 | | |
| | West Side Soul | | | Music Artist : | | Magic Sam | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Delmark | | Release Date : | | 1993-06-10 | | Store Price : | | $13.49 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
|
|
|
|
|
CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. That's All I Need
2. I Need You So Bad
3. I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)
4. All Your Love
5. I Don't Want No Woman
6. Sweet Home Chicago
7. I Found a New Love
8. Every Night and Every Day
9. Lookin' Good [Instrumental]
10. My Love Will Never Die
11. Mama Talk to Your Daughter
12. I Don't Want No Woman [Alternate Take]
| |
Other Artist Albums
|
|
|
|
Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
|
 I feel SOOO good!
Submitted on: 2009-07-07 |
|
I am amazed upon reading through the reviews here that almost no one mentions my favorite track on this record, and one of the happiest songs of all time: I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)!
I have loved this song like mad since the first day I heard it in 1993. Of all the classic and lesser-known blues my friend Freimuth Fischkal in Berlin turned me on to (a fine guitarist and great guy, by the way...gruss dich und vielen danke, Freimuth!), this was a track out of thousands that jumped out and grabbed me in a special way.
Everybody knows the blues are about feeling low-down, but I've always also loved the blues that are about feeling good again. And this track just can't be beat for that purpose. Along with Shuggie Otis' Inspiration Information, it's one of the songs that always gets me back to that good place where life makes sense and it's time to go have fun.
It's just a simple little 12-bar riff, an up-tempo shuffle, but the rhythm section meshes its gears and propels the groove into orbit right off the bat, and never lets up. It's as if Sam's daring us to feel this good along with him...and why not? Jump up and dance your blues away! Now there's a good reason to make music...maybe the best. And Sam's full-on wail of a voice says it all: you can't sing like that if you don't really know what feeling' good is all about.
The whole album is truly solid, and as a guitarist I really dig Sam's compact, clean tone. He mixed his singing and playing beautifully, and his singing is excellent. He can really hit the big note, and my other favorite track here, I Don't Want No Woman, features his large voice in full cry, as does All Of Your Love. (And I guarantee that Plant knew this album insde out; Zep is full of Magic Sam-ish vocal moments.)
What a shame that Sam died at 32, just as he was revvin' up. But he did leave us another great album as well, Black magic, which is just icing on the cake, for West Side Soul is a killer.
I feeeeel allllriiight...I feeeel sooo goood...I feeeel alllllriiiight!!!
|
|
|
|
Classic Chicago Blues--an almost perfect album
Submitted on: 2008-09-25 |
|
| This is recognized by all as one of the classic blues albums of all time, probably the best Chicago blues album ever recorded. It is just about perfect. In saying that, I do not minimize the work of Howling Wolf or Muddy Waters who did their best recordings as singles. But,if you only are going to have 10 blues cds in your collection, this is a must have. Listen to these vocals with their honest emotion, appreciate this songwriting, the perfect guitar work and you will have a standard to measure all blues music by, particularly blues in the Chicago style. The present blues scene is populated by way too much weak songwriting that does little more than act as a way to get to the long guitar solo. Having said that, the blues should evolve and not be stuck in Chicago 50 years ago. West Side Soul was ground-breaking and my point is good music stands the test of time. |
|
|
|
The Real Stuff
Submitted on: 2008-09-15 |
|
| What can you say? This recording from 1967 is an apex of the blues. |
|
|
|
I cried out of sheer joy when i heard this for the first time.....
Submitted on: 2008-05-13 |
|
It was the summer of 1994, the first time i heard this record from a friend of mine (bless the man). you remember the kind of thrill that you experience when you see/ hear something so profound that it electrifies your whole system, i had tears in my eyes out of pure happiness when i heard the songs.
This is unarguably the greatest blues album ever made, its a tragedy that Sam Maghett had to pass away at the young age of 32. This album will blow you away into pieces, each and every song is pure gold.
Just read the emotion and passion of the other reviewers, barring one retard who feels this album is "dated" (must be a winehouse fan) , every other reviewer here is right on the money.
This album is a keeper and will define what music is like, a 100 , 200 years from now.
10 Stars. Recommend to own and makes for an awesome gift as well!
|
|
|
|
Lives up to the hype
Submitted on: 2008-04-28 |
|
| Plenty of blues enthusiasts cite this as one of the best blues albums ever. I own quite a few albums by Muddy, B.B., and Wolf and this one stacks up to them. A nice find. |
|
|
|
