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Track Listings
1 | Killing Floor |
2 | Groovin' Is Easy |
3 | Over-Lovin' You |
4 | She Should Have Just |
5 | Wine |
6 | Texas |
7 | Sittin' In Circles |
8 | You Don't Realize |
9 | Another Country |
10 | Easy Rider |
11 | Sunny |
12 | Mystery |
13 | Look Into My Eyes |
14 | Going Down Slow |
Editorial Reviews
'60's debut from ex-Butterfield Band guitarist Mike Bloomfield and drummer Buddy Miles. Includes bonus tracks and previously unreleased cuts including Sunny; Look Into My Eyes; Killing Floor; Groovin' Is Easy; Wine and more!
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 3.52 ounces
- Manufacturer : Legacy Recordings
- Item model number : 3865208
- Original Release Date : 2008
- Run time : 55 minutes
- Date First Available : January 12, 2008
- Label : Legacy Recordings
- ASIN : B0012GMVIU
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,207 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #63 in Blues Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #847 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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THE ELECTRIC FLAG's "A LONG TIME COMING" is a compendium of all Bloomfield's influences, like Dylan in 1965, the Butterfield Blues band's extended blues, and a stax/ volt reed section, with a funky, freaky drummer. BINGO..music history is made. The Flag's first album was huge, and a big influence on Janis Joplin's KOSMIC BLUES BAND. (Doubt it? Check out how many Nick Gravenite Songs are on her album, after the Electric Flag album came out.) The psychedelic Funk sound influenced JIMI HENDRIX to leave the Experience, and hook up with the Flag's drummer, on BAND OF GYPSIES. When the CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY got their first album together, it was almost a xerox of this band's sound, minus the funk and deep blues. In fact, without ELECTRIC FLAG, I doubt we'd have heard CHICAGO's first 3 albums, which were psychedelic and experimental, before they mellowed out. THis album is Michael Bloomfield's true masterpiece, and yet, as soon as he succeeded with the sound, he left the band to Buddy Mile's leadership. (The second Electric Flag album looses everything, that makes the first album so great....BLOOMFIELD.) Michael Bloomfield abandoned this success to record the SUPER SESSION album with Al Kooper. A huge smash, tho by this time Bloomfield was addicted to smack, like his other psychedelic blues buddy, Janis Joplin. HE had a couple of other cool albums, before his long slow demise during the 70s. Gravenites and Bloomfield LIVE at the FILMORE WEST 1969 has great live blues, even country rock, with lots of songs written or sung by Gravenites. But it can be argued, that after ELECTRIC FLAG's first album, Bloomfield lost his direction as an artist. But on this album, a lack of tight stylistic focus contributes to an EYE OPENING RANGE OF SOUNDS, that really made me a major fan of Bloomfield's work. You like JUMP BLUES? Listen to the song WINE. You like Slow Blues like early SAVOY BROWN played so well? Listen to the song TEXAS. You like that OTIS REDDING R&B sound, or STEVE CROPPER? Listen to YOU DONT REALIZE. And, if you enjoy Psychedelic freak out somewhat like the Grateful Dead on ANTHEM OF THE SUN? Then, get into their song ANOTHER COUNTRY. It's all here waiting, for over 40 years, just waiting to be discovered again.
Some of the less innovative material from the second album is tagged onto the album's end, including the single SUNNY, and Easy Rider. Also are two outtakes, one of which, GOIN DOWN SLOW is another fantastic slow blues. The horn charts are almost like clarion calls, nearly classical for the times (until the songs start, and you get those horn jabs, or backing horn chords). And everywhere, restrained, but present, is BLOOMFIELDS AMAZING ACID BLUES GUITAR WORK. The only part of this act, which isnt drenched in the psychedelic formula of the times, are the lyrics. To the band's credit, you dont get to hear about how "green blue rays of alien love bring courage to the hobbits who want to stop the war." No, this band remained deeply grounded in the blues street attitude. This blues foundation, the kick butt horn charts, and down to earth lyrics, keep the psychedelic element from becoming trite, or silly. Nick Gravenites wrote incredible songs at this time. (Remember Janis Joplin's songs BURIED ALIVE IN THE BLUES, and WORK ME LORD? Nick Gravenites wrote both of them, so that's what I'm talking about.) As the 60s becomes more of a historical artifact, and not a memory of a generation, its important that future generations latch onto the very best of the 1960s artistic renaiscence. Bloomfield's name, and this first ELECTRIC FLAG album A LONG TIME COMIN' needs to be remembered, as the initial influence for everyone from Janis Joplin's breakaway KARMIC BLUES album, Jimi Hendrix's funky blues extensions, and the fountainhead of the early sounds of the band CHICAGO. I'm SO happy to have finally found out what this album has buried in it. Now, who's going to dig this? Well, you had better like Blues, and you had better like experimentation, and you had better like horn charts from R&B songs, and you had better enjoy gut busting blues singers. The ELECTRIC FLAG is connected to the genre of other american bands like BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS and early CHICAGO. Yet, they surpase those more famous bands. A LONG TIME COMING is a blazing example of what the freedom to experiment, and mix genres, did for a creative group of people, willing to innovate and expand musical boundries. Bloomfield's guitar playing is at turns scorching, then dripping with languid blues understatement. I waited to get into this band, and I regret it. Even if you only like half the songs after you buy it, you are still getting a huge bargain.
Formed by superstar blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield the original group lasted less than one year. The lie up included organist Barry Goldberg, bassist Harvey Brooks, drummer Buddy Miles, and vocalist/songwriter Nick Gravenites, plus a horn section consisting of Herbie Rich, Marcus Doubleday, and Peter Strazza, and was both one of the earliest supergroups and one of the first bands to add a horn section to a typical blue/rock lineup, predating Al Kooper's Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
The album is something of a contradiction in styles, mixing the gritty blues that Bloomfield, Goldberg, and Gravenites were known for with Buddy Miles' pop-soul influences and a bit of '60s psychedelia.
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ONE CORRECTION is in order however. the Editorial Review states that this is the FIRST album by the Electric Flag. in fact it is their SECOND album, the first being the Soundtrack to the film The Trip, starring Peter Fonda. this is their first album under the complete name - The Electric Flag, on the Trip soundtrack they are credited as "An American Band" but it's the Electric Flag with all the same members as this album
GREAT STUFF.