
This seems to be the month for
re-visiting the sixties; first Chris Strachwitz presents us with the Big Joe
Williams set covered by Ray elsewhere and now Jefferson Records offer up this
collaboration between the Scandinavian Blues Society and the Swedish Broadcasting
Corporation.
The CDs' contents are 'world famous in Sweden' and deserve to be famous in the rest of the world too. In 1964 Swedish Radio broadcast a 21-part series entitled I Blueskvarter which translates as In Blues Quarters. To gather material for his show Olle Helander somehow talked the SBC into sending him on an extended visit to the States accompanied by the sound engineer of his choice. Olle visited various cities and the results he achieved elsewhere should be appearing on later CDs in this series - but this one concentrates on Chicago.
Olle Helander knew what he was about, he had done this sort of trip before in 1961, and he had his contacts. His initial idea was to use Big Joe Williams as a talent scout but that peripatetic gentleman was, somewhat predictably, out on the road. Instead Olle contacted Willie Dixon, Pete Welding and Bob Koester, set himself up in The Sutherland Lounge on the South Side and sent out the word. It was his object to concentrate on names less well-known names in Europe, rather than plough fields with Muddy, Wolf etc, which were already pretty well furrowed.
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Selection Volume One
Walter Horton - Louise, Louise.
Willie Mabon - Michelle.
James Brewer - Big Road Blues.
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years.
Yank Rachell - Every Night and Day I Hear My Baby's Name.
Johnny Young - My baby walked out and left me.
Sunnyland Slim - Brownskin woman.
Walter Horton - Let's have a good time.
Willie Mabon - New Orleans Blues
James Brewer - Poor Kelly Blues
Eddie Boyd - Her Picture In the Frame
Yank Rachell - My Baby Rocks Me
Johnny Young - Step by, baby
Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's jump
Willie Mabon - Michelle.
James Brewer - Big Road Blues.
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years.
Yank Rachell - Every Night and Day I Hear My Baby's Name.
Johnny Young - My baby walked out and left me.
Sunnyland Slim - Brownskin woman.
Walter Horton - Let's have a good time.
Willie Mabon - New Orleans Blues
James Brewer - Poor Kelly Blues
Eddie Boyd - Her Picture In the Frame
Yank Rachell - My Baby Rocks Me
Johnny Young - Step by, baby
Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's jump
I Blueskvarter - El Barrio del Blues
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