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Electric Flag
An American Music Band/A Long Time Comin'
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock

Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
1. Soul Searchin'
2. Sunny
3. With Time There Is Change
4. Nothing To Do
5. See To Your Neighbour
6. Qualified
7. Hey Little Girl
8. Mystery
9. My Woman Hangs Around The House
10. Killing Floor
11. Groovin' Is Easy
12. Over-Lovin' You
13. She Should Have Just
14. Wine
15. Texas
16. Sittin' In Circles
17. You Don't Realise
18. Another Country
19. Easy Rider

CD Details

All Artists: Electric Flag
Title: An American Music Band/A Long Time Comin'
Members Wishing: 7
Total Copies: 0
Label: Yellow Label / SPV
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 1/15/2008
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 693723496429

Synopsis

Product Description

The short-lived but successful Electric Flag was formed in 1967 by America s finest white blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield. The innovative idea was to meld hard rock with big band brass arrangements. Bloomfield drew in a collection of seasoned professionals from some of America s most successful bands including drummer Buddy Miles who went onto play with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsies.

CD Reviews

Blues greats from the 60s

Bluesman | Florida | 12/14/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For those who grew up in the 60s and 70s the Electric Flag was still an obscure band. However, there were two legendary bluesmen who featured on their album, A Long Time Coming. The late Michael Bloomfield on lead guitar was one of the greatest blues guitarist of his era. Featured on other albums such as Super Session with Stephen Stills and Al Kooper, he was a brilliant blues guitarists whose smooth soulful playing is still as good today as it was then. Buddy Miles and Bloomfield team up for Texas which, in this reviewer's opinion, is one of the best blues songs ever written. Similarly, You Don't Realize is one of the most beautiful blues ballads ever written. Richie Havens makes a surprise appearance on the original album as well. Killing Floor becomes Led Zeppelin's The Lemon Song a few years later. The Electric Flag was the first major group to bring a brass sound to blues (before Chicago did). This is a great American album that you can't go wrong with."

The second is better

William R. Nicholas | Mahwah, NJ USA | 05/02/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Out of the two 1968-9 Electric Flag studio albums, the second, self titled one is the better. True, it does not have Mike Bloomfield, but the sound is far superior, the arrangements are tighter, and the band seems more sure of itself.

The album is less ambitous, but the execution is better, and there are creative flurishes: listen to the segue from Sonny into With Time There Is Change, using the flute for transition. It is all part of the dark, smokey vibe, which focuses the album more than Long Time Commin, which is great, but never quite acheives an overall mood.( I wonder what would have happened if they had started with a basic blues album like this, then tackled the more lofty work of Long Time Commin'0

It is a shame this band broke up so soon. Both records show they had plenty of potental. Buy this twofer, and you'll see the many ways they could have gone"