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American Blues Exchange - Blueprints (1969) {1997, Reissue}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 7 Jul 2025 05:07:59

American Blues Exchange - Blueprints (1969) {1997, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 291 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 117 Mb
Scans Included | 00:45:26 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | Flash #Flash 55

American Blues Exchange was started in the spring of 1968 by a group of students at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Like many of their young contemporaries, the band members were enamored with the progressive blues of some of Britain's heaviest rock bands, who themselves were paying homage to American heroes like Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and Chuck Berry. Initially formed by Peter Hartman (bass) and Roger Briggs (guitar) as a duo, American Blues Exchange quickly morphed into a band with the additions of classmates Roy Dudley (vocals, harmonica) and Dale Reed (drums) and they began playing together at area coffeehouses, clubs, and frat parties. Dan Mixter (guitar, vocals) joined in the fall of the year, completing the lineup that would remain together for the next two-and-a-half years. American Blues Exchange played mostly on weekends, due to its members' school commitments, and for the most part were limited to the Connecticut/western Massachusetts region. Dudley developed into the band's strongest original writer, and his songs gradually began to be incorporated into the band's live shows. By 1969, there were enough original songs to record an album, and the band entered the studio to make Blueprints, pressed in a run of a thousand LPs, about half of which actually sold.

Blueprints is a sort of second- or third-generation go at the blues. American Blues Exchange, it seems, were influenced more by the British blues-based bands and American rock bands of the San Francisco acid-rock variety, which were spinning blues changes in completely new, non-blues directions, than by straight blues itself. More than competent players, the band had a burning dual-guitar attack in Roger Briggs and Don Mixter, and when used as the foundation of the songs such as "Ode to the Lost Legs of John Bean" and the fabulous blues rave-ups that explode in the middle of "On Solitude" and "The Taker," American Blues Exchange create excellent, tension-filled rock full of an intensity that doesn't have to stand in comparison to the blues because it is removed from the genre. "Burlington Letter," too, is a beautiful ballad that draws from the San Francisco sound of the times, though it would have greatly benefitted from distinct vocal personalities on the order of a Grace Slick or Marty Balin. Roy Dudley's voice is the weakest component of the band's studio cuts and occasionally causes the music to drag. As it is, "Burlington Letter" is full of dynamic atmospherics, but they never completely take off into the ether. Still, it shows a band that could certainly play. The rhythm section is perfectly capable of holding down a groove (the Canned Heat facsimile, "Recorder Thing") or whipping into a frenzy beneath the guitars. There is plenty to listen to on Blueprints, but when American Blues Exchange tries to play it straight, the album falters. The Gear Fab reissue adds three additional blues covers that show the band can indeed be impressive – much stronger than on the studio cuts – including a raw vocal by Dudley on "One Sunny Day" that destroys all his studio vocals. On the evidence of those live cuts, Blueprints is perhaps not entirely indicative of the band's prowess and that lessens its musical value.

~ Stanton Swihart, All Music

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Track List:

01. On Solitude [3:37]
02. Cold Iron Blues [6:02]
03. Recorder Thing [2:40]
04. The Taker [5:16]
05. Burlington Letter [6:26]
06. Ode To The Lost Legs Of John Bean [3:23]
07. Big Max Revenge [4:34]
08. The True Son Confesses [4:55]
09. Age Child [8:37]

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American Blues Exchange / Blueprints

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