Band formed after Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke left Black Cat Bones to try for something new. https://monolover.blogspot.com/2013/07/black-cat-bonesbarbed-wire-sandwich-sdn.html They recruited singer Paul Rogers from the band Brown Sugar and the then 15 y.o. bassist Andy Fraser, who had played with John Mayall. Got a contract with Island and recorded this album 1968, though it wasn't released till 1969. To my taste a fantastic debute, considering the members were in their mid to late teens. Produced by Guy Stevens, who was known to hate overdubs and second takes, so what you get is more or less live in the studio with them doing their stage act. And it is a very much living album offering lots of being-there feeling. One can hear seeds to what's to come later with and after their "All Right Now" breakthrough, but this early more untamed. For us who enjoy the combination of garage, skill and top audio there's joy everywhere here. Paul Rogers vocals sweet as ever and the bass/drum backing darkly fluorishing. I'm especially in love with Kossoff's guitar play. Raw and partly almost unbridled, yet safe and on the spot. These kids really knew their thing and no surprise they would become a million selling act just a year or so on. My favorite tracks below. 1969 issues in US (A&M SP 4198), Canada, South Africa, Downunder and Japan. EU 2001 CD (Island IMCD 281) came with eight bonus tracks. First UK copies came on "eye" label, then the "block" label, so this, just a year later, is the third label design. But since it's in the original fold/out cover with the first matrixes ILPS+9089+A2/ILPS+9089+B2 and the audio is great...close enough. (FDÄ*) (ÖSÄP*) (GÖJ*)
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