Cd It Aint Over Delmark Celebrates 55 Years Of Blues

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Audio CD - IT AINT OVER DELMARK CELEBRATES 55 YEARS OF BLUES - Various Artists
UPC/EAN : 038153080020

Delmark's 55th anniversary blues bash at Buddy Guy's Legends on March 7, 2008 featured most of Delmark's local blues roster, a Delmark Day proclamation from Mayor Daley and a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for the groundbreaking Hoodoo Man Blues album. Live performances by Lurrie Bell, Tail Dragger, Zora Young, Jimmy Johnson with Dave Specter, Aaron Moore, Little Arthur Duncan, Eddie Shaw and Shirley Johnson. Review In 1953 a 21-year old jazz fan in St. Louis started a label, naming it after his street address - Delmar. Five years later, Bob Koester moved to Chicago, opened a record shop and revived his label (with a k added). The blues catalogue he initiated with old-timers such as Big Joe Williams and Sleepy John Estes would accrue Magic Sam, Junior Wells, Luther Allison and many other up-and-coming names in Chicago blues of the 60s and 70s. Those greats are gone but Delmark lived on, to be celebrated in a 2008 gig featuring stalwarts of the label: Lurrie Bell, Zora Young, Eddie Shaw, Shirley Johnson, Aaron Moore, Tail Dragger, Little Arthur Duncan (who died soon afterwards) and the underrated Jimmy Johnson, heart piercing in "Cold, Cold Feeling" and "You Don't Know What Love Is". Such time-honored songs symbolize Koester's role as a solid supporter of Chicago Blues - a blues rock impervious to blues-rock. --Mojo, March 2010