''Live at Theresa's 1975'' is a live album recorded by
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
vocalist and harmonica player
Junior Wells at
Theresa's Lounge Theresa McLaurin Needham (April 17, 1912 - October 16, 1992) was an American tavern owner who became known as "the Godmother of the Chicago blues". She was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001.
Born Theresa McLaurin in Merid ...
in Chicago, Illinois, for
Delmark Records.
The set was broadcast on local radio station
WXRT.
Critical reception
''
No Depression'' wrote that it "has to be one of the most effectively you-are-there live albums ever recorded." ''
Record Collector'' wrote: "One of the highlights is
ells'sbetween-song talks, a feature of his intimate live work which is captured here in full." The ''
Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' called the album "notable for great guitar work from journeymen Phil Guy and others."
Track listing
#"Little by Little" (Amos Blakemore
Junior Wells) - 4:41
#"Snatch It Back and Hold It" (Blakemore) - 6:36
#Talk - 0:24
#"
Love Her with a Feeling" (
Tampa Red) - 4:12
#Talk - 1:51
#"
Juke" (
Little Walter) - 3:36
#Talk - 1:00
#"Happy Birthday" (Hill) - 1:27
#Talk - 1:41
#"
Scratch My Back" (
James Moore) - 5:44
#"Help the Poor" (Charles Singleton) - 3:55
#Talk - 0:39
#"Come on in This House" (Blakemore) - 3:23
#Talk - 0:41
#"What My Mama Told Me" (Blakemore) - 8:04
#"
Key to the Highway" (
Big Bill Broonzy,
Charlie Segar
Charlie Segar was an American blues pianist and occasional singer, who is best known for being the first to record the blues standard, "Key to the Highway" (1940). Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Segar has been dubbed the "Keyboard Wizard Sup ...
) - 4:07
#Talk - 0:12
#"
Goin' Down Slow" (
James Burke Oden
James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden (June 26, 1903 – December 30, 1977) was an American blues singer and songwriter.
Biography
Oden was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. His parents were Henry Oden, a dancer, and Leana West ...
) - 8:27
#Talk - 0:33
#"
Messin' with the Kid" (
Melvin London) - 2:27
Personnel
Band
*Vince Chappelledrums
*
Phil Guy
Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of blues guitarist Buddy Guy. Phil and Buddy Guy were frequent collaborators and contribute both guitar and vocal performances on many o ...
guitar
*Earnest Johnsonbass
*
Sammy Lawhornguitar
*
Byther Smithguitar, vocals
*
Junior Wellsharmonica, vocals
Production
*Marc PoKempnerphotography
*Ken Rasekengineer
*Steve Tomashefskyliner notes, supervisor
*Robert G. Koesterproducer
References
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Live blues albums
Junior Wells albums
2006 live albums
Albums produced by Bob Koester
Live albums published posthumously
Delmark Records live albums