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MIKE COOPER

with THE MACHINE GUN CO. and MICHAEL GIBBS

Influential British guitarist Mike Cooper is primarily regarded as a folk-blues guitarist 

and singer/songwriter, though his wide range of work cannot be so easily defined. 

Cooper began opening for a host of traveling American bluesmen as well as British stars of the era. 

He met fellow folk-blues musician Ian A. Anderson in 1967. Between them, the pair recorded 

three four-track EPs for the SayDisc label. They released a full album of these tracks 

as well as new pieces entitled The Inverted World. Though assembled in early 1968,

 it wasn't released until 1970. His playing had developed exponentially, incorporating a wide variety 

of Delta and country styles in his technique. He also employed bottleneck slide and lap steel. 

Cooper traveled England and met many other British musicians, including 

Michael Chapman, John Martyn, Ralph McTell, and Roy Harper, and wandering American players 

such as Stefan Grossman, Dave Van Ronk, and "Spider" John Koerner

Produced by Peter Eden

1971     LP     DAWN RECORDS      STEREO   DNLS 3026

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL PRESSING

This version: Issued on lilac Dawn label 

in a rough textured single sleeve.

WITHOUT INSERT

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: DAWN -  LILAC LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: DNLS 3026

Catalog on labels: DNLS.3026 (DNLS.3026-A) / DNLS.3026 (DNLS.3026-B) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): DNLS3026A-3?W

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): DNLS 3026 B-1?W

On labels: All rights of the manufacturer.....prohibited

Made in England

 (All Titles Written and Composed by Mike Cooper)

Produced by Peter Eden

?1971

Rights Society: Indian Brandee Music

On Back Sleeve: Special thanks to: G.B.S. Timpson

Produced by: Peter Eden

Pye Records [Sales] Ltd., A.T.V. House, Great Cumberland Place, London W.1.

Side A: COUNTRY WATER - THREE FORTY EIGHT

NIGHT JOURNEY - TIME TO TIME

Side B: PAPER AND SMOKE - BROKEN BRIDGES - NOW I KNOW

GOODBYE BLUES, GOODBYE - PLACES I KNOW

grading

RECORD from VG(+) to VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Mike Cooper's third album for Dawn/Pye was to have been a double album, one which revealed his country-folk side, and the other was his rock-jazz/freak-out side. Management decided to issue Places I Know first, and withheld the release of its second half (and the original title for the entire project), The Machine Gun Co., for two years. Fans of early- to mid-'70s West Coast Americana -- Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Bob Dylan -- circa 1965-1969 -- will have little trouble finding the majority of this album thoroughly enjoyable. Tracks such as "Night Journey" are almost apes of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" -- the only time in Dylan's recording career that he ever directly copped from another songwriter; we could argue all day about where Dylan ripped the melody off from, but it's pointless. Cooper here apes the lyrical style and even the tone of the piano. However, it's of little consequence since the rest of the disc is a gorgeous blend of acoustic and electric guitars (with wah-wah pedals pumping), bleating R&B saxes, and psychedelic British country music. Notable tracks -- and based on the above you already know what they sound like -- are "Goodbye Blues, Goodbye," the title track, and the amazingly heart-rending country blues "Paper and Smoke." Places I Know stands alone as a wonderful collection of songs, but listened to along with The Machine Gun Co., it is an introduction to another dimension of Mike Cooper...(AllMusic)