This CD is Blues history. Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is the owner of the last juke joint in Bentonia, The Blue Front Cafe. He is the last one who plays in the Betonia Style! On this CD, you can find “Skip James”, “Devil got my Woman” and many other great songs.
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From a shotgun shack in the cotton fields of Louisiana to the main stages of international blues festivals — Lil’ Jimmy Reed has come a long way. Now, one of the last surviving legends of classic Louisiana down-home blues is back with a powerful new album: Caress Me Baby🎸 Coming soon right here on www.wolfrec.com […]
Jimmy produced the great CD Turn My Life Around by Big Golden Wheeler – Wolf Records Licensed this great CD from him! He played also a great guitar solo on the title blue guitar
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One of the last Maxwell-Street blues singer-guitarists that were always typical for this Chicago area, where the raw city blues found its origins and is still being performed on the streetcorners and gathering places on the South Side, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis’ music is as original, raw and fresh as ever. Born Charles Thomas in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1925 (he can’t remember his exact birthday date) he learned to play the guitar on self-taught basis at the age of fourteen. He travelled around a lot and joined Silas Green and the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, among others. In 1946 Jimmy moved to Detroit, where he met John Lee Hooker and performed with him at various clubs. After his move to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1953 he headed for the Greenville and Clarksdale, Mississippi area in 1957 and played on many radio broadcasts that brought him some local recognition. In 1958 he made Chicago his home and settled down on Maxwell Street. There he often teamed up with King David on harmonica and later Eddie “Porkchop” Hines on drums. He even opened a restaurant “The Knotty Pine Grill”, where he performed himself. In 1965 blues researcher/producer Pete Welding heard him playing on the streets and arranged recording sessions for the Testament and Elektra labels. Davis is still alive and well on Chicago’s Maxwell Street today and keeps performing there regularly. Wolf Records is very proud to present this important musician once more to a wider audience, on this album with long-time friend Kansas City Red and Timothy Taylor on drums, and Lester Davenport on harmonica on some tracks.
Happy Birthday to Jimmy Johnson! Chicago blues musician Jimmy Johnson didn’t release his first full domestic album until he was 50 years old. He’s determinedly made up for lost time ever since, establishing himself as one of the Windy City’s premier blues artists with a twisting, unpredictable guitar style and a soaring, soul-dripping vocal delivery that stand […]
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Here is a CD from a musican who was a living part of the Maxwell Street in Chicago, where the Blues musicans played for tips every Sunday! Every musican who came from Mississippi to Chicago tried first their best on Maxwell Street to attract a manager who could bring them gigs in larger Blues clubs. Listen to the great music, which was played there!
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Jimmy Schlager is an Austrian singer who sings about the problems in the country. He sings in german and you can hear what a great songwriter he is!
New Orleans, often referred to as the “Big Easy,” is a city that never fails to enchant its visitors. Our recent journey to this vibrant city was nothing short of magical, and here’s a glimpse of our unforgettable experience. The Scenic Route to New Orleans Our adventure began with a drive across the Lake Pontchartrain […]
The recently released double album, Slow Blues, featuring the late Magic Slim and the venerable John Primer, is an evocative journey through the essence of Chicago blues. This album, meticulously reviewed by Rootstime.be, is a tribute to the genre’s rich heritage, showcasing the profound talents of two legendary blues guitarists and vocalists who, despite their […]
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We wish you a nice holiday. The new 2CD-titled “Slow Blues” is out now! MAGIC SLIM & JOHN PRIMER are the best real Chicago Blues can offer to you! This collection captures the essence of Chicago Blues, with soulful guitar riffs and powerful vocals that will transport you straight to the heart of the Windy […]
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We are thrilled to present an insightful review of our latest album, “Foolin’ Around” by Jörg Danielsen, as featured in Bluesnews.fi. This comprehensive review is crafted by Jari Kolari, whose expertise in the blues genre offers a deep understanding of the album’s essence and impact. About the Artist Jörg Danielsen, the esteemed leader of the […]
Celebrating Johnny B. Moore: A Blues Legend Deserving of the Hall of Fame Wolf Records Celebrates John Primer’s Induction and Advocates for Johnny B. Moore’s Recognition Wolf Records is thrilled to celebrate the induction of our artist John Primer into the Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis, TN, in 2023. This momentous occasion not only […]
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This is Eddie Taylor, 1923-1985. Learning from fellow musicians including Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Son House and Memphis Minnie, he came to Chicago from the cottonfields of Benoit, Mississippi via Memphis in the 1940s to join the Great Migration of Blues. Best known for his steady bass lines and distinctive guitar riffs behind Jimmy Reed […]
By Bluesnews.de Henry GrayShake A Hand(Wolf Records, 54:52) Jewel Case | booklet (6 pages) The tension is almost tangible: the title track strugglesnoticeably to restraint, to then freed from in the second partto snap the leash. As furious as swamp blues pianoLegendary Henry Gray in the R&B standard “Shake A Hand” throws andpurposefully plays with […]
Shake a Hand by Henry Gray (Wolf Records) HENRY GRAY Great Piano Blues by theLouisiana & Chicago LegendLouisiana SwampBlues Vol. 8Wolf – CD120.634 Published by https://livingblues.com/When Henry Gray died in early 2020 at age 95, the blues world lost one of its last direct links to the transformative early years of postwar Chicago blues of […]
HENRY GRAY: Shake A HandWolf 120.634 (54:29) Shake A Hand/ How Long/ Sweet Home Chicago/ All In MySleep/ Down Home Blues/ It Hurts Me Too/ l’m A LuckyMan/ Sinners Prayer/ How Can You Do It?/ Little RedRooster/ Boogie In The Dark/ Tutti Frutti/ Everybody’sFishing/ What l’d Say/ Howling For My Darling/ My GirlJosephine/ Good Bye […]
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FEAT. Howlin Wolf ,Eddie Shaw, Detroit Jr. and Hubert Sumlin New Album Coming Soon (Click Here To Pre-Order) Memories of hearing Howlin Wolf at the New 1815 Club are so strong that no one couldever forget what a privilege it was to be able hear such an iconic bluesman up close in aWest Side club […]
The highlight of my trip to Chicago was the concert on 28.01.22 at Buddy Guy´s Legend with Wolf Artist John Primer and The Real Deal Bluesband and Buddy Guy himself! It was the best what Chicago could offer with traditional Blues Music! Another great concert was on 29.01.2022 at Blue Chicago with Demetria Taylor and […]
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Blues Blast Magazine Album Review Brenda Taylor is the eldest daughter of the late Vera and Eddie Taylor; Vera was a singer and Eddie, of course, was Jimmy Reed’s guitar player for many years. Brenda has performed in Chicago and at the Chicago Blues Festival, but this is her first album under her own name. […]
By STEPHEN HARRISON The Taylor family from Chicago have the blues coursing through their veins from the fillies. Eddie and Vera Taylor are the parents of Brenda Taylor. Both of them had a distinguished career in the blues, most notably Eddie, who in his past was a guitarist with Muddy Waters, HowIin’WoIf, and Jimmy Reed […]
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Soon On wolfrec.com Henry Gray was born Jan.19/1925 in Kenner/LAHe started playing piano at the age of 8. At the age of 16 he started to play professionally at a club in Louisiana.He joined the army at the age of 18.He played Piano at the troops and after 3 years he went home to Louisiana. […]
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BIRMINGHAM JONES, born 9.1.1937 In Saginaw, MI, moved to Chicago 1950, learned first sax and worked as sideman with the J.B.Lenoir group, Elmore James group; learned to play harp and founded his own group, Birmingham Jones & his Lover Boys, recorded for Ebony Label 1956, for Vee Jay 1963, toured with Muddy Waters Band 1968, worked with Eddie Shaw, Jonny Young and the Eddie Clearwater Band in the 70’s, works today on the Westslde with Eddie Taylor, Tail Dragger, Willie Kent a.o.
Willie Kent, born 24.2.1936 in Sunflower, Miss., came to Chicago 1949, played with Muddy Waters, Big Boy Crudup and the Wolf Band, founded his own band 1958 • called the Willie Kent Blues Band, in the 60’s and 70’s performed with Little Walter, Muddy Waters & Fenton Robinson, Toured Japan 1981 with John Little John, plays today mostly on West Side with his own band: Chico Chism, drums, Madock Bluster, harp and Jerry Welsh, guitar. He Is one of the best bass players.
Snooky Pryor, born 15.9,1921 in Lambert, MS, worked regulary with Homesick James since 1970, toured Europe 1973 and 1977. Is one of last traditional harp players.
Jimmy Walker, born 8.3.1905 in Memphis, Tann., came to Chicago in 1908, he Is one of the last piano players who are deeply rooted to the classis style, 1983 he recorded his first solo album for Wolf Records, even today he can be heard In various clubs In Chlcagos North•Side.
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A good session band has been chosen: former WOLF recording artists Johnny B. Moore and John Primer on guitars, Willie Kent on bass and Eddie Taylor’s young son, Timothy Taylor on drums, featuring Fred Laster on tenor sax. Born in Bunkie, Louisiana in 1931, BONNIE LEE BOMBSHELL moved to the Windy City in her teens. She soon got acquainted with local Blues musicians. In her hometown she often listened to her parents’ old records, all above to the ones of Bessie Smith. After getting familiar with Chicago’s local Blues scene, she soon recorded for the Ebony label, “My Mama Rocks Me With One Steady Roll”. A short stint with Sunnyland Slim and his band produced “I Got AThing Going On” on Slim’s own Airway label. She’s got a fast moving and swinging style of Blues singing, reminisc of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, who arranged a date with the Gatemouth Brown Band in the 50s for her. A resident of Chicago, Bonnie lives with her son Earl, a junior who plays running back for the Crane High School football team. “A lot of older singers made it possible for us to get out and keep things goin”, Bonnie says. “If it wasn’t for Koko (Taylor), we wouldn’t be here today. She’s hel ed all the ladies by giving us a good name.” MARY LANE was born in Clarendon, Arkansas on November 23, 1935. As a child she used to sing in various local church choirs. In Chicago she started singing the Blues by encouragement of numerous musicians of the Windy City scene: Jr. Wells, Eddie Shaw, Morris Pejoe (whose “Hurt My Feelings” she performs on this album), Howling Wolf and many more. These are her first recordings. BARKIN’ BILL claims “to have travelled many places in and around the United States: Alaska, New York, Canada and a lot more, because Blues is something everyone have”, he explains. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1928, he first started singing with the Glory Bound Quintette in Ruleville, Mississippi. Later he met famous bluesmen like Elmore James, Memphis Slim, Big Joe Williams and Homesick James and soon moved to Chicago, where he lives today. LARRYTAYLOR, son of the late Eddie Taylor, had been “laid Blues into the cradle”, when the crème de la crème of Chicago Blues gathered at his father’s house to rehearse: Jimmy Rogers, Homesick James, Morris Pejoe, Johnny Jones, Floyd Jones and many more. Born on the West Side of Chicago in 1955, his father gave him his start in music. Eddie played his son the records of Jimmy Reed, where Larry has learnt his Earl Phillips-styled drumming, as can be heard on WOLF 120.711. On this album, Larry is presented as a singer and pays tribute to his father on the classic “Bad Boy”.
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Soon On Wolf Records, the new Album of Brenda Taylor Brenda Taylor, daughter of Chicago Blues Legend Eddie ´Big Toron Playboy` Taylor and Vera Taylor. Eddie coached Brenda the blues and after his death 1985 her mother Vera kept the family legacy functioning. After Vera´s death 1999, Brenda started to olay with her brothers and […]
Terry Harmonica Bean Terry “Harmonica” Bean is still relatively young, but has decades of experience with the blues. A lifelong resident of Pontotoc, Bean first heard downhome blues at home. His father Eddie Bean, a native of Bruce, sang and played blues guitar and prior to Terry’s birth traveled with an electric blues band. For […]
1) Harmonica Terry Bean & Super Chikan – From Hill Country To Mississippi Delta Blues2018 Hannes and Nicola Folterbauer went on a excursion through Mississippi to meet Harmonica Terry Bean and Super Chikan. The mood was so good, so we started a record session directly at the artists’ home to get a real feeling of […]
It seems curious now to recall that blues pianist and singer Henry Gray who died on 17th February, was still quite an obscure figure when he made his Luk debut at London’s 100 Club around the end of the 1970s. Although he had toured and recorded in Europe a couple of years previously he was […]
15 Years of Friendly Co-Operation with Willie Kent 15 Years of Friendly Co-Operation WILLIE KENT, 1936 – 2006 Willie Kent CD´s on WOLF RECORDS: CD 120.867 Willie Kent Live in Chicago at B.L.U.E.S. CD 120.876 Willie Kent & His Gents CD 120.889 Willie Kent & His Gents feat. Carlos Showers WILLIE KENT, 1936 – 2006 […]
THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL CHICAGO & COUNTRY BLUES SINCE 30 YEARS (1982–2019) Wolf Records is an Austrian record label based in Vienna. Simply its emphasis is the blues. Today where nearly every second rate “pop star wanna be” attempts to incorporate the blues the need for a true representative of this music existed. The […]
Keeping the Blues Alive Award 2017 for Wolf Records In February 2017 Wolf Records International got a “Keeping The Blues Alive” – Award from the Blues Foundation, Memphis TN. The Blues Foundation´s Keeping the Blues Alive Award honor those individuals and institutions that have helped to keep the Blues going strong. As Blues Foundation president […]
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Morris Holt, known as Magic Slim was one of the best Chicago Blues musician ever, with his band The Teardrops, he made history! They won 3 times the Blues Music Award (W. C. Handy Award) with Wof Records International! The new album “I`m Gonna Play The Blues ” from Magic Slim, show what Magic Slim was great in, performing on stage, he was a great show man! On this album are live recordings from the legendary concert in Vienna 2010!The Recordings are amazing, very clear sound, we worked together with the TV so all the recordings are produced with high quality !This Album is going to be one of his best ever, we put a lot work and love into this album, beacause we want to give all of his fans and blues lovers something great ! Band: BJ on drums, Andre Howard on bass, Jon McDonald guitar
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The blues world has waited so long for this moment, the new album of Magic Slim! Morris Holt, known as Magic Slim was one of the best Chicago Blues musician ever, with his band The Teardrops, he made history! They won 3 times the Blues Music Award (W. C. Handy Award) with Wof Records International! […]
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R.I.P Eddie C. Campbell Eddie C. Campbell the legendary guitarist passed away… Eddie C. was one of the best guitar players who played the westside-style like Otis Rush and Jimmy Dawkins – to name a few! You can also hear some great songs of his own – a Dutch bluesband was more than a […]
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Back In Stock This CD really has the best of Piano Blues! These are the best Chicago piano players – Sunnyland Slim & Pinetop Perkins and the best from the west coast – Charles Brown and Jimmy McCracklin… but also Memphis, Louisiana and St. Louis´greatest piano players – a MUST for piano fans!!
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This CD really has the best of Piano Blues! These are the best Chicago piano players – Sunnyland Slim & Pinetop Perkins and the best from the west coast – Charles Brown and Jimmy McCracklin… but also Memphis, Louisiana and St. Louis´greatest piano players – a MUST for piano fans!!
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Irma Records was the Label from Bob Geddins, who was a producer from the West Coast! He made different singles, which Wolf licensed for this CD! The artists are Big Mama Thorton, Johnny Fuller, Jimmy Mc Cracklin and Juke Boy Bonner!
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This CD was the first CD ever by Eddie Taylor Jr and a tribute to his father Eddie Taylor! His brothers Larry and Tim are here, both on drums! All great Taylor hits are on this CD – from “Big Town Playboy” to “Bad Boy”.
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Big Wheeler was a traditional harp player and singer who recorded 2 Cd´s on Delmark. In the 80´s he gave Hannes a CD of his songs, which had been produced by Jimmy Johnson. There are also some songs from a Wolf record session in the 80´s with John Primer and Luther Adams on guitar. This was the Chicago Blues sound of the 70´s
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Accompanying Eddie on this latest album is Tony Palmer on 2nd guitar, Greg McDaniel on bass, Timothy Taylor on Drums, and Harmonica Hinds and Bob Waleso sharing duties on harmonica.
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Eddie C. was one of the best guitar players who played the westside-style like Otis Rush and Jimmy Dawkins – to name a few! You can also hear some great songs of his own – a Dutch bluesband was more than a good background for him – it is sad that Eddie is no more able to play guitar after his stroke! But you can buy this CD to listen one of Chicago´s best!
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20th Anniversary Collection – Wolf Records Artists
This is the 20th anniversary collection from Wolf Records International! Here you can find the best Wolf-artists with their best songs- from the 40´s until today! There are 3 chapters: Modern Blues – Classic Blues – Prewar Blues! From Magic Slim to Son House – you find every important Wolf-Artist!
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Here is the second CD – Giants of Country Blues Guitar- Vol. 2! Here are recordings from 1975-1991 and there are “big” names, but also musicians who are only known to Blues lovers! Here are recordings from the great R.L. Burnside, and from Lelands James “Son” Thomas and Boogie Bill Webb! One of the highlights are recordings by Joe Willie Wilkins, Clyde Maxwell and Cornelius Bright! On guitar is Jimmy “Duck” Holmes! These are his first recordings!
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This is the second CD of Roosevelt´s postwar recordings, from 1945-1957. St. Louis Jimmy sings two songs, “Hard Luck Boogie” and “Good Book Blues”. Willie Dixon and Robert Jr. Lockwood are great sidemen for Mr. Sykes. “West Helena Blues” is one of Roosevelt´s best CD´s ever!