I like where some of the lines from 'Back Track' were inserted in there at a very good spot. The WHERE aspect will escape most players. Good piece of work...you know what its all about. Regards Me
harpdude, it mightve been cotton! to me it sounded like a little bit of walters boogie... ---------- Kyzer's Travels Kyzer's Artwork "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Lao Tzu
Times must have changed in Chicago. When I lived there, you heard that song a lot. Everyone did it. It never bothered me. ---------- The Blues Photo Gallery
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I haven't lived their in a decade but last I was in town to visit a lot of my old haunts looked like something out of a 6 flags amusement park, so yeah it might have changed a lot if you're hearing it a lot these days? After the Blues Brothers movie that song got really old really fast, kind of the white guy overbite dance anthem? Lol You'd pull it out now and then for a big tipper but not something that would be in a regular set rotation by anyone I knew playing the North/Southside blues circuit back in the 80's/90's. Although I know Johnny B (The Loop) made it his calling card, him and a lot burbs bands back then. So yeah I guess it did get played a lot come to think of it?
I was hanging in clubs all over Chicago during the 80's. If I had a buck for everytime I just heard Magic Slim do that tune, I would be a weathy man. Everyone did it from Slim to the Sons of Blues to Willie Kent. Hell, even the Aces did it. It was almost a mandatory tune to do in some clubs.
The only tune I may have heard as much Little Milton's 'The Blues Is Alright'. Sweet Home Chicago never bothered me if the band could play it and it didn't sound phoned in.
Cool Joe, You lived your life and I lived mine. I'm not here to get into a pissing contest with someone who never walked a day in my shoes, or haggle over tastes in songs. I have my perspective on life and you have yours. Cheers to that and Merry Christmas!
Hey man - it's really no big deal in the grand scheme of things. My perspective was a little different. In retrospect, I'm really sorry I mentioned it.
I don't play the song as much as I used to, and I agree: it's way, way overdone. I did it in this case simply because Ed (the guitarist) and I had never played together, and we hadn't rehearsed on this night, so an easy-fit standard was called for.
Yet, I'm quoting Big Walter and also LW's "Back Track." It's a song about going home to Chicago, after all. At 4:37, that's a Big Walter lick, I think
wow! pretty good! Nice playing! and monster tone. What type of set up was he playing? I always liked his Mouse portable, stick mic, playing in the car, sound. Thanks for posting this clip of Adam. Great!
