Junior Wells: Best of the Vanguard Years

"Ahhh, yes, the Summer of '69. ... In July and August, The Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan was having a small music festival in the sculpture garden a few times a week. Most of the artists booked were very high brow Avant Garde or Jazz. But, one night they had a show representing the Indigenous Music of America... The Blues. The band that night... Junior Wells, vocals and harp... Buddy Guy, guitar... Louie Myers, bass... Fred Below, drums. How to explain who these guys were? How about the Blues equivalent of The Who or Led Zeppelin? This was a Blues Virtuoso Supergroup. Musicians of staggering innovation, musicality, charisma, originality. 'Junior Wells - The Vanguard Years' is the CD to grab to get a taste of these four... especially for the tracks cut live at Pepper's Lounge in Chicago about two years earlier. ... Blues played at a level of unparalleled virtuosity" (Binky Philips, "Seeing and Not Seeing Jimi Hendrix," Huffington Post, 3/17/11).

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