The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll

Recorded in just two days with Winter in the producer's chair and former Waters' sideman, James Cotton, blowing harp, Waters' comeback album, Hard Again was a return to his original Chicago sound. Its raw feel harkened back to Waters' Chess Records days, and the outstanding musicianship and intimate, good time vibe led to the album exceeding all expectations, earning Waters a Grammy in the process.

This concert, posted in June , replaces in an incomplete version of the show that was posted to the Concert Vault in February We are excited to have found this more complete and accurate version in our archives. Bathing in the glow of such success, Waters, Winter, and Cotton assembled a crack touring outfit that included musicians from the Hard Again sessions and for an all-too-brief time, hit the road together.

Cotton brought in his bassist Charles Calmese as well. With old comrade James Cotton blowing harp and Johnny Winter as his co-stars, Waters was provoked to the heights he regularly reached decades earlier. They were only together for a brief time, but this band was arguably the most impressive assemblage of blues talent ever. Everything they touched had extraordinary intensity. Selected live performances from this tour would be utilized to produce the follow-up albums, Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live with enough great material left over for Legacy to later release an expanded edition of the latter with a second disc of un-issued recordings.

Johnny Winter and James Cotton, backed by this terrific band, fronted the first set.

The Blues Had a Baby And They Named Rock And Roll

The first set kicks off with Johnny Winter leading the group through a hot rendition of "Hideaway" to warm things up. James Cotton then ups the ante with the harmonica blowout, "Juke," which receives a roar of approval from the New York audience. The unidentified instrumental may be the highlight of this first set.

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Winter and Margolin provide phenomenal intertwining leads with Cotton blowing furiously throughout. Both guitarists Cotton, and pianist Pinetop Perkins all take impressive solos.

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Clocking in at nearly 12 minutes, this is joyful blues improvisation at its finest and the joyful feeling is palpable on the recording. Best Of The Web as usual, m'lady. I saw the dude live at the Chesapeake Blues Festival in '99, and he was pretty gone--two women led him to a chair for a twenty minute set, and most of the vocals were somewhere between a mutter and a mumble. Still, the man's earlier material is incredible. It's funny--blues is about the only musical genre where you imagine the archtypal performer as being old. An accident of the time lag between when the canonical blues performers were in their prime and when mainstream American listeners got interested.

I wonder if in fifty years the kids who are living from meal to meal making great music in Sao Paolo or Monrovia will be playing for middle aged white audiences and dying rich the way men like John Lee Hooker who grew up in the Jim Crow south did.

And the quote, I hadn't heard that before. But at least the adoring Brit musicians helped to propagate the blues to a wider audience. Not quite his dad though, but I guess it must be quite a burden to live up to a legend.

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There's a little longer clip, but the sound sucks KevinSkomsvold, have you been to or played in the new Checkerboard? I had never been to the old one. From the mids to a few years ago, I went to a trade show in Chicago every November, and I wasn't aware that the old one was still functioning. My favorite blues haunt in Chicago has always been Rosa's, such a friendly place.

Look at how old those British rock kids Sonny Boy Williamson talked about are now.

The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll

Jeez, Stevie Ray Vaughn would be 53 were he still alive. I used to go see local favorite harp-playing James Montgomery in clubs when I was in college and he was in his salad days. Hadn't see him in years and I saw him last night. He put on a kick ass show but I was shocked to see how much older he is. Course I am shocked to see how much older I am, too. I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Freddie King's guitar tone would jump out and split John Mayer in two. In keeping with the Texas tradition, Gatemouth Brown joins Canned Heat on stage and plays guitar, fiddle and harmonica on the same song. Fantastic post thanks madamjujujive. KevinSkmosvold, those are two utterly awesome clips. I do miss Gatemouth - great to see him at his peak, he owns that stage.

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Yeah, KevinSkomsvold, the Gatemouth clip was fun! Canned Heat was also, in my opinion, one of the best young, white blues outfits of the 70's. There really isn't much that has the capacity to do that to me any more. I'm supposed to see Etta James soon at the House of Blues, so she'd better take her vitamins, I don't have room for many more regrets. This post on the other hand makes me happy to see, but sad to have missed, some great performers. Thank you so much for this post.