The Soundtrack

Yeah, he had already started his set when we were coming in. Outdoor concert and usually we dont rush to the seats for the opener. Generally kind of hang out but this music sounded great so we planted out butts right there and I was amazed at his work. Was even better when he came out and played with Buddy Guy. He nailed Voodoo Chile and Strange Brew

 

Awesome!!! I got my copy! That's a great album. Two very different sounding sides. Stephen Stills was actually a fill in for side two.

stolen from Wiki..

Bloomfield also made an impact through his work with Al Kooper, with whom he had played with Stephen Stills, on the album Super Session in 1968. The direct impetus for the record, according to Kooper, was the twosome's having been part of Grape Jam, an improvisational addendum to Moby Grape's Wow earlier in the year.

"Why not do an entire jam album together?" Kooper remembered in 1998, writing the booklet notes for the Bloomfield anthology Don't Say That I Ain't Your Man: Essential Blues, 1964-1969. "At the time, most jazz albums were made using this modus operandi: pick a leader or two co-leaders, hire appropriate sidemen, pick some tunes, make some up and record an entire album on the fly in one or two days. Why not try and legitimize rock by adhering to these standards? In addition, as a fan, I was dissatisfied with Bloomfield's recorded studio output up until then. It seemed that his studio work was inhibited and reigned in, compared to his incendiary live performances. Could I put him in a studio setting where he could feel free to just burn like he did in live performances?"

The result was Super Session, a jam album that spotlighted Bloomfield's guitar skills on one side; Bloomfield's chronic insomnia caused him to repair to his San Francisco home, prompting Kooper to invite Stephen Stills to complete the album. It received excellent reviews and became the best-selling album of Bloomfield's career; its success led to a live sequel, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, recorded over three nights at Fillmore West in September 1968.

 

Here's one for you. Remember this guy? Everyone thought it was Elvis..



...comin back from Brooklyn, after midnight, on 496 LI expressway to Henry Hudson, and listening to WGBO 88.3 blasting on the radio.. doing 80 through the city, this comes on.. I honestly thought he was dead.

You gotta buy this album it Kicks azz almost as good as my Chili. go ahead, put on the headphones and crank it UP!



it's on this album.. just a smokin album!

 

I saw them down in Lowell this past summer, were you there Geno.. at Boarding House Park?

 

Winter of 72/73 I was living in Littleton Mass. - alone. I had this big old farm house, with a barn attached, ...across from the train depot. It was a very cute place and had a big front porch.

They played this song constantly on the radio that year and although the song was way too syrupy for me.. it took meaning in my heart, because I was leaving the porch light on. ..and I wasn't really going to sleep.. I was really just passing out.

I been searching for this song on and off for the last 20 years... finally found it.

Just replace the pretty log cabin with an old typical New England country farm house with an attached barn.

 

I'm running behind on these, but that is beautiful music. Where are they from?

 

Awesome groove.

 

In the early 70s I turned into a HUGE Dave Mason fan. One of those under rated brits, that was a big part of the success of Traffic.

I saw him a couple years ago in Mass. I had front row seats that I won in a lottery.. I never realized what a fantastic musician he was as I always thought of him more as a songwriter.

 

This thread is costing me money.

 

Naw, I saw him at Meadowbrook in Gilford NH. It was a 3 set nite, Quinn Sullivan, Buddy Guy and George Thorogood. Could have done without Thorogood.... he was OK but is more bar/club music and did not seem the same on a larger stage. I would have rather listened to more of Buddy Guy's stories and fantastic music. Now that I think of it, blues is more bar/club as well..but they pulled it off just fine.

If you ever get a chance to go to Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry NH, you will love the place. Holds no more that 250 and they always bring in great talent there. saw Robert Cray a year or so ago; I had 6-7 row seats and was no more than 15 feet from him

 

Denmark

 

Steve I'm digging Tony Joe

 

The quality of that Hoodoo CD is excellent. Cranked up it is hard to not start grinnin'.

 

I'll be looking for it this week

 

The guy that runs the deli down the street from me in the General Store raves about Tupelo.. I gotta get over there. We have a place over here that has many of the same acts, ...must me on a similar circuit.. It's called the Bull Run in Shirley Ma.

I also so Thorogood a couple times and he had quite a production one time 2 seasons ago at the Lowell place.. as he had a pretty big back up band and light show. He's fun for a night. Buddy Guy leaned on Quinn a little too much for my tastes. ...but, I guess he's paid the dues. I've seen Robert Cray a couple times and once when he was promoting his Strong Persuader CD which was like 86/87 or so.. and so he had a big brass section backing him.. He brought the house down at the Boston Summer Pavilion tent down there near the water.. I love his clean sound.

 

Steve don't know if you got this one super session vol. 2 Shuggie was 15 when this was recorded 1969. Good stuff



the you tube is not from this album ,but from one he recorded in 71 awesome

 

Hmm, maybe Thorogood had an off night as someone I work with was there with her husband cause he is a huge fan. He had the same reaction-"meh".

It happens

 

You obviously didn't spend enough nights in the local gin mill slurring the words in unison to Thorogood on the juke singing "One Burbon, One Shot and One Beer".

 

This kid should stick it out! For 6 years old he's dead nuts on... I was a drummer back in the 60's , this kid is great!

 

Any Corb Lund fans?




Gary