Barbed Wire Sandwich [Import]

Black Cat Bones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: See for Miles UK
• ASIN: B0000011AR
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #705,391 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Chauffeur

2. Death Valley Blues

3. Feelin' Good

4. Please Tell Me Baby

5. Coming Back

6. Save My Love

7. Four Women

8. Sylvester's Blues

9. Good Lookin' Woman

Editorial Reviews

The Black Cat Bones was a blues-rock group from London founded in the late '60s by Paul Kossoff (guitar), Stuart Brooks (bass), and Simon Kirke (drums). Kossoff and Kirke left to form Free, and Brooks recruited Brian Short (vocals), Derek Brooks (guitar), Rod Price of Savoy Brown & Foghat (guitar, vocals), and Phil Lenoir. This unit cut The Black Cat Bones' only album, Barbed Wire Sandwich, in 1970. Black Rose Records. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not as bad as they say it is!, October 26, 2000

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Stephen F Mulcahy (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbed Wire Sandwich (Audio CD)

most mentions of this album tend to be negative. usually it is a footnote to the career of free (kossoff and kirke were in an earlier black cat bones). this isn't a great disc. for the most part it is fairly run of the mill late 60's british blues, with largely covers. however, the singer has a pretty good voice, and rod price's guitar is excellent in places. feelin' good is probably the highlight of this recording, its a slow bluesy cut with hippieish lyrics that turns into god rest ye merry gentlemen 3/4 of the way through! there's a decent version of the blues classic chauffeur as well and , of all things, a cover of nina simone's 4 women. overall this is a pretty pedestrian disc that lovers of the british blues boom may enjoy and it also has traces of progressive rock as well. some of the guys in this band went on to a group called LEAFHOUND that i'm interested in hearing who are allegedly a really good zeppelin type band that put out an album in 1971

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutly breathe taking!, March 12, 2005

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S. Showstead "FclefG" (Wareham, Ma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbed Wire Sandwich (Audio CD)

Incredible! This is how I see life. If you wanna feel the blue's, I mean really feel the blues. This recording here will get you. Death valley blues is incredible, the most powerfull blues song ive ever heard. The guitar work is far above stevie ray, or johnny winters or even B.B. King. No disrespect, I more than enjoy all of the above. But this is just a spellbound recording. Let it speak for itself and pick this up please.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard Rockin' Blues, January 6, 2011

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Aron D. Rush "missouri reb" (Cross Timbers, Mo usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbed Wire Sandwich (Audio CD)

Some great hard rockin' blues from 1969. Black Cat Bones isn't one of the better known bands of the era, and when someone does mention them it's only to mention that Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke were in this group before going on to Free. Well, that's not a bad recommendation in and of itself, but they were long gone by the time this album was recorded. However, the lineup that made this record does feature Rod Price (future Foghat), and Stuart and Derek Brooks (future Leaf Hound)! If that's not enough to make you want to check out this disc, what in the world do you listen to?

While this won't be the best album of this kind you've heard, it still kicks some a$$. Chauffeur and Good Lookin' Woman are cool and heavy blues jams that these great British bands cranked out in profusion in the late 60's and Price is already strongly hinting at what he'd make a career out of while playing guitar with Foghat. Songs like Death Valley Blues are pretty much straight blues numbers, but the band is certainly good enough to hold your interest if you're into this style. Feelin' Good is where they really caught my attention, though. While no one is going to top the vocals Nina Simone laid out on her brilliant rendition of this song, Black Cat Bones certainly deliver a unique version that goes in some interesting directions. The music is kind of dreamy and jazzy with an excellent guitar solo. Again, while you can't compete with Simone, the vocals are still soulfully rendered. Please Tell Me Baby is some great rock'n'roll that musically is some where along the lines of Little Richard, and well, you get the idea. This album rocks!

This is a great disc to add to your collection. If you enjoy Taste, Beck-Ola (Exp), or any of the bands I mentioned above, you should enjoy Barbed Wire Sandwich. Another great record from the 60's British blues boom.