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Hoodoo Men: Delmark's Junior Wells, Jimmy Dawkins and Yank Rachell reissues

Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 10 August 1998

THE TORCH OF electric blues has burned no brighter than in the gritty clubs and studios of Chicago in the '50s and '60s. It was a time when the music's pioneering figures like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were passing that flame to a new generation.

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