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Live at the Cafe Au Go Go

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High school was ending. College beckoned. And music was about to explode: Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan. For me, the first taste of it came from the Blues Project. This album, their first, was recorded live, on a four-track, and freshness, spontaneity, and sheer fun leap out from the speakers with amazing clarity all things considered. The later studio work from this group does not have the spark found in this one. If you enjoyed this compilation years ago, buy it again and you won't be disappointed - you will also enjoy the liner notes. If you have never heard it, and want to experience how a golden era of music began, get it. A treat awaits.

If you talk about the 60s and 70s, I believe the two most underrated groups are Spirit and the Blues Project, both of which were very jazzy for the taste of the epoch and so much more sophisticated than the commercial music.

I bought this CD to see if I would still like it. You hear so much music from the 60s to the 90s all over the radio. Some sounds rancid and some sublime.

I loved this album when it first came out. (My friend Chris Winfield who is now an artist, turned me on to them as he did to much jazz, classical and blues.) They were among my favorite groups then and remain so.

I have to say that I loved Flute thing and a few instrumentals which are not included here but no one can perform every track in concert.

Listening now, I especially enjoy Alberta and Violets of Dawn, very poetic with that certain offness which Verlaine recommends for poetry. (I can't even recommend Verlaine so much since so many other French poets exceed him by far but he did write some amazing poems on how poetry should work.)

So, if you want pure poetry in the form of music, get this CD.

As a kid in jr high/high school, I bought this record when it first came out. I love having the expanded version, with improved sound, available after some 4+ decades. Born in an era of wider spread exposure of traditional blues to a young white audience, the Blues Project could play the blues definitively ("Alberta"), but also brought folk and rock influences (and later, on "Flute Thing," jazz) to the table. I was afraid it would be just a nostalgia trip to hear this after so many years, but it remains enjoyable and fresh.

Great all time album.The Blues Project Live at the Cafe Au Go Go is seldom heard but always a favorite.

When I lived in New York I went to see The Blues Project perform at the Cafe Au Go Go. When I listened to the CD, it brought back such great memories.

Blues Project was a great band due to Al Kooper. Al is hardly a factor here. There is another live album /CD that is better than this.

I probably will never play the cd again