Blues by Year : 1974 - feat M Waters, B Guy, B Wyman, O Rush & more, radio sources, please read

During the past 12 years, i did many blues posts here but i still have other archives (shorter broadcasts sessions from various artists) deserving an upload.
In order to make this not lost and to share all i have, i decided to built torrents by year.
I hope this will please huge blues fans.

This first volume is a mix between my own recordings and archives from the French Gentleman (kindly provided years ago by dimer Unclemeat).
I needed time to explore this material and leave besides what was officially released.
The songs here are from mono radio recordings (FM & AM) made on reels and quality varies (radio reception, tapes condition).
The recording quality will be better as the years goes passing by (...).

Tapes - digital transfers - files on PC - Audacity (creating 2 tracks from mono, declicks, eq, volume, FLAC export, ...) - md5 with TLH.

The sources :

During the 1974 Montreux festival, Buddy Guy, Jr Wells & Muddy Waters recorded the "Messin' With The Blues" video / DVD (also published on CD) - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9I9ZFRZaA&t=2459s ; France Inter broadcasted live that night and many non official tunes were captured, here they are.

Band in Montreux 28 june 1974 for the main set :
Bass – Bill Wyman
Drums – Dallas Taylor
Guitar – Terry Taylor
Guitar, Vocals – Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters
Harmonica, Vocals – Junior Wells

The torrent is also featuring tunes from the openning act by the Olympic Runners.


A live Muddy Waters CD was published years after his show in Antibes 24 July 1974 from the France Inter radio recording. This station broadcasted an instrumental tune played by his band and not featured on the regular record : it's also here.


Muddy Waters band in Antibes 1974 is the classic line up : Bob Margolin, Luther Gtr Johnson, Pinetop Perkins, Jerry portnoy, Calvin Jones & Willie Smith


There is also a tune from The Ice Band in Antibes 1974 :
Frank Abel Keyboards with
Ronnie James, Arthur Young, Lafayette Thompson, + congas & drums

We have also a session from the Blues sur Seine festival, Paris xx xx 1974 by the Memphis Blues Stars of Tennessee

And to finish, here are some tunes from the Chicago Blues festival tour 1974, Paris fall 1974 (featuring Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush & J Dawkins).


01 ...
02 ...
03 ...
04 ... and band introduction by M Waters
05 Catfish Blues
06 Howlin' Wolf
07 They Call Me Muddy Waters
08 Making Friends
09 I'm Ready
10 Stormy Monday
11 Sweet Home Chicago
12 Instrumental
13 Baby walk
14 ...
15 My Baby She Left Me A Mule To Ride
16 Stop The Boogie
17 What I'd Say
18 Sunnyland Boogie
19 I Can't Quit You Baby ...
20 ...

(98 mns)


01-03 : openning band "the Olympics Runners" Montreux june 1974
04-09 : M waters with band above
10-11 : B guy, Jr Wells & B Wyman, poor sound, added just for the document
12 : M Waters band Antibes 24 july 1974
13 : By the band Ice Antibes 1974
14-17 : By the Memphis Blues Stars of Tennessee Paris 1974
18 : By Sunnyland Slim Chi Blues Fest 1974
19-20 : probably Otis Rush & Jimmy Dawkins together Chi Blues Fest 1974

Blues by year will continue if some interest is noticed.

Samples provided but quality varies.

On dime by letsgo, april 2021.