West Side Soul (Vinyl LP) 60s 70s Psych Prog Rock

West Side Soul (Vinyl LP) 60s 70s Psych Prog RockTo 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

Caron Wheeler became known worldwide as the vocalist in Soul II Soul

Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos

"Little Symphony" has a great written line with room for solos in a joyful hard bop center with the quartet of Coleman

тâ§s Grammy-winning 'Tassili' was recorded in Joshua Tree National Park

and crunching guitars earned it endless comparisons to vintage Big Star

More wonderful reggae dub mashups of MOTOWN hits

French horn player Julius Watkins

and bassist Pete Bassman) following the departure of the first album's drummer

A great introduction to a great man's work

The album features several guest appearances

mastered-from-the-original-master-tape 180g audiophile vinyl reissues in deluxe gatefold packaging

recorded live