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Free Music Review: Album is a Jam!
Hit: 5 Stars
The album is awesome! I have the original vinyl and prefur the vinyl but non-the-less this album should be listened to and appreciated. The first few songs are great because they are just jamming and really come up with some funky tunes!
thanks, paul gandy
Free Music Review: Amazing album, Incredible, hot blues guitar from bloomfield
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an incredible album, put it on your music list NOW! Super Session features some of the best work ever from blues guitarist Michael Bloomfield. He plays on tracks 1-5 with Al Kooper and company. "Albert's Shuffle" is probably his best recording on the album which has fiery blues licks and the usual Bloomfield sting. "Stop" has an incredible beat and yet again Bloomfield's guitar shines through the song. "Man's Temptation" is a cover of the Curtis Mayfield song, it has an amazing bass line from legendary bass player Harvey Brooks (who also played with Bloomfield in The Electric Flag). "Man's Temptaion" includes great vocal work from Kooper and Bloomfield. "His Modal Majesty" is a great long jam and "Really" is another solid blues number. Tracks 6-9 feature Steven Stills on guitar instead of Bloomfield. "It takes Alot to Laugh, It takes a Train to Cry" is an excellent sped up cover the Bob Dylan song with a great bass line and solid guitar from Stills. The 11 minute long "Season of the Witch" rocks and contains excellent wah-wah pedal work from Stills. "You Don't Love Me" and "Harvey's Tune" are decent but nothing great. The best version of "You Don't Love Me" is a 19 minute version done by the Allman Brothers on the album Live at Filmore East. This album is incredible! Great blues from Bloomfield, great organ from Kooper, incredible bass from Harvey Brooks and good guitar from Stills.(Barry Goldberg plays electric piano on tracks 1 and 2.)
Track Listing-
1. Albert's Shuffle- 10/10
2. Stop- 10/10
3. Man's Temptation- 10/10
4. His Modal Majesty- 10/10
5. Really- 10/10
6. It Takes Alot to Laugh....- 10/10
7. Season of the Witch- 10/10
8. You Don't Love Me- 7/10
9. Harvey's Tune- 7.5/10
**BONUS TRACKS***
(I AM NOT INCLUDING THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF ALBERT'S SHUFFLE AND SEASON OF THE WITCH WITHOUT HORNS)
10. Blues for Nothing- 10/10
11. Fat Grey Cloud- 10/10
Free Music Review: THE genuine "Super Session"
Hit: 4 Stars
A trick some out-of-work artists used back in the '60s was to team up and record a session and come up with some name for the effort, calling themselves some sort of "supergroup" in doing so. As far as that goes, this one was not much different. Chicago blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield had just left the Electric Flag and keyboardist Al Kooper had just left Blood Sweat and Tears. The little-known Kooper has been around the music scene as much as anybody has, involved in sessions or production for everybody from Bob Dylan to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bloomfield was noted as one of the finest blues guitarists around. They knew each other as they had both worked with Dylan on "Highway 61 Revisited", and they saw an opportunity in 1968 to record together.
Unlike some of the pretenders, though, this one is the real deal. The opening cut is a pure exercise in raw blues guitar as Bloomfield goes all out in "Albert's Shuffle", aided ably by Kooper's organ, Barry Goldberg's electric piano, Harvey Brook's bass and Eddie Hoh's drums. Kooper, who is known as a master producer, decided the track needed horns, so he overdubbed them into the recording for release. On the CD, a bonus track plays the original recording of "Albert's Shuffle" without the horns. You decide which version is better; I like the horns myself.
Bloomfield continues with Howard Tate's "Stop", another instrumental that segues well with "Albert's Shuffle". The third track is a cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Man's Temptation" that sounds more like Blood Sweat & Tears than the previous two tracks with horns dominating this cut, not Bloomfield's guitar. Al Kooper is not a particularly good singer, so this track is a little weak. The record rebounds a bit with "His Holy Modal Majesty", where Kooper plays a kind of electric organ called an ondioline and a long instrumental jam is featured. Bloomfield's contribution ends with "Really", another good blues-tinged instrumental.
Bloomfield struggled with insomnia and heroin addiction and after this side was recorded (taking about nine hours); he decided he had enough and left the studio. Kooper needed someone to replace him and got ahold of a very young Stephen Stills, who up to that point had been mostly known for his work with the Buffalo Springfield. Stills added a variety of guitar styles to the original record's Side 2, with no blues to be found.
Still's first work is seen on their cover of Dylan's "It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry", my favorite track on the album, a countryish effort. Next is their cover of Donovan Leitch's "Season of the Witch", he goes into wah-wah mode with his guitar. Like "Albert's Shuffle", Kooper added horns later; you can hear both versions as the hornless edition is a bonus track on the CD. The next track is "You Don't Love Me", where the guitar is distorted. The original record ends with the throw-in "Harvey's Tune", supposedly a bone thrown to their bassist Harvey Brooks and kind of a strange New-Age type track. You thus get a wide range of music on the original Side 2 (Stills' work and Tracks 6-9 on the CD) which may not work for some, but does highlight the talents of Kooper and the other musicians.
The four bonus tracks include the two previously mentioned without horns, "Blues for Nothing" in which Bloomfield is back in his best blues-guitar mode and the previously unreleased "Fat Grey Cloud", recorded live at the Fillmore West.
All in all, a solid, if somewhat disjointed, effort. Recommended for Kooper fans and blues fans of any kind.
Free Music Review: The VERY best...
Hit: 5 Stars
What can I say.....for blues lovers this is a must....a staple part of one's collection. It is probably the very best stuff I've EVER heard. I've been a musician for 40 years, and this has'em all beat. Gotta get it....believe me you won't be sorry you did.
I had this album (the old 33 vinyl) in 1968 when the album was first cut. LOST IT. And now refound it. It's got alot of extra tracks which is a bonus....not on the album itself.
My fav: It Takes Alot to Laugh....It Takes a Train to Cry.....the bass player plays the lead line and the drumming is astoundingly "complimental." Yes...Eddie Hoh RULES!!
Get it....it's a WINNER!!
Free Music Review: Bloomfield steals the show!
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the reviewers here notes that it took him a while to listen to side 1 of the original vinyl release. I was the same way when I got the album lo those many years ago. But, I disagree, side 1 is better. This is music which has withstood the test of time. The bonus tracks are frosting on this cake, and, if "Blues for Nothing" is any indication, one can only hope that Kooper will eventually release any more tunes that were cut that session.