Muddy Waters album “Live At Mr. Kellys” from 1971 took my heart into the blues. I bought this album (Cassette) a sunny saturday in the summer of 1974, and I was nine years old.<\/p>\n
Acually I got money from my sweet grandmother to buy the 45rpm of WATERLOO with ABBA that won the Eurovision that same year. I took the bus all alone to town to buy this album and when I finish the deal, I had 10 Norwegian Krones (Nok) left (apx. 1 EURO). At the entrance of the record shop there where a big bowl with cassettes for Nok. 10,- each.<\/p>\n
I grew up with my mothers 1950\/60\u2019s albums, but couldnt\u2019t find any cassette with some of them (Rick Nelson, Elvis, Cliff Richard, Roy Orbison, Brook Benton aso), so I ended up with a cassette with a cool cover in cool colors. This was MUDDY WATERS, that I never heard about before. When I came home of course the first thing I did was to put on ABBA cause I liked that song.<\/p>\n
Later on the same Saturday Night I put the Muddy cassette in my new cassette player and the rest is history. I played trumpet in the local school brassband (my father was the director) since I was 7 years old and the first song on this live recording was \u00abWHAT IS THAT SHE GOT\u00bb. Don\u2019t know how to describe it, but it blow me away total. The harmonica work on this tune is among the best I still hear and in the cassette cover\/ sleve it says the it was Mr Joe Denim on Mississippi \u00abTrumpet\u00bb on track 1, 3 & 9. On the other songs there where Paul Oscher on harp. For years after 1974 I was looking for more music with Mr. Joe Denim, but no luck before I meet a hippie in 1981. He told me that “Joe Denim” was James Cotton. In the pseudonymic contract-hopping tradition, where sidemen show up on other peoples’ records under names like “Friendly Chap” and “Dirty Rivers,” Mr Joe Denim was James Cotton. He worked with Muddy several years before going solo and Muddy insisted that he should play harmonic at this fantastic live show. I was lucky enough to meet my mentor James Henry Cotton twice and he will forever be my hero. Still listen to his solos and fill in’s on this album, and I will never get tired of It. I also meet Paul Oscher and we shared a bottle of Jack Daniels while he told me about this fabulous recording from June 1971.<\/p>\n
Mr. Superharp (James Cotton\u2026or Mr Joe Denim if You like) died in 2017, but he will forever be my biggest influence since I first heard his fabulous playing in July 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9996","bluesvdmaand","type-bluesvdmaand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n