Delmark Records always gives high quality Chicago blues recordings, both with new artists they produce as well as with reissues of old albums coming from their huge catalogue they gradually release This time they bring us a Magic Sam’s recording entitled Black Magic which was released in 1969 In this album, the last one in his short life, as he died only aged 31, singer and guitar player Magic Sam was surrounded by Mighty Joe Young on guitar too, Eddie Shaw on tenor sax, Lafayette Leake on piano, Mac Thompson on bass and Odie Payne Jr on drums Pure and raw Chicago blues played with an amazing intensity, cleverness and an enormous expressive strength that will hit the depths of your soul by one of the mythical names and more precious representatives and forgers of Chicago West Side sound A collection of eighteen excellent songs, two of them previously unreleased as they have been for years stored in Delmark files, all them coming from those unforgettable 1968 recording sessions This is a terrific, historical and album that becomes essential for every blues lover