Live at the BBC - Free Album Review
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Album Review
The Live At The BBC, a two CD set of 20 tracks, including several takes of Be My Friend and Ride On Pony, is a rare audio experience indeed.
Disc 1 In Session 1968 -1971 is lifted from various radio programmes like Top Gear, World Service Rhythm & Blues and Sounds Of The Seventies. Formed in April 1968, they’d made it to the Beeb by mid-July where we hear their embryonic blues work on BBKing and Freddie Washington’s Waiting On You (track 1) with Andy Frazer doing some dazzling bass work just days after his 16th birthday. By far the most fascinating tangent from their blues is the brittle-like acoustic led Over The Green Hills and laidback Mouthful Of Grass. Again All Right Now is sensational. ‘Off-air’ recordings of In Concert’s 11 songs have been used to bolster the demand for a comprehensive compilation. Today’s high definition quality is missing, ( they worked hard to bring it up to scratch ) nevertheless it’s worthy of inclusion.
Also available is the re-release of last year’s Free – The Very Best Of – (Chronicles) as a 2 disc CD set, featuring hits and album tracks.
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