Mercury Records Collection: SRB-64002: You're Tuff Enough

SRB-64002: You're Tuff Enough / Junior Wells

Label Type :	blue Blue Rock (with white logo) type B
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SRB 64002A- M2 MR C II
	SIDE-B	SRB 64002B- M1 MR I III

Comments

Inside The Groove

The great harpist/singer Junior Well's funky funky album.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

This LP, recorded in 1968, might be an unusual one for Junior Well among his entire career: he had performed his great blues harp and his own voice on so many great blues album, while this LP features funky and soul tracks which are heavily under JB's influence.

Either on the funk tracks or on the blusy tracks, Junior Well's harp and Buddy Guy's nice guitar are fully featured. Highly recommended album especially for soul/funk lovers. The only drawback is that many tracks are in fake stereo (electrically reproduced stereo from mono masters) - luckily, the killer funky tracks A-1 and A-6 are in true stereo.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-41932	You're Tuff Enough (Daniels - Moore)	2:27
A-2	E 41933	It's All Soul (Daniels - Moore)	2:05
A-3	E 41934	Gonna Cramp Your Style (Moore - Daniels)	2:06
A-4	2-41935	Where Did I Go Wrong? (Daniels - Moore)	3:05
A-5	E 41936	That'll Hold Me (Moore - Higgins - Daniels)	2:15
A-6	2-41937	Sweet Darling Think It Over (Daniels - Moore)	2:22
SIDE-B
B-1	E 41938	Up In Heah (Daniels - Moore)	2:02
B-2	E 41939	You're The One (D. Malone)	3:20
B-3	E 41940	You Ought To Quit That (Moore - Daniels)	2:07
B-4	E 41941	Messing With The Kid (M. London)	2:10
B-5	2-41942	The Hippies Are Trying (Daniels - Moore)	4:09
B-6	E 41943	Junior's Groove (Moore - Daniels)	2:15

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Junior Wells (vo, blues harp except A-1) with:
unknown horn section (except A-3, A-4, B-5),
Buddy Guy (g), unknown (g except A-2, A-3, B-3, B-6),
unknown (p on A-4, B-5), unknown (el-b), unknown (ds),
unknown vocal group on A-3.
Recorded in Chicago, IL, probably May 1968.

Arranged by Charles Stepney, Monk Higgins and Junior Wells.
Produced by Jack Daniels.