1968 Orig HOOKER & THE GROUNDHOGS & MAYALL RAW UK UNDERGROUND BLUES ROCK
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MINT CLEAN and Rare 1972 Original
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John Lee Hooker
With
John Mayall
And
The GROUNDHOGS
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USA - (PRIVATE) - CLEVE RECORDS
TOP COPY !!!
Rare & sought after 1972 original first printing, inM-CLEAN CONDITION of a mighty hard to find collectible that does not often turn up!
The legendary blues guitar/vocalist John Lee Hooker would make a trip to Europe in the 1960s. On one tour he was booked with (Peter Green era) John Mayall's Bluesbreakers as a backing band... He also met a guitarist named Tony McPhee, whose band The Groundhogs had been named for a Hooker composition, "Groundhog Blues". The band proved to fit well with Hooker and they worked with him on the hard to find collectible album "The Groundhogs With John Lee Hooker And John Mayall" (1968, Cleve Records).
Tony McPhee and the Groundhogs played with John Lee Hooker in June of 1968, when John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were unable to fulfill a commitment to back Hooker on the final week of his British tour. The Groundhogs were deputized on the spot and played their first show with him at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. At the end of the week, Hooker told McPhee how much he liked working with his band and agreed to record an album with the Groundhogs. The band was Tony McPhee on guitar, Peter Cruickshank on bass, Dave Boorman on drums, and John Mayall on keyboards. The result a tiny hardly ever distributed album on the obscure Cleve label... The sound is raw, tight, and raunchy, some of the best band-backed recordings of Hooker's career. He's notoriously difficult to play support for because of the spontaneity of his work, but these guys keep up and then some, adding engaging flourishes and grace notes. Hooker is in excellent voice, and his material is as strong as any album in his output, rough, dark, and moody. The ominous, surging "Storming On The Deep Blue Sea" is worth the price of admission all by itself, while other tracks are even louder and more savage (like that ever mattered with The Hook ).
Lost Everything
I love The Waterfront
I Don't Want Nobody Else
Storming On The Deep Blue Sea
Crazy mixed Up World
Seven Days
B:
Mai Lee
Losing You
Little Girl
Lay Down Little Dreamer
Don't Be Messin' With My Bread
CONDITION: The cover: Rated: is almost never found this clean. It's M- after 43 years ...having no bends, no split seams, no writing ...even IF found the white cover is prone to dirt and soil...this one is snow-white CLEAN ...TOP NOTCH!
The vinyl: Rated: all glossy clean and clear on both sides M- playing so nice...with CLEAN labels makes this a rare collectible that does not turn up often and one to own
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people..
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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