West Side Soul

by Magic Sam Blues Band

West Side Soul cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1968
  • Label: Delmark
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:52
  • Community rating: 4.24/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Anchored by his incredible, fiercely shaking finger vibrato and a genuinely soulful singing voice, Magic Sam delivered one of the greatest blues records of the modern era. 'West Side Soul' is wonderfully raw and intensely energetic, utilizing highly rhythmic, deeply passionate electric blues to inject fresh, vital life into the Chicago scene.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, bluesy, guitars, vocal, groove-laden

Tracklist

  1. That's All I Need (3:18)
  2. I Need You So Bad (4:56)
  3. I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie) (4:46)
  4. All Of Your Love (3:52)
  5. I Don't Want No Woman (3:38)
  6. Sweet Home Chicago (4:16)
  7. I Found A New Love (4:08)
  8. Every Night And Every Day (3:10)
  9. Lookin' Good (3:17)
  10. My Love Will Never Die (4:11)
  11. Mama, Mama -Talk to Your Daughter (2:46)
  12. I Don't Want No Woman (Alternate) (3:30)

Credits

  • Magic Sam Blues Band - primary artist
  • Earnest Johnson - bass
  • Mack Thompson - bass
  • Zbigniew Jastrzebski - design [cover]
  • Odie Payne - drums
  • Odie Payne III - drums
  • Mighty Joe Young - guitar
  • Bill Lindemann - liner notes
  • Jack Bradley - photography by
  • Stockholm Slim - piano
  • Robert G. Koester - producer
  • Stu Black - recorded by
  • Magic Sam - vocals, guitar

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