Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy II & The Yardbirds



I second all of that Ken.
RD

On 3 September 2012 07:20, Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is entirely subjective, but I cannot recommend that anyone buy this
> recording until they've heard it first.  You might like it, but you might,
> like me, hate it.  It might be on Spotify.
>
> Sonny Boy's famous remark about playing with the young English rockers was
> something like "Those English kids wanted to play blues so bad - and they
> play it so bad."
>
> I bought it on vinyl back in '67, felt ripped off, sold it to someone who
> liked it.
>
> There you go.
>
> My estimation of it has only gone down through 45 years of occasionally
> hearing it again.  If you'd like to hear some very good live SBW2, I
> recommend the American Folk Blues Festival material, which was recorded on
> the same tour, only with master Blues musicians instead of boys who were
> just beginning to learn their craft.  A few of the same English players
> recorded behind Howlin' Wolf and Muddy a mere five or so years later, and
> were wonderful.  But not on that Yardbirds thing.
>
> Man, I hate being crabby, but buyer beware.
>
> K
>
>


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