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Magic Sam with Sweet Home Chicago off of his '68 West Side Soul LP.

Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers with Wild About You Baby from '71.

John Lee Hooker with Boom Boom.

I can relate to the small venues. Growing up in Chicago I had the good fortune to see so many of Chicago's great blues artists up close and personal. Perhaps my best blues experience was down in Austin, Texas. Austin is a college town and they close down 6th Street every night, which is an entertainment district. The streets are jammed with people. Went to a blues bar called Joe's Generic Bar, which occupied little more than a small store front with a 8-foot long bar. Seating was perhaps no more than 30~40 people. No one was more than 8 or 10 meters from the stage. The place was so small that the loos were outhouses out the back door, which took you past the stage set up in one rear corner of the joint. I can''t recall the name of the band but they were intense.

A wonderful post encapsulating those early days for us, bannork. We were so lucky to have grown up in that era. Brings back memories of the endless hours spent listening to the BBC whilst in a boy's boarding school in Germany.

Thanks for the Popa Chubby tune, jvs. I wasn't familiar with him but his guitar work and his blues on this song didn't seem to be a one off. So I downloaded his entire discography . . . 15+GB. I figured there's got to me a lot of golden music in there. Sure enough, the first song I played off of his '92 debut LP, It's Chubby Time, is a simply marvelous blues number, I Can't Stand It Baby. Looking forward to exploring this guy's music.

Pink Floyd dealing with their own demons. Lucifer Sam off of their '67 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn album.

Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters performing the gospel blues classic Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down at the Austin City Limits on October 15, '16.

13th Floor Elevators, with frontman Roky Erickson, on Barnyard Blues off of their '69 Bull Of The Woods album. Not recommended for folks who are prone to photosensitive epilepsy from psychedelic flashing lights.

Roky Erickson covering The Velvet Underground's Heroin off of his '86 Gremlins Have Pictures LP.

Great guitar work. Sounds like a freight train bearing down on you. I was expecting to see smoke comin' outta that guitar at any moment.

That was a tear jerker. Please provide Kleenex the next time you post.

Santana performing Black Magic Woman live at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA, on 18 August '70.

Santana with Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) off of their '77 Moonflower LP.

Robert Cray with Sonny off of his '85 False Accusations LP.

Taj Mahal with the Stagger Lee, or Stack 'O Lee, the American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton, in St. Louis, Missouri at Christmas, 1895. Off of his '69 De Ole Folks At Home LP.

Taj Mahal with Done Changed My Way Of Living off of his '68 The Natch'l Blues album.

Ry Cooder with He'll Have To Go off of his '76 Chicken Skin Music album.

The Rolling Stones with Nicky Hopkins and Ry Cooder covering the blues standard It Hurts Me Too. Off of the '72 Jamming With Edward! album.

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder on mandolin with Hooray, Hooray off of their 2022 Get On Board (The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) CD.

Hang On Sloopy off of the same '98 King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Rick Derringer & Friends release.

Rick Derringer & Friends, with Edgar Winter, Ian Hunter, Dr. John, Lorna Luft, Hall & Oates, performing Jump, Jump, Jump live in '81. Off of the '98 King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Rick Derringer & Friends release.

4% Pantomime with Van Morrison sharing vocals with Robertson. Off of the same '71 Cahoots album.

The Band with The Unfaithful Servant live off of the '71 Cahoots 50th Anniversary CD.

One Night With You with Yvonne Elliman on vocals off of the same '92 One Night In Dallas release.