Peter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac LP 1968 Aust rare CBS reissue 1977


Peter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac LP 1968 Aust rare CBS reissue 1977

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Peter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac LP 1968 Aust rare CBS reissue 1977:
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Peter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac LP 1968 Aust rare CBS reissue 1977

Original Australian reissue pressing on CBS SBP 237060

FleetwoodMac, also known as Peter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac, is the debut album by the bandFleetwood Mac, released in 1968. The album is a mixture of blues covers andoriginals penned by guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer, who also sharethe vocal duties.

The releaseof the album brought the band overnight success; in the UK, the album reachedNo. 4 and stayed on the charts 37 weeks, despite the lack of a hit single. Thealbum barely made the charts in the US, reaching No. 198. Even though the albumhas sold over a million copies in the UK, it has never received a certificationthere. As of June 2015, the album has sold over 150,000 copies in the US.

FleetwoodMac made their debut at the 1967 Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival. By thistime, Green had already gained recognition for replacing guitarist Eric Claptonin John Mayall\'s Bluesbreakers and impressed audiences with his guitar playing.Bass guitarist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood had also played with theBluesbreakers. As Green explained to Chris Welch of Melody Maker in March 1968,\"When I left John [Mayall], I didn\'t want to form a group. I wanted to goto Chicago, but it was difficult to be sure of being safe and I ended updropping the idea. I was happy doing nothing, but [producer] Mike Vernon said,\'Why not?\' and he talked me into it.\" In the documentary Peter Green: Manof the World, however, Vernon recalls Green telling him he was thinking ofleaving the Bluesbreakers to form his own band. Bob Brunning played bass guitaron one song (\"Long Grey Mare\") because, according to Fleetwood on theMan of the World film, \"We wanted John (McVie] to join the band and Johnwouldn\'t because he wasn\'t sure if the money was gonna be there, but Peter calledit Fleetwood Mac because he knew damn well John would come.\" Spencer, whohad cut some demos for Vernon on Decca Records, was also added to the lineup.

FleetwoodMac was produced by Mike Vernon at CBS Studios in London. The album containsmaterial by blues artists such as Robert Johnson, Howlin\' Wolf, and ElmoreJames, the latter\'s influence especially prominent in the songs sung bySpencer, whose vocals and slide guitar delivery became one of the group\'s earlytrademarks. Green\'s contributions as a singer and songwriter were also evidenton the band\'s debut album, with Neil Spencer of Uncut observing in the UltimateMusic Guide dedicated to the band, \"Feted for his guitar playing, hisvocals were just as important; soft, sorrowful and unmannered (recognisably notAmerican), they animated the slow 12-bar \'Merry Go Round\' as much as his spikyguitar... The album\'s stand-out is \'I Loved Another Woman,\' a Green compositionthat was a precursor to \'Black Magic Woman\' with a Latinate rhythm, longingvocals and a shimmering, almost spectral, guitar part.\" Green alsocontributed harmonica to the album, while Spencer plays piano on the RobertJohnson lament \"Hellhound on My Trail.\" \"Shake YourMoneymaker\" was released as a single but did not chart.

Although hewas seen by many as the leader of the group, Green was already growing wary offame, with Fleetwood recalling in the Peter Green: Man of the World documentarythat the guitarist was \"furious\" when the first album was released asPeter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac. Green also spoke of his disdain for \"bluespurists\" who accused the band of going commercial and for including rockand roll numbers in their set, telling Melody Maker in 1968, \"A lot ofso-called blues purists are against us doing it, but I don\'t care what theythink. We play what we like...I\'m not a blues purist. I don\'t know every recordever made, or their numbers, and I\'m not interested in talking about blues allnight. I just play blues - and rock \'n\' roll.\"

A1 My Heart Beat Like A Hammer 2:55

A2 Merry Go Round 4:05

A3 Long Grey Mare 2:15

A4 Hellhound On My Trail 2:00

A5 Shake Your Moneymaker 2:55

A6 Looking For Somebody 2:50

B1 No Place To Go 3:20

B2 My Baby\'s Good To Me 2:50

B3 I Loved Another Woman 2:55

B4 Cold Black Night 3:15

B5 The World Keep On Turning 2:30

B6 Got To Move 3:20

CONDITION:

SLEEVE:EX++ Glossy laminate, v.slight ring markbeginning

RECORD:EX++ to NM— A few slight spindles athub, writing on label, plays M



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Peter Green\'s Fleetwood Mac LP 1968 Aust rare CBS reissue 1977:
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