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A 4 CD box set which chronicles the band's history and recording career from their first recordings up to the present day. Features a total of 78 tracks, including rare and unreleased items, and a lavishly produced booklet with in-depth notes by official Blues Band historian Roy Bainton, plus loads of memorabilia care of Tom McGuinness All tracks digitally remastered!

All but one of the 15 songs were recorded in concert for the BBC on December 8, 1982 (the one remaining track, a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," was recorded on March 23, 1981 for a separate BBC broadcast). The Blues Band were, in limited respects, a big deal in Britain in this era: a blues-rock group with integrity and pedigree that had a reputation as an excellent live act. On this record, it must be said, they come across more like an above-average blues-rock bar band, one that happens to feature a singer (Paul Jones) who's much, much better than the typical bloke you'll see fronting a bunch of geezers doing Chess covers at the local pub…

Recorded as an homage to the band's favorite artists - each band member chose a few tracks each & interpreted them in their own unique fashion to make up the album as a whole…

The 7th Album Released By The Blues Band. All Star Guests Include: Peter Filleul, Liz Kitchen, The Memphis Horns, The Kokomo Singers, Plas Johnson, Micky Sanchez, Katie Webster, Bob Hall, The Phantom Horns & Big Joe Duskin…

This album was originally released as "Bye Bye Blues" on Arista Records in 1983. The album was re-released in 1992 by Demon Records and we added another six tracks from concert as CDs allow for more playing time that vinyl. This release by BGO has all the tracks from the Demon release, but we preferred the original 'vinyl' sleeve so herewith 'The Blues Band Live" - enjoy. ~ Dave Kelly, March 2000

The new studio album of the blues band'The Rooster Crowed' confirms that the musicians Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Gary Fletcher and Rob Townsend haven't lost anything of the passion that has made them a successful band in the blues genre even after 40 years of band history.

Interesting, well played album which draws stylistically from the Dave Edmunds Rockabilly revival school and the British 70's pub rockers a la Brinsley Swartz and co as much as it does from classic American Blues…