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Live at the Golden Bear | 
 enlarge | Artist: Junior Wells
Label: Mca Special Products
Category: Music
List Price: $6.98
Buy New: $1.55
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 49237
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731455855227
EAN: 0731455855227
ASIN: B000009HE2
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED!
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| Tracks:
| • | So Tired - Junior Wells, Wells, Junior | | • | Fever - Junior Wells, Davenport, John [1] | | • | The Goat - Junior Wells, Williamson, Sonny B | | • | My Babe - Junior Wells, Dixon, Willie | | • | Driving Wheel - Junior Wells, Sykes, Roosevelt | | • | Don't Start Me Talking - Junior Wells, Williamson, Sonny B | | • | How Many More Years - Junior Wells, Howlin' Wolf | | • | I'm Ready - Junior Wells, Dixon, Willie | | • | Please, Please, Please - Junior Wells, Brown, James [1] | | • | Elevate Me Mama - Junior Wells, Williamson, Sonny B |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This reissue of a live recording taken in Huntington Beach, California, and originally released in 1969, showcases harpster and singer Junior Wells's brash, intense Chicago style. The material is familiar--"Fever," "My Babe," "I'm Ready," and "Please, Please, Please," among others--but it's none the worse for that. Wells puts his own stamp on each performance with his growling voice and rich, aggressive harmonica, especially on "So Tired (I Could Cry)" and the aforementioned "My Babe." Wells and company rock out with "Don't Start Me Talking" and "How Many More Years," and lay back for "Elevate Me Mama." Even the CD reissue isn't completely clean; amplifiers peak and microphones feed back, and the recording lacks the polish of a studio album. In a way, that's a good thing. Wells, like many Chicago blues musicians, had a raw-edged intensity that was best captured in live performance. --Genevieve Williams
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| Customer Reviews:
Hidden Pleasures May 5, 1999
Ricky Mullen (RJMSalem@aol.com (Roanoke, Virginia)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Although I bought this CD as a Junior Wells fan, and was definitely not disappointed by his performance, the real joy came from finding that the supporting musicians were nothing short of phenominal. Guitar player Kenneth Britt especially shines, so much that I want to know what else he did and where he is now. Douglas Fagan on sax, Willie Monroe on bass, and Bill Warren on drums all turn in stellar performances. Buy this album to hear Junior Wells live at the peak of his form, but the real pleasure is in discovering and listening to the supporting musicians.
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