JLH on Crown Part two...

And here it is..
IMHO, the cover's better than the contents.
I once heard John Lee Hooker described as 'a bit of a con artist', and you know , i'd have to agree..at least at certain times..Admittedly, when he was on, he was 'cooking with gas' as he liked to say..
but.... well.. some of his stuff.. if you play it for someone and then tell him this was the 'King' of the boogie .. youll get that kind a look reserved for someone been dropped on their head at birth ;-) (like my mum always joked about me..!)
soo..here it is anyways

More JLH.. on Crown ..

These may not rank alongside JLH's best work, but they sure are rare.. so it's worth posting.. and frankly, i just love the covers..

Ceown records made a whole series with cover shots like this for  several of their artists.. Modern/RPM, actually, as Crown was a budget offshoot of Modern's.
Nevertheless, i have fond memories of the Crown records.. despite their exceptionally crappy sound.

Firstly, that was how you got all of B.B.. King's  early stuff on album.. and the stereo ones were even in colored vinyl..! ..Despite those being even noisier pressings.. i might add ;-(...
Other albums that used this type of cover design were at least an Elmore James one ..'All Night Blues' or something like that.. i cant exactly recall, and also a Howlin Wolf one ,.. also called 'Sings The Blues'

Also, there was a second series.. which I'll save for a future post.. that consisted of the FAZZIO art.. i think whoever 'Fazzio' was, he was a great artist, and i like his covers .. I'll post a couple i've photographed as soon as I can find the original photos.. and also one of his JLH ones.
Although i made a point of trying to photograph each album i managed to collect before I sold them, I dent get to all of them.. I did however make a point of doing all the Crown /Fazzio ones though.
 I'l post a JLH one in my next post and also put up a Fireballs cover on the side here...

 Anyways, this one is John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues.. 1960 Crown..here.

A Haw Haw Haw Haw... Boogie... Chillen

So this ones quite nice in stereo.. i have to say .. ya just get  tired of mono.. and lets face it .. if god didn't want us to listen in surround sound he wouldn't a given us 3 ears..

so prop up all a yer ears  to hear the sounds from this here

Let's Twist with B.B.

Yup.. another oddity.. and naw.... they're no more 'twist' songs than the ones on "surfing' with Freddy King are.. well.. surf music..
but .. back in the day...every label hadda get on the bandwagon.. right?
..so did Crown...
But since you'll never be able to buy it .. you can hear it here.

Warning!! Stones Bootleg Alert !! Low bitrate mp3 sourced FLACs!!!

The recent FLAC of 'Got to be worked on' that's making the rounds (originally at IORR) is ripped directly fromn a 192 kbit mp3 source.. i can accept that under certain reasons an upsample fromn 320 kb is acceptable,  but never a 192..  as the natural response for anyone upgrading with flac is to erase their mp3's.. and erasing 320 kb for 192 is NOT a good deal.
 Doc......

C'mon Baby let's do the Twang.....

Here's one that y'all probobly don't have, and certainly not in true stereo,, available here only! Not only have both the audio and art been restored to pre-production levels, many of these tracks are in true stereo for the first time..
I rather like it.. sounds really good in headphones.
Pity you cant buy it anywhere.. but you can hear it here
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Hide Away revisited... circa 1969

The last of my OOP Freddy King posts.... there's still more fine albums of his, as well as several very good compilations (Blues Guitar Hero and The Very Best of Freddy King Vols. 1-3 come to mind) .. but they're all available to purchase, with some little effort, so I'm not gonna post them here..

 

 here 

Freddy's gone surfin , y'all.. doncha know

I guess it's a safe bet that this one'll never see a cd release.. seeing as it's just Hideaway / Danceaway with audience & other effects added..
Even so, t's still a must-have , though, for both  Freddy King collectors and surf collectors..but i suppose it belongs in that  class along with Bo Diddley's 'surf' album, and maybe Duane Eddy's 'Surf' album..
there were a lot of folks jumpin' on the bandwagon back in the day .. just addin the word 'Surf' would guarantee sales..
I mean , hey, i paid  a C note for it  just a few years ago.. only cuz it's so rare..!

here

More Freddy King...

This is another one that you'll only see here, or at least here first.....

here

A Christmas Gift For Y'all

A wonderfully RARE Freddy King album....
  ...need i say more?

Here

10,000 Hits! Yay!

soo.. happy er... birtday or wutever to me.. i suppose 10,000 views aint such a big deal considering the size of the 'net.. but considering i only been posting my own stuff, i guess that's something...
ya'd never know it by all the comments i get tho ;-)..
Cheers!

ps.. i dont know WTF is WRONG with blogger, but it SHOULDN"T have taken  me 3 HOURS  and a whole bunch of workarounds to publist this post.. it freezes every time i try to add a photo,
anyone else have issues?