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Review by Richie Unterberger The second volume of this series of tapes made in Britain between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s, largely of visiting American blues performers (though Britain's Chris Barber Band is also sometimes heard backing the musicians or playing on their own), features recordings by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Champion Jack Dupree, Louis Jordan, and Muddy Waters. The eleven Waters songs (recorded live in Manchester on October 26, 1958) are by far the most historically significant of these, as they're from Muddy's first tour of the UK, often reported in later years to have been hugely controversial due to his use of electric guitar. As it turns out, this particular Waters recording is a little underwhelming, in large part because the sound balance seems to muffle the background instruments, though Artist Muddy's vocals come through okay. That makes it far from the best Waters recording, Various Artists concert or otherwise, and for all the furor his use of electricity supposedly caused with the Album purists, what electric guitar you can hear on these tracks sounds quite tentative and weedy. Chris Barber Presents The Blues Legacy: Lost & Found Series, Vol. 2 Fortunately Muddy sings well and presents (with Otis Spann in the band on piano) some of his most outstanding songs, like "I Can't Be Satisfied," "I Feel Like Going Home," "Walkin' Rating Thru the Park," "Long Distance Call," "Rollin' Stone," and "Hoochie Coochie Man." The five Terry-McGhee tracks are identified as 1958 broadcast recordings, three of them performed Release Date with the Chris Barber Band and Patterson, which makes for a rather uncomfortable May 18, 2008 combination of country folk-blues and Dixieland jazz. Dupree plays and sings reliably Label decent piano blues with the Chris Barber Band on three live songs cut in a London jazz club Classic Media on December 3, 1959. A trad jazz-flavored December 1962 studio recording of Louis Jordan Type doing "T'ain't Nobody's Business" with Barber's band, and Patterson taking some of the Various Artists vocals, concludes a set that's arguably more notable for its documentation of the impact of Genre American blues on UK audiences than it is for its purely musical merits, though it certainly Jazz possesses some of those. AMG Album ID Tracks R 1341084 Title Performer Time Corrections to this Entry? 1 An Introduction by Chris Barber 0:24 2 Poor Man Blues 3:00 3 Boogie on the Blues 2:40 4 When Things Go Wrong 2:44 5 How Long Blues 2:37

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6 Do Lord 2:25 7 Chris Barber Introduces Muddy Waters 1:55 and Otis Spann 8 Hoochie Coochie Man 3:49 9 Blow Wind Blow 4:21 10 Long Distance Call 5:03 11 Baby Please Don't Go 2:45 12 Blues Before Sunrise 5:54 13 Rollin' Stone 4:20 14 I Can't Be Satisfied 3:27 15 I Feel Like Going Home 4:30 16 Walkin' Thru the Park 3:18 17 Walkin' Thru the Park (Reprise) 1:45 18 Chris Barber Introduces Champion Jack 2:02 Dupree 19 Merry Christmas Blues 4:20 20 Mother-In-Law Blues 4:56 21 When Things Go Wrong 5:31 22 Chris Barber Introduces Louis Jordan 2:21 23 T'Ain't Nobody's Business 3:49

Releases Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Classic Media 5068

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