Fleetwood Mac (1968 album)
Occupation
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Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is a blues album, which was released on the British label Blue Horizon 1968. Because of its cover, on which a street scene can be seen with a stray dog and garbage cans, it is also known as Dog -and- Dustbin album.
Music history
Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood made in 1967 for a short time the occupation of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and took in this time without the band leader, the written by Green instrumental Fleetwood Mac, whose title was composed of the family name Fleetwoods and the first syllable of the surname of McVie. When Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood decided to leave Mayall and to form their own band, this song title became the name of the new lineup.
As John McVie initially at the Bluesbreakers preferred the security of a solid commitment to the incalculable risk of a new band project, Green and Fleetwood searched via an ad in Melody Maker for a bass player, which they eventually found in the person of the prospective teacher Bob Brunning. As a second front man next to Green was the slide- guitarist and Elmore James Jeremy Spencer fan for the fourth member of the band on the initiative of the Blue Horizon founder Mike Vernon. With this line- Fleetwood Mac had their first gig at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967. Late 1967 McVie then decided yet for the new band, replacing Bob Brunning on bass.
The twelve pieces of this debut album were recorded under the producer shaft by Mike Vernon at various sessions in the CBS studio in New Bond Street in London's Mayfair and reflect the fact that the band was still during the recordings in the making. So Green, Spencer, McVie and Fleetwood are actually listening to a quartet only five titles, four more were recorded as a trio even without Jeremy Spencer, at Long Grey Mare still operated Bob Brunning bass and greens composition The World Keep Turning on and the adaptation of Robert Johnson's Hellhound on My Trail, the two become valid as soloists, Green for acoustic guitar, Spencer accompanying himself on the piano.
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was released in February 1968, reached on March 2, 1968, the number 4 of the British LP charts and thus became one of the most successful blues records of the time. From the readers of Melody Maker was also voted the second best album of the year 1968. " Not bad for an album for its inclusion barely more than three days ( ... ) were needed and that, in principle, contains nothing but Blue Title twelve-bar scheme, " commented Mike Vernon this success in his liner notes to the 1999 released CD - box with six albums that Fleetwood Mac had played 1967-1969 for his label Blue Horizon.
Title list
Contributors
- Peter Green - vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Jeremy Spencer - vocals, slide guitar, piano
- John McVie - Bass
- Mick Fleetwood - drums
- Bob Brunning - bass on Long Grey Mare