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Southside blues jam

Junior Wells

Reviews (2)

DownBeat

2015 April

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Frank-John Hadley

2015 April

"Back to blues after a few years singing soul, Junior Wells asserts his considerable powers on a 1970 studio album that is true in spirit and in letter to a spirited performance in a Chicago barroom".

Living blues

2015 February

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Justin O'Brien

2015 February

"In recording Junior Wells' 'Southside Blues Jam' in 1969 and '70, Bob Koester showed complete disregard for what other record producers were producing and how they were going about it, choosing instead to let the reel run ... His stream of consciousness lyrics are the cloth from which the true blues has historically been made: the lyrics are comprised of what's worying his mind. It's a very personal astonishingly intimate recording, held together in part by the sentinent response from his top-of-the-line sidemen".