‘When the Train Comes Back’ – Chicken Shack / Fleetwood Mac 1968 BBC performance, Album version, Single Version, Fleetwood Mac (BBC1-TV “Black, White & Blues”) Christine Anne Perfect was born in Bouth, Lancashire on July 12, 1943 Her Father was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St. Peter’s College of Education in Birmingham. Her […]
Robert Johnson / Cream (studio / BBC) / Peter Green Splinter Group (live / studio) / Eric Clapton & Doyle Bramhall II In his twenty-seven years on earth, Robert Johnson did only two recording sessions, both for the Columbia label, each one stretching over two days; the first in November of 1936, the second in […]
“Kiln House” / Pacific National Coliseum, British Columbia, August 11, 1970 / Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, February 19, 1971 Peter Green played his last show with Fleetwood Mac at the end of May, 1970. The following month, the remaining members of the band began work on their next album, “Kiln House’. Of the […]
Photo: Lee Orlando (Sean Chambers & Pat DeSalvo & Garnet Grimm) The place: Chicago, City of Big Shoulders. The venue: Reggie’s Bananas Shack. The bands: Fun Parent and Sean Chambers and the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section. The occasion: a celebration of the music of Kim Simmonds and the release of his autobiography, “Street Corner Talking” […]
Plus: Session Outtakes In an interview published in the June 28, 1969 edition of Disc, Clifford Davis stated that Fleetwood Mac would begin to curtail the number of live appearances that they would be doing to concentrate on studio recording. In addition to the album that they were currently working on (Then Play On), they […]
“The Blues of Otis Spann” (Decca 1964) / “Raw Blues” (Ace of Clubs 1967) ‘Stirs Me Up’ (Decca 45) Muddy Waters made his first trip to the U.K. in 1958, at the invitation of Chris Barber. Rather than bring his full band, he brought only his best friend, pianist Otis Spann. Barber had been […]
Elmore James / Fleetwood Mac / The Nighthawks / Peter Green Splinter Group It probably wasn’t difficult to justify, (to himself, anyway), Elmore James’s aversion to contracts. He had signed on with Trumpet Records in January of 1951, mainly working on sessions for other artists on the label, notably Sonny Boy Williamson II. He also […]
‘I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man’ – Three versions by Peter Green Splinter Group When Robert Johnson was first contracted to record for the American Recording Company (ARC) in the summer of 1936, he was sent to a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas where the company had set up a temporary recording studio. Pleased […]
Slim Harpo, Love Sculpture, The Rolling Stones, Peter Green’s Splinter Group James Moore released his first 45, ‘I’m A King Bee’ under his nom de record Slim Harpo, in 1957 at the age of thirty-three. Starting with a hit, he continued to enjoy mainstream popularity throughout his career, and unlike most of his contemporaries, did […]
Big Joe Williams, Tony Hollins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf & Peter Green Splinter Group John Lee Hooker passed away on June 21, 2001. The U.K. label Eagle Records brought “From Clarksdale to Heaven – Remembering John Lee Hooker” to market early the following year, featuring a wide array of British Blues Royalty […]
