Full-on, sex-hungry, hard-grooving, rock-steady, into-the-future electric blues.
Check out Muddy dancing in his last minute on stage. Otis Spann led the closer — torch-carrying verses by Langston Hughes — because the boss was so knackered.
Look at all the people laughing, shouting out, swaying in their deck-chairs… and wonder about Dylan causing such a cataclysmic stink five long years later, on the same stage, going electric the same way (on the same type of Telecaster).
Four portions of lonesome country, by Toody Cole from Dead Moon, and The Rats.
‘Acoustic Series.’
A Gene Barge production from 1967, with a winning mixture of rocking gospel funk and spiritualized ballads. A nice version of Buddy Miles’ We Got To Live Together.
Riveting 1965 review of his own staggering classics like Death Letter and John The Revelator, rinsed by everyone from Captain Beefheart to Jack White.
Awesome, rugged, hypnotic, spiritualised blues music, monumental and unmissable. Everything he did prior to his 1960s re-emergence, properly re-mastered from the 78s, with excellent notes.