SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON Down And Out Blues LP PYE INTERNATIONAL 1964 UK orig+mono
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SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
Sonny Boy Williamson was, in many ways, the ultimate blues legend. By the time of his death in 1965, he had been around long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at the start of his career and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Robbie Robertson at the end of it. In between, he drank a lot of whiskey, hoboed around the country, had a successful radio show for 15 years, toured Europe to great acclaim and simply wrote, played and sang some of the greatest blues ever etched into black phonograph records. His delivery was sly, evil and world-weary, while his harp-playing was full of short, rhythmic bursts one minute and powerful, impassioned blowing the next. His songs were chock-full of mordant wit, with largely autobiographical lyrics that hold up to the scrutiny of the printed page. Though he took his namesake from another well-known harmonica player, no one really sounded like him.
"DOWN AND OUT BLUES"
<released in the U.S.A. in 1960, and published in the U.K. in 1964>
1964 LP PYE INTERNATIONAL RECORDS NPL 28036 MONAURAL
R&B SERIES
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
LAMINATED (on front) SINGLE SLEEVE w/FLIPBACK + COMPANY INNER SLEEVE
NOTES: The KT tax code is hand etched on the run off grooves (only 1st UK press).
Flipback cover (laminated front only), printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
The cover features Don Bronstein's famous and offensive photograph of a down-and-out bum.
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Barcode: none
Other (Tax Code): KT
LABEL: PYE INTERNATIONAL - RED/YELLOW LABEL - BLACK/YELLOW TEXT
Catalog on cover: NPL 28036
Catalog on labels: NPL.28036 (1.LP.12036-A) / NPL.28036 (1.LP.12036-B)
Matrix / Runout, Side A (Stamped): 1 LP 12036A-1M (Etched): KT
Matrix / Runout, Side B (Stamped): 1 LP 12036B-1M (Etched): KT
On labels: 2-line rim text reads "All Rights..........Performance" "Broadcasting.............Made in England"
Recording First Published 1960
(All composed by Sonny Boy Williamson)
A Checker, U.S.A., Recording
On back cover: Notes by Studs Terkel, Author, Giants of Jazz.
A Chess U.S.A. Recording
Distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd., ATV............London, W.1.
Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents Pending
tracklisting
Side 1: DON'T START ME TO TALKIN' - I DON'T KNOW - ALL MY LOVE IN VAIN
THE KEY (TO YOUR DOOR) - KEEP IT TO YOURSELF - DISSATISFIED
Side 2: FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES - WAKE UP BABY - YOUR FUNERAL AND MY TRIAL
NINETY NINE - CROSS MY HEART - LET ME EXPLAIN
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