A fine cover of Sonny Boy Williamson’s ‘Don’t Start Me To Talking’ features Haycock’s guitar leading the way to Cooper’s inevitable mouth harp work which do the tune’s writer justice. Another band original ‘You’ve Been Drinking’ is a shuffle style blues number, with Cooper’s vocals the center of attention and lead instrument. ‘Going Down This Road’ a band original carries on the traditional Chicago blues feel thanks to Haycock and Wood, who contributes piano and organ. ![]() ‘Insurance’ is a traditional Chicago electric blues style tune, with Haycock’s guitar and Wood’s piano to the fore. The album opens with ‘Mean Old World’ somehow credited to the band, featuring Colin Cooper’s mouth harp and wonderful slide guitar by Pete Haycock, whose solo takes center stage. Esoteric Records has compiled the group’s first five albums in a clamshell box set, supplementing the albums’ original 49 tunes with 18 bonus tracks, making this the definitive collection of the band during their earliest period.ġ969’s ‘The Climax Chicago Blues Band’ is a twelve track mix of band originals and well known blues standards. ![]() ![]() Climax Blues Band – ‘The Albums 1969-1972’ (2019) Formed in Stafford, England in 1967 by vocalist and harmonica player Colin Cooper, guitarist and vocalist Pete Haycock, guitarist Derek Holt, bassist and keyboardist Richard Jones, drummer George Newsome and keyboardist Arthur Wood, the band which came to prominence and commercial success in the mid-1970’s as the Climax Blues Band, began life as the Climax Chicago Blues Band, and their first several albums stayed true to their name.
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