James Booker - At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall 1976 (2019)

Jazzline's series of concerts recorded live at Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg continues! This time it's by one of the greatest Blues musicians who died too early: James Booker. This concert from 1976 shows Booker on one of his best performances ever.

James C. Booker was in marvellous form that night, just what the blues should be all about. All the talk about his problems (his early death in 1983 was in the waiting room of a rehabilitation clinic!), seemed so unimportant and irrelevant that day. Just as irrelevant for the fans in attendance, was the timetable of the Hamburg metro; because it does not matter if the last train has already departed (as on that particular evening) with an artist performing many of his own creations but also several blues-classics, with so much devotion.