Delmark Records Celebrates 70th Years – Blues Anthology
Delmark Records Celebrates 70th Years – Blues Anthology
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Delmark Records
Release: 2023
Release date: July 21, 2023
Delmark Records Celebrates 70th Years, with a slew of 2023 Events, new Blues Anthology out July 21st
Seventy years is a long time. Seventy years before the late Bob Koester founded Delmar (later Delmark) Records while a college student in St. Louis, Buffalo Bill’s traveling Wild West Show debuted, Chester A. Arthur was president, Thomas Edison brought electric light to Roselle, NJ for the first time, and “Black Bart” was in the news for another stagecoach robbery.
When Koester released his first record in 1953, many of the now-iconic figures in blues and jazz were still every day working musicians, Ike was in the White House, and the U.S. was fighting in Korea.
Now seventy years on, Delmark is the oldest independent jazz and blues record label in the world, boasting a catalog bulging with over twelve thousand recordings by a virtual who’s who of jazz and blues. Although Koester retired in 2018, under the leadership of President/CEO, Julia A. Miller, and Artistic Director Elbio Barilari, Delmark has released over 30 thirty albums in five years, has made digitally available over twelve thousand songs and continues its mission of seeking out and documenting new talent. To celebrate the 70th anniversary, Delmark raided the vaults for a new anthology, out July 21st on CD, LP and digital.
From Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Dinah Washington, T-Bone Walker, Little Walter and Muddy Waters to Memphis Slim and Jimmy Johnson, the 70th Anniversary compilation is a perfect snapshot of the incredible vault of classic blues Delmark has released over the years.
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Tracks:
01. Junior Wells with Buddy Guy – Snatch It Back And Hold It
02. Magic Sam – All Of Your Love
03. Otis Rush – All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
04. Jimmy Dawkins with Otis Rush & Big Voice Odom – All For Business
05. Dinah Washington – Blues For A Day
06. T-Bone Walker – I Want A Little Girl
07. Big Time Sarah – Long Tall Daddy
08. Little Walter with Muddy Waters – I Just Keep Loving Her
09. Memphis Slim with Matt Guitar Murphy – Memphis Slim U.S.A.
10. Jimmy Johnson – Ashes In My Ashtray
JUNIOR WELLS featuring BUDDY GUY • SNATCH IT BACK AND HOLD IT (2:53)
Amos Blakemore/Buddy Guy, Dimension Music, Mic Shau Music Company, BMI
Junior Wells: VOCALS & HARP • Buddy Guy: GUITAR • Jack Myers: BASS • Billy Warren: DRUMS
FROM HOODOO MAN BLUES (D 612)
Recorded September 22–23, 1965
Sound Studios, Chicago by Stu Black
produced by Bob Koester
MAGIC SAM • ALL OF YOUR LOVE (3:62)
Samuel Maghett, Conrad Music/Leric Music Inc, BMI
Magic Sam: VOCALS & GUITAR • Mighty Joe Young: GUITAR
Earnest Johnson: BASS • Odie Payne: DRUMS
FROM WEST SIDE SOUL (D 615)
Recorded – July 12 and October 25, 1967
Album production and supervision – Robert G. Koester
Recording – Stu Black, Sound Studios, Chicago
OTIS RUSH • ALL YOUR LOVE ( I MISS LOVING ) (6:39)
Otis Rush, Otis Rush Publishing, BMI
Otis Rush: VOCALS & GUITAR • Bob Levis: GUITAR • James Green: BASS • Jesse Green: DRUMS Big Moose Walker: ORGAN • Abb Locke: TENOR SAX • Chuck Smith: BARITONE SAX
FROM COLD DAY IN HELL (D 638)
Recorded April 29 & May 29, 1975 by Stu Black
Sound Studios, Chicago
Steve Tomashefsky, producer
JIMMY DAWKINS with BIG VOICE ODOM and OTIS RUSH
ALL FOR BUSINESS (4:40) James Henry Dawkins, Embassy Music Corporation, BMI
Big Voice Odom: VOCALS • Jimmy Dawkins & Otis Rush: GUITARS
Sonny Thompson: PIANO • Jim Conley: TENOR SAX • Ernest Gatewood: BASS
Robert Crowder: DRUMS
FROM ALL FOR BUSINESS (D 634)
Recorded in Chicago, October 27, 1971
Sound Studios, Chicago
Producer, Supervised By – Robert G. Koester
Recorded By – Stu Black
DINAH WASHINGTON with LUCKY THOMPSON and HIS ALL STARS BLUES FOR A DAY (2:54)
John Willie Henry, Henry Heritage Music, BMI
Dinah Washington: VOCALS • Karl George: TRUMPET • Jewell Grant: ALTO SAX
Lucky Thompson: TENOR SAX • Gene Porter: CLARINET, ALTO, BARITONE SAXES
Milt Jackson: VIBE Wilbert Baranco: PIANO • Charles Mingus: BASS • Lee Young: DRUMS
FROM MELLOW MAMA (D 451 – APOLLO SERIES)
Recorded December 13, 1945 in Los Angeles, originally issued on Apollo Records and re-issued on Delmark in 1992
T-BONE WALKER • I WANT A LITTLE GIRL (5:07)
Billy Moll & Murray Mencher, Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc, ASCAP
T-Bone Walker: VOCALS & GUITAR • George Arvanitas: PIANO • Hal Singer: TENOR SAX
Jackie Samson: BASS • S.P. Leary: DRUMS
FROM I WANT A LITTLE GIRL (D 633)
Recorded in Paris, November 13, 1968
Originally released on LP T-Bone Walker – I Want A Little Girl (1973)
Album supervision: J.M. Monestier, Black & Blues Records
BIG TIME SARAH • LONG TALL DADDY (4:56)
Sarah Lee Streeter, Leric Music, BMI
Big Time Sarah: VOCALS • Emery Williams: GUITAR • Rodney Brown: SAXES
Tony Llorens: PIANO • Bill Hargrave: BASS • Ricky Nelson: DRUMS
FROM BLUES IN THE YEAR ONE-D-ONE (D 692)
Recorded September 26,27, 1995
by Paul Serrano, Riverside Studios, Chicago
Album production and supervision, Robert Koester
LITTLE WALTER with MUDDY WATERS • I JUST KEEP LOVING HER (2:56)
Walter Jacobs, Boot House of Tunes, BMI
Little Walter: VOCALS & HARP • Muddy Waters: GUITAR
Baby Face Leroy Foster: SECOND GUITAR & BASS DRUM
FROM THE BLUES WORLD OF LITTLE WALTER (D 648)
Recorded January, 1950: Take 4 of 4, Parkway/Herald
Compilation Producer [Album Production] – Robert G. Koester
MEMPHIS SLIM with MATT “GUITAR” MURPHY • MEMPHIS SLIM U.S.A. (2:58)
Peter Chatman, Embassy Music Corporation, BMI
Memphis Slim: VOCALS & PIANO • Matt “Guitar” Murphy: GUITAR
Jim Conley, Neil Green: TENOR SAXES • Henry Taylor: BASS • Otho Allen: DRUMS
FROM MEMPHIS SLIM U.S.A. (D 710 – UNITED SERIES)
Recorded March 16 and September 29, 1954 by Bill Putnam
Supervised By [Original], Producer [Original] – Leonard Allen, United Records
producer, Robert Koester
JIMMY JOHNSON • ASHES IN MY ASHTRAY (4:33)
James Earl Thompson, Granite City Music, BMI
Jimmy Johnson: VOCALS & GUITAR • Rico McFarland: GUITAR
Carl Snyder: PIANO • Ike Anderson: BASS • Dino Alavarez: DRUMS
FROM JOHNSON’S WHACKS (D 644)
Original recording dates: 10/12/78 and 2/13/79, Sound Studios, Chicago
producer, Steve Tomashefsky