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Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Blue Horizon Records
Released: 1968.02.24
Time:
 35:05
Category: Pop/Rock, Blues
Producer(s): Mike Vernon
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.fleetwoodmac.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] My Heart Beat Like a Hammer (J.Spencer) - 2:55
[2] Merry Go Round (P.Green) - 4:05
[3] Long Grey Mare (P.Green) - 2:15
[4] Hellhound on My Trail (R.Johnson) - 2:00
[5] Shake Your Moneymaker (E.James/R.Johnson) - 2:55
[6] Looking for Somebody (P.Green) - 2:50
[7] No Place to Go (Ch.Burnett) - 3:20
[8] My Baby's Good to Me (J.Spencer) - 2:50
[9] I Loved Another Woman (P.Green) - 2:55
[10] Cold Black Night (J.Spencer) - 3:15
[11] The World Keep on Turning (P.Green) - 2:30
[12] Got to Move (E.James/M.Sehorn) - 3:20

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Peter Green - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Jeremy Spencer - Vocals, Slide Guitar, Piano
John Mcvie - Bass Guitar on [1-2,4-12]
Bob Brunning - Bass Guitar on [3]
Mick Fleetwood - Drums

Mike Vernon - Liner Notes, Producer
Mike Ross - Engineer
Richard Vernon - Coordinator

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1968 LP Blue Horizon - 7-63200
2004 CD Blue Horizon - 516443 2

Recorded at the CBS Studios, London, November-December 1967



Fleetwood Mac's debut LP was a highlight of the late-'60s British blues boom. Green's always inspired playing, the capable (if erratic) songwriting, and the general panache of the band as a whole placed them leagues above the overcrowded field. Elmore James is a big influence on this set, particularly on the tunes fronted by Jeremy Spencer ("Shake Your Moneymaker," "Got to Move"). Spencer's bluster, however, was outshone by the budding singing and songwriting skills of Green. The guitarist balanced humor and vulnerability on cuts like "Looking for Somebody" and "Long Grey Mare," and with "If I Loved Another Woman," he offered a glimpse of the Latin-blues fusion that he would perfect with "Black Magic Woman." The album was an unexpected smash in the U.K., reaching number four on the British charts.

Richie Unterberger - AllMusic.com



"...Once you've succumbed to the power of these songs you'll crave more..."

Mojo Magazine



The Blues has always been popular in England. Performers like Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Howlin' Wolf and even Freddie King and Bo Diddley were stars in England before making it big in their own country. When John Mayall formed the Bluesbreakers it was out of respect and admiration to those performers; and he's stayed with the blues, cultivating a number of fine young blues musicians including guitarists Eric Clapton and Peter Green. After Clapton left Mayall, moving on to form Cream, Peter Green replaced him. Now Green has formed his own group, Fleetwood Mac (along with another former Bluesbreaker, bassist John McVie).

Whereas Clapton expanded onto new horizons with Cream, Green has chosen to remain dedicated to the blues, and on this, their first recorded effort, Fleetwood Mac have established themselves as another tight English blues band — joining Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After and Savoy Brown as chief practitioners of blues in England.

Green, like Mayall, has studied the records and performances of Howlin' Wolf, Memphis Slim, Junior Wells and Elmore James carefully. The piano riffs on "Hellbound on My Trail" are lifted directly from Slim's classic "If You See Kay," but it's done well, if perhaps a little too self-consciously. Fleetwood Mac (the name is a combination of the names of members of the group), know what they're doing, they dig the music they're playing and that's great — but the drawback here is that they don't put enough of themselves into it instead of what they've heard from the original artists.

Green is a more than competent guitar player, and the Mac's treatment of "Shake Your Moneymaker" is just as powerful as the first Butterfield version (on the Paul Butterfield Blues Band album). The harp work is proficient in most places but rather weak on "Got to Move," the old Sonny Boy Williamson song. Green's composition "Long Grey Mare" is one of the best cuts on the album, anchored by McVie's strong bass line. The record has a strange, prematurely vintage (if there can be such a thing) sound to it, like an old classic recording made in the late Forties or early Fifties.

Like most modern white bluesmen, Fleetwood Mac try very hard to live the kind of music they play — not picking cotton in the Delta, but maintaining the hard-life blues tradition, gigging at small clubs in Northern England and in scruffy halls in the East End. Their music retains an unaffected rough quality. They play well, and if it sounds a little scratchy at times it's because that's the way they happen to feel at that particular moment. The licks they've copied from other performers are natural enough — it's more of a tribute than an imitation.

The English continue to prove how well into the blues they really are, and know how to lay it down and shove it back across the Atlantic. Fleetwood Mac are representative of how far the blues has penetrated — far enough for a group of London East-Enders to have cut a record potent enough to make the South Side of Chicago take notice.

Barry Gifford - August 10, 1968
RollingStone.com



Fleetwood Mac, sometimes known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, is the debut album by the band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1968. The album is a mixture of blues covers and originals penned by guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer, who also share the vocal duties. The release of the album brought the band overnight success; in the UK, the album reached No. 4 and stayed on the charts 37 weeks, despite the lack of a hit single. The album barely made the charts in the US, reaching No. 198. An expanded version of this album was included in the box set The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions.

wikipedia.org



Im Jahre 1967 spielten Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood und John Mcvie in der legendären Band JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUES BRAKERS und nahmen in einer gemeinsamen, freien Zeit im Studio fünf Lieder auf. Peter Green war so von den musikalischen Fähigkeiten seiner beiden Bandkollegen überzeugt, dass er spontan mit ihnen eine neue Band gründete und sie nach dem Schlagzeuger und Bassisten nannte. John McVie war nicht sofort überzeugt von dem Projekt, so dass seine Kollegen ihn durch Bob Burning ersetzten. Dennoch verließ John McVie nach einer kurzen Zeit JOHN MAYALL, um bei FLEETWOOD MAC zu bleiben. Der von ELMORE JAMES inspirierte British Blues, den die Band spielte, brachte John McVie dazu, den risikoreichen Schritt ins Ungewisse zu wagen.

Der Rest ist Geschichte. „Fleetwood Mac“, das selbstbetitelte Debüt Album, wurde 1968 veröffentlicht und war ein Highlight der späten British Blues Bewegung, erklomm Platz #4 der UK Album Charts, ohne das eine Single produziert wurde und blieb da ganze 37 Wochen. Es war ein traditionelles Blues Album, aber eins, dass Peter Greens aufblühende Songwriting und Gesangsfähigkeiten darbot. „I Love a Woman“ bereitete den Weg zu „Black Magic Woman“, während „Looking For Somebody“ eine Mischung aus Humor und Verletzlichkeit zeigt. Nun erscheint das Album mit der hohen Nachfrage nach ungefähr 35 Jahren wieder auf Vinyl.

JPC.de
 

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MY HEART BEAT LIKE A HAMMER

I woke up one morning
Waking with the rising sun
Woke up one morning
Awakin' with the rising sun, ahh
Thought about my baby
Did I just do what she done

Well, I shoulda loved you more
I know I didn't treat her right
Oh, yes, I shoulda loved you more
I know I didn't treat her right
I know that a woman needs
Rollin' every day and night
Oh, yeah

break:

Well, my heart beat like a hammer
My eyes plumb full of tears
Yes, my heart beat like a hammer
My eyes plumb full of tears
She's been gone about an hour
But it seems like a thousand years

Don't ever dog your woman
You know you're gonna ruin yourself
Don't ever dog your woman
You know you're gonna ruin yourself
Know that a woman she'll
Run off with somebody else
Oh, yeah


MERRY GO ROUND

When I first met you baby, I didn't even know your name
Yes, when I first met you babe, I didn't even know your name
I was feeling so low on the ground
Bad luck and evil women was to blame

I never realized just how sweet and kind one woman can be
Yes, I never realized, people, just how sweet and kind one woman can be
Yes, but when I looked in your eyes
Yeah, I knew true love had come to me
Yeah

Take my hand, baby, now, you hold it tight and don't let go
Take my hand, now, hold it tight and don't let go
Yes, 'cause our love is like a merry go round
And 'round forever it's gonna go


LONG GREY MARE

I've got a long grey mare, she won't let me ride
I got a long grey mare, she won't let me ride
She makes me brush her in the morning
And put her to bed every night

Long grey mare, why can't we be just like before
Long grey mare, why can't we be just like before
We used to ride so hard
Until we just couldn't ride no more

Look at me grey mare, don't I feed you everyday
Look at me grey mare, don't I feed you everyday
But when I dig you with my spurs
You turn around the other way


HELLHOUND ON MY TRAIL

Gotta keep movin'
Gotta keep movin'
Hellhound on my trail
Hellhound on my trail

If today was Christmas day
If today was Christmas day
And tomorrow was Christmas Eve
Lord, wouldn't we have a time boys

I gotta keep on movin'
Gotta keep on movin'
That hellhound is on my trail
Hellhound on my trail


SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER

Shake your moneymaker
Shake your moneymaker
You got to shake your moneymaker, yeah
Shake your moneymaker
You got to shake your moneymaker
And then...

I got a gal that lives up on a hill
I got a gal that lives up on a hill
Says she'll let me roll her
But I don't believe she will

She won't shake her moneymaker
Won't shake her moneymaker
I want to roll her I keep beggin'
She won't shake her moneymaker
Won't shake her money maker
She won't...

I got a girl, but she just won't be true
I got a girl, but she just won't be true
Won't let me do the one good thing I tell her to

She won't shake her moneymaker
Won't shake her moneymaker
Won't shake her moneymaker
She won't shake her moneymaker
Won't shake her moneymaker
She won't...


LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY

I got a feeling, blues gonna be my only way
Yeah, I got a feeling, blues gonna be my only way
But when you're lookin' for somebody
I'm lookin' for somebody

Tell me woman, now, how do you see a man like me
Tell me woman, now, how do you see a man like me
You look so nice
You feel so warm


NO PLACE TO GO

How many more year - have you got to wreck my life
How many more year - have you got to wreck my life
Well, the way you done me, gonna wreck my life

How many more time - you gonna treat me like you do
How many more time - you gonna treat me like you do
You spend all my money, all my lovin' too

Now I'm old and grey - Got no place to go
Now I'm old and grey - Got no place to go
You got yourself a youngster, you can't stand me no more


MY BABY'S GOOD TO ME

My baby, my baby she's so good to me
My baby, my baby she's so good to me
Yes, she's so fine, as fine as a little girl should be

She got a fine pair of legs, um, and her figure is a sight to see
She got a fine pair of legs, um, and her figure is a sight to see
Yeah, she's a red hot little girl and she mean the world to me
Oh, yeah

break:

She's good, um, eh, she's so good to me
She's good, ah, she's so good to me
Ah, she's a so good little girl, as good as a little girl should be

Ah, she's fine
She's fine, oh yeah,
She's fine, yeah
Oh, yeah
Ah, she's so good'n
A she's so good to me
Oh, yeah


I LOVED ANOTHER WOMAN

My baby's gone and left me - crying by myself
My baby's gone and left me - crying by myself
I loved another woman - I lost my best gal

She was a real good woman - she didn't me no harm
She was a real good woman - she wouldn't do me no harm
But I loved another woman - now she's up and she's gone

Well, come back baby - I know I treated you wrong
Well, come back baby - I know I treated you wrong
I loved another woman - now, I won't do that no more


COLD BLACK NIGHT

It was a cold black night and the rain was falling down
Cold black night and the rain was fallin' down
I went out lookin' for my girl,
I knew she wasn't nowhere around

She left me early that morning, with a suitcase in her hand
She left me early that morning, yes, with a suitcase in her hand
And she took off on a train this mornin'
and she was meetin' some other man, yes

She used to treat me real good and I wonder why I
didn't treat her right
Yes, ah, you know I wonder why I didn't treat her right
And now all I can do, is walk those streets both day and night


THE WORLD KEEP ON TURNING

Don't look for no worries, worries and troubles come around
Yes, I don't look for no worries, people, worries and troubles come around
The world keep on turning, I got to keep my feet on the ground

Nobody saw me cryin' - nobody knows the way I feel
Nobody saw me cryin' - nobody knows the way I feel
Yeah, the way I love the woman, it's bound to get me killed

I loved the little girl so good, she made my low down butter come
Loved the little girl so good, she made my low down butter come
I need the woman so bad, I need her like the sky needs the sun


GOT TO MOVE

You've got to move, you can't stay here no more
You've got to move, you can't stay here no more, oh yes
You're my baby, I love you so,
But, still you've got to go - away from here

You won't cook, you won't wash
You won't iron, you won't sew
Oh, no, you won't even scrub the floor
You're my baby, I love you so,
But, still you've got to go - away from here

Well, I'd rather be dead and in my grave
Then to see another man here to take my place
Oh, yes, you've got to move, yeah
You're my baby, I love you so,
But still you've got to go away from here

Break:

Well, I'd rather be dead and in my grave
Then to see another man here to take my place
Umm, yes, you've got to move, yeah
You're my baby, I love you so,
But still you've got to go away from here

You got to move, away from here
Oh, yes, you got to move, away from here
You're my baby, I love you so
But still you've got to go away from here

Let's bring it out now

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