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Junior Wells: Coming At You (Vanguard SVRL 19011)

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 22 March 1969

A GOOD TASTE, if not a feast, of modern Chicago blues is offered by the explosive Junior Wells on his latest from Vanguard (perhaps his last) titled COMING AT YOU (SVRL 19011), on which he works with a quintet on most tracks but is boosted here and there by brass — Clark Terry, Wallace Davenport, Jimmy Owens and Tom Mcintosh no less. 

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