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The De Luxe Blues Band (1994) - De Luxe Blues Band


    Featuring »

Dave Beaumont, Bob Brunning, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Phil Taylor, Allan Vincent, Mickey Waller

    Tracklisting »

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300 Pounds Of Joy
  Running Time: 4:00
  Comments: Willie Dixon's first name is incorrectly spelled in the writer's credit notes as "Willy".
Dead Cat On The Line
  Running Time: 4:07
Louisiana Blues
  Running Time: 4:07
Angel Of Mercy
  Running Time: 5:37
Down In The Bottom
  Running Time: 3:10
  Comments: Willie Dixon's first name is incorrectly spelled in the writer's credit notes as "Willy".
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
  Running Time: 7:30
  Comments: Billed as "Hoochie Coochie Man". Willie Dixon's first name is incorrectly spelled in the writer's credit notes as "Willy".
Key To The Highway
  Running Time: 3:04
Peach Tree
  Running Time: 2:02
Elevator Blues
  Running Time: 3:48
All Your Love
  Running Time: 4:00
  Comments: Only Otis Rush is given writing credit for this performance.
Rambler's Blues
  Running Time: 3:35
Lambpoon
  Running Time: 2:31
Leavin' This Town
  Running Time: 2:45
Marriage Licence
  Running Time: 3:15
Letter To My Baby
  Running Time: 3:00
  Comments: Featuring The Sensational King Biscuit Blues Band
Do Right Mind
  Running Time: 3:15
Can't Hold Out Much Longer
  Running Time: 4:35
Neighbour Neighbour
  Running Time: 4:57
  Comments: Only Alton Valier is given writing credit for this performance.
    Guest Appearances »

Richard Everitt, Otis Grand, Earl Green, Paul Lamb, Big Joe Louis, Johnny Mars, Maurice McElroy/McIlroy, Brian Nevill, Chris Rees, The Sensational King Biscuit Blues Band

    Released »

1994

    Format »

Import Vinyl/CD Album

    Other Appearances »
Homer Banks (Songwriter), Big Bill Broonzy (William Lee Conley) (Songwriter), Willie Dixon (Songwriter), Otis Grand (Songwriter), Robert F. Greenlee, Jr. (Songwriter), Jimmy Hughes (Songwriter), Raymond Earl Jackson (Songwriter), Blind Lemon (Henry) Jefferson (Songwriter), Paul Lamb (Songwriter), Little Walter (Walter Jacobs) (Songwriter), James Martin Payne (Songwriter), Otis Rush (Songwriter), Cool Papa (Haskell Robert) Sadler (Songwriter), Charles Segar (Songwriter), Alton Joseph Valier (Songwriter), Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) (Songwriter), Noble A. Watts (Songwriter), Sonny Boy (John Lee) Williamson (Songwriter), Bob Brunning (Executive Producer), Bob Brunning (Executive Producer), Paul Duvive (Executive Producer), Bob Brunning (Liner Notes), Bob Brunning (Liner Notes), Graham Hogg (Produced By), Graham Hogg (Engineered By), Bob Brunning (Graphic Design), Bob Brunning (Graphic Design), LandGraphics (Graphic Design), Dave Beaumont (Additional Production), Dave Beaumont (Additional Production), Phil Taylor (Additional Production), Phil Taylor (Additional Production), Allan Vincent (Additional Production), Allan Vincent (Additional Production)

    Record Label »
Tramp Records

    Catalogue Number »

TRCD 9923

    Running Time »

73:28

    Liner Notes »

Recorded at: Alchemea Studios, Camdon, London

Graphic design: Bob Brunning and LandGraphics, Amsterdam

The De Luxe Blues Band started life back in 1981 when American guitarist/singer Danny Adler was asked to put a band together to back visiting U.S. artiste Eddy Clearwater. Danny phoned pianist Bob Hall and Mickey Waller, the drummer who had played with Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and many other big names. Bob suggested to Danny that I make up the foursome on bass and Eureka! We had a Band.

I then sensed an opportunity. I rang up a Virgin Records A & R man and invited him to come and see the band play at the concert. I didn't feel it necessary to point out to him that he would be witnessing our first ever gig together and without the benefit of any rehearsal. He came, saw and was conquered. Much to my surprise I got a call the next day offering us a Virgin recording contract. Gulp. Moreover he wanted to record us live, in concert, soon. Larger gulp.

So Virgin hauled their brand new digital mobile recording studio to the famous Half Moon club in South London and recorded the entire set.

Little did they know that they were preserving on tape the band's first ever "proper" gig. We certainly didn't tell them, and our first album was released a couple of months later, in October 1981.

Savoy Brown and Groundhogs veteran Bob Hall, Danny Adler, Mickey and I then started an enjoyable career touring the U.K., Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Belgium and Holland for close on a decade. We made four more albums and enjoyed our life on the road (during my holidays: I was, and still am, the headmaster of a primary school). Bob was the first to become disenchated and quit halfway through an Italian tour. However by then we had welcomed Dick Heckstall-Smith aboard ship and he proved to be a more than adequate replacement. Dick, of course, is one of Europe's most talented horn players and one of the very few who primarly plays the blues. Most sax players favour jazz, although they may be adept at playing blues fills. Dick was a founder member of the Graham Bond Organisation, and went on to play with John Mayall, Collosseum, and many other well known bands before joining the De luxe Blues Band.

The band decided to call it a day, albiet temporarily as it would turn out, when, in 1991, Danny Adler returned to the States for personal reasons. I welcomed the respite and Dick and Mickey continued to play with several other bands. But we all kept in touch and when I asked them whether they would be interested in re-forming the De Luxe Blues Band in 1993 they were immediately keen. But how to replace Danny?

I had meawhile been invited to join London blues band Buffalo Phil at around that time and when I heard Phil Taylor, the Vocalist and harp player, Dave Beaumont, the excellent slide guitar player and Allan Vincent, their experienced and talented guitarist, I didn't hesitate. Would they be interested in joining a "new" De Luxe Blues Band with Mickey Waller and Dick Heckstall-Smith? Yes, they would. We started rehearsing.

The next logical step seemed to be to record an album. And I had an idea. I had been researching material for my new book, "Blues in Britain: 50's to the 90's" at the time and had interviewed various U.K. blues artistes. Why not try and involve some of them in the project and produce an album that featured the new De Luxes with some special guests? So that's what we did. It was a great pleasure for us to invite musicians Otis Grand, Earl Green, Johnny Mars, Paul Lamb, Chris Rees and Big Joe Louis into the studio and give them their head.

I then asked Big Joe Louis and veteran record producer Mike Vernon which record company they would recommand to release the material. Without hesitation they both said, "Tramp", based in Amsterdam, run by a real enthusiast. I rang up owner Paul Duvivie rather tentatively to see if he might be interested expecting the usual protracted negotiations. Being a man of quick decisions and employing a welcome economy of words, Paul politely cut me short, simply saying, "Yes, we have a deal".

So here it is. The De Luxe Blues Band's sixth recording. By the way, there's a "bonus" track featuring the Sensational King Biscuit Band recorded live at London's Hundred Club during a star studded benefit concert for Dick Heckstall-Smith, who was ill at the time. The concert was filmed and recorded and, hopefully, will be seen as a six part T.V. series called "One Hundred Per Cent Blues" on your local T.V. station soon. The De Luxe connection? I played bass with the Sensational King Biscuit Blues Band for the occasion and actually joined them for one week! But that's another story.

Bob Brunning.

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OK, but won't blow you away
Review written by John Fitzgerald, December 23rd, 2004

This De Luxe Blues Band release from 1994 is like it's 80's counterparts in that is has a low key feel which while purist enough, won't really grab your attention that often. Most tracks here feature an electric harmonica sound and acoustic piano flourishes though the opening "300 Pounds of joy" features an interesting 60's sounding rhythm guitar part which works well. This track is then followed by the up tempo shuffle "Dead cat on the line". "Louisiana blues" is horn led and it's faster than usual arrangement doesn't really work. "Angel of mercy" is a slow blues with a talk/sing vocals styling which is pretty good but then we get a good track in "Down in the bottom" which is up beat and helped out by a rocking slide guitar sound. If you like the electric harmonica stuff then you'll love "Hoochie coochie man" here as the first minute of the tune is mostly that plugged in harp though I personally prefer once it kicks in as it's a good strolling cover. "Key to the highway" is a mid pace shuffle but the sound quality here is noticeably different, not so much worse but more tinny, maybe I just prefer to hear Brunning's bass work more up front though I will give the liner notes to this CD much credit as they do state who plays what on each track so it is confirmed therein that Brunning does in fact play bass on every track here. The tinny sound returns later for another slow blues called "Can't hold out much longer". "Peach tree" has a more 40's vaudevillian style that Rick Vito may have liked though again the harmonica is drowning in this track. "Elevator blues" is a more guitar driven slow blues and it is a high point for me but the busy crashing cymbals throughout the song make it seem faster than it really is. "All your love" here is given a rapid rumbling bossa nova feel and the electric harmonica swing returns on "Rambler's blues". "Lambpoon" is a highlight as it's like the previous track in many ways in it's style but perhaps better as being an instrumental, it has that needed breath of fresh air. "Leavin' this town" is good as well as the harp restraint here works on this perky stomp. "Marriage licence" (sic) is a pulsating sax led boogie which has good strong bass from Brunning. "Letter to my baby" is a fast roller while "Do right mind" is a slow blues that drags a little and we finish with the slowish bounce of "Neighbour, neighbour". In the end, this is good to get while there's still copies of it around to be had and it's rather generous on running time with it's 18 tracks but it won't be much different to the other DLBB releases in that the traditional feel is there but no stand out tracks really power their way through it all.

    Comments »

This album is not to be confused with the 1988 selftitled De Luxe Blues Band album.

    Last Modified »
2011-06-30
    Tracklisting »
Discography entry submitted by Anders Linnartsson & Jeff Kenney.