Thursday, September 27, 2012

Brunning Hall Sunflower Blues Band - Bullen Street Blues & Trackside Blues [2003 Remaster] (1968 & 1969)

Brunning Hall Sunflower Blues Band - Bullen Street Blues & Trackside Blues [2003 Remaster] (1968 & 1969)

UK reissue of two of the British blues act's original albums on one CD, 'Bullen Street Blues' (1968) and 'Trackside Blues' (1969). Digitally remastered. 23 tracks, over 70 minutes of music. Includes one previously unreleased track 'Uranus (Take 2)'. Featuring former members of Fleetwood Mac and Savoy Brown. 2003 Release.

Biography by Chris True

The Brunning/Hall Sunflower Blues Band was the part-time British blues-rock outfit led by former Fleetwood Mac bassist Bob Brunning and blues pianist Bob Hall. A founding member of Fleetwood Mac, Brunning kept a low profile after having been let go by Peter Green once John McVie was free of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. He worked briefly with Savoy Brown and became a schoolteacher, but still found time -- with Hall and their Sunflower Blues Band -- to release four albums: 1968's Bullen Street Blues, 1969's Trackside Blues (featuring Green), 1970's I Wish You Would, and 1971's The Brunning/Hall Sunflower Blues Band. The group reconvened in the '80s as the Deluxe Blues Band, and the bandmembers often served as backup players for stateside blues musicians touring England. Trackside Blues and I Wish You Would were re-released on Appaloosa in 2000. Brunning continues to be involved in blues music and study, delivering lectures on the topic from time to time.

Tracklist:

Bullen St. Blues
1. Gone Back Home
2. Hit That Wine
3. Bullen Street Blues
4. No Idea
5. Shout Your Name and Call It
6. Take Your Hands off Me
7. 'Fore Time Began
8. Something Tells Me
9. Big Belly Blues
10. Sunflower Boogie
11. Rockin' Chair

Trackside Blues
12. Ride With Your Daddy Tonight*
13. Tube Train Blues
14. Sunflower Shuffle
15. Simple Simon*
16. I Met This Bird in Playboy
17. Ah! Soul (AKA Uranus Pt 1)*
18. It Takes Time*
19. Baby You're the Real Thing
20. If You Let Me Love You*
21. North Star
22. Closing Hours
23. Uranus [Take 2]*

*with Peter Green

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