Category Archives: Blues

One Track Mind: Charles Caldwell, “Hadn't I Been Good To You” (2004; 2011 reissue)

Now, Fat Possum is preparing a vinyl reissue of this underrated side, due on Nov. 22, that hopefully will burnish the reputation of a star-in-the-making that went too soon. Caldwell, playing his first guitar (a hollow-body Gibson 135 given to him at
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Rory Gallagher – BBC Sessions (1999; 2011 reissue)

The newly reissued BBC Sessions, a collection featuring one disc of live performances and then another of radio broadcasts, underscore just why. Whereas his studio albums, in particular late in Gallagher's hard-touring career, could be uneven affairs,
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Fricke's Picks: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, the Original Blues Brothers

Hoodoo Man Blues – released in 1966, now reissued with an extra half-hour of outtakes and studio banter – would be the start of a long creative friendship. Guy and Wells recorded and toured together until the latter's death in 1998, opening shows for
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