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Live at Theresa's 1975 | ||||
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Released | October 17, 2006 | |||
Recorded | January 10 & 13, 1975 | |||
Venue | Theresa's Lounge, Chicago | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Label | Delmark [1] | |||
Producer | Robert G. Koester | |||
Junior Wells chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Rolling Stone | [3] |
Live at Theresa's 1975 is a live album recorded by blues vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells at Theresa's Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, for Delmark Records.
The set was broadcast on local radio station WXRT.
No Depression wrote that it "has to be one of the most effectively you-are-there live albums ever recorded." [4] Record Collector wrote: "One of the highlights is [Wells's] between-song talks, a feature of his intimate live work which is captured here in full." [5] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the album "notable for great guitar work from journeymen Phil Guy and others." [6]
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