Our disappointment in knowing that Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac’s first known performance of ‘Worried Dream’ is the only one missing from a four song set done for the BBC is slightly soothed by the fact that we have six other live recordings of the song; three from 1968; two from 1969 and one from 1970. […]
Cuby + The Blizzards and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac Eddie Boyd was already a veteran bluesman when he first went to Europe as a performer with the American Folk Blues Festival ’65. He had first recorded under his own name in 1947 and when a successful but often contentious seven-year stint with Chess records ended […]
My introduction to this song was on “Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack – Rush” (Reprise 1992) Eric Clapton composed and performed the score and included a few songs; he brought in Buddy Guy to take the lead on this complete makeover of a number that Guy had originally recorded in 1962. Guy turns in […]
At the time that Eddie Boyd joined the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe he had been playing professionally for more than thirty years. He had recorded his first session as a leader almost twenty-years earlier and in the ensuing decades had released records on nine different labels. The labels had become progressively […]
