BUDDY GUY & JUNIOR WELLS Play The Blues LP ATLANTIC 1972 UK orig w/ERIC CLAPTON

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BUDDY GUY & JUNIOR WELLS

with

ERIC CLAPTON, A.C. REED, MIKE UTLEY, DR. JOHN, LEROY STEWART,

ROOSEVELT SHAW, CARL RADLE, JIM GORDON, J. GEILS, MAGIC DICK,

SET JUSTMAN, DANNY KLEIN, STEPHEN BLADD, JUKE JOINT JIMMY

and special tanks to PETER WOLF 

Contender for the title of greatest blues guitarist ever, with a fiery, screechy, 

super-quick technique that influenced countless followers, Buddy Guy is one of the most celebrated 

blues guitarists of his generation (and arguably the most celebrated), possessing a sound and style 

that embodied the traditions of classic Chicago blues while also embracing the fire and flash of rock & roll.

Regarded as the last of the great Chicago harmonica players, Junior Wells was an impressive stylist 

and a leading practitioner of postwar blues harmonica. He was one bad dude, strutting across 

the stage like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking 

Chicago blues attack. Amazingly, Junior Wells kept at precisely this sort of thing for over 40 years; 

he was an active performer from the dawn of the '50s until his death in the late '90s

"PLAY THE BLUES"

Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, October, 1970;

and at Intermedia Studios, Boston, Mass., April, 1972

Produced by Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun & Tom Dowd;

Boston sessions produced by Michael Cuscuna

1972     LP     ATLANTIC RECORDS      K40240    STEREO   

MADE IN ENGLAND     ORIGINAL PRESSING

UNLAMINATED SINGLE SLEEVE

This version: initial UK release, red/white/blue Atlantic labels with no WEA logo, 

'All Rights...' circular label text in the red section only.

wrong label on Side A, "Sam & Dave The Best Of" instead of "BG & JW Play the Blues"

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  ATLANTIC -  RED/WHITE/BLUE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: K40240

Catalog on labels: K 40240 (K 40240 A / K 40240 B)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): K 40240-A1

Other / Runout (Side A, Etched): RAYS

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): K 40240-B1

On labels: rim text reads "All rights........prohibited"

Produced by Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun & Tom Dowd

An Atco Recording

?1972

(on Side B): Copyright Control (1, 2)   Republic Music (MCPS) (3)

Mills Music (4)   Leeds Music (5)

On Back Sleeve: Photography: Jim Marshall

An Atco Record distributed by WEA Records Ltd.

? 1972

Shorepak by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: A MAN OF MANY WORDS - MY BABY SHE LEFT ME (SHE LEFT ME A MULE TO RIDE)

COME ON IN THIS HOUSE / HAVE MERCY BABY

T-BONE SHUFFLE - A POOR MAN'S PLEA

Side B: MESSIN' WITH THE KID - THIS OLD FOOL

I DON'T KNOW - BAD BAD WHISKEY - HONEYDRIPPER

  grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, also read above description) 

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Considering the troubled background of this album (Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun, and Tom Dowd 

only ended up with eight tracks at a series of 1970 sessions in Miami; two years later, the J. Geils Band 

was brought in to cut two additional songs to round out the long-delayed LP for 1972 release), 

the results were pretty impressive. Buddy Guy contributes dazzling lead axe to their revival 

of "T-Bone Shuffle"; Junior Wells provides a sparkling remake of Sonny Boy's "My Baby She Left Me,"

 and Guy is entirely credible in a grinding Otis Redding mode 

on the Southern soul stomper "A Man of Many Words."...(AllMusic)