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[Guest Torrent] Magic Sam 1966 10 02 Copa Cabana Club Chicago IL (WOPA)

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Magic Sam
Big Bill's Copa Cabana Club
3258 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago IL
October 2nd 1966

While he was a DJ at Chicago's WOPA, William Henry Hill aka "Big Bill" Hill came up with the idea of broadcasting blues bands live from the West Side clubs. He started out at Silvio's, where he introduced Elmore James to Chicago. Other live broadcasts included Otis Rush, Mighty Joe Young, Freddie King, Koko Taylor and Chicago Slim. In the mid-1960s, Hill owned a night club, named the Copa Cabana. Big Bill recorded a jam session that was released on an album entitled "Blues at Big Bill's Copa Cabana" on Chess Records; that recording featured Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann and Sonny Boy Williamson.

This show is sourced from a broadcast tape from one of Big Bill Hill's WOPA radio shows from his own Copa Cabana Club on Chicago's West Side. It is also known as the WOPA tape. It's undoubtably the same tape recorded by Bill Lindemann, which was used for 8 tracks on the Delmark commercial release, "Rockin' Wild In Chicago", although this one sounds several generations removed from the Delmark CD. The tracks that are on "Rockin' Wild In Chicago" are not included in this torrent.

This tape was also subject to some very rough editing, which is quite audible, to remove between song stage talk, as well as most of Big Bill Hill's on-air chatter. I don't know if one of our remastering wizards can do anything to clean this up abit, but you have the Delmark CD as a guide as to what the original tape sounds like.

In any event, it's Magic Sam, it's Magic Sam live, and I really don't know what more you need to know than that. There are only five shows of Sam's in trading circles.


Setlist:

01. I Feel So Good
02. Tremble (instrumental)
03. Call Me When You Need Me
04. Further On Up The Road
05. Dirty Work Going On
06. Why Are You So Mean To Me
07. That's All Right > Big Bill Hill talk
08. Who's Loving You Tonight
09. All Of Your Love
10-11. Tremble (instrumental)
12. Scratch My Back
13. A Hard Road
14. Tremble (instrumental)
15. It's All Your Fault Baby
16. How Long Can This Go On
17. Every Night, Every Day
18. Tore Down (inc - cuts)



Total time: 1:01:26.09

Band Lineup:

Magic Sam - guitar, vocals
Mac Thompson - bass guitar
Odie Payne, Jr. - drums
"Shakey Jake" Harris - harmonica, vocals

Lineage: Bill Lindemann tape > ? > trade CDR > EAC > FLAC

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