Cat No DE625

Luther Allison is the most popular and critically acclaimed blues artist of 1996. He won 5 W.C. Handy Awards and Living Blues Awards for Blues Artist of the Year, Most Outstanding Guitarist, Best Live Performer, Best Album and Best Song. Allison is a member of the elite group of Chicago bluesmen who originated what has become known as the "West Side" sound. Recorded in 1969, Love Me Mama was Luther's very first album and it outsold any album Delmark had issued by an artist not already established with an R&B single. Contains two previously unissued songs and unissued alternate takes.