Not sure if i reccommended it or not , but Ask the Ages by Sonny Sharrock is well worth checking out. This reverses the role thing with SS as leader and Pharaoh as sideman and is a couple decades later.
Songs have a really old timey/gospel sound but do get pretty out there in places (I think Albert Ayler did the same but this isn't quite like him)
& thinking of VU comparisons, you might want to check out electric Mud, credited to Muddy waters but most notable for sidemen including Pete Cosey. Not sure how well it sits in Muddy's catalogue but if you see it more as a recording by that particular group of musicians fronted by the supposed session leader it gains appeal. I tend to group it sonically with White Light/White Heat. R'n'b grooves jammed to the limit.
Stevo
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