Released 1964 Length 42:32 Release date 1964 | Recorded 1964 Artist Long John Baldry Genres Blues, Jazz | |
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(1962) Long John's Blues
(1965) Long John's Blues
(1965) Looking at Long John
(1966) Label United Artists Records GmbH Similar Looking at Long John, It Ain't Easy, Remembering Leadbelly, Everything Stops for Tea, Good to Be Alive | ||
Long John's Blues was the début solo album by British blues singer Long John Baldry and his band, the Hoochie Coochie Men, featuring musicians who had previously played alongside Baldry in the Cyril Davies All-Stars. The album featured a track list that he would continue to play at live shows throughout his career.
Contents
In 1995 Long John's Blues / Looking at Long John was released on CD. It has since been re-released and remastered on Looking at Long John: The UA Years. The album had a vinyl reissue in 2009.
Track listing
- "I Got My Mojo Workin'" (McKinley Morganfield) (3:13)
- "Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You" (Don Redman, Andy Razaf) (3:57)
- "Roll 'Em Pete" (Pete Johnson) (3:32)
- "You're Breaking My Heart" (4:36)
- "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) (3:50)
- "Everyday (I Have The Blues)" (Peter Chatman) (3:04)
- "Dimples" (John Lee Hooker) (2:22)
- "Five Long Years" (Eddie Boyd) (5:11)
- "My Babe" (Willie Dixon) (2:36)
- "Times Are Getting Tougher Than Tough" (Jimmy Witherspoon) (2:28)
- "Goin' Down Slow" (James Burke Oden) (3:57)
- "Rock The Joint" (Long John Baldry) (3:53)
Personnel
Original Album
This album features many of the musicians from the Hoochie Coochie Men, Baldry's band at the time, although, for contractual reasons, Rod Stewart is notably absent. It includes songs such as "Got My Mojo Working," "Goin' Down Slow" and "Everyday I Have the Blues," which became staples of Baldry's live shows throughout his career. Released on CD in 2006.
Long John's Blues 1971
Baldry's 1964 album for United Artists was reissued for America with a gatefold sleeve showing photos and clippings from the era. The bonus on this record is the inclusion of Baldry's duet with Rod Stewart on Sister Rosetta Thorpe's "Up Above My Head," the B-side to Baldry's 1964 single "You'll Be Mine."
Track listing
- "Rock The Joint" (Long John Baldry) (3:53)
- "Times Are Getting Tougher Than Tough" (Jimmy Witherspoon) (2:28)
- "I Got My Mojo Workin'" (McKinley Morganfield) (3:13)
- "Everyday (I Have The Blues)" (Peter Chatman) (3:04)
- "You're Breaking My Heart" (4:36)
- "Bring My Baby Back To Me" (Long John Baldry) (3:25)
- "Up Above My Head" (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) (2:48)
- "Dimples" (John Lee Hooker) (2:22)
- "Five Long Years" (Eddie Boyd) (5:11)
- "Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You" (Don Redman, Andy Razaf) (3:57)
- "Goin' Down Slow" (James Burke Oden) (3:57)
- "Roll 'Em Pete" (Pete Johnson) (3:32)
Songs
1Rock the Joint3:54
2Times Are Getting Tougher Than2:26
3Got My Mojo Working3:12