Mighty Joe Young
w/Otis Rush,Eddie taylor & Carey Bell
Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival
Ann Arbor Michigan
September 7-8-9 (?), 1973
SBD Flac
official track removed


I got this one in a trade so the lineage is cd-r>EAC>TLH>md5 & ftp>TLH torrent>you. Quality is very nice a 9 outta 10.However there are some odd bits of editing but this is the way I got so you can edit this post download..So I have been searching for which night Mr. Joe Young ..a pic of the ticket stub showed you got to attend all three days and the various google searches meant I would have to created an Excel spreadsheet to figure out nights and official and not offical released tunes and I do enough of that at work...The removed track is "I Can't Quit You Baby" with Otis Rush so if anyone out there knows if this IS the official tune the torrent stays. If this is not the official one then I will re do the torrent with that track included so just lemme know.
Also noticed that the University of Michigan filmed a good chunk of these shows and have'em in the Archives.So anyone have a library card????
yada yada yada meanwhile back at the ranch......

1,Intro Mighty Joe Young Band with 2 separate announcers:one I don't know the other is Al Smith 1.20
2.Intrumental 5.58
3.Slow Blues 5.34
4.Tell Me Why You Want to Hurt Me So 7.04
5.Intro Carey Bell .34
6.Instrumental lead by Carey Bell 3.43
7.Intro Eddie Taylor .48
8.13 Highway 3.25
9.Intro Otis Rush/dj talk (wait for Otis to start) 3.31
10.Instrumental 4.07
11.I Can't Quit You Baby 5.07 (official track removed)
12.Feel So Bad 3.49
13.Gambler's Blues 7.45
14.Instrumental 4.01


Found this about Mr. Young
Mighty Joe Young

North Side story
By Tony Russell

Burly blues singer and guitarist Mighty Joe
Young, who has died aged 71, was
described by his fellow bluesman Jimmy
Dawkins as 'one of the Midwest's most
gifted guitarists and Chicago's best'. That
was in 1970. If the next three decades
never confirmed the status Dawkins
claimed for him, it was not because Young
lacked talent or commitment. Since 1986
he seldom appeared in public and only as
a singer, having lost sensation in his
fingers after surgery for a pinched neck
nerve. His death in hospital was caused
by complications after an operation which
he hoped would restore his playing ability.

Born in Louisiana, Young grew up in
Milwaukee. In his youth, he spent some
time in Los Angeles as an amateur boxer
before turning to music. In 1955, he moved
to Chicago and spent a decade and a half
scuffling in blues clubs, working as a
sideman with Jimmy Rogers and Otis
Rush, making occasional singles for small
labels and acquiring along the way the
sobriquet Mighty, an acknowledgment of
his boxer's physique and an allusion to the
1940s monster movie Mighty Joe Young.

At the end of the 1960s, he played second
guitar on West Side Soul and Black
Magic, historic sessions for the Delmark
label by singer-guitarist Magic Sam. His
own debut album for Delmark, Blues With
A Touch Of Soul, followed soon after, and
he also impressed with a dynamic
appearance at the 1969 Chicago Blues
Festival with his employer Koko Taylor.

On Blues With A Touch Of Soul, Young
displayed his command of long, rambling
single-string guitar lines in what would
come to be called the West Side style, as
well as an appealingly grainy voice and a
predilection for the crisp orchestration of
1960s soul music. 'I like a beautiful
arrangement,' he remarked, 'not a
traditional sound that's the same all the
time.'

The Chicago blues fixer Willie Dixon, who
often used him on sessions, agreed: 'He
has a traditional sound which he is able to
mix with a very modern style.' Young's
career was shadowed by the greater
success of younger, sexier performers like
fellow West Siders Magic Sam, Otis Rush
and Luther Allison.

Young was a pioneer in bringing blues to
the North Side, a section of Chicago that
was more attractive to white music fans
than the sometimes volatile black
enclaves on the West and South Side.
Many college students remember Young
at North Side blues clubs like Biddy
Mulligan's, Alice's Revisited or the Wise
Fools Pub, as well as his appearances at
the Ann Arbor Blues Festival.

Preferring to be close to his family, he
only occasionally played out of town or
overseas, though he was well received on
visits to Europe, where he cut an album,
Bluesy Josephine, in France in 1976. He
also recorded albums for Ovation and
Sonet and, most recently, a set for Blind
Pig called Mighty Man, with his son, Joe
Young Jr, playing the rhythm guitarist's
role he himself had so often filled.

• Mighty Joe Young, blues musician, born
September 23, 1927; died March 25,
1999.








Blues Legend MIGHTY JOE YOUNG Passes Away At Age Seventy-One
Born: September 23, 1927 Shreveport, Louisiana
Died: March 24, 1999 Chicago, Illinois


We sadly send news that American blues icon, MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, passed away
on March 25, 1999 in Chicago, Illinois. Young was in the hospital since
February. He passed away from phenomena after complications from a spinal
operation he hoped would restore his ability to play guitar again. He was 71.

Mighty Joe Young was one of the first blues artists to break through on the
North Side of Chicago in the very early 1970s, playing to packed clubs and
becoming one of the premier and best-known touring blues artists on the
festival and university circuits. Between tours in 1986 he had taken his
band into the studio on his own money and started to lay down tracks to
finally do a recording - his way. But after recording only three numbers he
shelved the project when in the fall of 1986 he decided to have surgery on
a pinched nerve in his neck. After the surgery he suffered complications
and didn't heal from the operation until after a year after the operation.
It took a year of rehab before he regained his balance for walking, but he
never fully recovered the sensation in his fingers to play guitar. As a
result he made only rare appearances over the last decade. His greatest
hope was to regain his ability to play guitar as he did before his first
operation.

Joe Young was still mighty in his seventieth year. His regular work-outs at
the health club helped maintain his barrel-chested former boxer's physique.
Always a strong family man, he has made his recovery surrounded by children
and grandchildren. He made appearances again as a singer and was on the
schedule for the 1997 Chicago Blues Festival.

Born September 23, 1927 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Young also lived for a
time in Milwaukee and Los Angeles, where in the late 40s he was an amateur
boxer. He began playing in the early 1950s, working clubs in Milwaukee and
then back in his native Louisiana where in 1955 he first recorded for the
tiny Jiffy label.

The next year he came to Chicago where he worked with Joe Little and his
Heart Breakers, Jimmy Rogers, Billy Boy Arnold and Otis Rush. He eventually
recorded a few more singles for Atomic H, Fire (where in 1961 he was given
the "Mighty" moniker), Webcor, Celtex and U.S.A. and appeared on disc with
blues titans Magic Sam (on both Delmark LPs), Willie Dixon, Albert King,
Jimmy Dawkins, Tyrone Davis (including his hit "Can I Change My Mind") and
Koko Taylor (on Chess and Alligator). In 1969, his sensational appearance
with Koko at Chicago's first Grant Park Blues Festival was an enormous
boost to both of their careers. In typically humble fashion Joe Young plays
down his role as one of the first to bring blues to North Side clubs, but
back when blues was new to young, white audiences, he was a huge draw at
Alice's Revisited, Minstrels, Biddy Mulligan's and Wise Fools where he
played 12 straight New Year's Eve engagements. His memorable appearances at
the Ann Arbor Festivals in the early '70s solidified his hold on the
festival and university circuits, and by the mid-1980s Young's successful
career had taken him all over North America and Europe.

Mighty Joe Young will be remembered for his pioneering work as one of the
first Chicago singer/guitarists to meld soul and blues in tight, fresh,
horn-laden arrangements. His music will continue to spark memories of
powerful good-times, nightclubs jam-packed to the rafters, and
Chicago-style soul-blues. Young is survived by his son, Joe Young, Jr., and
other family members.