The 1962 tour was planned as single tour but success gave it life of it’s own. It was internationally known, and in it’s course featured some of the greats; Sippie Wallace, Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey, plus contemporary stars; Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson, and the hot new kids on the block Matt “Guitar” Murphy, and a wiggly Buddy Guy. It’s rumored that Buddy was asked to tone down his gyrations because it made some of the German audience uncomfortable.
During the tour, Horst Lippmann produced an album in a Hamburg Studio. Released by Brunswick/Polydor and it produced a hit in France for John Lee Hooker with “Shake It Baby”. The Boom was starting.
The timing of the album and tour was lucky, to say the least, coinciding with the founding of the British Blues Appreciation Society, and being six month prior to inaugural issue of British magazine, “Blues Unlimited”. The first US Blues magazine, “Living Blues” was not launched until 1970, and the first Blues Festival in the US was 1969!!
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