R&B from the Marquee

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R&B from the Marquee
Studio album by Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated

Publication
(s)

1962

Label (s) Ace of clubs

Format (s)

LP (CD)

Genre (s)

blues

Title (number)

12 (19)

running time

55:23 (including bonus tracks )

occupation

production

Jack Good

Studio (s)

Decca Studios, West Hampstead , London

chronology
- R&B from the Marquee At the Cavern (1964)

R&B from the Marquee is the debut album from Alexis Korner ’s Blues Incorporated . It was released in November 1962 on the Decca - Sublabel Ace of Clubs (ACL 1130) and is generally regarded as the first recorded in the UK blues album.

Album history

R&B from the Marquee was recorded on June 8, 1962 at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London (and not, as the title might suggest, in the Marquee Club , where the band performed regularly at the time). For this studio session, Charlie Watts was replaced by Graham Burbidge, the drummer of the Chris Barber Band , and with Spike Heatley, another musician who was not part of the then current line-up of Blues Incorporated was used on the double bass . In addition to Korner himself on the acoustic guitar, Blues Incorporated co-founder, harp player and singer Cyril Davies , the later John Mayall and Colosseum saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith , Keith Scott on the piano and Long John Baldry , who is said to have said once that it was only thanks to Mick Jagger's flu that he was another lead vocalist on the recordings alongside Davies. In addition, Korner biographer Harry Shapiro refers in his liner notes to the remastered 2006 CD reissue to two other musicians, whose names were not mentioned when the album was first released, as both can only be heard on one track , namely the electric bass player Teddy Wadmore and the guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who only appears here as a background singer .

In keeping with the musical direction of Blues Incorporated, the twelve tracks that were selected from a total of fifteen for the original album for release include six original compositions by Korner, Davies and Baldry with the Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters classics I Wanna Put a Tiger in Your Tank , Hoochie Coochie Man (here as Hoochie Coochie ) and I Got My Brand on You as well as the Preston Foster number I Got My Mojo, also made famous by Muddy Waters, working mainly a classic of the Chicago blues , the as opposed to the skiffle boom of the 1950s and the London jazz scene, which was perceived as too arrogant .

When R&B from the Marquee hit record stores in November 1962, the album, according to Harry Shapiro in his Alexis Korner biography, first published in 1996, received a mixed response from reviewers , with reviews only in the jazz magazines of the United States Kingdoms found that blues were not yet an issue for music magazines such as the New Musical Express or Melody Maker at that time. And like no one might expect, the frequent line-up changes for Blues Incorporated, the band presented at the time of the LP - release already in a heavily modified human constellation than it was in June of this year. Not only had co-founder Cyril Davies left the project in the meantime (and had been replaced by Graham Bond ), but the rhythm section had also been completely re-cast with Ginger Baker on drums and Jack Bruce on bass.

Track list

page 1
  1. Gotta Move ( Korner ) 2:28
  2. Rain Is Such a Lonesome Sound ( Jimmy Witherspoon / Rachel Witherspoon) 2:49
  3. I Got My Brand on You ( Muddy Waters ) 3:46
  4. Spooky But Nice ( Davies ) 2:57
  5. Keep Your Hands Off (Davies) 2:28
  6. I Wanna Put a Tiger in Your Tank ( Willie Dixon ) 2:52
Page 2
  1. I Got My Mojo Working (Preston Foster) 3:09
  2. Finkle's Cafe (Korner) 2:44
  3. Hoochie Coochie (Willie Dixon) 3:02
  4. Down Town (Korner) 2:58
  5. How Long, How Long Blues ( Leroy Carr ) 3:00
  6. I Thought I Heard That Train Whistle Blow ( Baldry ) 2:18
CD bonus tracks
  1. She Fooled Me (Williams) 2:19
  2. I'm Built for Comfort (aka Everything She Needs ) (Dixon) 2:20
  3. (I'm a) Hoochie Coochie Man (Dixon) 3:26
  4. Night Time Is the Right Time ( Leroy Carr / Sykes ) 4:21
  5. Everything She Needs (Dixon) 2:22
  6. Up-Town (Korner / Davies) 2:28
  7. Blaydon Races (with Nancy Spain) (Geordey Ridley, arr.Korner)

literature

  • R&B From The Marquee ( milestones in blues history ; episode 23). In: bluesnews , 70, July – September 2012, ISSN  0948-5643
  • Harry Shapiro: Liner notes for the remastered CD edition from 2006, which was expanded by seven bonus tracks
  • Harry Shapiro: Alexis Korner - The Biography . Bloomsbury, London 1996, ISBN 978-0-7475-3163-0
  • Bob Brunning: Blues in Britain - The History 1950s To The Present . London 1995, ISBN 0-7137-2457-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Shapiro: Alexis Korner - The Biography . Bloomsbury, London 1996, p. 109