American Blues Legends ’74 took the likes of Doctor Ross, Cousin Joe, Big John Wrencher and Eddie Playboy Taylor on a tour across the UK and Europe, before recovening in the studio to cut 16 blistering blues sides.
In this listening party recorded at Henry’s Blues Bunker, producer and tour manager Jim Simpson gives inside track on which of the bluesmen had a late night roadside meeting with Robert Johnson, who used to have Elvis Presley go and fetch sandwiches for him, and who the most underrated blues guitarist of them all is.