Live! Blueswailing July '64

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Live! Blueswailing July '64
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Live album by
the Yardbirds
Released23 September 2003 (2003-09-23)
Recorded7 August[ sic ] 1964
Venue Marquee Club, London
Genre Blues rock
Label Castle Music
The Yardbirds chronology
Birdland
(2003)		Live! Blueswailing July '64
(2003)		Reunion Jam Vol. II
(2006)

Live! Blueswailing July '64 is a live album by English rock group the Yardbirds. The recordings were discovered in 2003 and when the album was released that year, the date and location of the performance was uncertain. [1] However, it since has been determined that it was recorded at the Marquee Club in London on 7 August 1964. [2] [lower-alpha 1] As with the group's British debut album (recorded at the Marquee in March) it contains some of the earliest live recordings with guitarist Eric Clapton.

Contents

Recording

After the song "Got Love If You Want It", it is announced that Eric Clapton's guitar needs to be tuned, and in the meantime, Keith Relf tells the story of how at an earlier gig, Chris Dreja's Gibson guitar was broken in two by a falling speaker cabinet. He also claims that Clapton's guitar is the only black Fender Jazzmaster in the world. Dreja adds:

He's [Clapton is] playing to the words [and Relf's vocal on "The Sky Is Crying"] ... In a way, it's that pivotal moment when he started to master the style that's lived with him his whole life. He suddenly started to feel confident to play the style I think is what Eric's all about. He was playing as a true accompanist on the guitar. [1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek gave the album three out of five stars. [3] He believes that the Yardbirds' performance and the sound quality of the recording is superior to the group's first live album, Five Live Yardbirds (1964). [3] He notes:

[I]n the clos[ing track] – one of the most startling rock versions of "The Sky Is Crying" on record – the listener gets the clearest picture yet of Clapton as an early and worthy guitar hero. [3]

Track listing

Songwriters and track running times are taken from the original Castle/Sanctuary CD. [4] Other releases may have different listings. [5]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Someone to Love Me" Snooky Pryor 1:22
2."Too Much Monkey Business" Chuck Berry 3:01
3."I Got Love If You Want It"James Moore a.k.a. Slim Harpo 2:31
4."Smokestack Lightnin'" Howlin' Wolf 5:24
5."Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" Sonny Boy Williamson I [lower-alpha 2] 2:35
6."She Is So Respectable/Humpty Dumpty" O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley 5:18
7."The Sky Is Crying" Elmore James [lower-alpha 3] 6:41

Personnel

The Yardbirds

Technical

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A 31 July 1964 recording date, when the group also performed at the Marquee, has also been suggested.
  2. ↑ For "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", "Demarais" is listed as the songwriter on the original Five Live Yardbirds album; some reissues list Don Level and Bob Love.
  3. ↑ Additional album credits for "The Sky Is Crying" include Clarence L. Lewis and Morris Levy. BMI lists the writers as James, Lewis, and Morgan C. Robinson.

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References

  1. 1 2 Slaven 2003, CD insert.
  2. ↑ Russo 2016, pp. 227, 242.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Jurek, Thom. "The Yardbirds: Live! Blueswailing July '64". AllMusic . Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Slaven 2003, p. 2.
  5. ↑ "The Yardbirds - Live! Blueswailing July '64 (Full Album) 2003". YouTube .

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