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Artist | Jeremy Spencer
Title | Jeremy Spencer
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 36:18
Label | Real Gone Music Store | 2015
Catalog | RS 5187 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 228 kbps Size | 62.86 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Linda 2:19
02. The Shape I'm In 2:01
03. Mean Blues (Sic) 4:10
04. String-A-Long 2:20
05. Here Comes Charlie (With His Dancing Shoes On) 2:46
06. Teenage Love Affair 2:58
07. Jenny Lee 2:00
08. Don't Go Please Stay 2:38
09. You Made A Hit 2:10
10. Take A Look Around Mrs. Brown (Sic) 4:30
11. Surfin' Girl 2:03
12. If I Could Swim The Mountain 3:29
13. Teenage Darling (Bonus Track) 2:54
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An early member of Fleetwood Mac, slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer left
behind a fine (if limited) musical legacy, but is perhaps better remembered
for his sudden defection from the group to join a religious cult. Spencer
was born in West Hartlepool, England on July 4, 1948; he started taking
piano lessons at age nine, switched to guitar at 15 to emulate his rock &
roll idols, and the following year discovered Elmore James, who became his
chief influence. In 1967, Spencer became the fourth member of the fledgling
Fleetwood Mac, concentrating primarily on slide guitar but also doubling up
on piano.
Spencer's rare solo debut is almost something of a 1970 Fleetwood Mac album
that happens to feature Jeremy Spencer as lead vocalist and principal
songwriter, since he's backed by Fleetwood Mac's own Danny Kirwan, John
McVie, and Mick Fleetwood (Peter Green appears on just one song, and then
only on banjo). If you think that gave Spencer the opportunity to fully
indulge in aspects of Fleetwood Mac that only peeked through intermittently
in the group's recordings and shows - namely, his love of formulaic slide
blues and 50s oldies pastiches - that's pretty spot-on. Yet, even though
he's not a terribly imaginative songwriter or powerful vocalist, even when
posing as a loving satirist, there's still a sense of love and sincerity
that comes through stronger here than it does on most similar vanity side
projects.
Rockabilly, Buddy Holly, doo wop, Bo Diddley, surf, Elvis Presley, and (of
course) ham-handed British electric blues all come in for treatments mixing
reverence and pisstake humor. "Mean Blues", actually, is funnier than the
ridicule the blues-rock boom would have likely been given by outlets like
the National Lampoon radio series, which is doubly impressive given that
Spencer was very much part of the blues-rock boom he was poking in the
eyes. Psychedelic hippie hard rock, too, is given a mockingly sophomoric,
working-class filter with "Take a Look Around Mrs. Brown". The album's
material might have been funnier live, naturally, but it's fairly funny
and/or pleasing, and the styles are varied enough that it doesn't get
tiresome.
First legitimate release on CD of Spencer's 1970 self-titled solo album
featuring Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Danny Kirwan and Peter Green.
Expanded reissue including the non-LP B-side "Teenage Darling"
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