Voodoo Wagon: Magic Sam - Live Copa Cabana Club 1966

Friday, February 28, 2014

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

Magic Sam info

Thanks to the original source and everyone on Dime!