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HANDMADE Music: The Hamburg Blues Band - Mad Dog Blues - Autographed Music CD
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Product Details:
- UPC / Order No.: HH 9857 (barcode: 4026702985724)
- Product Type: Music CD (Autographed / Hand-Signed by the entire band)
- Brand / Label: HANDMADE Music
- LC: 09579
- Artist: The Hamburg Blues Band feat. Chris Farlowe, Clem Clempson & Maggie Bell
- Produced by: The Hamburg Blues Band for HANDMADE Music
- Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
- Style: Roots Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Boogie, Soul
- Release Year: 2008 (released January 2009)
- Made In: Germany
- Tracks: 12 (7 studio + 5 live)
- Total Runtime: approx. 59 minutes
- Autographs: Hand-signed by the full band — front cover (black marker) and inner booklet group photo (multiple members, black and blue marker)
Product Features
- Format: Compact Disc (CD), standard jewel case
- 12 tracks — 7 studio recordings + 5 live tracks
- Hand-signed by the full band on both the front cover and the inner booklet
- Features guest vocals: Chris Farlowe (tracks 8, 10, 11, 12), Maggie Bell (track 3), Clem Clempson lead vocals (track 6)
- Keyboard: Hammond B3, Moog, and electric piano by Adrian Askew
- Recorded at multiple studios in Germany and Studio 31, London
- Live tracks recorded at KFZ/Marburg, Quasimodo/Berlin, and Ulmer Zelt
- Mixed at Sundance, Bremen by Volker Siedenburg
- Distributed by New Music Distribution
Overview
The Hamburg Blues Band stands for intensive, cleverly arranged roots blues that regularly leaves even purists shaken. That's the short version.
The longer version: this is a band built around Gert Lange — a vocalist regularly compared to Joe Cocker — backed by a tight core of seasoned European blues musicians. They blend hard-hitting guitar blues rock with soul, classic rhythm and blues, boogie, and even excursions into jazz territory.
Mad Dog Blues mixes seven studio cuts with five live tracks. The studio side shows the band's craft at full stretch. The live side is where things get raw — especially the nearly eight-minute "Sing The Blues For You" with Chris Farlowe tearing it up front.
Following the departure of lead guitarist Alex Conti in spring 2008, former Humble Pie and Colosseum guitarist Clem Clempson joined as a permanent member. His lead guitar is all over this record — not just on his own vocal feature "It Ain't Right" but woven through the whole set.
This copy carries signatures from the entire band — on the front cover and across the inner booklet group photo, in black and blue marker.
Interesting Facts
- The Hamburg Blues Band was founded in 1982 by singer and rhythm guitarist Gert Lange, and has been associated with prominent British musicians throughout its history.
- Dick Heckstall-Smith — former Bluesbreakers and Colosseum saxophonist — was an integral part of the band from its 1982 inception until his death from cancer in 2004.
- Chris Farlowe, who appears on four live tracks, is best known for his 1966 UK No.1 "Out of Time," produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
- Clem Clempson played as a member of the Hamburg Blues Band from 2008 to summer 2012. He came to the band with a CV spanning Humble Pie, Colosseum, and session work on major film soundtracks.
- Maggie Bell, who sings lead on "Wishing Well," was the vocalist of Stone the Crows — one of the most under-rated British rock bands of the early 1970s. Robert Plant named her among his favorite singers.
- Lyrics for "Bad to the Bone" were written by Pete Brown — the poet who co-wrote Cream classics including "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room."
Track Listing
Studio:
- Bad to the Bone — 5:15
- Can't Last Forever — 4:17
- Wishing Well (feat. Maggie Bell) — 3:28
- Into the Night — 4:16
- Birds Go Crazy — 4:54
- It Ain't Right (feat. Clem Clempson) — 4:50
- Weird — 3:34
Live:
- Easy As That (feat. Chris Farlowe) — 4:47
- Trouble Man — 4:47
- Don't Wanna Sing the Blues (feat. Chris Farlowe) — 4:10
- Sing the Blues for You (feat. Chris Farlowe) — 7:51
- All or Nothing (feat. Chris Farlowe) — 5:46
Publishers
HANDMADE Music ℗ & © 2008 The Hamburg Blues Band for HANDMADE Music LC 09579. Made in Germany. Distributed by New Music Distribution. Order No. HH 9857.
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Magyar nyelvű leírás
Áttekintés
A Hamburg Blues Band intenzív, okosan aranygált roots bluest játszik, ami a legkeményebb puritsákat is megrendíti. Röviden ennyi.
A hosszabb változat: ez egy olyan zenekar, amelynek élén Gert Lange áll — egy énekes, akit rendszeresen hasonlítanak Joe Cockerhez —, mögötte egy szoros, tapasztalt európai blues zenészeihból álló csapattal. Keményen csattanó gitáros blues rockot kevernek soul-lal, klasszikus rhythm and blues-szal, boogie-val, és időnként jazzbe is kóstolnak.
A Mad Dog Blues hét stúdiófelvételt és öt élő sávot ötvöz. A stúdió oldal a zenekar mesterségbeli tudását mutatja be. Az élő oldal nyers — különösen a közel nyolc perces "Sing the Blues for You" Chris Farlowe-val az élen.
Ezen a kiadányon az egész zenekar aláírása szerepel — az előlapon és a belső booklet csoportképén egyaránt, fekete és kék filcerővel.
Érdekes tények
- A Hamburg Blues Band-et 1982-ben alapította Gert Lange énekes és ritmusgitáros; a zenekar egész történetén át neves brit zenészekkel működött együtt.
- Dick Heckstall-Smith — a Bluesbreakers és a Colosseum egykori szaxofonosa — a zenekar alapításától, 1982-től haláláig, 2004-ig annak meghatározó tagja volt.
- Chris Farlowe, aki négy élő felvételen hallható, a legjobban az 1966-os brit No.1 slágeréről ismert — az "Out of Time"-ot Mick Jagger és Keith Richards producelte.
- Maggie Bell, aki a "Wishing Well" c. dalban énekel, a Stone the Crows énekesnője volt — Robert Plant őt emlegette kedvenc énekesei között.
- A "Bad to the Bone" dalszövegét Pete Brown írta — az a költő, aki a Cream klasszikusait, köztük a "Sunshine of Your Love"-ot és a "White Room"-ot is szerezte.
