Sweet Home Chicago [Import]

Luther Allison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Charly UK
• ASIN: B00000364J
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,192 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dust My Broom

2. I Got Worries

3. You Don't Love Me

4. Going Down

5. I'm Gonna Leave You Alone

6. Sweet Home Chicago

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Luther lives on, March 30, 2009

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C. C. Eisenhart (God's Country) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Home Chicago (MP3 Download)

Thisa one of the few pieces by Luther that I don't have. In December of 1969, I was producing a show at the U of R. My final one, before handing over the reins to 'new blood'. That show was to headline with Magic Sam, Big Mama Thornton, John Littlejohn and Lucky Peterson. One week before the show, I got the news that Magic Sam had died of a heart at age 32! Big Mama crapped out, and Willie Dixon gave me Koko Taylor (with Otis Spann, Matt Murphy, Luther Tucker and S.P. Leary in the band.) But enough of that.
Dick Waterman called me and said he had a guy who wanted to do a tribute to Sam. That guy was Luther Allison. All I can say is he was electrifying!
And I guess he was impressed with the way I put together the show, as he asked me to be his personal manager! I couldn't, but I did bail the guy out when the motor on his wagon died (still have the cancelled check.)
I saw Luther one more time when he played at Rochester the next year...with a surprise visit by Buddy Guy. By then, Luther had matured even more. Even better playing and vocal.
While he has been dead for quite a few years, I'll never forget his energy on stage.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fine Live Recording from 1976., January 6, 2004

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René Ask Rasmussen (Odense, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Home Chicago (Audio CD)

Fine Live Album that shows Luther Allisons never ending energy.
Not always the most harmonious arrangements, but rocking energy and soulful singing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Natural born, low-down, hard-driving Chicago blues, March 28, 2008

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J. McCarthyJr (Kansas City, Mo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Home Chicago (Audio CD)

For those who missed seeing Luther Allison, this collection from the seventies finds him at the top of his game as a great old school blues man who pumped fresh energy and passion into some fine old songs from Elmore James, Robert Johnson and Buddy Guy. He puts his distinctive twist into each one, particularly his supercharged version of "Sweet Home Chicago", a song he used to close his shows during this period. Luther took over Freddie King's band after King's early death and he pays an intense tribute to him in "I'm Going Down". Luther had an electrifying effect upon his audiences, the women even more so than the men and he struts his stuff in his fine "I Got Worries." As a devoted admirer of Luther Allison since I first heard him in the early eighties, this album remains one of his four best.