A Gigster's Life for Me

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A Gigster's Life for Me
A gigster's life for me album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Alan Price and the Electric Blues Company
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1996
RecordedJuly–August 1995
Studio Olympic Studios, London
Genre Rock, blues rock
Length1:09:36
Label Indigo/Sanctuary Masters of Blues series
Producer Alan Price and The Electric Blues Company
Alan Price and the Electric Blues Company chronology
Covers
(1994)
A Gigster's Life for Me
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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A Gigster's Life for Me is the second album recorded by Alan Price and The Electric Blues Company, following Covers (1994). It was recorded between July and August 1995 at Olympic Studios London [2] and released as part of Sanctuary Records' Blues Masters Series in 1996.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Boom Boom Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker) – 4:47
  2. "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" (Huey "Piano" Smith, John Vincent) – 3:32
  3. "Rollin' Like a Pebble in the Sand" (Rudy Toombs) – 3:10
  4. "I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) – 3:02
  5. "Good Times/Bad Woman" (Peter Bardens, Bobby Tench) – 4:03
  6. "Some Change" (Boz Scaggs) – 5:32
  7. "Enough Is Enough" (Zoot Money) – 3:05
  8. "Whatcha Gonna Do?" (Peter Green} – 4:44
  9. "A Gigster's Life for Me" (Alan Price, Tench) – 4:37
  10. "(I Got) Business With the Blues" (Mitchell, Money) – 4:08
  11. "How You've Changed" (Price) – 5:16
  12. "Old Love" (Eric Clapton, Robert Cray) – 7:16
  13. "What Am I Living For?" (Art Harris, Fred Jay) – 5:19
  14. "Say It Isn't True" (Jackson Browne) – 11:05

Personnel

Alan Price and The Electric Blues Company

Technical

Re-issues

Notes

  1. Allmusic review by Thom Jurek
  2. "A Gigster's Life for Me, Alan Price & the Electric Blues Company". fishpond.com. Retrieved 2015-11-17.

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