THIS IS THE EARLY-80s US REPRESSING on DELMARK label . The single cover is partially in shrink and in VG+ condition, normal wear and without any major deterioration, BUT light discolouration/wear on left spine on rear/right corners (where missing shrink), sticker mark on rear (right edge, at right of musician's list), left spine is fully readable; for details see photos (with and without flashlight). The vinyl is in EX condition and plays wonderfully.

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MAGIC SAM BLUES BAND

MAGIC SAM, ODIE PAYNE III, ODIE PAYNE, STOCKHOLM SLIM, MACK THOMPSON,

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, EARNEST JOHNSON

No blues guitarist better represented the adventurous modern sound of Chicago's West side more proudly than Sam Maghett. He died tragically young (at age 32 of a heart attack), just as he was on the brink of climbing the ladder to legitimate stardom, but Magic Sam left behind a thick legacy of bone-cutting blues that remains eminently influential around his old stomping grounds to this day.

"WEST SIDE SOUL"

<reissue, originally published 1968>

LP     DELMARK RECORDS      DS-615

PRINTED IN U.S.A.       EARLY-80s REPRESSING

PARTIALLY IN SHRINK SINGLE SLEEVE

HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER

NOTES: on Back Cover: Jacket back is blue - No barcode

- DELMARK Stereo DS-615 ROOTS OF JAZZ SERIES in the upper right corner

- Label address: DELMARK RECORDS, 4243 N. Lincoln, Chicago IL 60618

- Jacket Made in Canada

- Mentions Magic Sam releases DS-620 and DS-645/646 which came out in 1969 and 1981, respectively.

Labels: - Under address: (36736); looks like a Wakefield pressing number, but in the deadwax it says (ᵛᵛ) 10150 (36736 actually resurfaced on DS-644 = Jimmy Johnson - Johnson's Whacks)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: DELMARK - WHITE LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLUE TEXT

Catalog on cover: DS-615

Catalog on labels: DS-615-A / DS-615-B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched [Tulip Stamped]): [Wakefield tulip logo] 10150 DS-615A RE-1 SSS[?]

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched [Tulip Stamped]): DS-615B RE-1 [Wakefield tulip logo] 10150 JB

On labels: Delmark......4243 N. Lincoln-Chicago, IL

(36376)

On spine: DS-615  ROOTS OF JAZZ SERIES   MAGIC SAM BLUES BAND - West Side Soul   DELMARK

On Back Sleeve: Notes + Tracklist + Credits

Delmark Records 4243 N. Lincoln  Chicago IL 60618

Jacket Made in Canada

tracklisting: 

Side A: THAT'S ALL I NEED - I NEED YOU SO BAD

I FEEL SO GOOD (WANNA BOOGIE) - ALL OF YOUR LOVE - I DON'T WANT NO WOMAN

Side B: SWEET HOME CHICAGO - I FOUND A NEW LOVE - EVERY NIGHT AND EVERY DAY

LOOKING GOOD - MY LOVE WILL NEVER DIE - MAMA, MAMA-TALK TO YOUR DAUGHTER

grading

RECORD EX but (please, also read above description) 

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

To call West Side Soul one of the great blues albums, one of the key albums (if not the key album) of modern electric blues is all true, but it tends to diminish and academicize Magic Sam's debut album. This is the inevitable side effect of time, when an album that is decades old enters the history books, but this isn't an album that should be preserved in amber, seen only as an important record. Because this is a record that is exploding with life, a record with so much energy, it doesn't sound old. Of course, part of the reason it sounds so modern is because this is the template for most modern blues, whether it comes from Chicago or elsewhere. Magic Sam may not have been the first to blend uptown soul and urban blues, but he was the first to capture not just the passion of soul, but also its subtle elegance, while retaining the firepower of an after-hours blues joint. Listen to how the album begins, with "That's All I Need," a swinging tune that has as much in common with Curtis Mayfield as it does Muddy Waters, but it doesn't sound like either -- it's a synthesis masterminded by Magic Sam, rolling along on the magnificent, delayed cadence of his guitar and powered by his impassioned vocals. West Side Soul would be remarkable if it only had this kind of soul-blues, but it also is filled with blistering, charged electric blues, fueled by wild playing by Magic Sam and Mighty Joe Young -- not just on the solos, either, but in the rhythm (witness how "I Feel So Good [I Wanna Boogie]" feels unhinged as it barrels along). Similarly, Magic Sam's vocals are sensitive or forceful, depending on what the song calls for. Some of these elements might have been heard before, but never in a setting so bristling with energy and inventiveness; it doesn't sound like it was recorded in a studio, it sounds like the best night in a packed club. But it's more than that, because there's a diversity in the sound here, an originality so fearless, he not only makes "Sweet Home Chicago" his own (no version before or since is as definitive as this), he creates the soul-injected, high-voltage modern blues sound that everybody has emulated and nobody has topped in the years since. And, again, that makes it sound like a history lesson, but it's not. This music is alive, vibrant, and vital -- nothing sounds as tortured as "I Need You So Bad," no boogie is as infectious as "Mama, Mama Talk to Your Daughter," no blues as haunting as "All of Your Love." No matter what year you listen to it, you'll never hear a better, more exciting record that year...(AllMusic)