THE ORIGINAL ANIMALS. "BEFORE WE WERE SO RUDELY INTERRUPTED" BARN UK 1977 LP.NM
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The Original Animals* ?– Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
Label: Barn Records Ltd ?– 2314 104 Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: UK Released: 1977 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock
TracklistShow Credits
A1 Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt) A2 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue A3 Fire On The Sun A4 As The Crow Flies A5 Please Send Me Someone To Love B1 Many Rivers To Cross B2 Just A Little Bit B3 Riverside County B4 Lonely Avenue B5 The FoolCompanies, etc.
- Produced For – Barn Productions Ltd.
Credits
- Drums – John Steel (3)
- Engineer – Alan O'Duffy
- Engineer [Mix] – Paul Hardiman
- Guitar – Hilton Valentine
- Keyboards – Alan Price
- Producer, Bass – Chas Chandler
- Vocals – Eric Burdon
AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder [-]
Cut 11 years after the Animals' original lineup recorded their last LP and six years before their more well-remembered reunion tour, this oft-overlooked album is just short of a lost classic; it lacks the intensity of their 1983 studio effort, Ark, but it is more substantial musically than that album and fits in very neatly with their preceding work, as though they'd scarcely skipped a beat. Recorded under the auspices of the late Chas Chandler's Barn Productions, the album was highlighted by a dramatically bluesy rendition of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," boasting superb playing by Alan Price. Hilton Valentine's soaring guitar pyrotechnics light up "Fire on the Sun," perhaps the flashiest performance of his career for this most introspective of '60s British blues axemen, and "As the Crow Flies" has the group returning to its roots, as a dark, brooding rendition of the Jimmy Reed song that gives room for Chandler, Valentine, Price, and John Steel to show off their '60s-era blues chops in a more expansive form. After a promising start, the gospel number "Many Rivers to Cross" falls apart a bit, but "Just a Little Bit," with its rippling organ break, the group original "Riverside County," and the pounding finale, "The Fool," make the rest of side two eminently enjoyable, although, coming out in the midst of the punk and disco booms, the LP never had a chance to be heard by more than the most dedicated fans.
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