Various Artists - Crawling Up A Hill - A Journey [CD]

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• By 1965, the British R&B boom was over. Cyril Davies was dead, Alexis Korner was employed as MD on a children’s TV show, and the legion of young acolytes the two men had inspired had drifted away from the blues and into mainstream pop stardom. The more “purist” individuals were out in the cold: Brian Jones was marginalised in the Stones by the emergence of the Jagger/Richards songwriting team, while Eric Clapton had stormed out of the most blueswailing Yardbirds in protest at their recording of winsome pop ditty ‘For Your Love’.

• But things were about to change. In April 1966, club band John Mayall’s Blues Breakers – prominently featuring a still-simmering Clapton – recorded their debut studio album with the aid of producer Mike Vernon. Released in July, the LP was a huge, entirely unexpected success, reaching the UK Top Ten and remaining in the charts for an impressive 17 weeks.

• Suddenly, an astonishing number of virtuoso young British (and Irish) blues guitarists, all of whom rejected the trappings of pop success as fervently as the young Eric, were inspired to form their own bands. In the wake of Clapton, his Yardbirds replacement Jeff Beck and Peter Green (Eric’s replacement in Mayall’s band after he’d split to form Cream) came the likes of Kim Simmonds, Jeremy Spencer, Stan Webb, Paul Kossoff, Alvin Lee, Clem Clempson, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore and Mick Ronson. Within a year or two of Mayall’s unexpected breakthrough, the second wave of the British blues boom was in full, glorious bloom.

• Featuring all of the above names, Crawling Up A Hill chronicles the development of the British blues scene during that relatively brief but halcyon period, covering both the electric blues bands (Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, Savoy Brown, Ten Years After etc) and the acoustic country blues acts (Jo-Ann Kelly, Mike Cooper, Ian A. Anderson and others).

• In addition, we feature a number of more obscure bands from the era, including Levee Camp Moan (responsible for two of the most feverishly-collected albums of the era), pre-Faces outfit Quiet Melon and The Zany Woodruff Operation, now receiving their first-ever public exposure.

• Housed in a clamshell box with a 40-page booklet featuring potted histories and priceless period photos of all the featured acts, Crawling Up A Hill is a fascinating document of a genre that, though relatively short-lived, would have a seismic influence on the subsequent development of rock music.

John Mayallu2019s Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton - All Your Love

Free - Sweet Tooth

Liverpool Scene - Iu2019ve Got Those Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Canu2019t Fail Blues

The Zany Woodruff Operation - Crawling Up A Hill

Mike Cooper - Death Letter

Brunning Sunflower Blues Band Featuring Peter Green - Ride With Your Daddy Tonight

Anderson Jones Jackson - Louise

The Taste - Blister On The Moon

Red Dirt - Time To Move

The Graham Bond Organization - I Love You

Levee Camp Moan - I Just Canu2019t Keep From Crying

Savoy Brown - A Hard Way To Go (Live)

The Yardbirds - Iu2019m A Man (Live)

Sam Apple Pie - Sometime Girl

Jeremy Spencer - Mean Blues

The Spencer Davis Group - Donu2019t Want You No More

John Dummer Blues Band - Skin Game (Live)

Black Cat Bones - Chauffeur

Ten Years After - I Canu2019t Keep From Crying, Sometimes

Quiet Melon - Diamond Joe

Siren - Gardener Man

Duster Bennett - Jumping At Shadows (Demo Version)

Killing Floor - Nobody By My Side

Blue Blood - Dupree Blues

The Deviants - Charlie

Blodwyn Pig - Dear Jill

Steamhammer - Passing Through

Jeff Beck - You Shook Me

Icarus - Thereu2019s An Easy And A Hard Way Of Living

Stone The Crows - Raining In Your Heart

Jo-Ann Kelly - Ainu2019t Nothinu2019 In Ramblinu2019

Chicken Shack - Tears In The Wind

Edgar Broughton Band - Old Gopher

Fleetwood Mac - Love That Burns

Bakerloo - Bring It On Home

Stack Waddy - Roadrunner

Love Sculpture - Wang Dang Doodle

Jaklin - The Same For You

Heavy Jelly - Take Me Down To The Water

Alexis Korner Featuring Robert Plant - Operator

Frozen Tear - Train Comes, Train Goes

Skid Row - The Man Who Never Was

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?

The Rats - Telephone Blues (Aka Talk To Me Baby)

Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts - Take Your Money

Dr. Ku2019s Blues Band - Walking

Angel Pavement - Madison Blues

Mungo Jerry - The Sun Is Shining

Shakey Vick - Little Woman Youu2019re So Sweet

Christine Perfect Band - Itu2019s You I Miss

Linda Hoyle - Backlash Blues

The Climax Chicago Blues Band - A Stranger In Your Town

Medicine Head - This Love Of Old

Status Quo - Railroad

Downliners Sect - Lord Of The Rings

Jasper - Baby Please Donu2019t Go

• Genre: Blues
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5013929186804

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