Juvenile delinquent
Juvenile Delinquent is the last studio album by British blues musician Alexis Korner from 1984.
History of origin
After Korner launched Just Easy in 1978, he hadn't made a studio record before returning to the studio in October 1983. There he worked on many titles that he had written in the meantime. But at that time Korner became seriously ill and died on January 1, 1984 at the age of 55. He couldn't finish the album anymore. The six previously recorded tracks were put together on this album, while the other unfinished tracks from these sessions have not yet been released.
Live recordings
Live recordings of these songs in particular are very rare, as Korner died before the album was finished. However, there are various recordings among insiders:
- King BB - Live at the Roundhouse 1982
- Juvenile Delinquent - Live at the Roundhouse 1982
- Mean Fool - Live on April 25, 1983 at the Marquee Club, London
- Mean Fool - BBC taped December 1983
Track list
- Beirut ( Peter Sarstedt )
- Mean Fool (A. Korner)
- The Sphinx (Joey Alkes / Chris Fradkin / Mitch Rafal)
- Get Off of My Cloud ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards )
- King BB (A. Korner)
- Juvenile Delinquent (A. Korner)
The titles
With Juvenile Delinquent and Mean Fool are two autobiographical songs on the album. This is very atypical for Korner. Korner had already recorded a cover version of the Rolling Stones song Get Off of My Cloud for an album of the same name together with Steve Marriott in 1975. Here he re-recorded the song, the arrangement is the same. With King BB Korner has recorded a homage to the blues musician BB King .
Musician
- Alexis Korner - guitar, vocals
- Colin Hodgkinson - bass
- Alan Ross - guitar
- Adam Sieff - slide guitar
- Robin Lumley - Synthesizers
- Morris Pert - percussion
- Tony Hicks - drums
Equipment of the album
The “inner cover designed with attention to detail” comes from Peter Frame , the author of the Family Rock Trees and traces the influence of Korner through his students on the British music scene.
Reception history
In Musikexpress, Bernward Meier praises the “excellent edition of the record company”, which did not take advantage of the sad occasion to publish all sorts of half-finished and unauthorized items. He gives the mini-LP with the last six songs recorded by Korner 3 1/2 stars.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juvenile Delinquent at allmusic.com
- ↑ Juvenile Delinquent at discogs.com
- ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (ed.), The way from my cloud , Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1987
- ↑ cf. Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, The way from my cloud
- ↑ Juvenile Delinquent at alexis-korner.net ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Bernward Meier A. Korner Juvenile Delinquent . Musikexpress 9/1984
