E9573 - Eddie C. Campbell: West Side Chicago Blues From Sideman to Solo Master

At twelve years old, Eddie C. Campbell was standing in the shadows of Chicago blues clubs watching the hands of Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, and Otis Rush. Born in Duncan, Mississippi, on May 6, 1939, he moved with his family to Chicago in 1949, arriving with a decade of the acoustic rural South in his memory just as the electric West Side sound was being invented. This episode explains how plugging in changed the physics of guitar playing, and why Campbell spent two decades as a sideman for Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Little Johnny Taylor, and Jimmy Reed, holding the groove for...