1968 PROMO UK DR K'S BLUES BAND Boogie Boom Mayall
  $   45

 


$ 45 Sold For
Dec 7, 2009 Sold Date
Dec 2, 2009 Start Date
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RARE 1968 PROMOTIONAL COPY ~ UK BLUES BOOM CLASSIC COLLECTIBLE

                                      

                                  Dr. K's  BLUES BAND

     

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                       USA - WORLD PACIFIC - WPS 21903 - PROMOTIONAL COPY

  SCARCE 1978 Original PROMOTIONAL first pressing of classic UK Blues Boom Collectible....   The self-titled album DR K's BLUES BAND LP was released in 1968, and showcased masterful interpretations of blues classics and included a memorable blues boogie sound, led by a groovin' mix of lead & slide guitar & Dr. K's rolling keys ( "Crippled Clarence" etc)."  Sales of the album were virtually nonexistent and the group soon disbanded in 1969. Most members of Doctor K's Blues Band, including guitarist Geoff Krivit (who had shown great promise when he briefly replaced Eric Clapton in Mayall's Bluesbreakers), disappeared from the music scene. Drummer Eric Peachey briefly resurfaced as a member of Steve Hillage's early-'70s group Khan.   Electric urban blues, particularly of the hard-hitting Chicago variety, became big news in Britain in the middle of the 1960's, not so much as performed by its American originators, but rather like the beat music and R&B which preceded it - via home grown interpretation by enthusiasts who began as fans and developed their enthusiasm as musicians.

Among the initiates on this post-R&B scene were Dr K's Blues Band, formed in Muswell Hill, North London (Kinks country!) by Ashley Hutchings, who was destined to find his folkier roots and considerably more success a couple of years later with Fairport Convention. When Hutchings moved on, the line up eventually stabilised as Mick Haase on vocals and harmonica, the enigmatic Dr. K. on piano, Geoff Krivit on lead guitar, Roger Rolt on slide and rhythm guitar, Harold Vickers on bass and Eric Peachy on drums.

Dr. K's Blues Band played the London/home counties circuit initially, but soon started to move around the country as the blues circuit spread and eventually even found himself playing gigs abroad in Italy and Denmark. Their original forte was the small club and music-featuring pub - the natural homes as it were, of an electric blues quintet in their transatlantic equivalents (honky tonk/dive). After a couple of years, however some of these smaller venues were supplanted by the university and college circuits which became very much their spiritual home...

  

1. I Can't Lose   2. Walking   3. Pet Cream Man   4. Messin' With Kid   5. Key To The Highway   6. Crippled Clarence   7. Don't Quit The Man You Love, For Me   8. Rolty's Banjo Shuffle   9. Strobe Lemming's Lament   10. Long Distance Call   11. I Feel So Bad

 

CONDITION: The cover has a round promotional sticker on front, otherwise no split seams, no bends and no writing. A little small shelf wear makes it VG++ but nothing bad to make most anyone put it down.

The vinyl is glossy both sides, "EX" (excellent) ...

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

 

EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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