Junior Wells & Buddy Guy – Live in Hiroshima 1975

This is an album I didn’t even know existed until I ran across it in the blues bin at Forever Changes on the next to last day of 2023. Well, it turns out that previously, this had only ever been released in Japan. That made me a little skeptical of the quality, but I needn’t have been – the sound is fine. It’s not of the incredible quality of “Alone and Acoustic,” but it’s perfectly fine. Besides, it’s Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.

Buddy and Junior put out about 10 albums together, plus some tracks on Chicago / The Blues / Today!, as well as this live recording – a pretty remarkable legacy. Such a shame that Junior died so young, at only 63 in 1998. I have to imagine they’d still be playing together, and doing some pretty remarkable turns.