, but the vocal tracks vary from bad to awful, making this an album for dedicated fans only.
2 1/2 stars.