From the Album: Chain with James "PeeWee" Madison & George "Mojo" Beauford from the Muddy Waters Blues Band & Greg "Sleepy" Lawrie - "Two Of A Kind" (Mushroom Records, 1973/1997)
James "Pee Wee" Madison
1 Two Of A Kind (James 'Peewee' Madison)
3 Everybody Has To Lose Sometime (Trad. Arranged By James Madison)
Mojo Buford sings:
2 Reconsider, Baby (Lowell Fulsom)
4 Blues With A Feeling (Little Walter Jacobs)
5 How To Set Fire To An Elephant (Ian Clyne)
Produced by the Chain
Tracks 1-4 Recorded at TCS Studios, May 9th, 1973.
Track 5 Recorded live at Garrison Disco, June 7th, 1973.
Guitar & Vocals: James "PeeWee" Madison
Harmonica & Vocals: George "Mojo" Buford
Slide Guitar: Greg "Sleepy" Lawrie
Guitar: Phil Manning
Piano: Ian Clyne
Bass: Barry Sullivan
Drums: Barry Harvey
Flute & Saxophone: Mal Capewell
From AllMusic, by Bruce Eder
James "Pee Wee" Madison was a key member of Muddy Waters' band from the mid-'60s until the early '70s, playing guitar on most of his singles and albums from 1964 through 1973. He started out in Osceola, AR, before coming to Chicago and, according to Robert Gordon in his book Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, Madison practiced guitar to the music of Little Walter. His opportunity to play with Muddy came in late 1963 when his predecessor in Muddy's band, Pat Hare, shot and killed his girlfriend and was arrested for (and later convicted of) murder. From the 1964 single "The Same Thing" b/w "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" (on which, new to the band, he was confined to playing rhythm guitar) to the 1973 album Can't Get No Grindin', he was on most of Muddy's output, and, indeed, as this was the period in which Muddy was increasingly playing to white audiences, Madison was probably seen and known by more of Muddy's ultimate fan base than Pat Hare ever was -- though, curiously, Madison was not a participant on the two albums in Muddy's output that were most obviously aimed at the white collegiate audience, Electric Mud and Fathers and Sons. Madison's professional relationship with Muddy ended following a 1973 world tour, and he wasn't on The Woodstock Album or any of the Johnny Winter-produced records that followed. During the 1970s, Madison turned up as part of L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson's band, and he was a participant in George "Mojo" Buford's 1979 Chicago Blues Summit, along with his fellow Muddy Waters alumni Sam Lay and Sammy Lawhorn.
From Wiki:
George Carter Buford, Jr. (November 10, 1929–October 11, 2011), known as Mojo Buford, was an American blues harmonica player best known for his work in Muddy Waters's band.
Buford relocated from Hernando, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, in his youth, where he studied the blues. He relocated to Chicago in 1952, forming the Savage Boys, which eventually was known as the Muddy Waters, Jr. Band. They substituted for Waters at local nightclubs while he was touring.
Buford first played in Waters's backing band in 1959, replacing Little Walter, but in 1962 moved to Minneapolis to front his own band and to record albums. In Minneapolis he gained the nickname Mojo, because of audiences requesting him to perform his cover version of "Got My Mojo Working." Buford returned to Waters's combo in 1967 for a year, replacing James Cotton. He had a longer tenure with Waters in the early 1970s and returned for the final time after Jerry Portnoy departed to form the Legendary Blues Band.
He also recorded for the Mr. Blues label. These recordings were later reissued by Rooster Blues, Blue Loon Records, and the British JSP label.
Buford died on October 11, 2011, at the age of 81, in Minneapolis, after a long hospitalization.
