Live at Theresa's 1975
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| Live album from Junior Wells | ||||
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Publication |
2006 with liner notes by Steve Tomashefsky |
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admission |
January 10 and 13, 1975 |
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| Label (s) | Delmark Records | |||
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Title (number) |
20th |
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running time |
63:43 |
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Robert G. Koester |
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Live at Theresa's 1975 is an album by the American harmonica player Junior Wells .
General
The album was on two nights in January 1975 in Theresa's Tavern in Chicago ( Illinois included), but only 2,006 of Delmark Records released. Although Wells and his band performed often at Theresa's during the 1970s, this album features the only live recordings from this period. The album features classic songs by Wells, but also cover versions of blues standards, such as Juke by Little Walter , Going Down Slow by St. Louis Jimmy Oden and Key to the Highway by Big Bill Broonzy . The conversations with the audience add a lot to the club atmosphere that the CD conveys. The album won the Living Blues Award 2007 for best historical blues recording.
The show was originally recorded for and broadcast by Chicago radio station WXRT.
Tracklist
- Little by Little (Blakemore) 4:41
- Snatch It Back and Hold It (Wells) 6:36
- Talk : 24
- Love Her with a Feeling (PD, Tampa Red) 4:12
- Talk 1:51
- Juke (Little Walter) 3:36
- Talk 1:00
- Happy Birthday 1:27
- Talk 1:41
- Scratch My Back (Moore) 5:44
- Help the Poor 3:55
- Talk : 39
- Come on in This House (Blakemore) 3:23
- Talk : 41
- What My Mama Told Me (Blakemore) 8:04
- Key to the Highway 4:07
- Talk : 12
- Goin 'Down Slow (Oden) 8:27
- Talk : 33
- Messin 'with the Kid 2:27
Criticism
- Rolling Stone (p. 74) - "[...] a rare document of electric Chicago, up close and personal." (A rare document of electric Chicago blues, close-up and in person.)
- Down Beat (p. 62) - "Relaxed and informal in its intensity and in its meeting of the blues and James Brown funk [...]" (relaxed and relaxed in its intensity and in its meeting of the blues with James Brown's funk)
- Dirty Linen (p. 76) - "[T] wo nights of Wells at his peak in 1975 are preserved in LIVE AT THERESA'S, one of the year's best historic blues recordings." (Two nights with Junior Wells at his peak are on Live at Theresa's, one of the best historical blues recordings of the year.)
- Mojo (p. 95) - "[I] t vividly catches the ambience of two gigs at his favorite Chicago club." (The album vividly captures the mood of two live performances in his favorite Chicago club.)