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Cream – The Music Of Cream

As there has been a couple of episodes of the podcast looking at the later years of Eric Clapton’s career, I thought it was time to have a look at one fo the seminal bands he appeared with during his early career. 

Ah Cream, one of the first supergroups. Famous for the inventing the power trio, their proficiency with their instruments, their extended solos and producing some the greatest music of all time. The existence of the band was always going to be a limited affair due to volatile nature of the relationship between bassist (plus loads of other instruments) Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Having played together in a previous band, Baker and Bruce had been known for their quarrelling, on stage fights and damaging one another’s instruments. Baker had had Bruce fired and Bruce only stopped turning up for gigs after Baker had threatened him with a knife. It was Clapton though who wanted Bruce in as he had played with him in John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers. Even though Bruce and Baker were reluctant, they decided to put their differences aside and took they name, Cream. The individual members did have reputations at the time as being the best around but taking that sort of name still meant they had to prove it. 

The band initially played a tight set but soon expanded the songs they were playing, mostly down to the fact that initially they did not have much in the way of original material. It was also agreed that the band would split songwriting duties between them and that Bruce would be the main vocalist. Fresh Cream, the band’s first album clearly shows this as both Baker and Bruce contributed material, but Bruce sang all the lead vocal parts except on Four Units Late, which Clapton sang. Clapton was not very confident about singing at this stage and as far as I can tell, not written any original material. Out of all of the albums Cream produced, Fresh Cream could be argued to be the most focused. The songs are mostly blues based and to the point even though the beginnings of the extended jam material can be seen here with the inclusion of Spoonful and Toad, both of which clock in at over 5 minutes each. The first two singles were also not included on this album, the rock classic I Feel Free and the ‘are you sure that is Cream’ debut record, Wrapping Paper.  

Disraeli Gears, the second effort is most probably their most famous record. With its memorable sleeve and including such classics as Sunshine of Your Love, it is let down by two of the weakest efforts in the band’s catalogue. Blue Condition and Mother’s Lament. When a box set and deluxe edition of this album came out, there were a number of songs that had been demoed for this album but these were not put on the record because the record label thought of them as uncommercial. Surely a song needs to be good, not just commercial? The majority of the music for this compilation comes from these two albums, and they are the best. After this, the standard of the music on the LPs in my opinions diminishes somewhat. 

Wheels on Fire did include the classic White Room, but after that, the original material is possibly a bit too experimental, or just not good enough for me. The live album suffers from the same problem that most records of that nature suffer from, in that a three piece has a big hole in the sound once the lead guitar player goes for a solo. There are also limitations in what you can do with a three piece, and when it sounds like all of them are taking a solo at the same time, it is no wonder that they turned the sound up so they could hear themselves. Goodbye sounds as though it was knocked out to fulfil their contract, with each member supplying a song each and the rest of the record containing more live material of songs released on their previous albums. This album also included Badge, a song that would would become one of the bands most famous pieces but was not included on here as I don’t like it. 

This is the problem I have with Cream. They have a great reputation and can be said to be one of the precursors for heavy rock/metal, but for a band with such a great reputation, their recording legacy does not quite match up. Yes, they produced some classic songs which are still played on the radio today, but there was so many that were not very good. There is also their reputation as a live act, which I have also struggled with. I bought all of the live recordings up to a point but after a while, the constant soloing can become quite hard to listen to . When they got it right, as shown here by the covers of Steppin’ Out and Crossroads, they were great. Most of the time, it was just too self indulgent for my tastes. However, there was enough material for me to compile a CD and I am sure there will be those that will disagree with this playlist and feel other songs should have been included, or that I have been a bit harsh on their live reputation, but its just my opinion folks.   

  1. Wrapping Paper
  2. I Feel Free
  3. N.S.U.
  4. Cat’s Squirrel
  5. Four Until Late
  6. Dreaming
  7. Rollin’ & Tumblin’
  8. Strange Brew
  9. Sunshine Of Your Love
  10. Steppin’ Out
  11. Crossroads
  12. World Of Pain
  13. Dance The Night Away
  14. Tales Of Brave Ulysses
  15. White Room
  16. Born Under A Bad Sign
  17. The Coffee Song
  18. SWLABR
  19. Outside Woman Blues
  20. Take It Back
  21. I’m So Glad
  22. Doing The Scrapyard Thing
  23. Deserted Cities Of The Heart
  24. What A Bringdown

The cover is taken from https://www.redbubble.com/shop/cream+band+posters

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Eric Clapton – Behind The Sun (Original Version)

As we stated off both May and June of 2021 with a podcast looking at the later years of Eric Clapton, I thought it might be a good time to look at one of the lost albums of his career. Now, Clapton has not had many albums that have been ‘lost’ down the years and it could be said that this one isn’t really lost. The album did came out but not in the way it was originally planned. 

Clapton may well have cemented his place as a guitar God in the 60s and very early 70s, but by the time he reached the early 80’s, you would think that from listening to his studio albums that he had forgotten what a solo was. His laidback sound that is characteristic of the majority of his work in the 70s might have been down to his growing addiction to alcohol. Gigs during this time could go on for 30 minutes before he left the stage, or would involve him hurling abuse at the audience or his band. He did manage to form a relationship and then married Pattie Boyd, the inspiration behind the Layla album. However, his drinking did cause problems and there were reports of domestic abuse. His drinking became so bad that he was warned by his doctor that if he didn’t stop drinking, he would die. He has said that the only reason he did not commit suicide during this period was because that would mean he would not be able to drink. His marriage to Patti disintegrated not only due to his drinking, but his numerous infidelities. 

With all of this going on, Clapton continued to release numerous albums and on each of them, you can tell that the drinking is becoming more and more evident in is playing. In 1980, he had had one album turned down by his record label which would become known as ‘Turn Up Down’. The record was never released as it was felt by his record company that it wasn’t good enough. The same happened to the ‘Behind The Sun’ album. 

By the mid 80’s Clapton ’s friendship with Phil Collins turned into a professional one and they decided to record a record together, with Collins acting as producer. Clapton had also started to reacquaint himself with his guitar in a way that he had not done is years. This had began when he started to be sober for the first time in years and playing as a sideman on Roger Waters ‘The Pros & Cons Of Hitchhiker’ album. For this record, Clapton pulled out some show stopping guitar playing on ‘Same Old Blues’ and ‘Just Like A Prisoner’, two songs that chronicle the break up of his marriage to Patti Boyd. He shows his pain again in the tender sounding title track which has just Clapton and Collins on it. Collins adding the subtle synthesiser backing to the track. 

The album is also a product of the decade in which it was produced. Clapton was not the only 60’s musician trying to find a voice in this decade and there are layers of synth on ‘Same Old Blues’ that date the song and in some ways ruin it. Clapton himself used a guitar synth on the song ‘Never Make You Cry’. Phil Collins has taken the lions share of the blame for the way the album sounds but that is not actually his fault, and here is why. 

As the ‘Layla’ was a love letter to Patti Boyd, this album was a document of its disintegration. Clapton’s record label didn’t want an album like ‘Behind The Sun’ in its original form. They told him it was not relevant to anything else out there and there were no singles. It is strange that a record label would sign an artist that has not, especially in his solo years, been known as a man that has spent too long in the singles charts. Instead of fighting his corner (possibly because this was only his second album on WB), Clapton went with the record companies wishes and recorded three songs by writer Jerry Lynn Williams. Two of these in the form of ‘Forever Man’ and ‘See What Love Can Do’ were released as a singles. ‘Forever Man’ was the bigger hit of the two in the major markets but neither set the charts alight. 

However, what would this album have sounded like if Warner Brothers had not insisted changes being made. Luckily, a number of the songs from the original sessions have found there way out of the vault on either box-sets, movie soundtracks or B-Sides. The music on Side 1 is a bit more upbeat, even if the lyrical content is not. There is some straight blues with ‘Too Bad’ which dispenses with the synth sounds of the era. Shame the rest of the music wasn’t recorded this way as this would have made the record timeless instead of a timepiece. There is a song written by Marcy Levy, who had been in Clapton’s band for most of the 70’s. All of the Williams written songs have been removed. I also took off the rather unnecessary cover of ‘Knock On Wood’, which added nothing to the album. A better cover was ‘You Don’t Know Like I Know’ which only saw a very limited release in Australia as a single. It fits in better with the tone of the album. The rest is essentially either by Clapton alone or with a co-writer.

As an album, it works quite well. There’s a bit of blues, soul and 80’s rock held together by having one producer in the form of Phil Collins. Most of the criticism laid at his door for the way this album sounds should be directed at the people who worked on the Jerry Lynn Williams recordings. Judging this record with hindsight, it may well have worked better if Warner Brothers had not interfered. It is still not a great album, but it is not without merit. This is a guess as to what the lineup would have been as as far as I can tell, the original running order of this record has never seen the light of day. 

The version of ‘Behind The Sun’ that came out in the 80’s might sound dated now, but it could be argued that this was the first album of a creative rebirth for Clapton that would culminate less than a decade later with his songs ‘Tears In Heaven’ and the ‘Unplugged’ LP.    

Side 1

  1. She’s Waiting
  2. You Don’t Know Like I Know
  3. It All Depends
  4. One Jump Ahead Of The Storm 
  5. Never Make You Cry

Side B

  1. Too Bad
  2. Tangled In Love
  3. Same Old Blues
  4. Just Like A Prisoner
  5. Behind The Sun

The album cover is the same as on the original album, but as a negative image. 

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Episode 102 – Eric Clapton: The Later Years Part 2

In this, the second show looking at the later career of Eric Clapton, I am joined once again by author Andrew Wild.

Andrew has written books on musicians/bands such as The Beatles, Dire Straits as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash. His books can be on Amazon via this link. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Wild/e/B0868S3NDL?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1619853917&sr=8-1

  • Ships In The Night – Jack Bruce
  • A Wonderful World (Italian Language Version) – Zucchero
  • The Calling – Santana
  • Contre Vents Et Marees – Francoise Hardy
  • Creepin’ – The Crusaders
  • Never Without You – Ringo Starr
  • Dirty City – Steve Winwood
  • And So Is Love (Directors Cut Version) – Kate Bush
  • Madame X – Robbie Robertson
  • Dive – Ed Sheeran
  • Everything You Need – Doyla Bramhall II
  • Yo So Quiero – Pedrito Martinez

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Various Artists – Under the Influence Vol.3

Here on the third volume of my Under The Influence Series, the theme is once again 60’s soul but we have moved later into the decade with some songs coming from the early 70’s.

Disc 1

  1. Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
  2. In The Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett
  3. Do The Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas
  4. I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown
  5. A Certain Girl – Ernie K-Doe
  6. Mojo Hannah – Little Esther Phillips
  7. See Saw – Don Covay & The Goodtimers
  8. I’ve Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) – Eddie Floyd
  9. Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
  10. I’d Rather Go Blind – Etta James
  11. I Was Made To Love Her – Stevie Wonder
  12. 25 Miles – Edwin Starr
  13. Ain’t To Proud To Beg – The Temptations
  14. Memphis Soul Stew – King Curtis
  15. (Love Is Like A) Heatwave – Martha & The Vandellas
  16. Shop Around – The Miracle
  17. I Thank You – Sam & Dave
  18. You Can’t Hurry Love – The Supremes
  19. Land Of 1000 Dances – Wilson Pickett
  20. Respect – Aretha Franklin
  21. Mr. Pitiful – Otis Redding
  22. Heaven Must Have Have Sent You – The Elgins
  23. Wonderful World – Sam Cooke
  24. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever – The Four Tops
  25. Lonely Lover – Marvin Gaye
  26. You’re No Good –  Betty Everette
  27. Under The Boardwalk – The Drifters
  28. You Don’t Miss Your Water – William Bell
  29. I Don’t Know What You’re Got (But It’s Not Me) Parts 1 & 2

Disc 2

  1. Feeling Good – Nina Simone
  2. Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag Pt.1 – James Brown
  3. Last Night – The Mar-Kets
  4. Green Onions – Booker T & The MG’s
  5. Walking The Dog – Rufus Thomas
  6. B-A-B-Y – Carla Thomas
  7. Soul Finger – The Bar-Kays
  8. Soul Man – Sam & Dave
  9. Who’s Making Love – Johnnie Taylor
  10. Respect – Otis Redding
  11. Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
  12. Private Number – Judy Clay & William Bell
  13. Can’t See You When I Want To – David Porter
  14. Piece Of My Heart – Erma Franklin
  15. Harlem Shuffle – Bob & Earl
  16. When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge
  17. Oh No Not My Baby – Maxine Brown
  18. Stop Her On Sight (SOS) – Edwin Starr
  19. (I Know) I’m Losing You – The Temptations
  20. Road Runner – Junior Walker & The All Stars
  21. Dancing In The Street – Martha & The Vandellas
  22. Reach Out, I’ll Be There – The Four Tops
  23. Stand By Me – Ben E. King
  24. For Once In My Life – Stevie Wonder
  25. I Get The Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson
  26. Tracks Of My Tears – The Miracles
  27. Abraham, Martin & John – Marvin Gaye
  28. Stay With Me (Baby) – Lorraine Ellison
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Various Artists – Psychedelic Pernambuco Vol.1

I have a real soft spot for music that came out in the Psychedelic Years of 1966-1969, and when I first getting into ‘it’, I only thought that this sort of music was produced in the UK and USA. A little digging though on the surface, it wasn’t hard to discover that the rest of the world wasn’t that far behind. I covered this topic in Episode 80 and 81 of the my podcast under the title of ‘Mundo Psych’. Those shows only scratched the service of what there was, and so this month I present Volume 1 in a more comprehensive look at this genre from around the world. 

Some of these songs could be argued to be bordering on Progressive Rock, but this works well as a compilation and a genre label is pretty loose anyway. 

Disc 1

  1. Same – McCully Workshop Inc.
  2. I Wonder Who – Aguaturbia
  3. Hang Out – The Kaleidoscope (Mexico)
  4. Hop Dedik – Erol Buyukburc
  5. Dark Thoughts – New Dawn
  6. People – Ladies W.C.
  7. Turkuz Turku Cagiririz (Sur Efem Atini) – Mahzar Ve Faut
  8. Quero Companheira – Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção
  9. Sweet Sixteen – Ros Sereysothea
  10. A Madman’s Cry – Otis Waygood
  11. Lenon Blues – Three Souls In My Mind
  12. Run & Hide – Speed, Glue & Shinki
  13. Yesterday – Lightyears Away – Astral Navigation
  14. Magic Colours – Teddy Robin & The Playboys
  15. En Medio De La Lluvia – La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata
  16. Glória Ao Rei Nos Confins Do Além – Os Mutantes
  17. Así Serás – Congreso
  18. Spring – Kim Jung Mi
  19. The Evening Sun – Shin Jung-Hyeon & There Men
  20. Foto De Primera Comunión – Los Jaivas

Disc 2

  1. Toward The Sunlight – Kim Jung Mi
  2. Hermano Perro – Almendra
  3. Sniffin’ & Snortin’ Part 2 (Vitamin C) – Speed, Glue & Shinki
  4. Inferno No Mundo – Bango
  5. Sen Varson – Bulent Ortacgil & Benimle Oynar Misin
  6. Walderez Walderea – Flavio Kurt
  7. Inento N°.2 – Antorcha
  8. Tatli Dillum – Cem Karaca & Kardaslar Apaslar
  9. E.V.O.L. – Aguaturbia
  10. Planetario – Geraldo Azevedo
  11. Parque Industrial – Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes & Caetano Veloso
  12. Cuando Era Nio – Los Ovnis
  13. Vous – Michel Pagliaro
  14. Une Petite Fille – Empreintes
  15. No Mundo Da Lua – Rubinho E Mauro Assumpçao
  16. Valley Of Sadness – The Third Eye
  17. Los Pajaros – Kissing Spell
  18. Beautiful Rivers & Mountains – Shin Joong Hyun & The Men
  19. Michael Of Hair – Tokedashita Garasu Baku
  20. Towards The Sunlight (Reprise) – Kim Jung Mi

Some of these songs have had a bit of an edit in places. A intro taken off here, and outro edited down there. The biggest edit is to Kim Jung Mi’s song ‘Towards The Sunlight’. I took the coda from the song and used is as the last song on Disc 2. It sounded better there than as the end of the opening song.

The title for this compilation comes from a CD released back in 2011 of the same name. It was a Various Artists disc looking at the music scene in Pernambuco, and area in northeast Brazil that had its own thriving music scene outside of the hubs of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The cover is also adapted from that compilation as well. 

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The Who – Who’s Missing

1968 was an interesting year for The Who. I covered this in a lot more detail last month in my post, ‘Who’s For Tennis’ so see that to find out more. Since I posted that post (and a further what-if release from John Entwistle), the Super Deluxe Box Set version of ‘The Who Sell Out’ dropped through the door. What was evident from the booklet contained within was that main songwriter Peter Townshend struggled to have enough material for the albums they actually did release. This might explain why John Entwistle has three songs on the LP. Entwistle would only have this amount of material on a Who album on 1978’s ‘Who Are You’ and 1982’s ‘It’s Hard’.  With Townshend consumed by producing ‘Tommy’ which would not see the light of day until 1969, did this box set give me enough material for an album for release in 1968 that would not cross over with the two other what-is records I put out last month?  

Well, the Entwhistle record would never have seen the light of day in reality, but ‘Who’s For Tennis’ might have been, even if it was not in the configuration that I proposed. That means, none of the covers from that album could be used. That leaves about 15 tunes that could be placed on some vinyl. Some of these did see the light of day in 1968 so I thought I would continue to use these as singles in this fantasy time line. ‘Magic Bus’ and ‘Dogs’ are the A-Sides, but the B-Sides are a little different. ‘Call Me Lightning’ was used as an A-Side in the US, but this is B-side material of the highest order. It sounds like it was from earlier in the 60s, which is exactly when it was written. If you are really interested, a video was shot for ‘Call Me Lightning’ in an abandoned warehouse in the USA which the rest of the band chases a robotic Keith Moon about. Watching this, I feel that it took one whole day to think up the concept and film it. Videos were different in the 60s. Anyway, I digress.

In the UK, ‘Dogs’ was the A-Side to ‘Call Me Lightnings’ B-Side. ‘Dogs’ a curious beast. It sounds nothing like any other Who song, and I thought it was a piss take when I first heard it. It might well have been, but I was surprised this was released back in the day, let alone be an A-Side. The final single would have been an exclusive for the US Market. ‘Little Billy’s Doing Fine’ and ‘Kids! Do You Want Kids’ were written on belief of the American Cancer Society and were designed to warn against the dangers of smoking. Neither saw the light of day in 1968, and ‘Kids! Do You Want Kids’ was never recorded by The Who. The version here is Pete Townshend demo recording. 

As for the album, The Who did not have enough material to release a complete studio album. What they did have was a live recording recorded at the Filmore East in April of 1968. The plan for these recording was to release a live album, but when playing back the tapes, it was found that only some of the first night had been successfully recorded. The second night had been recorded completely but these would stay in the archive until 2018 when the tapes were dusted down and released. What if these live recordings were used in conjunctive with the studio cuts that were in the can?

A half live/half studio album is still a rarity in this day and age, let alone the 1960s. The inspiration for this set was ‘Wheels on Fire’ and the soon to be released ‘Goodbye’, by Cream.  Both of these records had live and studio cuts on them. This would follow the template of ‘Goodbye’ though, as this is only a single album. Listening to it, it sounds exactly what it is. An album made up of outtakes with live tracks thrown in to make up the time. It does work reasonably well, though, even though the edit between ‘C’Mon Everybody’ and ‘Boris The Spider’ is a bit sharp. It is doubtful that an album like this would have been released by The Who, especially as their records at the time were not selling that well compared to the previous years. It was their live work, especially in the USA that kept the band going until ‘Tommy’ was unleashed in 1969.  

Side A

  1. Fortune Teller (Live)
  2. Tattoo (Live)
  3. Little Billy (Live)
  4. I Can’t Explain (Live)
  5. Happy Jack (Live)
  6. I’m A Boy (Live)
  7. My Way (Live)
  8. C’Mon Everybody (Live)
  9. Boris The Spider (Live)

Side B

  1. Glittering Girl
  2. Inside Outside (Demo)
  3. Jaguar (Original Mono Mix)
  4. Girl’s Eyes
  5. Glow Girl
  6. Melancholia
  7. Faith In Something Bigger
  8. Signal 30 (Sodding About)
  9. Rael Naïve (Full Coda)

Singles 

  1. Magic Bus (UK Single Mix)
  2. Facts Of Life (aka Birds & Bees)
  1. Dogs (Single Mix)
  2. Call Me Lightning (Single Mix)
  1. Little Billy’s Doing Fine
  2. Kids! Do You Want Kids (Demo)

The cover is adapted from the Bootleg LP, ‘Little Billy Relaxes At The Filmore’. I chose the title ‘Who’s Missing’ (which would later be used for a couple of compilation albums in the 1980’s) because it accurately describes the contents within. 

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Episode 101 – Eric Clapton: The Later Years Part 1

After 100 shows, I thought that it would be a while before I produced another podcast but this just goes to show you how wrong you can be. Following on from my shows looking at the early career of Eric Clapton, I am joined by author Andrew Wild for this, the first of two shows looking at the years 1973 onwards.

Andrew has written books on musicians/bands such as The Beatles, Dire Straits as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash. His books can be on Amazon via this link. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Wild/e/B0868S3NDL?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1619853917&sr=8-1

  • Sally Simpson (Tommy OST – The Who
  • Catfish – Bob Dylan
  • Ol’ Ben Lucas – Kinky Friedman
  • April Fool – Pete Townsend & Ronnie Lane
  • Lost in Austin – Marc Benno 
  • Hate You – Danny Douma
  • Leave The Candle – Gary Brooker
  • The Roof Is Leaking (Demo) – Phil Collins
  • Jenny Fey – Corey Hart 
  • 4:41AM (Sexual Revolution) – Roger Waters
  • The Beat of the Night – Bob Geldof 
  • Labyrinth – Liano Boyd
  • Cloud Nine – George Harrison
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Tom Jones – Praise & Blame (Expanded Edition)

With a new Tom Jones having dropped onto my doorstep (six years after his previous effort, which is far too long in my opinion considering the albums that went into making this this playlist were absolutely fantastic), I thought it was time to offer up a playlist of the great mans work. Now, Mr Jones has been a recording artist since 1964 and like any artist that has been recording as long as he has, there are going to be some duds in there with the gold. But what gold I would have had to choose from. His stellar A-Sides such as ‘Green, Grass of Home’, ‘Delilah’ and the immortal ‘It’s Not Unusual’. I could have looked deep cuts such as his first single ‘Chills & Fever’ or an overlooked B-Side such as ‘Looking Out My Window’ with a drum break that has been sampled numerous times. There was the resurrection of his career in the late 80s as well as the classic ‘Reload’ album for 1999. Even records from the wilderness years of the mid to late 70s have their nuggets included, but it is with the albums that Jones has released since 2010 that have inspired this playlist. 

2010 saw Jones leave the hair and beard dye at home, and come back with an album of blues and gospel songs called ‘Praise & Blame’ Before the album came out, David Sharpe, who was the Vice-President of Jones’ record label thought the album was a joke and wanted “to get my money back”. Showing that the people who run record labels don’t necessarily know a good thing when they hear it, the LP reached Number 2 in the UK album charts and make headway in other markets around the world. Jones seems to be in his element. The production is stripped back and it allows the songs to breath as well showing the power in Jones’ voice has not diminished over time. He followed this up this up with ‘Spirit In The Room’, which cast its net a bit wider when it came to the songs as this included material from his contemporaries such as Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Leonard Cohen. A third album in this style followed in 2015 in the shape of ‘Long Lost Suitcase’ and it is from these three that this playlist comes from. I do hope we do not have to wait another six years for the next Tom Jones album.

  1. What Good Am I?
  2. Burning Hell
  3. Lord Help
  4. Take My Love (I Want To Give it)
  5. Honey, Honey (With Imelda May)
  6. Love & Blessings
  7. Soul Of A Man
  8. Elvis Presley Blues
  9. Did Trouble Me
  10. Opportunity To Cry
  11. He Was  A Friend of Mine
  12. Tower Of Song
  13. Run On
  14. Don’t Knock
  15. I Wish You Would
  16. Factory Girl
  17. Ain’t No Grave
  18. Didn’t It Rain
  19. All Blues Hail Mary
  20. If I Give My Soul
  21. Charlie Darwin
  22. Strange Things

I picked the title for this playlist as “Praise & Blame’ because it was a great cover and sums up perfectly the music contained within. The cover is the same as the original LP.