Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid

[@bethmcavoy8062]

What a treat to hear Junior Wells and Buddy Guy tearing it up!

[@paulinemclellan2168]

It sure is friend...it was soo good back then and just as good right now

[@MrAschiff]

Also Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones on bass guitar

[@LPJack02]

RIP Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 - January 15, 1998), aged 63 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@williammills3632]

This is some of Buddys best guitar work ever. Junior and that band are tight and loose at the same time. Fantastic

[@theherbpuffer]

Buddy's my biggest inspiration as far as older blues players go, but I'm sorry Rory Gallaghers version is just something else

[@bretmiller317]

If you like this you will love hi smell a rat now that is some bad ass guitar playing

[@pgroove163]

he really got his own style of riffing behind cats..

[@veroniquenerou4850]

@@theherbpuffer I'm sorry but I do not agree :"It's something else"

[@terryferan9028]

The pair that could beat a full house.

[@maybedrinkin3241]

Underrated comment 👏👏

[@mojomania101]

Best. 👍🏻

[@sandraroberts7406]

YES YES OH HELL YEAH. UP IN HEAH

[@teenaphelps2187]

I grew up knowing Junior Wells, we lived in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago near Chess Records. 🎼🎵🎶🎤🎸🎷🎺🥁🎹🎻💃🕴️😊💞

[@artplaut7208]

YEAH TEENA

[@edwinruhl6803]

lucky you.

[@davescupper5789]

Odger yer did

[@Im_using_your_moms_log_in]

Not sure how to follow the emojis, but cheers!

[@michaelheaton6901]

You are blessed sir.

[@scottsutherland9126]

Junior's got some serious moves going on during Buddy's solo!

[@blakegregory969]

Yes he does....He was enjoying it. Look out James Brown...Junior's in town.

[@pgroove163]

2:47....

[@SusanAngelettiMusic]

Yes he sure does !! My my my ❤!!!

[@williamhilinsky1327]

More moves than Allied Van Lines I tell you what?

[@KentuckyWindage22]

Each of these guys was amazing on their own. Then when they got together... Holy Hell!!! This is some superhuman stuff right here.

[@bgthtr6404]

The full package. Harmonica and can sang too. Genius.

[@stevendenton5281]

Love this track not just blues but the funk within it.

[@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283]

Hell YES!! Junior Wells, awesome, I’m not ashamEd to say that I discovered Messin’ With The Kid from Briefcase Full Of Blues, which was the entire POINT of The Blues Bros, they were doing for the blues guys they loved the same exact thing Cobain was doing in the early-nineties, he didn’t understand why so may people loved HIS music when there was so much “better” music in his record/tape/cd collection, and he so badly wanted to share that with the world…Call it Musical Colonialism if you want, don’t matter, it’s all just sounds coming out of a speaker. If it moves you, it’s good. Anyway, The Blues Bros at least hired a freakin AMAZING BAND, and even if the covers on BFoB are good due to the simple fact those guys could fuckin PLAY (yes, the F word is necessary, don’t like it?, FUCK OFF, milquetoast), the very fact that that album pushed people to discover artists like Junior Wells and Floyd Dixon and Delbert McClinton makes it an unqualified success, all the musical and film “sequels” notwithstanding…

[@Dobie_Gillis]

The very best of the blues. Nothing like it again.

[@theherbpuffer]

Huh? There s so many amazing blues artist's lol Buddy is what makes this super special

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Saw them live in the early seventies in a small club in Greenwich village......they were great.....love them...... there's a record they did with Clapton that's called Buddy Guy and Junior wells play the blues......great addition to any collection........ I've seen Buddy a few times.....was at his club on a Monday night in Chicago.....and he comes in and hits the stage and jammed......what a gentleman.....love ya Buddy

[@bishlap]

How did Buddy play those notes w/ those huge paws of his!!! Thank you Mr. Buddy Guy (and others) for inspiring a generation of British players and paving the way for what became "Hard Rock"

[@theherbpuffer]

Damn straight. Rory Gallaghers version is my favorite!

[@diegoportillo21]

Jimi Hendrix invented Hard rock, brit guys ruined it

[@MrGreenthumb_]

@@diegoportillo21 Dont forget Brits gave Jimi the chance and the freedom to record his innovative revolutionary music. Now show some respect, and remember that the next time you listen to are you Experienced...

[@pgroove163]

listen I don't know anything about hard rock or any Brits but this is a mfr...can u dig it!

[@pgroove163]

​@@theherbpuffer Whaaaaaat........😮

[@galehallphotography6334]

Brings back so many memories of being with my family on the Westside of Chicago.❤

[@keithandrew2705]

rip junior wells. thanks for all of the great music!

[@TheGreatTimtini1]

Just finished reading Buddy Guy's book 'When I left home' good read and opened my world to new blues.

[@Exakta66]

Saw Buddy and Junior at the Lone Star Cafe in the mid-80's...one of the best shows I've ever seen I would have to say...

[@tomsortore8301]

Alan Jankowski got to see them at the marble bar in Baltimore. m d in the 80s wow what a night God bless the blues

[@keithritzel8197]

Hey I was also there! we sat on the upper level and came down during the show.After the show Buddy and Junior sat at the bar and hung with the people VERY COOL!

[@mayumiyamamoto283]

hung with those 2, but by that time they hated each other..sad but true but they did play their butts off!

[@templeman4]

Junior and Buddy toured together for many years; they put on a very tight, high energy show the times I saw them at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City.

[@guitarbob63]

The James Brown of the Blues

[@unklegeo]

I though that as I watched him dance...

[@crustycobs2669]

Badass song, great vocal and harp. Buddy Guy, one of Hendrix's inspirations. Solid blues with a beat

[@pgroove163]

2:47...

[@fredfloyd68]

Ok .those are real blues.Jr...is on it... Chicago blues...nothing like them.

[@ruukasu0808]

After all these years, still one of my favorites! Jr. was a hot harp player and vocalist, had it all.

[@marjoriemcnary4310]

Vying u

[@giovanna8187]

And cool sexy moves! Those hips. Oo la la!

[@euridesleiterosa4222]

Everytime Im very sad about all negative effects of the internet, I come back to this video and remember how good the internet can be

[@bholaoates1542]

One of Jimi Hendrix's biggest influences on guitar, the great Buddy Guy.

[@andrewpride5230]

Was just thinking he even looked like Hendrix when playing there

[@bholaoates1542]

@@andrewpride5230 Yep, I noticed that too.

[@jsradio]

No. Hendrix looked like Buddy.

[@nukchuu1271]

Eric Clapton/Cream, SRV, The Rolling Stones all highly influenced by Buddy guy, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and all the greats from back then

[@BlueLou974]

@@jsradio Yessssss.

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

classic blues track from legend junior wells. a master at the top of his game.

[@navanski]

Not just the blues. This has got a definite funk soul brother edge to it. Love it.

[@JonTisch]

Junior Wells & Buddy Guy the original Blues Brothers....Sam & Dave....soul men!!

[@thomasmedeiros5722]

You got to love that suit with the “cool cat” on the back. I understand Junior Wells had a great voice, harmonica skills and a sense of style but in this video he shows off his dance skills. He and Buddy Guy made a dynamic duo.

[@bobbycampbell2120]

OMG, love this, have been listening to this regularly for years.

[@randallkennedy2589]

These guys in a club.Unbeatable.

[@pgroove163]

Chicago

[@MrAschiff]

Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones on bass

[@aloisemason3044]

Wow..professionals at there best..guitar strumming at it's best and what a performance..a legend at his best.

[@budzis66]

Thank God that this this was recorded! Kids 100 years from now will stumble upon this and say "what the fuck" is this!!

[@scasey1960]

RIP junior - glad to have seen you for real in Chicago

[@MarioMartinez-ff5ph]

Junior had a set of pipes that even James Brown would envy, he could really belt them out, and Buddy is just being Buddy one of the all time greats

[@BarneyFife00]

Classic stuff. Doesn't get any better

[@theherbpuffer]

Rorys Gallaghers version is better. Yeah I said it. That Irish lad could play the blues better than the OGs

[@juliarita3563]

They were usually Billed as: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. Saw them many times in the 70's/early 80's at Biddy Mulligans and Ryan's Pub (North Side and South Side of Chicago, respectively). Those we're the MF'n days!

[@terryomalley9669]

Julia, I was at biddy, mulligans for the very last show that Willie Dixon ever played in Chicago. What a great show. The blues all stars.

[@juliarita3563]

@@terryomalley9669 Would this be one of the O'Malley's who lived on Winchester, in Beverly? If you are, I'm that "Ryan'! Ha! Willie Dixon was our neighbor, around 79th St. in Brainerd? If you're not "that O'Malley", I love ya, anyway!

[@terryomalley9669]

@@juliarita3563 Not that one. My cousin Sean lives in Darien now. I'm retired living up north.

[@terryomalley9669]

@@juliarita3563 I'll ask him if he knows them. He knows a lot more people than me. Anyway, the Chicago blues all stars of that time included pinetop, Perkins on the piano, and Willie Smith on drums. Maybe you know who played the bass. Also, there was a rhythm guitar. That show was a very long time ago!

[@juliarita3563]

@@terryomalley9669 Oh Wow...Pine Top Perkins! He used wear a T-shirt that read: "It aint easy being sleazy"!!! LOL...You are one cool cat, Mr. O'Malley xo!

[@prathameshbhambure]

J. C.! Did Buddy dip his fingers in a bucket of butter or what! Man, I love every bit of this.

[@ravietiel6085]

Buddy Guy´s rhythm playing on this track is pure genius.

[@blakegregory969]

Mr. Buddy Guy is the Greatest guitarist of all of them. He and Junior were the music.

[@judyriggs1139]

Rory Gallagher Does an absolutely amazing version of this song as well.

[@Womble1252]

& earl hooker w/ junior wells

[@MrYFlyer]

The Ballyshannon kid

[@jjpc55]

Uma das melhores performances de Junior Wells.

[@Dobie_Gillis]

It doesn't get any better than this!

[@terminallyinquisitive1731]

One of the best live blues albums of all time 😎

[@kraig7777]

Junior Wells is my spirit animal.

[@pgroove163]

woof

[@stevesowa9407]

I’ve known Buddy and jr. Since 1980 after meeting them we became friends and shared a lot of stories and because of Buddy I met SRV and this video on you tube was like a weekend night down at the Checkerboard always great

[@andrewlowe9969]

Junior and Buddy are on fire here! Such a great version of the song. Really wish I could have heard this live seeing Buddy twice.

[@richardorange5961]

As a harp player, I love what he does here. Junior is so variable, sometimes he has it, sometimes not. Here he definitely has it.

[@martinhowe1422]

Pure joy - Excellence - thnaks Gents

[@mrstanbmw]

Junior getting his dance on, What a pair

[@dianacrow7509]

Junior Wells, all day yesterday his name kept popping up in my head! Harp!! Dang!! Ty, 4 sharing... Ticklin' strings! My kids are raised...I need a MAN; not a boy in men's clothes. Been n'er, done gnat!

[@elkeism]

In '81 I was in a band that open for and backed BG&JW at the Old Waldorf in SF: Buddy did a solo set to promote "Stone Crazy" holler if you were there:)

[@blues4stevie]

Oh, yes! Junior and Buddy. This is one of my favorite versions of this tune. Just killer!

[@theherbpuffer]

You heard Rory Gallaghers version? Just curious

[@blues4stevie]

@@theherbpuffer No, I haven't...I listen to so many things, it's really hard to actually describe what I listen to. Or how I do it...ADHD. Implulse and feel. I'll look up Rory's version...pretty sure I did hear some of it as he shows up in my feed, or did more often a very long time ago.

[@theherbpuffer]

@@blues4stevie Start with that song off of live in Europe..Also I Wonder Who off of Irish Tour 74 as far as straight electric blues goes. I recommend going through his whole discography really. At the end of it all id be surprised if you didnt consider him one of the greats as i do now. Arguably the most underappreciated artist ever; He should be in the same conversation as Hendrix, Page, Clapton in my opinion.

[@fauxbro]

That's Bill Wyman over there on bass and of course, Buddy Guy on guitar.......love me some Junior!

[@Exakta66]

This has been on album for many years as well...

[@fauxbro]

Just commenting on what I see. Never saw Junior and Buddy together but both after they went their separate ways. Wyman has been involved in many notable projects during and after leaving the Stones. I hope to see this DVD sometime

[@colinsbane]

Bill skipping off the day job to do something more interesting.

[@paulbcote]

Good catch.

[@Silvana716]

The greatest blues/r&b crossover song of all time.

[@theherbpuffer]

Idk Etta James and big Mama Thornton tho

[@andrewlowe9969]

Yes it is! Love the blend here and it has some real funk to it too. I might call it rock blues fusion!

[@randysexual3204]

Cuban heels plus a custom embroidered cat -suit is almost as funky as dat guitar playin'!

[@charlespeterson3798]

Truth be told, hadn't listened to Jr. and B.G. in almost 50 years. 1971... What great artists and showmen. Boom, Boom, OUT GO THE LIGHTS.

[@eddiekent1997]

Great Blues Thank you

[@greghenderson4582]

I can not imagine having these two showdogs in the same group !!! whoa !!

[@terryferan9028]

The ultimate dynamic duo

[@alphasixfive1658]

Amongst the thousand great Blues tracks - this one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@alphasixfive1658]

and Little By Little......

[@ciscoski]

Amazing

[@fabioignesti4583]

The original blues brothers

[@user-wq2eu7ej8r]

@sam and dave

[@uarhodesian]

we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we are wearing sunglasses.

[@ChristophHenrici]

Great, great stuff, incomparable, thanks for the upload

[@sarahn.7935]

Damn they are amazing

[@JuanjoMarquez]

Amamzing song, faboulous playing, I like mister Wells!!!

[@capefearcapt4679]

Buddy Guy's lead only eclipsed by Junior Well's dance moves!

[@PorkChopGospel]

One of my all time favorite blues tunes.

[@stratocaster1greg]

this is my favorite version!

[@theherbpuffer]

It was mine too until I heard Rory Gallaghers lol

[@joehay5094]

Love the guitar work.

[@kenthhogstrom3722]

En outstanding inspelning!Den köpte vi alla.Clapton och Wolf.

[@teversz]

Terrific performance. Is that Rolling Stone Bill Wyman playing Bass in the background?

[@DanC-go9lc]

Yes it sure is.

[@Aldo-Music-Channel]

This is awesomeness at it's finest 👏👏👏👏👏🎵

[@jimphiffer9314]

I had the extreme pleasure of playing with Junior in South Florida in the early 80s. What a joy! He was TOTALLY in control of the band, and we watched for every twitch - for cues!

[@vincentwashington4106]

Now that's what I call some good ole guitar lickin'

[@rcdesmond]

This was one of our songs in the last band I played in.

[@ichbinvegetarische7471]

I heard a Steppenwolf song lately that rips off the great bassline to Howlin' Wolf's "Killing floor". I was thinking of that bassline when I remembered the bassline to this song, which Steppenwolf turned into something called "Tighten up Your Wig". The song even says "Just before we go, I'd like to mention Junior Wells. We stole this thing from him, and he from someone else." Alright, great! I'm gonna start playing this song.

[@azagthoth2275]

No me canso de ver como disfrutan Junior Wells y Buddy Guy Messin' With The Kid,. Excelente

[@Paulo1961rp]

saudoso James Brown do Blues!!! Esse eu também tive a oportunidade de conhecer aqui em Ribeirão Preto/SP, no Festival de BLUES dos anos 80.

[@mimmoleonardi8643]

Wonderful 💪, Immortal Forever 🌹❤️, great blues 👌

[@luislozano2395]

smokin band! that drums n bass are drivin it off the cliff n guitar n vox sound like theyre gonna start killin people! love it! intense! great drummer!

[@uarhodesian]

Buddy Guy - is a sharp dressed man

[@ninkasifanclub3735]

uarhodesian He respects his audience.

[@juliarita3563]

Check out the Steppers on Jr.! Bad Ass!

[@kearybilka993]

This is on Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: "Drinkin' TNT and Smokin' Dynamite" live at 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland--which is one of my all time top five fave live recordings along wtih J Geils "Full House" and Etta James "Burning Down the House" backed by the Roots band at House of Blue 1994. Get 'em before you dead Jack. How great to finally discover a video of them actually doing the song that was recorded and on the CD--I even have the vinyl disc too-the one disc I borrowed to record on tape and it never went back to its owner-(sorry Bruce from the B&B in Oshkosh about 1983!) Buddy and Junior at the top of their game. And Bill Wyman and Pinetop Perkins in the band for this. They did a another Live at the Montreau Jazz Festival with Hubert Sumlin in the band with them a couple year later that is almost as good--great cover of "Help Me" with Junior ont the vocals. KB

[@dannieoffield5012]

Buddy G. foreshadowing future great rock guitarists.... Funk/Soul/Feel/Explosive... The way we like it..

[@snertster]

The "Dynamic Duo" of the blues.

[@joebubbit]

I used to go see these guys for free in the afternoon outside at the Daley Plaza in '84-'85.

[@juanmanueldelvalle7969]

SO GROOVY! LOVE IT!

[@pgroove163]

1:41

[@clake1976]

Its impossible to be still listening to this

[@78SPORTSTV]

Yes!!

[@windel12002]

They should Retitle this track - Junior Wells AND Buddy Guy

[@bluesdoggmusicrediker4614]

i have seen it billed with buddy guy...

[@jlow4214]

Buddy and Junior were an actual act for a while. Saw them play the Joint Bar in Mpls. though Junior was slightly inebriated at the time.

[@georgevaught7426]

Look up Buddy and the Juniors

[@ravietiel6085]

Both are legends and when I hear Buddys rhythm playing on this song I know why he is in the top tier of American musicians.

[@1dkappe]

Best showman I ever saw in Chicago was Lefty Dizz. Best show I ever saw was a Lefty gig at the Checkerboard where both Junior and Buddy were in the house and sat in. That show was WILD!!

[@chrislomas1]

Yeah! got this on vinyl somewhere, great to hear again!

[@petedazer3381]

Classic Buddy right here!

[@joanfeldbau1038]

There’s only one Jr. So awesome!!!

[@fifis677]

Thanks Kis Rock for alerting me this treasure :p

[@socio2psycho]

Saw you Babe in 1972 in Chicago Buddy Guy The experience of LIFE TIME.

[@carlarisoldi5740]

Awesome!!!

[@theeardrafter]

yep Prime time for these 2 legends

[@bluesmax]

Best version ever

[@theherbpuffer]

Rory Gallagher

[@15212nonsense]

Damn - that was fun - Thanks Sue !

[@si7ltmixwsata7]

best recording of Buddy's guitar live!

[@theherbpuffer]

That's unless you've physically seen him live!

[@fattirevsbud]

Is that buddy guy on guitar?

[@mtyemti]

Damn Right it is.

[@bluesdoggmusicrediker4614]

yes

[@markzwilsky3509]

NO!

[@AndrewVOdom]

Mark Zwilsky of course it is

[@popev3887]

A great song about women! She won't do this, She won't do that---She just sit 'round the house on her big fat ASS!

[@martianb9273]

They were gettin it!!

[@barristanselmy2758]

+Brianna Richardson Fucking a they were.

[@kachyto11]

Me encanta esta música está en mi corazón.