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Johnny Shines: Live in Europe 1975.(musicians)(Brief Article)

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Recorded at a small jazz club in Vienna, Austria (a city more familiar with Mozart than the Mississippi Delta blues) five years before the first of his strokes, this long solo set, captured over three nights, finds Robert Johnson's legendary traveling partner in splendid shape. Chicago-based Shines even uncharacteristically responds to audience requests, vividly interpreting classics by Leroy Carr, Muddy Waters and Elmore James, as he samples broadly from a wide stylistic repertoire with his powerful, vibrato-rich vocals leading the way and spilling across some of the most thrilling, slide guitar-keynoted fretwork this crowd had probably ever heard. From slowed-down versions of T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday Blues" and the traditional "St. Louis Blues" (two songs he rarely performed live) to nearly a dozen solid examples of his own beguiling lyric invention ...

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