Willie Buck The Life I Love

(1982/84 'Delmark') (66:27/11)With Louis Myers, Dave Myers, Mac Simmons and Big Moose Walker! Blues vocalist Willie Buck was born in 1937 in the small town of Houston, Mississippi. Willie performed on what became known as the "Chittlin Circuit" bouncing between Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, North & South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Shortly after developing his reputation, Willie migrated to Chicago in 1954 where he truly immersed himself in the Chicago Blues scene and became a real force on "Maxwell Street". Willie was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in Chicago in the summer of 2004. The Life I Love was recorded in 1982 and was issued then in a very limited edition LP. It appears on CD for the first time now and features previously unissued live tracks totaling 65 minutes of genuine Chicago blues.

 I still have the orginal LP version from 1983 in my record collection. When it was originally released, it represented a great set of tough Chicago blues, Muddy Waters style. Delmark has now re-issued these sides on CD, augmented by five live cuts from '84. The studio LP still sounds great. The live recordings were not made with professional equipment. Classic Chicago style blues. WILLIE BUCK - voc, LITTLE MAC SIMMONS -hca, DIMESTORE FRED - hca, LOUIS MYERS - gtr, JOHN PRIMER -gtr, DAVE MYERS - bass, JERRY PORTER - drums (JODIE NORTH -drums on live tracks.).