Search - Junior Wells :: Coming at You

Second-best but still HIGHLY recommended

Johan Maurer | Portland, OR United States | 01/17/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is a bit more diffuse - thanks especially to the horns - than the legendary and ever-so-tight Hoodoo Man Blues but it is still delicious. Especially wonderful - "So Sad This Morning," "Little By Little," ... I better stop now or I'll list all the tracks. "When My Baby Left Me" rocks mightily."

Best Of The Best, Right Here!

Jack B. Nimble | East Coast | 01/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This Vanguard LP is perhaps one of the best blues harp LP's to be recorded in the late 60's. I first bought a near mint original vinyl pressing of Coming At You and found later that Vanguard reissued it on CD. Immediately after receiving it, turned the volume all the way up (without blowing out speakers) and I was in my glory. I listen to this on a regular basis and can't get enough, at least not yet. Every song displays Junior's awesome vocals and harp with a solid rhythm section here. Buddy Guy's guitar licks are inventive and really shine, but the guitar sounds a little thin and should have had some gain and reverb to give it more presence. Not over-produced, it has that nice raw 60's sound. EVERY SONG is worth the price of admission here especially, "Mystery Train", "Five Long Years", "Little By Little", "Tobacco Road", "You Don't Love Me, Baby" + a fine treatment of the standard blues tune "Hoochie Coochie Man". I could put together a large compilation of blues artists just doing that song alone. Highly recommended if you have not already heard this."