Joliet Jake Blues (John Belushi) & Elwood Blues (Dan Ackroyd) formed the Blues Brothers out of a shared love of Blues music.  They got their start as a warm up act ('76) and then making their debut as featured artists ('78) on Saturday Night Live. Briefcase Full of Blues, on Atlantic KSD 19217, released in 1978 was their first album & was recorded live at the Universal Amphitheatre in L.A.  With a line up of very talented musicians, this band put out some great blues covers like this Delbert McClinton song "B" Movie Box Car Blues

From the Blues Brothers 1980 movie comes the soundtrack released the same year.   Featuring guest appearances by James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin (to name a few). Also released that year, a second live album and the last Blues Brothers album with Joliet Jake Blues (John Belushi) who died in 1982.  Both good R&B/Blues albums, but the debut is by far the superior album in the group.  A limited edition reissue of Briefcase Full of Blues will be coming out soon.

The second release of the psychedelic band Blues Magoos, Electric Comic Book, Mercury MG-21104 (mono version) from 1967, was not a huge success for the band. It does contain a very good cover of the Van Morrison song Gloria (but then everybody was covering that song then) and this comical number Intermission. Often as a collector, this is the type of album I look for.  Being unpopular means less numbers released and also being a mono version when stereo was popular, it is even more scarce.

to get a better feel for the band here is Life is Just a Cher O'Bowlies