Sugar Blue - Crossroads (1981)

This is a rare album wich hasn't been released as CD, so this is a copy made from a cassette. A great album from one of the fathers of modern harmonica playing. This harp virtuoso showed us how to play todays rythms years before nobody tryied something similar. It's amazin to hear what he could do and the ideas that he brought to the harmonica so many years before that other harp players dare to try a style alike. He has been a mayor inspiration for generations of young harp players, among them Adam Gussow.

Tracklist:
01. Pontiac
02. Begging the girl to go
03. Dark and Hungry
04. Shed no tears
05. War Zone
06. My baby caught the train
07. Another man done gone


The album presented was recorded in 1981 while Sugar Blue was living in Paris just few months before he came back to the US to learn and play with the harmonica masters James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell and Walter Horton.

This is a great album from Sugar Blue. It's amazin to hear what he could do and the ideas that he broght to the harmonica so many years before that other harp players dare to try them. He has been a mayor inspiration for generations of young harp players, among them Adam Gussow, Howard Levy, Jason Ricci.

His up-tempo style it's unique, you just have to hear his version on Pontiac Blues, compare it to Sonny Boy version, and wow!! What way to play the blues!!