To my taste not his best effort, far from the daring and partly unbridled persona he was so successful with in Europe mid-sixties (see earlier posts). It's unmistakably the same man here offering country-ish, blues-ish and pop-ish songs, but in a mostly calm surrounding sounding more mature than before and I don't think that suits him att all. What makes it valuable to me and presumably to any die-hard Led Zeppelin fan is all four future members of the band provide most of the backing on the album, making this their first joint studio effort. Not that it sounds much Led or Zeppelin. You get some acoustic guitar licks that only could have been played by Page and signature Bonham drum parts, but the only backing reminding of the band's later work is the medley "It's So Hard To Be A Nigger/Jim's Blues/George Wallace Is Rollin' In" with all four participating, including Robert Plant on harmonica and tambourine. So even if the album as a whole don't offer me lots of musical joy it's still a must-have for its historical value. Far from the same circumstances, but I can't help seeing this as a kind of sibling to the German 1962 "Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers" album, where a couple of the guys backing Tony would go on and form a more known band of their own. To my knowledge this was only issued in UK and South Africa. Reissued 1990 on LP and CD by BGO Records (BGOLP/CD 87). Premiere UK (also as mono LBL 83219) had label as shown here in a laminated cover. This stereo copy in a mono sleeve with stereo sticker. (LÖZ*)
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