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08 September 1968

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-09-08
Comments
  • Incomplete show with edits and Peel links.
  • Peel plays a track from Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Steve Stills' Super Session, one of the first rock jam session LPs and much praised at the time - a cover of one of Peel's favoirite Bob Dylan songs, featuring Kooper and Stills.
  • Peel claims that "Everyday I Have The Blues", covered by Chicken Shack, is a Memphis Slim song, but Wikipedia credits the song to Pinetop Sparks. Other famous versions of the song are by B.B. King, and Count Basie's orchestra featuring singer Joe Williams.
  • The other Chicken Shack session tracks are all cover versions; "Night Life" was composed by Willie Nelson - and sold by him for $150[1] , "Side Tracked" was originally recorded by Freddie King, and "Mean Old World" was made famous by T-Bone Walker. Duster Bennett guests on harmonica in Chicken Shack's version..

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

File[]

Name
  • 1) J P Top Gear 08 Sept 1968.mp3
  • 2) 1968-09-08 TG 8.9.68 (probably) Procul Harum moonbeams
  • 3) chickenshack1968chrsitineperfectmcviebbc
Length
  • 1) 0:26:07
  • 2) 0:03:46
  • 3) 0:07:46 (from 3:33) (earlier part of file is another session track from 28 April 1968
Other
  • 1) Many thanks to Tim
  • 2) Many thanks to Colin Harper. It's not certain if this track is from this show or its repeat, or even the previous session, but as it says "probably" from this show in the file, here is where it is.
  • 3) Many thanks to Gordon Skene
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