Magic Sam - live [Colourised] 1969
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- The late great Sam 'Magic Sam' Maghett live at the 1969 American Folk Blues Festival in October 1969. Tragically Sam died 2 months after the tour in December 69 of a heart attack.
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0:00 All Your Love
3:37 Backstage
4:19 Lookin' Good
6:40 Love Ain't No Play Thing (backing Carey Bell)
Guitar & Vocals - Magic Sam
Bass - Mack Thompson
Drums - Robert St. Julien
Samuel Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 - December 1, 1969), known as Magic Sam, was an American Chicago blues musician. He was born in Grenada County, Mississippi, and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. After moving to Chicago at the age of 19, he was signed by Cobra Records and became well known as a bluesman after the release of his first record, "All Your Love", in 1957. He was known for his distinctive tremolo guitar playing.
The stage name Magic Sam was devised by Sam's bass player and childhood friend Mack Thompson at Sam's first recording session for Cobra, as an approximation of "Maghett Sam". The name Sam was using at the time, Good Rocking Sam, was already being used by another artist.
Maghett moved to Chicago in 1956, where his guitar playing earned him bookings at blues clubs on the West Side. He recorded singles for Cobra Records from 1957 to 1959, including "All Your Love" and "Easy Baby". They did not reach the record charts but had a profound influence, far beyond Chicago's guitarists and singers. Together with recordings by Otis Rush and Buddy Guy (also Cobra artists), the West Side Sound was a manifesto for a new kind of blues. Around this time Magic Sam worked briefly with Homesick James Williamson. Magic Sam gained a following before being drafted into the U.S. Army. He served six months in prison for desertion and received a dishonorable discharge.
In 1963, his single "Feelin' Good (We're Gonna Boogie)" gained national attention. He successfully toured the U.S., Britain and Germany. He was signed to Delmark Records in 1967, for which he recorded West Side Soul and Black Magic. He continued performing live and toured with a band that included blues harp player Charlie Musselwhite, future Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen bassist "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow and drummer Sam Lay. Magic Sam's breakthrough performance was at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969, which won him many bookings in the U.S. and Europe. He sometimes performed with his uncle, Shakey Jake Harris.
His career was cut short when he suddenly died of a heart attack in December 1969. He was 32 years old. Magic Sam was buried in the Restvale Cemetery, in Alsip, Illinois. He was survived by his wife, Georgia Maghett. In February 1970, the Butterfield Blues Band played at a benefit concert for Magic Sam, at Fillmore West in San Francisco. Also on the bill were Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite and Nick Gravenites.
"Magic Sam had a different guitar sound", said his record producer, Willie Dixon. "Most of the guys were playing the straight 12-bar blues thing, but the harmonies that he carried with the chords was a different thing altogether. This tune "All Your Love", he expressed with such an inspirational feeling with his high voice. You could always tell him, even from his introduction to the music."
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Started studying this man not too long ago, now I can’t stop playing his songs on the ax, Long live Magic Sam and his tunes!!
Have you heard the album on delmark records called live at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival. It's actually one half of a double album and the first album is live in a club in 63. But if you haven't heard the Ann arbor album recorded in 69 then you must check it out. It's a 3-piece and they make more racket than any blues band you have ever heard. I don't know what they have got Sam plugged into but he sounds like a heavy rock guitar player. Listening to this album gives you a great insight to what Sam would have sounded like five years later if he had lived. He would sound and play like Buddy Guy pretty much does. I always felt if Sam would have lived he probably would have been one of the biggest Blues players of all. I am a huge fan of Sam and have all his albums plus bootlegs. Nice to meet you 🙋
So many tunes beats and rhythms
RIP Magic Sam (February 14, 1937 - December 1, 1969), aged 32
You will be remembered as a legend.
Plays guitar like he was born with it in his hands. A legend for sure. Jammin with the angels now
It's not easy to play rhythm and lead the way he does with just his fingers and no pick. Remind me of Jeff Beck. 🙋
@@chriskroll4166 I guess Mark Knophler plays that way too.
@@41663 Sure. Lindsey Buckingham also.
god! this is so so beautiful, the way this was documented and then years after colored
Nice one, thank god for Horst Lipman & Fritz Rau for putting on these Festivals and having the foresight to film them
BEAUTIFUL BLUES .GREAT TALENT GUITAR 🎸 R.I.P. LEGEND 👋
Such a beautiful voice! And the guitar tone!
The best blues guitarists were always great singers at the same time!
True in a lot of instances but Hubert Sumlin didn’t sing much and he was brilliant
it’s crazy how you NEEDED talented to have your name out there
What a treasure. Thank you.
My Hero Magic sam 😎👌🍀
MAGIC SAM AKA GOD !!!
Long live you soul brotha !!!!
Blk n Wht or Color, Magic Sam and his music are BEAUTIFUL.
Such a sad loss I think he'dve been massive with that soulful voice aswell
Ohmy gawd. Seriously. I have never seen seen what they are hiding.
1:48 dude this bend he lands on is so precise and hard hitting.
I wish there was more footage of him. I love the west side Chicago guys
MAGIC stuff ... period.
カラーで拝めるマジック・サム！
アール・フッカーのギターも鮮明✨✨
Thank you very very much 👏
👊🤘
Great
Wooow. Sick work, mate.
Nice one!
What always amazing amazing about these videos is that he playing somebody else's...
Earl Hooker was no slouch on the guitar either tho 🤘
goat
Love this set Same goes for earl hooker jr
実に素晴らしい!
彼は歴史に残る偉大なアーティストである事は間違い無い事実でしょう!
Earl Hooker is amazing.
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That's an AKG D12 mic used for vocals, plus maybe a Sennheiser? Anyone know? Then later it's an MD-421 and maybe with the same Sennheiser. Hmmmn
Sennheiser MD-406?
Good shout with the AKG you know your mics! Not sure with the sennheiser tho 🤔
i like how back in those days you could tell the country they were in by the mics. :) and when i would see the mighty sm57. like in england, god forbid they put a pop filter on it. wally hielder was mr SM57. he used pop filters though with gary brooker. i assume the silver mic i assume was the recording feed?
Cary Bell I believe ?
uau...
Who is the harp player? Junior Wells?
Carey Bell
Why is he playing Earl Hooker's guitar?
Died at age 34 (?) Likely would have eclipsed Buddy Guy had he lived.
Not sure if you’ve heard the unfinished studio sessions before he died, some amazing stuff on there!
Elevator Here- I think he was actually 32 when he died, way to young either way...
@@bluesincolour where can I listen to those sessions ?
@@htwa open.spotify.com/album/3bLrCRofJNaObFzqW8Eiah?si=vzW3SV4iSf2fBKol5rjzAw
Love this one open.spotify.com/track/4GVjTlW0AUeXBFsQozv89H?si=ZPmt8HBbSAefNHFv5LDsqw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3bLrCRofJNaObFzqW8Eiah
Fooking crap. All of your love. Guitar riff is undeniable dope as fuck. Started to learn it the other day after I heard this.