TOPS 1968 Orig THE ELECTRIC FLAG - LONG TIME COMIN' BLOOMFIELD SF Blues PSYCH

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130

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          ~1968 first pressing on 360 Sound Columbia -

                                             The ELECTRIC FLAG

                 A Long Time Comin'                   

                  USA - 360 Sound Columbia Records - CS 9597

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Original 1968 first pressing on the famed & sought 360 Sound Columbia label of the sixties...Mike Bloomfield & Buddy Miles present and electric blues experience that 'WOWED' the Monterey Pop Festival !

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SAN FRANCISCO SOUND 1967!

x-Butterfield Blues Band guitarist Mike Bloomfield, drummer Buddy Miles, and others put this electrified rhythm & blues-rock band together in 1967 and called it THE ELECTRIC FLAG. This debut is a testament to their ability to catch fire and keep on burnin'. That The Electric Flag do so well -- they appeared at the Monterey International Pop Festival with the Blues Project, Paul Butterfield, and Janis Joplin, and all these groups had some musical connection to each other beyond that pivotal festival. A Long Time Comin' is the "new sound" described appropriately enough by the late critic Lillian Roxon, and tunes like "She Should Have Just" and "Over-Lovin' You" lean more towards the r&b side than the poprock so many radio listeners were attuned to back then. Nick Gravenites was too much of a purist to ride his blues on the Top 40 the way Felix Cavaliere gave us "Groovin'," so Janis Joplin's eventual replacement in Big Brother & the Holding Company, Gravenites, and this crew pour out "Groovin' Is Easy" on this album. It's a classy production, intellectual ideas with lots of musical changes, a subdued version of what Joplin herself would give us on I Got Dem Ole Kozmic Blues Again, Mama two years later, with some of that album written by vocalist Gravenites. Though launched after Al Kooper's the Blues Project, A Long Time Comin' itself influenced bands who would go on to sell more records. In the traditional "Wine," it is proclaimed "you know Janis Joplin, she'll tell you all about that wine, baby." The album is great and the material is pretty much composed by Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg, when they're not covering Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" and adding spoken-word news broadcasts to the mix. Amazing stuff all in all, the original vinyl is fun listening and a revelation.

Killing Floor

4:11

Groovin' Is Easy

3:05

Over-Lovin' You

2:10

She Should Have Just

5:04

Wine

3:15

Texas

4:48

Sittin' in Circles

3:53

You Don't Realize

4:58

Another Country

8:46

Easy Rider

0:50

CONDITION: The Cover: is a very collectible M- with bright colors and no split seams, no bends, no writing, all around very CLEAN collection keeper.

The Vinyl: is all highly glossy shine over both sides clean grooves, rated M- it's clean & clear all over -- and plays outstanding ... both 360 Sound Columbia labels are clean

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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