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| Released | November 16, 1970 | |||
| Recorded | August 1970 | |||
| Studio | A&R Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Blues rock | |||
| Length | 33:22 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Dave Crawford, Brad Shapiro | |||
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The J. Geils Band is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock band The J. Geils Band. The album was released on November 16, 1970, by Atlantic Records.
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|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B+ [2] |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) [3] |
The band had once been known as the J. Geils Blues Band, but its debut album revealed the stylistic range it had long developed. In an effusive contemporary review, a journalist for rock magazine Creem praised the diversity and wrote: "It could be called blues, it could be called R&B, it could be called rock and roll; I prefer to call it good energetic music and leave it at that. They spent their formative years absorbing the best of all these musics and the sound they have distilled is truly their own." [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Wait" | Seth Justman, Peter Wolf | 3:25 |
| 2. | "Ice Breaker (For The Big "M")" | J. Geils | 2:15 |
| 3. | "Cruisin' for a Love" | Juke Joint Jimmy | 2:32 |
| 4. | "Hard Drivin' Man" | Wolf, Geils | 2:18 |
| 5. | "Serves You Right to Suffer" | John Lee Hooker | 5:01 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. | "Homework" | Otis Rush, Al Perkins, Dave Clark | 2:45 |
| 7. | "First I Look at the Purse" | Robert Rogers, Smokey Robinson | 3:54 |
| 8. | "What's Your Hurry" | Wolf, Justman | 2:44 |
| 9. | "On Borrowed Time" | Wolf, Justman | 3:03 |
| 10. | "Pack Fair and Square" | Big Walter Price | 2:01 |
| 11. | "Sno-Cone" | Albert Collins | 3:24 |
Juke Joint Jimmy is a pseudonym used by The J. Geils Band for group compositions.
| Chart (1970) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard 200 [5] | 195 |
Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musician. The music critic Jim DeRogatis called him "America's greatest rock critic".
The J. Geils Band was an American rock band formed in 1967, in Worcester, Massachusetts, under the leadership of guitarist John "J." Geils. The original band members included vocalist Peter Wolf, harmonica and saxophone player Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz, drummer Stephen Bladd, vocalist/keyboardist Seth Justman, and bassist Danny Klein. Wolf and Justman served as principal songwriters. The band played R&B-influenced blues rock during the 1970s and soon achieved commercial success before moving toward a more mainstream radio-friendly sound in the early 1980s, which brought the band to its commercial peak. They performed a mix of cover songs of classic blues and R&B songs, along with original compositions written primarily by Wolf and Justman, as well as some group compositions written under the pseudonymous name Juke Joint Jimmy, representing compositions credited to the entire band as a whole. After Wolf left the band in 1983 to pursue a solo career, the band released one more album in 1984 with Justman on lead vocals, before breaking up in 1985. Beginning in 1999, the band had several reunions until the death of its namesake, J. Geils, on April 11, 2017.
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