Ian Anderson’s Country Blues Band - Stereo Death Breakdown Label: Fledgling Records
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At the height of the British blues boom in the late 1960s, a handful of musicians came to prominence reinterpreting the acoustic country blues of the 1920s and ’30s. So in the winter of 1968/’69, Ian Anderson (not to be confused with the leader/flutist of Jethro Tull) assembled a lively country blues band for his debut album Stereo Death Breakdown. The master tapes were thought to be lost forever, but recent detective work by Fledg’ling Records unearthed them in the vault where they’d been carefully stored.
So here, re-mastered from those original tapes, with two bonus tracks from a contemporary session is a long-lost British blues collectors’ piece
Ian Anderson : National & 12-string guitars, vocals
Chris Turner : harmonica (1-12)
Bob Rowe : bass guitar
Bob Hall : piano
‘Harmonica Annie’ Matthews : vocal (4)
Ron Needles : mandolin
Brian Claxton : washboard
Pete Hossell : jug, shouts
Dave Jeffs : harmonica (13-14)
Mel Wright : drums (13-14)
Tracklist 1 Get In That Swing
2 Little Boy Blue
3 (My Babe She Ain’t Nothing But A Doggone) Crazy Fool Mumble
4 New Lonesome Day
5 Short Haired Woman Blues
6 Hot Times
7 Stereo Death Breakdown
8 When I Get To Thinking
9 Way Up On Your Tree
10 Break ‘Em On Down
11 That’s Alright
12 Baby Bye You Bye
13 Put It In A Frame
14 Stop And Listen
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