Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues (LP, 180g Vinyl)

(Speakers Corner) 10 tracks, made from the original, analogue mastertapes, pure analogue, audiophile pressing

Having the blues may be one of the very private affairs of the human psyche. Playing the blues, on the other hand, and expressing one's inner state of mind in sounds and words, is probably the most public mission of black music. With Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, two members of the blues guild give their highly personal blues, which is also deepened by their playing technique. The highly talented autodidact Guy nimbly fingered his way to 23rd place in the Rolling Stones magazine's list of the best 100 guitarists of all time and won the coveted Grammy several times. Junior Wells attended high school with Muddy Waters at the tender age of 18 and played the blues harp with passion and virtuosity.


In this recording, the actors condense rocky playing over a bone dry bass line to a prayer mill-like funky style ("A Man Of Many Words"), then immediately draw their 12-bar blues lines in a light-footed step to slender mandolin chirping and create an earthy groove ("T-Bone Shuffle"). Then the duo persistently works its way along an unfaltering chord ("A Poor Man's Plea"), to advance two pieces further on, pulsating powerfully in jagged off-beat ("This Old Fool").
The hand-picked band, in which co-producer Eric Clapton immortalizes himself on the rhythm and bottleneck guitar and voodoo rocker Dr. John occasionally conjures up the keys, stylizes this album into a collectable eavesdropping icon.

This Speakers Corner production was made using analog master tape and mastering 100% pure analog.

Recorded: October 1970 at Criteria Studios, Miami, by Ron Albert and April 1972 at Intermedia Studios, Boston, by Richard Oulleppe