Release Date: 01 November 2004
Label: Pure Pleasure Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060149620090
Genres: Blues
Description
180g audiophile vinyl reissue, remastered by Ray Staff at Alchemy Studios, London.
During the sixties there was the British Blues boom, containing many blues bands, one of the fineat being Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. In January of 1969 Fleetwood Mac were at Chess Studios, Chicago, Jamming with the likes of Willie Dixson, S.P Leary, Honeyboy Edwards, J.T Brown and longtime Muddy Waters pianist Otist Spann. The end result being of those sessions was the classic double album "Blus Jam At Chess" The rapport between the Mac and Otis Spann was such that they recorded another whole album together "The Biggest Thing Since Colossus".
Otis Spann is his usual emotive and exciting self, feeling totally relaxed alongside his regular drummer, S.P Leary. This coupled with Peter Green's guitar palaying, which is probably at it's peak on these recordings, makes for a blues album of substance. "The Biggest Thing Since Colosusss" is probably on of the most underated Blues albums.
Tracklisting
Nina Simone
Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron
The Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe
Lyman Woodard Organization
Lonnie Liston Smith
Nat King Cole
David Murray
John Stubblefield
Henry "Rag Time Texas" Thomas
John Mayall
Jimmy Vivino
Erja Lyytinen
John Lee Hooker
BB King
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Kai Strauss
