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In 1982, when this disk was recorded, Chicago blues was in the throes of radical change. The masters who'd pioneered the style in the years following World War II were getting older, and an eager young generation was rising to receive the torch.

Forged in the cauldron of living Chicago blues tradition, these young firebrands were expanding that tradition with sounds and ideas that were as different from those of their mentors as their mentors' music had been from the acoustic blues of the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s. They'd been raised on soul, R&B, and rock, as well as postwar Chicago blues; they refused to be limited by purists' definitions of

"authenticity."

Throughout Chicago, clubs and jukes that had once resonated with Mississippi-styled 12-bar blues now throbbed to the insistent beat of fatback rhythms and funk-popping basslines; molten-metal guitar solos soared ecstatically into areas once considered solely the province of rock stars. Even the harmonica-that prototypical artifact of Delta-to-Chicago traditionalism-was being shaken loose of its folk roots and transformed into a brilliant tool of outward-bound improvisation.

Near the epicenter of these changes were the musicians you hear on this disk. Lurrie Bell had spent his childhood sitting at the feet of such fabled bluesmen as his father (harmonica legend Carey Bell), Big Walter Horton and Eddie Taylor. At 13 he was already gigging in his father's band; by his mid-20s, his resume included sessions with the likes of Eddie C. Campbell and Eddie Clearwater. But Bell was also consumed with an intense and fervid musical imagination; he played with a near-apocalyptic fury, as if determined to break boundaries and create a new musical vocabulary.

1. Help Me 6:50

(Sonny Boy Williamson II-Willie Dixon-Ralph Bass) Arc Music Corp., BMI

2. Breakin' Up Somebody's Home 7:19

(Al Jackson, Jr./Timothy Matthews) South Memphis Music, BMI

8. Sweet Little Angel 5:44

(B.B. King/Jules Taub) Careers BMG Music Publishing, BMI

4. Don't Start Me Talkin 4:33

(Sonny Boy Williamson Il) Arc Music Corp., BMI

จ. JUST A Little Bit 4:00

(John Thornton/Piney Brown/Ralph Bass/Earl Washington) Fort Knox Music Inc./Trio Music Co. Inc., BMI

6.I Need You So Bad 5:21

(Samuel Maghett) Conrad Music/Leric Music Inc., BMI

7. Mystery Train 7:08

(Junior Parker/Sam Phillips) Hi-Lo Music Inc./Unichappell Music Inc., BMI

Billy Branch • harmonica, vocals (1, 4)

Lurrie Bell • electric guitar, vocals (2, 3, 5-7)

Elisha "Eli" Murray • electric guitar

J.W. Williams • electric bass

Mose Rutues Jr. • drums

Produced by: Horst Lippmann

Reissue produced by: Jerry Gordon

Recorded on June 30, 1982 at Odyssey Sound Studio, Chicago, IL.

Recording Engineer: Edward Cody

Lurrie Bell Photo: Mara Eggert

Billy Branch Photo: Axel Kustner

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