Pious Bird Of Good Omen (Sony) [Import]

Fleetwood Mac | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sbme Import
• ASIN: B000007U2O
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,567 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Need Your Love So Bad

2. Comin' Home

3. Rambling Pony

4. The Big Boat

5. I Believe My Time Ain't Long

6. The Sun Is Shining

7. Albatross

8. Black Magic Woman

9. Just The Blues

10. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues

11. Looking For Somebody

12. Stop Messin' Around

Editorial Reviews

1969 'best of' on Columbia. A top 20 album in the U.K., itfeatures 12 tracks, including the U.K. #1 smash 'Albatross',the U.K. top 40 hits 'Need Your Love So Bad' & theiroriginal version of 'Black Magic Woman' (later a top fivehit for Santana in 1971), pl

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peter Greens Mac, November 16, 2001

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Doug Anderson (Miami Beach, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pious Bird Of Good Omen (Sony) (Audio CD)

This is a compilation album but doesn't play like one. These songs sound great together. The blues numbers as always with early Mac are tremendous adding stinging guitar to great standards like Need Your Love So Bad. On two of the blues numbers Eddie Boyd's booming blues voice is put to good use plus on this twelve track CD you get Albatross and Black Magic Woman. They are tracks 7 and 8 on a record dominated by Greens guitar and just show what a variety of uses to which it could be put. Albatross is of course a beautiful guitar instrumental and Black magic Woman(soon to be made famous by Santana)is irresistable with Fleetwoods big Indian Chief drum beats accenting the dark magic of the blues rock mix. This is a favorite CD in my blues collection. It sits next to my Bluesbreakers and Butterfield CD's but it displays an energy(that slide guitar sound) all its own. This band was just getting ready to break into the wilder rock terrain which was to lead to their later blues-rock masterpiece Then Play On but this disc channels that energy into the blues. The only reason these guys aren't better known is that name. The later Mac line-up and their accomplishments overshadowed this branch of the tree. And that name just confuses people. Stevie Nicks playing the blues? Once you've become aquainted with Peter Green you will want to hear his newer Robert Johnson CD's as well,Songbook and Hot Foot Powder. But this is the best CD to start with. And you can hear this stuff played live on Shine 69 if you want to know what they could do with this material in the open air.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Best of VERY Early Fleetwood Mac, July 19, 2002

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Steven R. Seim "Steve Seim" (Beaver Dam, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pious Bird Of Good Omen (Sony) (Audio CD)

"Pious Bird" is a sampler of sorts of very early Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac (i.e. prior to the Green/Mac classic "Then Play On"). It does include the original "Black Magic Woman," along with some foreshadowing of Peter Green's greatness on "Looking for Somebody" and "Albatross." Otherwise, it's fairly unexceptional, competent 60's British blues - very similar to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, but with a bit more emphasis on guitars.

All in all, good British blues, but not essential.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pious bird of good omen, June 16, 2000

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blobby "enilorac" (spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pious Bird Of Good Omen (Sony) (Audio CD)

This is THE album for (original Peter Greene) Fleetwood Mac lovers. I can't believe no one has reviewed it before now. "Albatross", "Need your love so bad" and "Black Magic Woman" (Fleetwood Mac, not Santana style) are pure bliss, and the rest of the tracks are quite simply incredible unadulterated blues tracks which are a must for any blues fan. ENJOY.