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West Side Soul
(1967)
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Magic Sam
To call West Side Soul one of the great blues albums, one of the key albums (if not the key album) of modern electric blues is all true, but it tends to diminish and academicize Magic Sam's debut album. This is the inevitable side effect of time, when an album that is decades old enters the history books, but this isn't an album that should be ...
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Black Magic
(1968)
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This album's color cover photo is an action shot, showing Magic Sam in the process of choking and bending his strings, a good hike up the fretboard. It isn't clear exactly what he is playing from the picture, although that certainly didn't stop dozens of pimply hippie guitar players from trying to figure it out. In the meantime, the record goes on ...
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Live at Ann Arbor & In Chicago
(1982)
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Magic Sam
While the sound quality leaves something to be desired, fans of electric Chicago blues should hear Magic Sam live. Recorded at two separate locations, the Alex Club in Chicago in 1963 and 1964 and the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1969, this disc captures the raw energy not only of the musicians, but the crowds' tremendous response to them. ...
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An Introduction to Magic Sam
(2007)
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Magic Sam
Magic Sam waxed some fantastic sides in his tragically short career, and they've been anthologized many different ways. An Introduction to Magic Sam is Fuel 2000's (newest) version, and collects tracks from his early years recording for the Cobra and Chief labels with an extra mid-'60s Crash single thrown in for good measure. It's a solid ...
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The Late Great Magic Sam
(1984)
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Magic Sam
White guy masquerading as Magic Sam. Cub Koda, All Music Guide
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Give Me Time
(1991)
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Magic Sam
These intimate home tapes from Magic Sam were documented a year before his untimely passing in 1969. Sam -- born Samuel Maghett in the Delta of Mississippi -- became one of the unquestionable originals and seminal contributors to the Chicago Westside blues scene in the late 1950s and 1960s. As this collection aptly demonstrates, he is at the top ...
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Chicago Blues [Delta Box]
(1998)
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The Magic Sam Legacy
(1989)
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Magic Sam
The 13 tracks on Magic Sam Legacy (1997) are culled from material initially discarded from his two Delmark studio LPs West Side Soul (1967) and Black Magic (1968). The principal caveat being the John Lee Hooker inspired "I Feel So Good" -- liberally copping Hooker's "Boogie Chillun" -- and the spirited instrumental "Lookin' Good," both of which ...
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Blues Masters, Vol. 2: Postwar Chicago Blues
(1992)
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Excellent 18 track compendium of all the major movers and shakers who helped shape the Chicago blues scene in the 50s. Everyone is well represented here, and major stars like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf stand next to behind-the-scenes geniuses like Earl Hooker and Jody Williams for an interesting, and accurate, blend. Cub Koda, All Music Guide
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With a Feeling 57-67: The Cobra, Chief & Crash Recordings
(2001)
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Magic Sam
This set basically apes the Fuel 2000 set issued in 2001 and the Paula set from 1999 but adds a few tracks -- six to be exact -- from early 1967, making it identical to the P-Vine collection from Japan released in 2003. In other words, these recordings that Magic Sam made between the years of 1956-1967 are pure, unadulterated Chicago blues gold. ...
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Chicago Blues Masters [Delta]
(1994)
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The Greatest Blues Album of All Time, Vol. 2
(2000)
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The Greatest Blues Album of All Time, Vol. 2 is an average collection of 16 tracks from both electric and acoustic blues heroes, including John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, and even Billie Holiday. While the sound quality tends to be muddy, this is a decent blues primer for the novice at a bargain-bin price. Al ...
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The Cobra Records Story
(1993)
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If the 50 tracks on this double-CD box sound an awful lot like they could have come off of any of MCA's various Chess boxes -- but especially the Willie Dixon volume -- it's no accident. Cobra Records was an upstart Chicago-based label that existed for a little over three years at the end of the 1950s, founded by Eli Toscano and Willie Dixon as ...
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Easy Baby
(1990)
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Magic Sam
Here are all the issued recordings Magic Sam made between his debut on Cobra in 1957 all the way up to just before signing with Delmark and releasing the epochal West Side Soul album. In addition to Cobra masterpieces like "All Your Love" and the title track, it also includes "Magic Rocker" and "Love Me This Way" (both not originally issued as ...
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Magic Touch
(1966)
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Magic Sam
Another rare glimpse at Magic Sam hard at work, this time at another fabled West side haunt, Sylvio's, in 1966. No saxes this time, but uncle Shakey Jake was around for a few guest shots, while bassist Mac Thompson and drummer Odie Payne provide supple backing as Sam launches into another terrific set of numbers that for the most part he never ...
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Essential Blues Guitar
(1997)
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Essential Blues Guitar is a celebratory collection of swamp blues, electric blues, and modern blues, and an excellent honor to the guitar -- the instrument that made the blues genre one of the 20th century's jubilant sounds. This stunning two-disc compilation, a sister release to the House of Blues label's Essential Blues Harmonica, showcases ...
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Modern Blues: Boogie to Fusion, The Gold Collection
(1999)
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Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1994
(1996)
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A four-CD, 80-song box set that, in line with similar Smithsonian productions, outlines the history of blues spanning over 50 years, with cuts by major performers who represent its stylistic evolution. The set is stuffed with classics by the likes of Muddy Waters, Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, Little Walter, Big Mama Thornton, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore ...
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The Blues Box [Laserlight]
(1994)
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Here are five discs, originally issued separately on the label, boxed up together as sort of a "deluxe" budget set. All of the material is licensed from the Delmark label and, as such, it is all top-notch, with classic performances throughout. Chicago Blues Bash features tracks from Junior Wells, Big Joe Williams, J.B. Hutto, and Jimmy Johnson, ...
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Life, Times & Music Series: Electric Blues
(1996)
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Evidence Blues Sampler: Five
(1996)
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The fifth Evidence Blues Sampler continues the tradition of mixing and matching Evidence's current releases, this time circa 1996. This does not mean that the collection is devoted to contemporary recordings. Instead, it gives a good blend of the label's new(ish) recordings and reissues. This can result in a little bit of a schizophrenic feel, but ...
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Sweet Home Chicago [Delmark]
(1988)
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Solid '60s sides by Magic Sam, Eddie Shaw, Luther Allison, Louis Myers. Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
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The Incredible Electric Blues Guitar Album
(2000)
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Nothin' But the Blues [Castle]
(2000)
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The Greatest Blues Album of All Time, Vol. 1
(2000)
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The Greatest Blues Album of All Time, Vol. 1 is an average collection of 16 tracks from both electric and acoustic blues heroes, including John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, and even Billie Holiday. While the sound quality tends to be muddy, this is a decent blues primer for the novice at a bargain-bin ...
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