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Artist:   Peter Green
Title:    The Anthology
Label:    Union Square
Genre:    Blues
Bitrate:  176kbit av.
Time:     04:31:23
Size:     359.53 mb
Rip Date: 2008-11-13
Str Date: 2008-00-00


DISC 1:

1.  Evil Woman Blues (With John Mayall)                  4:04
2.  The Stumble (With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers)       2:54
3.  Sitting In The Rain (With John Mayall's              2:58
    Bluesbreakers)
4.  The World Keep On Turning (With Fleetwood Mac)       2:29
5.  The Supernatural (With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers)  2:56
6.  Looking For Somebody (With Fleetwood Mac)            2:51
7.  Long Grey Mare (Feat. Bob Brunning) (With Fleetwood  2:15
    Mac)
8.  Stop Messin' Around (With Fleetwood Mac)             2:21
9.  Train Is Coming (With Eddie Boyd & His Blues Band)   4:29
10. Greeny (With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers)            3:55
11. Soul Dressing (With Peter B's Looners)               3:49
12. I Loved Another Woman (With Fleetwood Mac)           2:56
13. No Place To Go (With Fleetwood Mac)                  3:21
14. You Don't Love Me (With John Mayall's                2:49
    Bluesbreakers)
15. Lazy Poker Blues (With Fleetwood Mac)                2:35
16. Merry Go Round (With Fleetwood Mac)                  4:09
17. Trying To Hard To Forget (With Duster Bennett)       4:48
18. Ramblin' Pony (With Fleetwood Mac)                   3:34
19. Drifting (With Fleetwood Mac)                        3:32

DISC 2:

1.  Black Magic Woman (With Fleetwood Mac)               2:53
2.  Albatross (With Fleetwood Mac)                       3:11
3.  Ain't Nobody's Business (With Otis Spann)            5:13
4.  Someday Baby (With Otis Spann)                       3:03
5.  Watch Out (With Fleetwood Mac) (Blues Jam At Chess)  4:21
6.  Ooh Baby (With Fleetwood Mac) (Blues Jam At Chess)   4:08
7.  Horton's Boogie Woogie - Take One (With Walter       3:39
    Horton, Otis Spann & S.P. Leary) (Blues Jam At
    Chess)
8.  Love That Burns (With Fleetwood Mac)                 5:03
9.  First Train Home (With Fleetwood Mac)                4:07
10. Need Your Love So Bad (With Fleetwood Mac)           6:15
11. Don't Goof With The Spook (With Peter Bardens)       7:23
12. The Answer (With Peter Bardens)                      5:27
13. Homage To The God Of Light (With Peter Bardens)     13:34
14. Oh Well Part 1 & 2 (With Fleetwood Mac)              9:05

DISC 3:

1.  Man Of The World (With Fleetwood Mac)                2:53
2.  Before The Beginning (With Fleetwood Mac)            3:27
3.  Momma Don'tcha Cry                                   3:21
4.  Underway (With Fleetwood Mac)                        2:53
5.  Rattlesnake Shake (With Fleetwood Mac)               3:30
6.  It's Gonna Be Me                                     3:36
7.  White Sky (Love That Evil Woman) (With Fleetwood     8:49
    Mac)
8.  The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)       4:35
    (With Fleetwood Mac)
9.  Show-Biz Blues (With Fleetwood Mac)                  3:54
10. In The Skies                                         3:48
11. Like A Hot Tomato                                    3:07
12. Whatcha Gonna Do?                                    3:50
13. Carry My Love                                        4:59
14. Corners Of My Mind                                   3:46
15. Hidden Depth (Feat. Zoot Money)                      4:56

DISC 4:

1.  Big Change Is Gonna Come (With Splinter Group)       5:05
2.  I'm A Steady Rollin' Man (Feat. Otis Rush) (With     3:32
    Nigel Watson & Splinter Group)
3.  It Takes Time (With Splinter Group)                  5:09
4.  Don't Walk Away (With Splinter Group)                4:34
5.  Heart Of Stone (With Splinter Group)                 4:43
6.  Love In Vain Blues (With Nigel Watson & Splinter     4:46
    Group)
7.  From Four Until Late (Feat. Dr John) (With Nigel     3:02
    Watson & Splinter Group)
8.  I'm Ready For You (With Splinter Group)              4:41
9.  Cruel Contradictions (With Deck Heckstall-Smith)     6:47
10. Me And The Devil Blues (With Nigel Watson &          3:01
    Splinter Group)
11. Cross Road Blues (Feat. Buddy Guy) (With Nigel       2:55
    Watson & Splinter Group)
12. Dead Shrimp Blues (Feat. Hubert Sumlin) (With Nigel  2:50
    Watson & Splinter Group)
13. Travelling Riverside Blues (Feat. Joe Louis Walker   4:06
    & Honey Boy Edwards) (With Nigel Watson & Splinter
    Group)
14. Time Keeps Slipping Away (With Splinter Group)       4:44
15. Look Out For Yourself (With Splinter Group)          4:30
16. Albatross (With Chris Coco)                          5:27

Release Notes:

Green, a man with a marvellously heartfelt voice as well as
guitar, was born to sing the blues. Growing up a jew in
post-war London's East End certainly taught him all about
disenfranchisement and prejudice. This box set represents
every aspect of the guitarist's rise and fall (and rise
again). From his earliest days as guitarist with Peter B's
Looner's (led by organist Pete Bardens) through his spell as
Eric Clapton's replacement in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers,
honing his signature smooth Les Paul sound, and then joining
forces with fellow bandmates, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood to
form Fleetwood Mac.

Between 1968 and 1970 Green and the Mac outsold the Beatles.
From the basic Chicago blues of the first eponymous album
Green's writing talents made sure that the band quickly
developed into something far more than a twelve bar outfit,
adding two more guitarists (Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan)
which allowed him to come up with a singing dual lead sound
gave the world the gently throbbing number one hit, Albatross.
Other hits like the latino-flavoured rock of Black Magic Woman
influencing other guitarists as significant as Carlos Santana.

All the while, at the heart of Green's work was an indefinable
sadness. This is why maybe his rejection of fame (he wanted to
give away all his money at one point) was inevitable with or
without LSD's debilitating effects. Just listen to how he
sings laments such as Little Willie John's Need Your Love So
Bad, or the weary Show-Biz Blues from Then Play On, the last
album he recorded with the band. By this time nearly all his
material was drenched with cynicism (Oh Well) or loneliness
(Man Of The World; possibly the most despairing top ten hit of
all time). Yet it also showed him rapidly becoming a brilliant
writer and arranger. Oh Well's second part - a spaghetti
western epic of strings and spanish guitar is exquisite. His
final single with Fleetwood Mac, The Green Manalishi -
inspired by a vision glimpsed while on the very substance that
made his psyche disintegrate - displays a man wracked with
Robert Johnson-style fear and loathing yet blossoming into a
something far more than just a top notch blues maestro.

And that's why any kind of compilation of Green will be
frustrating and never entirely satisfying. Despite his return
from the wilderness, his path as an innovative artist really
does seem to just vanish in 1970, just when it was getting
really interesting. The 70s and 80s were largely lost years.
The handful of cuts from this period are pale or just
ill-judged. Still, few could complain about the renaissance
years, where he finally returned to active service with tthe
Splinter Group. The final disc shows Green still able to coax
that tone out of a Les Paul, but ultimately too fragile to
really engage with the demons that made his early work so
compelling. In truth it's a return to the safety zone of the
Chicago blues that was his first love.

Like Hendrix living beyond 27, Nick Drake overcoming crippling
shyness, Syd Barrett keeping his marbles in a safe place or
Lee Perry not burning his studio to the ground, Green remains
one of music's great 'what if?'s.

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