Peter Green Splinter Group with Nigel Watson - The Robert Johnson Songbook (1998)

Here is an amazing album with an amazing history. It begins as a tale of two musicians in the best of times and the worst of times. The story starts with Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, a fabled musician who lived a haunted life. According to the most romantic of myths, he sold his soul at a country crossroads at midnight in order to play guitar and sing the blues. He died young at the hands of a jealous husband who poisoned Johnson's whiskey, leaving behind but a handful of songs. The legend of Robert Johnson has grown stronger–-and certainly more fanciful–-with time, but there's no denying the astounding music that he made, music that has influenced everyone from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton. And Peter Green. Green grew up in England as Peter Greenbaum, a good Jewish boy who dreamed of playing the blues. He may not have sold his soul, but he was obsessed with music and practiced until he could play like the devil. The young guitar prodigy made his name in the early, blues incarnation of Fleetwood Mac before moving on to replace Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Green's command of the blues won him renown equal in the minds of some fans to Mike Bloomfield and Duane Allman. Peter Green could bend the right note at the right time. But Green's pursuit of guitar star fame came to a troublesome end in the early 1970s. One story states that he was spiked with bad LSD–-a story uncannily akin to Johnson's–-and went off the deep end; other tales blame mental imbalance or stress for his downfall. Either way, Green left the music world and became a recluse; some accounts liken him to a character out of a Charles Dickens novel, an unkempt wanderer with scarily long fingernails. But it's here that the stories of Robert Johnson and Peter Green diverge. Green was staying with his friend Nigel Watson in the summer of 1995, when Watson began playing a Robert Johnson song on his old guitar. The song struck Green like lightning–-or enlightenment. Watson's wife trimmed Green's fingernails for him, and he picked up the guitar again. The result is this new CD. Beyond the story of Peter Green's music redemption through the music of Robert Johnson, one of the things that makes this CD so good is that Green doesn't try to ape the originals. Instead, he plays the songs his way. Sure, there's Johnson telltale slide licks and copped vocal inflections at times, but in the end, this is a Peter Green record. The album includes covers of many Johnson greats, featuring Green and Watson on slide and fretted guitar. Most of the songs are acoustic with electric guitar added to some; bass, piano, drums, and backing vocals enhance several cuts. In the end, this CD not only has a history but will certainly become a historic album.

Track Listings
1.When You Got A Good Friend
2.32-20 Blues
3.Phonograph Blues
4.Last Fair Deal Gone Down
5.Stop Breakin' Down Blues
6.Terraplane Blues
7.Walkin' Blues
8.Love In Vain Blues
9.Ramblin' On My Mind
10.Stones In My Passway
11.Me And The Devil Blues
12.Honeymoon Blues
13.Kind Hearted Woman Blues
14.I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
15.If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
16.Sweet Home Chicago

All tracks written by Robert Johnson.

Personnel
Peter Green - guitars, vocals
Nigel Watson - Guitars, Vocals
Neil Murray - Bass Guitar
Roger Cotton - Piano
Larry Tolfree - drums
Paul Rodgers - Vocals on track 16
Street Angels '98 - Backing Vocals

Production
Recorded at KD's Studio, Acton, London
Track 16 recorded at Lartington Hall Studios by Andrew Scarth
Design by Tonic Communications

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