Black cat bones LP Barbed wire sandwich PSYCH UK FREE

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This is great down and dirty UK blues psych with some great lead guitar. Paul Kossoff (Free) played on this lp, and other members of this band later became involved with Leaf Hound.
This is the original US pressing on the P.I.P. label from 1970 (PIP-6809). The cover (has a split seam) and the record are in very good+ condition.

Here are two reviews from progarchives.com:
BLACK CAT BONES were a blues-prog rock group from London founded in the late '60s by Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke (drums) both who would leave after recording this album and form the band “Free”. BLACK CAT BONES also had the talents of Rod Price (lead guitar) who also would later go on to play in Foghat. “Barbed Wire Sandwich” was released originally on Decca’s progressive label NOVA and represents a wonderfully blues driven progressive rock album. Considering there are 3 guitarists on the album this recording is bubbling over with 6 stringed contributions. Vocals are strong with Rod Price’s convincing deep accents and warm guttural soul. The album is actually very reminiscent of CREAM's "Disraeli Gears" with driving guitar bass and drum interplay and that certain rawness. Overall album is superbly crafted with some great songs and instrumentation. I love this album to death...!

Very good blues rock from the late 60s. Prog? not really. Under rated? Yes! With that said I am still glad someone gives this album credit as I don't hear about it often enough. This reminds me of early Free for obvious reasons. Cream and early Foghat are two other bands that come to mind. Many of these tracks are heavy, stripped down blues numbers, but its a winning formula with soulful lyrics and nice musicanship, especially the subtle piano part on "Please tell me babe", my favorite song, a 5 star track. 

And here's another one:
The right place at the wrong time. That could be the epitaph on the gravestone of Black Cat Bones. Having acted as unofficial house band for a number of visiting US artists during the British blues boom of the mid to late Sixties, and survived a potentially fatal line-up change into the bargain, they finally made it to vinyl rather late in the day. This, their first and only album, reached the racks in the last months of the Sixties, just as progressive rock was in the ascendancy.
That Black Cat Bones remains a name is due to two musicians whose names remain stubbornly absent from the credits. Celebrated guitarist Paul Kossof would go on to superstar status as a founder of member of Free, but started his career in earnest in these ranks. And though neither he nor drummer Simon Kirke appear here, Koss's featured replacement is Rod Price, a player of no mean ability who would later take his axe-wielding skills to stateside fame and fortune with Foghat.
Rod Price was quite different in approach to Kossof, his fast, fluid style contrasting with the howling sustain of his predecessor - but he was clearly no slouch either, as he proved on the final track. The self-penned 'Good Lookin' Woman' is the one song which Price tackled lead vocal. More importantly, it's a guitar tour de force, fading out prematurely and leaving the listener wondering exactly what would have happened next. 

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