Climax Chicago Blues Band

Climax Blues Band, Chicago Blues Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: C-Five
• ASIN: B00000082C
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #746,478 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mean Old World

2. Insurance

3. Going Down This Road

4. You've Been Drinking

5. Don't Start Me Talkin'

6. Wee Baby Blues

7. Twenty Past One

8. Stranger in Your Town

9. How Many More Years

10. Looking for My Baby

Editorial Reviews

Import reissue of 1969 album. Repertoire. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the British Blues, May 18, 1999

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Robert Carlberg (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Climax Chicago Blues Band (Audio CD)

In the grand tradition of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Keef Hartley Band, T.S. McPhee's Groundhogs, early Rod Stewart, early Led Zeppelin and a dozen others, the British blues scene of 1967-1969 was hot.

And the best of the best was the Climax Chicago Blues Band (they dropped 'Chicago' after this first album). Though rooted in the American blues tradition, they gave it their own distinctive British twist, producing some of the finest modern blues music around in their first 4 or 5 albums. After that they began to slide into a pop MOR format (as many of their contemporaries also did), making them less interesting, but oh, those first albums!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Climax Blues Band - (...), May 23, 2001

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Azalaksh (New Brighton, MN, United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Climax Chicago Blues Band (Audio CD)

When this lp came out in 1969 I stumbled across it and fell for their killer versions of Mean Old World and Insurance. I was completely impressed by the fact that Peter Haycock (guitarist non-pareil) was rumored to be only 13 years old (he was actually 17) when they recorded this album and he had to sneak out of the house to play. A must-have for any blues collection. I grew up and lived in Seattle for many years....funny how [several] reviews of this album came from Washington State, home of people with very discerning taste! I'm not as much of a purist as the reviewer from Denmark, so I'll keep on enjoying this album for what it is -- a lot of fun!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, just plain perfect..., July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Climax Chicago Blues Band (Audio CD)

After all these years, this album still sends those little spine tingling chills right up the middle of my back, and into my soul... Period.