Hoodoo Man Blues — Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band

CTL-E-0613 · Work · album · 1965–1965

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Hoodoo Man Blues was recorded September 22–23, 1965, and released by Delmark in November 1965 — Junior Wells' debut album. The album captured the Theresa's Lounge house-band partnership of Wells and Buddy Guy — credited initially as 'Friendly Chap' due to his Chess contract — with Jack Myers and Billy Warren.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-066; source research type(s): album. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://guitar.com/reviews/album/the-genius-of-hoodoo-man-blues-by-junior-wells-chicago-blues-band/
https://www.discogs.com/release/3694981-Junior-Wells-Chicago-Blues-Band-Hoodoo-Man-Blues

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