ARTiST --------------- > Eddie "Vaan" Shaw
ALBUM ---------------- > Give Me Time
LABEL ---------------- > Wolf
GENRE ---------------- > Blues
RELEASE -------------- > 09/23/2005
STREET --------------- > 05/10/2005
ENCODER -------------- > LAME 3.903
QUALiTY -------------- > --aps 44.1kHz/joint
PLAYTiME ------------- > 65:26 min
# NAME TiME
01. Give Me Time 03:34
02. Bull Shit Blues 04:49
03. Ugly Woman 04:39
04. I Need Your Love 06:10
05. Ain't No Next Time 03:59
06. Down Your Eyes 04:43
07. Try Me One More Time 03:50
08. I'm Crazy Now 05:54
09. Key to the Highway 05:09
10. Morning Rain 05:56
11. It Hurts Me Too 06:03
12. Shake Your Money Maker 02:34
13. Last Night 08:06
When it comes to blues,
Chicago's strictly a guitar
and harmonica town.
Saxophonists who make a
living leading a blues band
in the Windy City are scarce
as hen's teeth. But Eddie
Shaw has done precisely that
ever since his longtime
boss, Howlin' Wolf, died in
1976.
The powerfully constructed
tenor saxist has rubbed
elbows with an amazing array
of luminaries over his
50-plus years in the
business. By the time he was
age 14, Shaw was jamming
with Ike Turner's combo
around Greenville, MS. At a
gig in Itta Bena where Shaw
sat in, Muddy Waters
extended the young saxman an
invitation he couldn't
refuse: a steady job with
Waters's unparalleled band
in Chicago. After a few
years, Shaw switched his
onstage allegiance to
Waters's chief rival, the
ferocious Howlin' Wolf,
staying with him until the
very end and eventually
graduating to a featured
role as Wolf's bandleader.
Eddie Shaw also shared a
West side bandstand or two
along the way with Freddy
King, Otis Rush, and Magic
Sam. The saxist did a 1966
session with Sam that
produced his first single,
the down-in-the-alley
instrumental "Blues for the
West Side" (available on
Delmark's Sweet Home Chicago
anthology). Shaw also blew
his heart out on Sam's 1968
Delmark encore LP, Black
Magic.
Shaw's own recording career
finally took off during the
late '70s, with a standout
appearance on Alligator's
Living Chicago Blues
anthologies in 1978, his own
LPs for Simmons and Rooster
Blues, and fine recent discs
for Rooster Blues (In the
Land of the Crossroads) and
Austrian Wolf (Home Alone).
Eddie Shaw, who once
operated the hallowed 1815
Club on West Roosevelt Road
(one of Wolf's favorite
haunts), has sired a couple
of high-profile sons:
diminutive Eddie Jr., known
as Vaan, plays lead guitar
with Eddie's Wolf Gang and
has cut a pair of his own
albums for Wolf, while husky
Stan Shaw is a prolific
character actor in
Hollywood.
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