Label: Sanctuary
Year: 2002 (Original Recordings 1967 - 1970)
Genre: Blues, British Blues, Live
Tracks: 18 + 18
Total Time: 70:23 + 71:14
Format: mp3, Bitrate: HQ VBR, ABR 170
File Size: 55 MB + 53 MB + 96 MB
This
British two-disc collection offers a rather unique look at the Peter
Green-era Fleetwood Mac rather than just focusing on the band's output
from 1967, immediately after leaving John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, to
1970 when Green left.
About the Album:
The set is
chock-full of fine studio material that documents the evolution of the
band from a power trio to its Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan
incarnations. And while it's true that other collections have
documented the band from this period very well, none of them has dug
quite as deep into the live archives or revealed the subsequent Peter
Green side projects of the time. Here are 36 tracks that offer stunning
live renditions of Green's "Black Magic Woman," "Oh Well," the second
part of the "Madge Sessions," and Spencer's "Stranger Blues," as well
as an absolutely searing version of Kirwan's "Comin' Your Way." Given
the budget price of this completely remastered set, these alone would
have been worth the price, but in a sense it's only the beginning.
There are numerous tracks of Green with musical running-mate Duster
Bennett from the pre-Fleetwood Mac years, including a truly haunted
version of the title track. Add to this four tracks of Green's work
with Bob Brunning's Sunflower Blues Band, and you have an evocative and
intense portrait of a band struggling to come to grips with a reluctant
genius as a frontman, and the era. What is most revealing is Green's
focus on execution and mood. The music has a way of getting past him,
not technically, but emotionally, on the live material -- the title
cut, "Rattlesnake Shake," "Lazy Poker Blues" -- as well as on the
instrumentals. Check the versions of Kirwan's "World in Harmony," and
the extremities in this version of "Green Manalishi," for evidence.
Neil Slaven assembled this comp. He also wrote its confounding and
labyrinthine liner notes, which are full of information but light on
continuity or style. Slaven's method of creating a musical portrait,
however, is virtually unassailable. The tracks wind in and out of one
another, back and forth across time and partnerships as if telling a
secret that can only be fully understood when the last sentence has
been whispered. There is no secret in the fact that Green was a
reluctant superstar, and that madness overwhelmed him at his playing
peak. What isn't known, however, is the great vulnerability and
tenderness he put into every performance. That side of Peter Green is
well documented here, the terminally shy skinny kid who could rain down
fire from the heavens and draw water from the wells of hell on a guitar.
Track List:
DISC 1:
1. Black Magic Woman - (live)
2. Jumping At Shadows - (live)
3. Oh Well - (live)
4. Ride With Your Daddy Tonight
5. Do You Give A Damn For Me?
6. Love That Burns
7. World In Harmony
8. Long Grey Mare
9. Talk To Me Baby
10. Fast Talking Woman Blues
11. Man Of The World - (Early Version)
12. If You Let Me Love You
13. My Baby's Sweeter
14. Like It This Way
15. TheMadge Sessions No. 2
16. Lazy Poker Blues
17. I Have To Laugh
18. Green Manalishi
DISC 2:
1. Man Of The World - (Single Version)
2. Showbiz Blues
3. Buzz Me Baby
4. Blues In B Flat Minor
5. It Takes Time
6. Leaving Town Blues
7. Sun Is Shining, The
8. Uranus
9. Mind Of My Own
10. How Blue You Can Get?
11. Trying So Hard To Forget
12. Two Harps
13. Thinking About A Woman
14. Kind Hearted Woman
15. Coming, I'm Coming
16. Stranger Blues - (live)
17. Coming Your Way - (live)
18. Rattlesnake Shake - (live)
Personnel:
Peter Green - guitar, vocal
Jon McVie - bass,
Mic Fleetwood - drums,
Jeremy Spencer - guitar, slide guitar,
Danny Kirwan - guitar
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