Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy-Hoodoo Man Blues (1965)
Artist: Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy
Title: Hoodoo Man Blues
Year of Release: 1965
Country and Year of Edition: US 1983 Promo white label REISSUE Stereo DS-612 "with Buddy Guy" text on cover, no bar code on back cover, some minor ringwear, edgewear nothing severe with the cover, come with a photocopied press release typed on a typewriter
Sell Price: $154.02
Sell Date: 3/15/26
Condition: VG+/VG
Discogs Last Sold: 3/11/26 VG+/G+ $100.00
Low: $100.00
Median: $154.02
Average: $150.02
High: $196.05
Current low price: $109.32 VG/VG Really well taken care of copy considering age. A few 1-inch or so marks on A side, but no skips. Genreally clean wax but with a cleaning this would shine. Name written in pen on side B label. Some general wear and discoloration to sleeve but overall quit
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4
Have/Want: 59/210
Where Sold: Laives, Bolzano, Italy
Time It Took To Sell: 11 years
Where and When Bought: Al Bums Worcester mid 80's $3.99
Gwiz-gau Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
With all the Buddy Guy interest generated in his appearance in the film Sinners and last nights' Oscar hubbub, this white label 80's reissue promo copy I had of Junior Wells legendary Hoodoo Man Blues sold for over $150. This one had a typewritten press release stuck in it. Delmark reissued it with the same catalog number and this sold and canceled it 4 years ago for under $60, so I put it back up with more detail for $200 and let it drop on slow sales weeks. A strategic victory for the Reverse Collector, but I never thought it would be a film appearance that would potentially sell the record 4 years ago.
Buddy Guy is turning 90 this July. Although we think of him primarily as the preiminent living, still performing Blues Guitarist, he is coming and going with less fanfare as part of bigger ensemble work. In that Sinners music clip you can barely spot him among that gigantic band and 2026 Hollywood dance troupe. Although he was issuing solo singles for Chess under his own name since 1960 with "I Got My Eye On You," he continued his sideman career under the pseudonym as Friendly Chap. Later reissue editions of Hoodoo Man Blues threw Buddy's name on the front cover in small lettering under the big Junior Wells' and just as big Chicago Blues Band.
Hoodoo Man Blues in itself is a great sounding 1965 Chicago Blues album with just the basics: Buddy's guitar, Jack Myers on bass and Billy Warren on drums backing Junior's vocals and harmonica. The album kicks off with something that sounds out of James Brown's "bag" of tricks, "Snatch It Back And Hold It." There are Blues standards ahoy but they sound original here, particularly "Hound Dog." You feel like you are hearing retreads when you hear "Good Morning Little School Girl," "In The Wee Wee Hours" or "Hey Lawdy Mama" and you don't even think of the ghost Allmans that did "You Don't Love Me Baby" as much as know you heard it somewhere else some other way. The real work is evidenced by the hard grunting in the harmonica work of "We're Ready." Junior pulls the weight here.
Ghosts of the past sometimes carry more life than the living.
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