Jack Bruce - Can You Follow? (6CD) 2008 (RE-UP)

Can You Follow?, a 6CD set spanning Jack Bruce's career from 1962 to 2003, released on 23 June 2008 on Esoteric Recordings, a label of the Cherry Red group in London. Can You Follow? celebrates his enduring talent and musical legacy. The box set includes a 68 page book featuring Jack's recollections and many photographs. Six Glorious Discs.

This lavish and ambitious set gathers together material drawn from all aspects of Jack’s career, beginning in 1962 with the earliest released recording of Jack performing as a member of Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated and continuing with recordings made with the Graham Bond Organisation (comprising Jack, Graham Bond, Ginger Baker and Dick Heckstall-Smith), John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Manfred Mann and then on to Cream (the band which brought Jack Bruce along with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker to world wide prominence), selling over 33 million albums in the process.
Following the demise of Cream in November 1968 Jack embarked on a distinguished career as a solo artist, recording fifteen albums in his own right, all of immense creativity and diversity.
As one of popular music’s most respected innovators, Jack Bruce is in a class of his own. Can You Follow? celebrates his enduring talent and musical legacy.


Tracklist:

CD ONE:

With Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated:
01. I'm A Hoochie Coochie Man - Live 3:26
02. Early In The Morning 2:55
03. Night Time Is The Right Time 4:18
04. Rockin' - Live 2:46

With The Graham Bond Quartet [Previously Unreleased on CD]:
05. Doxy - Live 11:13

With Duffy Power and The Graham Bond Quartet:
06. I Saw Her Standing There - Original Version 2:32

With The Graham Bond Organisation [Previously Unreleased on CD]:
07. Long Tall Shorty 2:22
08. Little Girl 3:23
09. High Heeled Sneakers 2:51
10. Strut Around 2:57
11. Wade In The Water 2:51
12. Train Time 2:24
13. Baby Make Love To Me 1:52
14. Spanish Blues 3:05
15. Baby Be Good To Me 2:35
16. Last Night 3:01
17. Hear Me Calling Your Name 2:37

With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers:
18. They Call It Stormy Monday - Live 4:33

Jack Bruce [Previously Unreleased on CD]:
19. I'm Getting Tired (Of Drinking And Gambling) 2:35
20. Rootin' Tootin' 2:56



CD TWO:

With Manfred Mann:
01. Spirit Feel 2:38
02. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 2:48

With Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse:
03. Steppin' Out - Previously Unreleased on CD in UK 3:14
04. I Want To Know 2:14
05. Crossroads 2:16

With Cream:
06. Wrapping Paper 2:22

MONO MIXES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD:
07. I Feel Free - Mono Mix 2:51
08. Spoonful - Mono Mix 6:30
09. N.S.U. - Mono Mix 2:53
10. We're Going Wrong 3:26
11. Dance The Night Away 3:34
12. Sunshine Of Your Love 4:10
13. SWLABR 2:31
14. Traintime - Live 7:02
15. As You Said 4:20
16. White Room 4:58
17. Deserted Cities Of The Heart 3:38
18. Politician - Live 5:08
19. Doing That Scrapyard Thing 3:34

Jack Bruce - Recorded at IBC Studios, London in August 1968:
20. Ageing Jack Bruce, Three, From Scotland, England 5:19



CD THREE:

Jack Bruce:
01. Things We Like 3:37
02. Ministry Of Bag - Demo Version 3:43
03. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune 3:42
04. Boston Ball Game 1967 1:44
05. To Isengard 5:28
06. Rope Ladder To The Moon 2:54
07. Theme From An Imaginary Western 3:27
08. Weird Of Hermiston 2:23
09. Tickets To Waterfalls 2:59
10. The Clearout 2:36

With Tony Williams' Lifetime [PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD IN THE UK]:
11. To Whom It May Concern – Them 4:20
12. To Whom It May Concern – Us 2:55
13. One Word 3:45
14. Two Worlds 4:30

Jack Bruce:
15. Can You Follow? 1:32
16. Escape To The Royal Wood (On Ice) 3:48
17. Folk Song 4:21
18. You Burned The Tables On Me 3:53
19. There’s A Forest 1:44
20. Morning Story 4:58

With West, Bruce and Laing:
21. Out Into The Fields 4:41
22. Pollution Woman 4:27



CD FOUR:

With West, Bruce and Laing [PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD IN THE UK]:
01. Scotch Krotch 3:17
02. Like A Plate 3:07
03. Powerhouse Sod - Live 10:39

With Frank Zappa:
04. Apostrophe 5:50

Jack Bruce:
05. Peaces Of Mind 5:39
06. Keep It Down 3:46
07. One 4:57
08. Timeslip 6:33
09. Without A Word 5:45
10. Spirit - Live 10:44
11. How’s Tricks?
12. Something To Live For
13. Childsong 3:29
14. The Best Is Still To Come 4:14



CD FIVE:

Jack Bruce:
01. Jet Set Jewel 5:25
02. She's Moving On 6:24

With Rocket 88 [PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD]:
03. Waiting For The Call - Live 10:16

Jack Bruce and Friends [PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD IN THE UK]:
04. Hit And Run 3:34
05. Living Without Ja 3:11
06. Dancing On Air 3:53
07. Bird Alone 6:52

With Robin Trower and Bill Lordan:
08. Carmen 3:38

Jack Bruce [PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD]:
09. Automatic Pilot 1:08
10. Green And Blue 5:10

Jack Bruce:
11. Willpower 4:26
12. Ships In The Night 5:20
13. Waiting On A Word 3:54
14. No Surrender 4:25
15. A Question Of Time 5:33
16. Kwela 5:21



CD SIX:

Jack Bruce:
01. Make Love 3:38
02. Obsession 3:55
03. Running Through Our Hands - Live 4:08
04. Life on Earth - Live 4:16

With BBM:
05. Waiting In The Wings 3:40
06. City Of Gold 3:55

With Mark Nauseef & Miroslav Tadic [PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD IN THE UK]:
07. The Wind Cries Mary 5:43

Jack Bruce [with Bernie Worrell]:
08. David's Harp 3:50
09. The Boy 3:52
10. Time Repairs 3:32

Jack Bruce:
11. 52nd Street 3:59
12. Directions Home (for Tony Williams and Larry Young) 4:30
13. Surge 1:56
14. Heart Quake 5:29
15. Milonga 4:50
16. The Night That Once Was Mine 3:55
17. Progress 2:35
18. So They Invented Race 6:17