Dieses 1965er Album zeigt Sänger und Harmonikaspieler Junior Wells als Solist. Bei dieser frühen Zusammenkunft mit Buddy Guy summieren die beiden den Funk-Rock-Blues der Sechziger, der noch kommen sollte. Hoodoo Man Blues inspirierte Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton und eine Menge anderer Musikfans. Wells und Guy scheuen nicht vor James Brown-funkifiziertem Blues oder kantigem Rock zurück, aber auch nicht vor traditionellem Blues. Ihre Version von "Good Morning Little School Girl" ist ein korrektes Update: immer noch bedrohlich, aber etwas weniger im Country Blues-Feeling. Nicht zu versäumen ist auch das instrumentale "Chitlin Con Carne".

(Robert Gordon, Amazon.de-Redaktion)

One of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s, and one of the first to fully document the smoky ambience of a night at a West side nightspot in the superior acoustics of a recording studio. Wells just set up with his usual cohorts — guitarist Buddy Guy (billed as "Friendly Chap" on first vinyl pressings), bassist Jack Myers, and drummer Billy Warren — and proceeded to blow up a storm, bringing an immediacy to "Snatch It Back and Hold It," "You Don't Love Me," "Chitlin Con Carne," and the rest that is absolutely mesmerizing.

(by Bill Dahl, All Music Guide)

We have tried to capture on this album what a listener would hear any monday night at Theresa's Blues Bar (now defunct) at 48th and Indiana on Chicago's Southside. The blue Monday regulars, includng Buddy Guy are joined by the late Otis Spann, the greatest blues pianist of his generation, making his last studio appearance and to whom this album is respectfully dedicated by Junior, the musicians, and ... the Delmark staff.