Time: 35:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1973/2000
Styles: Jazz Rock, Jazz Blues
Art: Front
01. Linin' Track (3:57)
02. Forget Me Daisy (2:12)
03. His Old Boots (Sein Alter Stiefel) (3:20)
04. Blue Country Blues (2:45)
05. Dancin' In The Van (1:51)
06. 32-20 Blues (2:24)
07. Roberta (2:48)
08. It's Nice When It's Up (2:54)
09. One Day You're Down, The Next Day Your Down (3:32)
10. Walkin' Blues (3:13)
11. The Bed Creaks Louder (2:20)
12. Adolphus Beal (3:52)
More bass-driven brilliance, produced by the late Felix Pappalardi, former producer of Cream. Though the album is less cohesive than their debut, it soars to even greater heights with its stand-out covers of Leadbelly and Robert Johnson. These blues numbers are largely played as unaccompanied bass and vocal pieces. There's something to this unadorned combination -- the inherent grittiness of the bass matched against his voice hearkens back to the raw power of Delta blues, where it's just a guy and his crappy old guitar. On "32-20 Blues," Hodgkinson sings an old Robert Johnson number while throttling away at the bass; on the opening "Laying Track," the whole band takes on Leadbelly in a sort of restrained funkiness, with the constant thrashing of a tambourine underlining the rhythm section's punches on the downbeat.
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