04 Magic Sam - I Don't Want No Woman

Magic Sam I Don’t Want No Woman 4:28
(Don Robey, Songs of Universal Inc., BMI)

Magic Sam, vocal, guitar; Big Mojo Elem, bass; Bob Richey, drums. June 22, 1968 from Live at the Avant Garde (833) Produced by James Charne

Magic Sam: “Don’t Want No Woman”
Sam Maghett was one of the late-‘50s/early-‘60s trailblazers who helped develop the highly amplified, emotionally perfervid style, laced with R&B toughness, that later became known as “West Side” blues. Sam’s Delmark LPs, West Side Soul (1967) and Black Magic (1968), were internationally feted, but he died in December of 1968 before he could really capitalize on their success. This track, recorded that same year at the Avant Garde Coffee House in Wisconsin, is from Delmark’s upcoming Live At the Avant Garde, which will consist entirely of previously unreleased material.