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Although suffering from poor health in the spring of 1970, Howlin’ Wolf agreed to travel to Europe to record with the who’s who if British rock royalty; namely the Stones rhythm section (Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman), Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. Produced by Norman Dayronthe, the sessions capture an interesting snapshot of a blues legend passing on some of his secrets to the next generation. Keep in mind that British rock, in it’s beginnings, was almost entirely made up of young lads obsessed with the American art form which was virtually ignored in it’s own home.
Listen to the man school the gathered players on how to get it done on the “The Red Rooster” rehearsal, and then listen to it all come together. “Wang Dang-Doodle” just smokes.
DOWNLOAD:
MP3: Howlin’ Wolf :: Red Rooster (Rehearsal)
MP3: Howlin’ Wolf :: The Red Rooster
MP3: Howlin’ Wolf :: Wang-Dang Doodle
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Amazon: The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions (reissue)
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1998’s Grammy award winning, genre classic, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road is Lucinda Williams opus — it’s her absolute masterpiece. These meticulously crafted sad, southern stories and instrumentation ultimately took three different cities and three different producers to get right. Beginning in Austin, then moving the recordings to Nashville with Steve Earle helming the controls, and finally setting up shop in Los Angeles with producer Roy Bittan. It’s the L.A. sessions that became the final album we know today.
This two disc reissue, some eight years later, gathers alternate takes of studio cuts and a second disc of live versions from the supporting tour of that year. Theses alt versions shed some light on other directions the mood and atmosphere of the album could have taken; but what would have been preferable is a second disc entirely made up of the session outtakes from the various locations and producers. Maybe the folks at Universal are saving those for a future Lucinda box set release, who knows.
Update: Bruce from Some Velvet Blog emailed me this per the reissue: “Here’s a cool back story. The live concert was from a WXPN summer festival that I booked back when Lu toured on that album. What happened was the A&R guy who did the re-issue wanted to do something cool and they were going through the vaults and found a box with these tapes in them and all the box said was Lucinda-WXPN. So, they threw it on, and it was this concert. There was no label, nothing. So the A&R guy asked around about WXPN which led to a call to me. We did the multi-track recording of the show, but never actually did anything and it sat on a shelf until I said they could go for it and use it.”
RIYL: Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Uncle Tupelo, Kathleen Edwards, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams
DOWNLOAD:
MP3: Lucinda Williams :: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
MP3: Lucinda Williams :: Changed The Locks (live)
MP3: Lucinda Williams :: Out of Touch (alt version)
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Amazon: Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
++ www.lucindawilliams.com
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