Part I: ‘Mighty Long Time’ Peter Green is rightfully considered one of the greatest guitarists to come out of the British Blues scene of the mid-to-late sixties but as we celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday (born October 29, 1946) I’d like to take a look at two songs featuring his harmonica playing. There is currently only […]
The Henry Björklund Tapes, Part Two I first came across a reference to this performance thirteen years ago, in Christopher Hjort’s “Strange Brew – Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom 1965 – 1970” (Jawbone Press). Under the entry for this date, Hjort writes of audience member Henry Björklund’s recollection of Green opening the show […]
‘My Baby’s Sweet’ Peter Green is understandably the considered the nucleus of the band that he founded (in spite of his desire not to be seen as such). Easily forgotten is how integral Jeremy Spencer’s contributions were to the band in their earliest days. It was a Spencer lead number ‘I Believe My Time Ain’t […]
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis and Peter Green The first time that I came across the name Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis was in 1999; in a conversation with Mike Vernon printed in the booklet to “Fleetwood Mac – The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967 – 1969”, Peter Green mentions him as one of the musicians that […]
BBC session, Radio One’s “Top Gear” – May 27, 1968 – ‘Dead Shrimp Blues’ ‘Dead Shrimp Blues’ was the third song that Robert Johnson recorded on the third day of his first recording session in 1936. It was released as the B-side to his third release in 1937. It would be a full thirty years […]
“Fleetwood Mac in Chicago January 4th 1969 – The Legendary Chess Blues Sessions” By Jeff Lowenthal & Robert Schaffner (Schiffer Publishing) November 12th 2023, a chilly Sunday night in Chicago, but inside Reggie’s Chicago, the atmosphere was warm and the music was hot. “Legendary” Jeff Lowenthal (photographer) and Robert Schaffner (author) were celebrating the first […]
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. […]
Fleetwood Mac / Jeremy Spencer 1968 – 2006 ‘Bleeding Heart’ is one of Elmore James’ later originals, done for producer Bobby Robinson. From late 1960 through early 1963 James cut over thirty titles for Robinson during sessions held in New York City and New Orleans. The majority of those titles were released posthumously, including this […]
The “new” (unfortunately incomplete) recording came to my attention as I was making my way through one of the three collections of “unreleased” BBC recordings that were posted to YouTube early in 2022. I thank Dutch Greenologist Gert Jan Kuiper for bringing those collections to my attention. Two of the collections were identical with one […]
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 […]
