The Blues Years (1991) - Fleetwood Mac

Featuring »

Dave Bidwell, Eddie (Edward Riley) Boyd, Bob Brunning, Chicken Shack, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer, Andy Sylvester/Silvester, Stan Webb

Tracklisting »

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Merry Go Round    Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 4:19   Comments: (Take 2) Recorded @ CBS Studio, New Bond St, London. Long Grey Mare    Date Performance: 1967, Running Time: 2:12   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Hellhound On My Trail    Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 2:04   Comments: (Take 1) Recorded @ CBS Studio, New Bond St, London. Shake Your Moneymaker    Date Performance: 1967-12-11, Running Time: 2:52   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Looking For Somebody    Running Time: 2:49   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London or Decca Studio, West Hampstead London. No Place To Go    Running Time: 3:20   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London or Decca Studio, West Hampstead London. My Baby's Good To Me    Running Time: 2:49   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. I Loved Another Woman    Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 2:54   Comments: (Take 5) Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Cold Black Night    Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 3:15   Comments: (Take 6) Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. The World Keep On Turning    Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 2:27   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Got To Move    Running Time: 3:18   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Stop Messin' Round    Date Performance: 1968-04-28, Running Time: 2:19   Comments: (Take 4) Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Steet, London Coming Home    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 2:38   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Rollin' Man    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 2:52   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Dust My Broom    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 2:51   Comments: Recorded at CSB Studio, New Bond Street, London. Elmore James did slightly change the lyrics to "Dust My Broom" in later years & those are the lyrics that Jeremy Spencer sings on this version of the song. Love That Burns    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 5:02   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London Doctor Brown    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 3:43   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Need Your Love Tonight    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 3:26   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. If You Be My Baby    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 3:51   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Evenin' Boogie    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 2:39   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Lazy Poker Blues    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 2:34   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. I've Lost My Baby    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 4:16   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Trying So Hard To Forget    Date Performance: 1968-04-00, Running Time: 4:45   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. I Believe My Time Ain't Long   Date Performance: 1967-09-09, Running Time: 2:53   Comments: Stereo Version. Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Original Release: CBS/Blue Horizon #3051 (A-Side). Source: Original analogue tape Rambling Pony   Date Performance: 1967-09-09, Running Time: 3:32   Comments: Recorded @ CBS Studio, New Bond St, London. Black Magic Woman    Date Performance: 1968-02-22, Running Time: 2:54   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Chart: Billboard UK Top 50/40 Singles Peak Position: 37 Peak Dates: May 4, 1968 Weeks on Charts: 7 The Sun Is Shining    Date Performance: 1968-02-22, Running Time: 3:10   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Need Your Love So Bad    Date Performance: 1968-04-28, Running Time: 3:53   Comments: (Edit of version #2, remake) (Take 4) Stereo Version. Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Original Release: Blue Horizon #57-3139 (A-Side). Source: Original analogue tape. Chart: Billboard UK Top 50/40 Singles Peak Position: 31 Peak Dates: Sep 28, 1968 Weeks on Charts: 22 Albatross    Date Performance: 1968-10-06, Running Time: 3:08   Comments: Stereo Version. Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Original Release: Blue Horizon #57-3145 (A-Side). Source: Original analogue tape. Chart: Billboard US Hot 100 Singles Peak Position: 104 Peak Dates: Apr 5, 1969 & Apr 12, 1969 Weeks on Charts: 4 Chart: Billboard UK Top 50/40 Singles Peak Position: 1 (2 times) Peak Dates: Feb 8, 1969 & Jun 1973 Weeks on Charts: 35 Jigsaw Puzzle Blues    Date Performance: 1968-10-06, Running Time: 1:33   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Man Of The World    Date Performance: 1969, Running Time: 2:51   Comments: Chart: Billboard UK Top 50/40 Singles Peak Position: 2 Peak Dates: Jun 7, 1969 Weeks on Charts: 14 Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite)   Date Performance: 1969, Running Time: 2:40   Comments: Often billed as being by "Earl Vince & The Valiants" (a Fleetwood Mac pseudonym) & (incorrectly) on compilations as "Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight". Recorded in the Summer in London. Watch Out   Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 3:27   Comments: (Take 2 - Edit) Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Worried Dream   Date Performance: 1968-04-11, Running Time: 5:24   Comments: (Take 1) Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Fleetwood Mac    Date Performance: 1967-08-00, Running Time: 3:54   Comments: Recorded at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London First Train Home    Date Performance: 1967-08-00, Running Time: 4:05   Comments: (Mono) Recorded at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London Drifting    Date Performance: 1967, Running Time: 3:31   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Mean Old Fireman   Date Performance: 1967-11-22, Running Time: 3:48   Comments: (Take 2) Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Allow Me One More Show   Date Performance: 1967, Running Time: 2:58   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Just The Blues   Date Performance: 1968-01-25, Running Time: 5:34   Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. The Big Boat   Date Performance: 1968-01-25, Running Time: 2:40   Comments: Mono Version. Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Originally released as a single Blue Horizon #57-3137 (A-Side). Source: Original analogue tape. I'd Rather Go Blind   Date Performance: 1969-02-12, Running Time: 3:14   Comments: Stereo Version. Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. Original Release: Blue Horizon #57-3153 (A-Side). Source: Original analogue tape. It's unknown who plays the Tenor/Alto/Baritone Saxes on this track. Chart: Billboard UK Top 50/40 Singles Peak Position: 17 Peak Dates: Jun 14, 1969 & Jun 28, 1969 Weeks On Charts: 12 Watch Out    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 4:19   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago Homework    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 3:20   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago I Can't Hold Out    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 4:49   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago Like It This Way    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 4:24   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago Last Night    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 5:01   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago I'm Worried    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 3:47   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago World's In A Tangle    Date Performance: 1969-01-04, Running Time: 5:25   Comments: Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago

Guest Appearances »

John(ny) Almond, Duster (Tony/Anthony) Bennett, J(ohn) T. Brown, Willie Dixon, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Peter Green, Steve/Stephen Gregory, (Big) Walter (Shakey) Horton, David/Dave Howard, David Katz, S. P. Leary, Christine McVie, John McVie, John McVie, Terry Noonan, Otis Spann, Roland Vaughan, Mike Vernon

Released »

1991-02

Format »

Import Vinyl/CD Album

Other Appearances »

Eddie (Edward Riley) Boyd (Songwriter), Buster Brown (Songwriter), Dave Clark (Songwriter), Arthur Big Boy Crudup (Songwriter), Clifford (G.) Davis (Adams) (Songwriter), Bill Foster (Songwriter), Waymon Glasco (Songwriter), Peter Green (Songwriter), Peter Green (Songwriter), Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) (Songwriter), Elmore James (Songwriter), Little Willie (William Edgar) John (Mertis, Jr.) (Songwriter), Robert Johnson (Songwriter), Ellington Jordan (Songwriter), Joe (Joseph) Josea (Bihari) (Songwriter), B(lues) B(oy) (Riley) King (Songwriter), Danny Kirwan (Songwriter), Danny Kirwan (Songwriter), Little Walter (Walter Jacobs) (Songwriter), Al(berta) Perkins (Songwriter), Jimmy Rogers (James A. Lane) (Songwriter), Otis Rush (Songwriter), Marshall E. Sehorn (Songwriter), Jeremy Spencer (Songwriter), Jeremy Spencer (Songwriter), Terry Noonan (Strings Under The Direction Of), Marshall Chess (Produced By), Mike Vernon (Produced By), Stu Black (Engineered By), Mike Ross(-Trevor) (Engineered By), Jeremy Spencer (Arranged By), Jeremy Spencer (Arranged By), Marshall Chess (Session Co-Ordination), Willie Dixon (Session Co-Ordination), Neil (The Curmudgeon) Slaven (Session Co-Ordination), Mike Vernon (Session Co-Ordination), Terry Noonan (Horns Under The Direction Of), Mickey 'Guitar' Baker (String Arrangement), Mike Ross(-Trevor) (Recording Engineer), Mickey 'Guitar' Baker (Strings Conductor), Terry Noonan (Horns Arranged By), Terry Noonan (Horns Directed By), Richard Vernon (Co-Ordinated By)

Record Label »

Castle

Running Time »

169:45

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This is a 3 CD (or 5 album) set. Not to be confused with the smaller Blues Years collection. "Just The Blues" is by Eddie Boyd (with guests: Peter Green, John McVie & Mick Fleetwood) "The Big Boat" is by Eddie Boyd (with guests: Peter Green, John McVie & Mick Fleetwood) "I'd Rather Go Blind" is by Chicken Shack (with Christine Perfect (McVie)) In these days when every '60s act this side of Pinkerton's Assorted Colours is getting themselves anthologised in a chocolate box of CDs it would be naive to expect that the original Fleetwood Mac could escape without yet another tribute to their rugby shirt years. This 50-track, three-CD collection brings together anything of any consequence that Peter Green's group did in the way of a 12-bar. It includes the whole of their first two albums, the hit singles Albatross and Man Of The World, the comparative flops Black Magic Woman and Need Your Love So Bad, a few nuggets from Blues Jam At Chess wherein they skirmished with the likes of Willie Dixon and Otis Spann; it even has the nerve to appropriate one Chicken Shack track in the shape of Christine McVie's terrific I'd Rather Go Blind from 1969. It's interesting to reflect just how many blues records the extended Mac family were responsible for putting in the charts in the late '60s and heartening to report how little here has dated. Peter Green's ability to submerge his ego and reluctance to go in for grandstanding when the instrumental break came around is wholly vindicated by material as brooding and adult as Love That Burns (in which he seems to play without touching the strings) and soulful as Need Your Love So Bad, wherein he's the equal of Little Willie John. McVie and Fleetwood's no-nonsense approach to rhythm, learned in ministering to the boozier patrons of the college circuit, is admirably suited to lifting Jeremy Spencer's repertoire of Elmore James impressions above the run-of-the-mill. There are more spectacular relics of the Home Counties' affair with sweet home Chicago but for blues with a feeling this takes some beating. 4 out of 5 stars. (David Hepworth, Q Album Reviews)

Last Modified »

2012-08-16

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Discography entry submitted by Anders Linnartsson, Julie Kedward, Jeff Kenney & Marty Adelson.