Take 5 with John Primer

For this week, we have a short playlist of Chicago bluesman John Primer. A veteran of the bands of blues legends Muddy Waters and Magic Slim, John Primer is one of today's greatest performers of traditional Chicago blues in the manner of Muddy Waters and others. A superb singer and guitarist, we open with John and Billy Branch doing a Muddy Waters number, "Sugar Sweet."

Here he is heard performing another Muddy Waters song, "40 Days and 40 Nights."

John is among the more gifted Elmore James interpreters. Here he performs "I Held My Baby Last Night."

Here he channels Muddy Waters for "They Call Me John Primer."

To close this, we go back to when John was part of Magic Slim's band, singing "Pretty Women" before Slim took over the show.