Junior Wells
1966-09-16
Club 47,
Cambridge MA

******* REMASTERED by CHiew, FMOLiP Production *******
** OCT 2006 **

Tools: Sound Forge 8.0, Flac Frontend 1.7.1, Trader's Little Helper (Build 89), Sennheiser HDR130, foobar2000 v0.9.3.1

I'm not sure who the original seeder was, but whoever it was, I thank you & others like Doc Tinker, Hezekiahx2, twofthrs, 38f, etc, etc, for keeping the blues alive! I've left the original notes as they are except for the timings.

I found the image a bit too right sided for my liking, so I tried to correct this a little, and at the same time, I deleted a few (very few) silent parts. The last track cuts suddenly; I presume this is in the original as the timing of D2 tallies with that on the original notes. I hope no-one finds my tweaks blasphemising!

Enjoy!

Chiew

Source:MReel*>?>CDr(A-)
Transfer:CDR>EAC>WAV>FLAC

D1: [63:58]

-------Set 1-------
01. Intro Instrumental
02. One Mint Julep
03. Reelin' & Rockin'
04. [Intro Jr Wells] I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)
05. One Way Out
06. Worried Life Blues
07. You Better Come Home
08. Outro Instrumental
-------Set 2-------
09. Honky Tonk
10. Juke
11. [Intro Jr Wells] That's Alright
12. Yonder Wall
13. Messin' With The Kid

D2: [61:00]

-----Set 2 cont-----
01. //Hoodoo Man Blues
02. Hideaway
03. Outro Instrumental
-------Set 3-------
04. Instrumental
05. You're So Fine
06. Sweet Little Angel
07. [Intro Jr Wells] If You Leave Me Baby
08. You Don't Love Me
09. Got My Mojo Workin'
10. Tobacco Road//

Junior Wells - harmonica, vocals
Louis Myers - guitar, vocals
Dave Myers - bass
Fred Below - drums


* source/lineage unknown, could be sbd, aud or mix, but it's very listenable. someone taped shows hanging double mics above the stage during this time period. the sound quality of this recording is so similar to the recent Muddy Waters 8/24/66 torrent at dimeadozen (thanks DocTinker for inspiring me to seed this show), that they could easily both be from the same source.

I received the show years ago on 3 cdr's in a trade; one disc for each of the three approximately 40 min sets. to facilitate burning the show onto 2 discs, I've renamed files appropriately. Set 2 already had a source cut in the middle, so I split the program there, making no additional interruptions. There's also a source cut between the 1st and 2nd songs of Set three (d2t4-5) that's not noted in the tracklist since no music is affected.

there were several tiny gaps on each disc which I removed with shntool. I joined, resplit and retracked the wavs, but performed no further remastering. (anyone who wants to remaster it has my blessing - provided they reseed it here) there are a few spots of minor analog distortion here and there, nothing major at all. you can hear the amp buzzing pretty loud between songs, but tape hiss is not bad.

there's alot of between song banter and wasted recording time that's left 'as is'. at one point, Jr says you're going to have to give me a minute; then at least a couple minutes of silence go by while he does whatever he needed time to do. it's all part of the recording. I chose to not make additional tracks out of any of those segments; intros to songs etc.. previously, most songs began with alot of talk. the track cuts were right as applause died at one song's end, regardless of the talk/time to elapse before the start of the next song. during retracking, I moved some of the talk from the beginning of one track to the end of the previous track in many cases. I prefer to be able to cue up a song, and hear it start, or the intro at least - not 2 min of unrelated bs followed by the song I cued. So now, most songs end with alot of talking, but you can always skip forward. I think the tracking's much improved.

I couldn't dig up any history on this show, but it's almost three complete sets rare 60's blues with one of my favorite harmonica heroes. I worked up the setlist (with some help from DocTinker), and the personnel list from listening. The band are the the guys from the Aces who apparently played (uncredited) on alot of Junior Wells first Chicago recording sessions. please feel free to submit corrections or additional information as I may have made mistakes in notation, track titles, technical info, assumptions, etc..

Enjoy this glimpse into blues history.

Size: 710MB (FLAC)