Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

chronology
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac studio album
Publication ; (s)	February 1968
Label (s)	Blue Horizon
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Blues , rhythm and blues
Title (number)	12
running time	35:49
occupation	see the Contributors section
production	Mike Vernon
Studio (s)	CBS studio, New Bond Street, London

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is a blues album that was released in 1968 on the British label Blue Horizon . It is also known as the Dog and Dustbin album because of its cover , which shows a street scene with a stray dog and garbage cans .

Album history

Peter Green , John McVie and Mick Fleetwood briefly formed the cast of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1967 and recorded during this time without the bandleader the instrumental piece written by Green, Fleetwood Mac , the title of which was composed of the family name Fleetwoods and the first syllable of McVie's surname . When Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood decided to leave Mayall and start their own band, this song title became the name of the new formation.

Since John McVie initially preferred the security of a permanent engagement with the Bluesbreakers to the incalculable risk of a new band project, Green and Fleetwood looked for a bassist through an advertisement in Melody Maker , who they finally found in the person of the future teacher Bob Brunning. As the second front man alongside Green, the slide guitarist and Elmore James fan Jeremy Spencer became the fourth band member on the initiative of Blue Horizon founder Mike Vernon . With this line-up Fleetwood Mac had their first appearance at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967. At the end of 1967 McVie decided on the new band and replaced Bob Brunning on bass.

The twelve tracks on this debut album were recorded under the production of Mike Vernon in various sessions at the CBS studio on New Bond Street in London 's Mayfair district and reflect the fact that the band was still in the making during the recording. Green, Spencer, McVie and Fleetwood can only actually be heard as a quartet on five tracks, four more were recorded as a trio without Jeremy Spencer, Bob Brunning plays bass on Long Gray Mare and The World Keep on Green's composition On Turning and the adaptation of Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Trail , the two appear as soloists, Green on the acoustic guitar, Spencer accompanying himself on the piano.

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was released in February 1968 reached on March 2, 1968, the number 4 of the British LP - Charts and thus one of the most successful Blue plates was that time. It was also voted the second best album of 1968 by the readers of Melody Maker . "Not bad for an album that took barely more than three days to record (...) and which in principle contains nothing other than blue tracks in a twelve-measure scheme," said Mike Vernon of this success in his liner notes for the 1999 CD. Box with the six albums that Fleetwood Mac recorded for his label Blue Horizon between 1967 and 1969 .

Track list

page 1

My Heart Beat Like A Hammer ( Jeremy Spencer ) - 2:57
Merry Go Round ( Peter Green ) - 4:07
Long Gray Mare (Peter Green) - 2:14
Hellhound On My Trail ( Robert Johnson Arr.Peter Green) - 1:59
Shake Your Moneymaker ( Elmore James ) - 2:55
Looking For Somebody (Peter Green) - 2:50

Page 2

No Place To Go ( Chester Burnett ) - 3:20
My Baby's Good To Me (Jeremy Spencer) - 2:50
I Loved Another Woman (Peter Green) - 2:55
Cold Black Night (Jeremy Spencer) - 3:16
The World Keep On Turning (Peter Green) - 2:28
Got To Move ( Homesick James Williamson ) - 3:19

Contributors

Peter Green - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Jeremy Spencer - vocals, slide guitar, piano
John McVie - bass
Mick Fleetwood - drums
Bob Brunning - bass on Long Gray Mare

Individual evidence

↑ The title was only released in 1971 on the Blue Horizon album The Original Fleetwood Mac .
↑ It is possible that the two tracks Looking For Somebody and No Place To Go were recorded in the Decca studio in the London borough of West Hampstead , according to Mike Vernon in the booklet for the 6-CD box Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967–1969 (1999) .
↑ The title is not explicitly attributed to Robert Johnson, but trades under the name of Trad. Arr. Green, i.e. as a traditional arranged by Peter Green.
↑ Complete original quote: "Not bad for an album that took little more than three days to record in two different studios over a five month period and that basically contains nothing but twelve bar blues."

literature

"Milestones in Blues History (Episode 6): Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac "; bluesnews 53 (April – June 2008) ISSN 0948-5643
Liner notes by Mike Vernon for the 6-CD box Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967–1969 (1999)
Bob Brunning: The Fleetwood Mac Story - Rumors And Lies (London, 2004) ISBN 1-84449-011-4
Martin Celmins: Peter Green - The Biography (Chessington, 1995) ISBN 1-898141-13-4
Bob Brunning: Blues in Britain - The History 1950s To The Present (London, 1995) ISBN 0-7137-2457-9

Web links

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac on Allmusic (English)

[1] The title was only released in 1971 on the Blue Horizon album The Original Fleetwood Mac .

[2] It is possible that the two tracks Looking For Somebody and No Place To Go were recorded in the Decca studio in the London borough of West Hampstead , according to Mike Vernon in the booklet for the 6-CD box Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967–1969 (1999) .

[3] The title is not explicitly attributed to Robert Johnson, but trades under the name of Trad. Arr. Green, i.e. as a traditional arranged by Peter Green.

[4] Complete original quote: "Not bad for an album that took little more than three days to record in two different studios over a five month period and that basically contains nothing but twelve bar blues."