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Blues With A Feeling - Fleetwood Mac


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Blues With A Feeling (1989) - Fleetwood Mac


    Featuring »

Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer

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AlbatrossInstrumental Midi available
  Date Performance: 1968-10-09, Running Time: 2:48
  Comments: From Radio 1 Club. Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London. First broadcast November 5, 1968. (P) 1968 BBC This track most likely doesn't feature Spencer (though listed in the liner notes as being on it). If they are on it, their parts have been mixed down/out.
Preachin' BluesLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1968-08-27, Running Time: 1:59
  Comments: Sometimes billed as "Preachin' The Blues". From Radio 1 “Top Gear”. Recorded at 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London. First broadcast September 1, 1968 (though Peter Lewry's 'Fleetwood Mac - The Complete Recording Sessions 1967-1997' book lists August 26, 1968 as the recording date & the CD liner notes list September 11, 1968 as the 1st air date) (P) 1968 BBC This track most likely doesn't feature Spencer, Kirwan, Fleetwood, John McVie or guest Christine McVie (Perfect) (though listed in the liner notes as being on it). If they are on it, their parts have been mixed down/out.
Blues With A FeelingLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1969-03-10, Running Time: 2:56
  Comments: From Radio 1 “Top Gear". Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London. First broadcast March 16, 1969. (P) 1969 BBC
Tallahassee LassieLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1969-03-10, Running Time: 3:24
  Comments: From Radio 1 “Top Gear". Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London. First broadcast May 11, 1969. (P) 1969 BBC
Man Of The WorldLyrics available Midi available
  Date Performance: 1969-06-10, Running Time: 2:49
  Comments: From Radio 1 "Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae". Recorded at 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London. First broadcast June 15, 1969. (P) 1969 BBC This track most likely doesn't feature Spencer (though listed in the liner notes as being on it). If they are on it, their parts have been mixed down/out.
Jumping At ShadowsLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1969-06-10, Running Time: 3:36
  Comments: From Radio 1 "Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae". Recorded at 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London. First broadcast June 15, 1969. (P) 1969 BBC Original 1995 Live At The BBC issues includeed an edit malfunction in this track but subsequent pressings did not. This track most likely doesn't feature Spencer (though listed in the liner notes as being on it). If they are on it, their parts have been mixed down/out. This track most likely doesn't feature Christine McVie (though Peter Lewry's 'Fleetwood Mac - The Complete Recording Sessions 1967-1997' book lists her as being on it. If they are on it, their parts have been mixed down/out.
LindaLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1969-06-10, Running Time: 2:03
  Comments: From Radio 1 "Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae". Recorded at 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London. First broadcast June 15, 1969. (P) 1969 BBC
Oh WellLyrics available Tabs available Midi available
  Date Performance: 1969-10-06, Running Time: 2:26
  Comments: From Radio 1 “DLT”. Recorded at Aeolian Hall, Studio 2, London. First broadcast October 12, 1969. (P) 1969 BBC
The Sun Is ShiningLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1968-01-16, Running Time: 3:02
  Comments: (Unissued Version) Session for Radio 1 'Top Gear'. Recorded at Aeolian Hall, Studio 2, London. First broadcast on March 24, 1968.
Only YouLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1970-04-27, Running Time: 2:51
  Comments: From Radio 1 “Top Gear". Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London. First broadcast May 23, 1970. (P) 1970 BBC Nick Pickett is listed as a guest but he doesn't play on this track though he did play on other tracks from the session which this track was taken from. This track most likely doesn't feature Spencer (though listed in the liner notes as being on it). If they are on it, their parts have been mixed down/out.
I Need Your LoveLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1968
  Comments: AKA "That Ain't It" BBC session track
Mean Mistreatin' MamaLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1968-05-27, Running Time: 4:03
  Comments: Sometimes billed as "You're A Mean Mistreater, Mama". From Radio 1 "Top Gear". Recorded at 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London. First broadcast June 2, 1968. (P) 1968 BBC It's unknown who played piano on this track.
You Need Love
  Date Performance: 1968
  Comments: Billed as "Whole Lotta Love". BBC session track
Talk With YouLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1968
  Comments: Sometimes incorrectly billed as "A Talk With You" or "Talk To You". BBC session track
Mean Old WorldLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1968
  Comments: BBC session track
    Guest Appearances »

Christine McVie, Nick Pickett

    Released »

1989

    Format »

Bootleg Vinyl/CD Album

    Other Appearances »
Alan/Allen Harris (Engineer), Pete Ritzema (Engineer), Dave Tate (Engineer), Tony Wilson (Engineer), Bernie Andrews (Producer), John Walters (Producer), Paul Williams (Terry Day) (Producer), Duster (Tony/Anthony) Bennett (Songwriter), Leroy Carr (Songwriter), Bob Crewe (Songwriter), Willie Dixon (Songwriter), Peter Green (Songwriter), Peter Green (Songwriter), (Big) Walter (Shakey) Horton (Songwriter), Elmore James (Songwriter), Robert Johnson (Songwriter), Danny Kirwan (Songwriter), Danny Kirwan (Songwriter), Little Walter (Walter Jacobs) (Songwriter), Mimi Picariello (Songwriter), Jimmy Rogers (James A. Lane) (Songwriter), Frank Slay (Songwriter), Jeremy Spencer (Songwriter), Jeremy Spencer (Songwriter), T-Bone (Aaron Thibeaux) Walker (Songwriter)

    Record Label »
Moby Dick

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Secret history of Green era Fleetwood Mac
Review written by Richard J. Orlando, August 8th, 2005

Fleetwood Mac can best be described as a Russian matryoshka doll. Open it and you'll find another, smaller doll nested within it. Open that one and you'll find yet a third and so on. The BBC recordings of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac represent the band hidden within the public image presented by their Blue Horizon recordings. There is a reckless energy to these recordings that they rarely captured in the studio; as the songs were all cut live, the rough spots can not be smoothed out, nor the excitement of hearing the music being created as you listen; you find yourself focusing on the various players, marveling at the interplay, better appreciating the well placed fill or the instinctive feel for when to allow for a pocket of silence. Of the fifteen songs on this collection, ten are available on the "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Live At the BBC" double disc from Castle Communications. Those interested in a more complete picture of the band at this stage will want this for the five unreleased tracks alone, but side by side comparisons with the "official" versions offer their own enlightenment. The disc begins with a previously unreleased version of Peter Green's sublime "Albatross", recorded about six months after the one on "Live at the BBC". While neither surpasses the studio original, the first version was a virtual duplicate - here, Danny sneaks in a note or two and Peter throws in a fill near the end and instead of letting the number reverberate to silence on Mick's cymbal roll, he tags on a little coda.
From this, we go to "Preachin' Blues", with Green slashing away Delta style at a National Steel Guitar - it would be a full year before he used that instrument again on record: for "Show-Biz Blues" from "Then Play On".
Then it's Danny Kirwan's turn with his excellent take on Little Walter's "Blues With A Feeling". From that same session comes "Tallahassee Lassie". Here is an excellent example of the aural differences. These tapes were not "mixed", beyond the balancing done for broadcast. There is an ambience on these tracks missing from the "official" versions. Mick Fleetwood's drums pound at your speakers and challenge the others to make themselves heard over him - a challenge they gladly accept! "Man of the World" and "Jumping At Shadows" follow - a very effective combination, and coming after "Tallahassee Lassie" only highlight more strongly the battle between light and dark raging within the singer.Jeremy Spencer's acoustic homage to Buddy Holly, "Linda" is up next followed by "Oh Well (Part One)" and two more from Danny Kirwan, "Although the Sun Is Shining" and "Only You".
The second of the unreleased tracks, Jimmy Rogers' "That Ain't It" kicks off with Peter Green's vocals before the band even starts to play. They recorded this song under the title "I Need Your Love" with Big Walter Horton on vocals at the "Blues Jam in Chicago" sessions and it's most likely Horton's original recording that they based this take on. With Jeremy (no pianist is credited, in any of the sessionographies I've come across, so I'm guessing here) banging at the keyboard like he's Otis Spann, Peter plays a fierce harmonica, it's shrill blasts punctuating the verses and powering the song, perfectly mixing the unschooled country sound with big city amplification like a Chicago master. More Chicago style blues and another surprise comes with Jeremy doing Elmore James' "Mean Mistreatin' Mama". The surprise is the heavy piano that was mixed down so low on the "Live at the BBC" as to be inaudible.
Again, no pianist is credited - but this time there's no mistaking Jeremy on slide - so who's playing? Christine Perfect had yet to do her first recordings with the band and the style is all wrong. A mystery. Recorded in the summer of '68, a full year before Led Zeppelin's over the top, retitled version, the band locks into a deep groove with Muddy Water's "You Need Love". Zeppelin changed the title to "Whole Lotta Love" and took the song writing credit. They were sued and lost. Danny matches John McVie's bass notes for a rock solid foundation and Green plays what must rank as one of his nastiest solos, utilizing the thin Stratocaster sound he used to similar effect on "Lazy Poker Blues". The only real down side is that Green oversells the vocals, deepening his voice as he intones "you need love, you got to have love". It's almost as if he were imitating Waters the way Jeremy did Elmore James. The playing here also uncovers the seeds to Danny's "Loving Kind". This is most easily appreciated in the Boston Tea Party version of that song. Danny turns in another heavy blues workout with an hard take on his "A Talk With You".
This was from his first radio session with the band, before they'd gone into the studio and he obviously wanted to make an impression. And he does, the "push me - pull you" interplay with Green already in evidence.
The disc wraps up with a jaunty run through T-Bone Walker's "Mean Old World" - using the version he cut for Atlantic Records in the 50's as their template. I believe this is from the same session as the previous two numbers and they take it at a swinging pace that belies the downbeat lyrics. Here again, the natural ambience of the studio adds to the feel as McVie sounds as if he was playing a stand-up, rather than electric bass.

    Comments »

This album may be identical to Mean Old World.

    Last Modified »
2010-03-25
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Discography entry submitted by sharksfan2000, Johannes Dittler, Anders Linnartsson & Jeff Kenney.