Magic Sam - Live Copa Cabana Club 1966

Magic Sam - Big Bill's Copa Cabana Club

3258 West Roosevelt Road

Chicago IL

October 2, 1966

WOPA Broadcast @flac

*Original Notes*
While he was a DJ at Chicago's WOPA, William Henry Hill aka "Big Bill" Hill came up with the idea of broadcasting blues bands live from the West Side clubs. He started out at Silvio's, where he introduced Elmore James to Chicago. Other live broadcasts included Otis Rush, Mighty Joe Young, Freddie King, Koko Taylor and Chicago Slim. In the mid-1960s, Hill owned a night club, named the Copa Cabana. Big Bill recorded a jam session that was released on an album entitled "Blues at Big Bill's Copa Cabana" on Chess Records; that recording featured Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann and Sonny Boy Williamson.

This show is sourced from a broadcast tape from one of Big Bill Hill's WOPA radio shows from his own Copa Cabana Club on Chicago's West Side. It is also known as the WOPA tape. It's undoubtably the same tape recorded by Bill Lindemann, which was used for 8 tracks on the Delmark commercial release, "Rockin' Wild In Chicago", although this one sounds several generations removed from the Delmark CD.

This tape was also subject to some very rough editing, which is quite audible, to remove between song stage talk, as well as most of Big Bill Hill's on-air chatter.

Band Lineup:
Magic Sam - guitar, vocals
Mac Thompson - bass guitar
Odie Payne, Jr. - drums
"Shakey Jake" Harris - harmonica, vocals

Lineage: Bill Lindemann tape > ? > trade CDR > EAC > FLAC (level 8)

Set List:

   01. I Feel So Good
   02. Tremble (instrumental) *
   03. Call Me When You Need Me *
   04. Further On Up The Road *
   05. Dirty Work Going On *
   06. Why Are You So Mean To Me *
   07. That's All Right > Big Bill Hill talk
   08. Who's Loving You Tonight
   09. All Of Your Love
   10-11. Tremble (instrumental)
   12. Scratch My Back
   13. A Hard Road
   14. Tremble (instrumental)
   15. It's All Your Fault Baby *
   16. How Long Can This Go On *
   17. Every Night, Every Day *
   18. Tore Down (inc - cuts)

 

* Available on Magic Sam - "Rockin' Wild In Chicago" - Delmark Records DG-765

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Magic Sam - Black Magic Blues

Magic Sam - Black Magic Blues
Studio recording @HQvbr
(Out of print)

A West-Side blues guitarist of the same graduating class as people like Otis Rush, Sam combined a blazing guitar with a wonderful soulful voice (imagine Sam Cooke with a guitar...) to do some of the best blues to come out of Chicago in the late 60s. His early sides on Cobra, Crash, Chief and Artistic included hits like "All Your Love," "Easy Baby" and "She Belongs To Me." He went on to record a few albums for Delmark that showed the beginnings of a brilliant career that ended up being a major influence on people like Robert Cray. But he died of a heart attack at 32, and we'll never know where Magic Sam might have gone. Magic Sam's Black Magic Blues is a set of brief blues instrumentals that has a few interesting surprises. Foremost among these is the uncharacteristically acoustic fingerpicking showcase "FP Blues," an early recording that shows that the guitarist's Delta blues chops were in order long before he went electric. Nothing else surprises like that, but the rollicking "Scatter Shot," which has the hyperkinetic energy of an early rock & roll side, is even more exciting, and the stomping "West Madison Street Blues" adds an intriguingly funky, New Orleans-style backbeat to an otherwise standard Chicago blues. The 12 brief tracks (half of them coming in under the two-minute mark). Magic Sam's playing is typically excellent throughout.
This is NOT the same recording as the Magic Sam "Black Magic"

Track List:
01 - EJ's Thing
02 - FP Blues
03 - PJ Blues
04 - West Madison Street Blues
05 - Chi Town Boogie
06 - Sly And Sleazy
07 - Creole 'n Roll
08 - Blues 'Nooze
09 - Boppin' The Blues
10 - 43rd And S Park Blues
11 - Scatter Shot
12 - Black Magic Blues

Black Magic Blues

Magic Sam - All Your Love & Magic Sam's Boogie (Playing Earl Hooker's Guitar)