West Side Soul

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Samuel Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 - December 1, 1969), known as Magic Sam, was an American musician from Chicago specializing in blues. He was born in Grenada County, Mississippi, and learned to play the blues by listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. After moving to Chicago at the age of 19, he was signed by Cobra Records and became famous as a bluesman after the release of his first record, "All Your Love," in 1957. He is known for his distinctive tremolo guitar playing. Sam's singing and playing are deeply rooted in the Mississippi soil of his youth as well as in the traumatic daily life of the rough West Side. But like all good blues and great art, it goes well beyond his ethnic origins and everyday experiences and speaks for all of us. One of the greatest blues albums of all time, West Side Soul, was chosen by Living Blues magazine as one of the ten best Desert Island Blues Discs. The new Digipak box set contains previously unseen photos and 1960s pluggers (promoting West Side concerts) from Bill Lindemann's private collection. The source of the CD is the original 1967 analog stereo mix by Stu Black, who recorded many blues and jazz classics for Delmark in the 1960s. Featuring Mighty Joe Young on guitar; Stockholm Slim on piano; Earnest Johnson or Mac Thompson on bass; Odie Payne Jr. or Odie Payne III on drums.