02 Junior Wells - Rock Me Baby

Junior Wells Rock Me Baby 5:50
(McKinley Morganfield, Arc Music/Watertoons, BMI)

Junior Wells, vocal, harmonica; Louis Myers, guitar; Otis Spann, piano; Ernest Johnson, bass; Fred Below, drums December 30, 1969 from the recording session of South Side Blues Jam (628)

Junior Wells: “Rock Me Baby” (Previously unreleased)
Harpist Junior Wells was a giant of the postwar blues era, and he remained a major figure until his death in 1998. This version of a Muddy Waters standard is from the sessions that resulted in South Side Blues Jam, Wells’ 1970 follow-up to Hoodoo Man Blues, his landmark 1965 Delmark debut. Wells, who’d originally signed on with Muddy’s band in 1952, is joined here by fellow Muddy alum Otis Spann on piano, along with bassist Earnest Johnson (who later also hooked up with Muddy) and pioneering blues drummer Fred Below.