{"id":366,"date":"2010-03-11T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=366"},"modified":"2015-02-04T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:36:43","slug":"junior-wells-youre-tuff-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Junior Wells – You’re Tuff Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download -Junior Wells – You’re Tuff Enough <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday is here, and I\u2019m happy to say that last night\u2019s Master Groove @ Forbidden City<\/strong> was an unqualified gas.
\nThere was a nice crowd and as is always the case, the hot sounds were flying fast and furious.
\nThis time out I got my shit together <\/em>and recorded my set, which I\u2019ll be posting on Monday.
\nSince I am currently sleep deprived (and have a day\u2019s worth of errands ahead of me) I\u2019ll be uncharacteristically brief.
\nIf you\u2019re a fan of Chicago blues, the name Junior Wells<\/strong> should be a (very) familiar one. In a career that spanned more than four decades, Wells, as both a harp master and a vocalist laid down lots of very tasty music. His collaborations with the mighty Buddy Guy<\/strong> are legendary and have rightly secured him a place of honor in the blues pantheon.
\nHowever, like many of his contemporaries (Guy included) Junior Wells dabbled (with more success than many) on the soul and funk side of things. Today\u2019s selection is one of his finest efforts from that side of the stylistic street.
\nLast year, on my Massachusetts digs, I happened upon a hippie-ish record store in a back alley of an ivy encrusted college town. To my delight, their bins were filled with all kinds of groovy 60s pop and rock LP, and in addition to some stuff I hadn\u2019t heard of, I pulled a couple of longtime wants as well.
\nToward the end of my time in the store I noticed a small bin of 45s on the side, and while it didn\u2019t look all that promising, I\u2019ve learned through experience that only a fool passes up a\u00a0 stack of unexplored 45s. Good thing too, since the first handful of singles I picked up yielded the song your hearing today.
\nA subsidiary of Chicago-based Mercury Records, Blue Rock had a discography that stretched from 1964 to 1969 and was home to all kinds of groovy soul, funk and blues sides. Junior Wells recorded four singles for the label in 1968 and 1969, the first of which was the slamming \u2018You\u2019re Tuff Enough\u2019.
\nWhile I wouldn\u2019t say that \u2018You\u2019re Tuff Enough\u2019 crosses the line into funk territory, I wouldn\u2019t hesitate to drop it into a funky DJ set. It\u2019s a searing bit of powerful sock soul, with a great vocal by Wells and a kick-ass arrangement (by none other than the mighty Charles Stepney<\/strong>!).
\nCertainly the best two dollars I\u2019ve ever spent in Massachusetts.
\nI hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll be back with that live set on Monday.
\nHave a great weekend.<\/p>\n

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Junior Wells Listen\/Download -Junior Wells – You’re Tuff Enough Greetings all. Friday is here, and I\u2019m happy to say that last night\u2019s Master Groove @ Forbidden City was an unqualified gas. There was a nice crowd and as is always the case, the hot sounds were flying fast and furious. This time out I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,14,12,18],"tags":[171,163,166,164],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-5U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}