Gutbucket (album)
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Gutbucket is a 1969 sampler album
released to promote artists on the Liberty Records
label. It was followed later in 1969 by Son of Gutbucket
. Both albums were reissued on a single EMI CD in 1994, with an informative booklet, but with 6 of the original 31 tracks (from the combined albums) missing.
Sampler album
A sampler is a type of compilation album generally offered at a reduced price to showcase a selection of artists signed to a particular record label...
released to promote artists on the Liberty Records
Liberty Records
Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...
label. It was followed later in 1969 by Son of Gutbucket
Son of Gutbucket
Son of Gutbucket is a 1969 sampler album released to promote artists on the Liberty Records label. It followed the earlier release in 1969 of Gutbucket, .-Side 1:...
. Both albums were reissued on a single EMI CD in 1994, with an informative booklet, but with 6 of the original 31 tracks (from the combined albums) missing.
Side 1
- "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" - Captain Beefheart and His Magic BandCaptain BeefheartDon Van Vliet January 15, 1941 December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12...
- from the LP Strictly PersonalStrictly Personal-Personnel:*Don Van Vliet - vocals, harmonica*Alex St. Clair - guitar*Jeff Cotton - guitar*Jerry Handley - bass guitar*John French - drums-External links:* at the Captain Beefheart Radar Station.... - "The Wall" - Hapshash and the Coloured CoatHapshash and the Coloured CoatHapshash and the Coloured Coat is the name of an influential British graphic design and avant-garde musical partnership between Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, producing psychedelic posters and two albums of underground music...
- from the LP The Western Flier - "You’re Gonna Miss Me" - Lightnin' HopkinsLightnin' HopkinsSam John Hopkins better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas...
- from the LP Earth Blues - "I’m Tore Down" - Alexis KornerAlexis KornerAlexis Korner was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a Founding Father of British Blues"...
- from the LP A New Generation of Blues - "Still a Fool" - The GroundhogsThe GroundhogsGroundhogs are a British rock band founded in late 1963, that toured extensively in the 1960s, achieved prominence in the early 1970s and continued sporadically into the 21st century.-Career:...
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- from the LP Pure Dirt - "Wine, Women & Whisky" - Papa LightfootPapa LightfootPapa Lightfoot, also known as Papa George Lightfoot , born Alexander Lightfoot, was an American blues singer and harmonica player.-Biography:...
- from the LP Rural Blues Vol 2
Side two
- "Pony Blues" - Canned HeatCanned HeatCanned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...
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- from the LP The Hour Glass - "No More Doggin’" - Tony McPheeTony McPheeTony McPhee is an English blues guitarist, and founder of The Groundhogs....
- from the LP Me And The Devil - "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites" - The Bonzo Dog BandBonzo Dog Doo-Dah BandThe Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s...
- from the LP The Doughnut in Granny's GreenhouseThe Doughnut In Granny's GreenhouseThe Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse is the second album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. By this time the band had changed their name to "The Bonzo Dog Band", dropping out the "Doo-Dah". The American version of this album was retitled Urban Spaceman and added their U.K. hit single "I'm the Urban... - "Mamma Don’t Like Me Runnin Around" - Big Joe WilliamsBig Joe WilliamsJoseph Lee Williams , billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar...
- from the LP Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick - "Rollin’ And Tumblin’" - Jo-Anne KellyJo Ann KellyJo Ann Kelly was an English blues singer and guitarist. "To many American performers", an obituarist wrote, "Jo Ann Kelly was the only British singer to earn their respect for her development of what they would be justified in thinking as 'their' genre".-Life and career:Kelly was born in...
- from the LP Me And The Devil - "Call Me Woman" - Aynsley Dunbar RetaliationAynsley DunbarAynsley Thomas Dunbar is an English drummer. He has worked with some of the top names in rock, including Eric Burdon, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed, Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Whitesnake, Sammy Hagar, UFO, and Journey...
- from the LP Dr. Dunbar’s Prescription