LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

England 1965 Kansas City Every Little Bit Hurts Stevies Blues (early version) It's Gonna Work Out Fine Germany 1966 Somebody Help Me Sittin' & Thinkin' Keep On Running Finland 1966 When I Come Home E Dust My Blues Mean Woman Blues Together `til The End Of Time I'm A Man Georgia On My Mind Gimme Some Lovin' England Empire Pool Wembley 1968 Dust My Blues Volume 2 of our latest Spencer Davis Group Collection covers the live recordings by the group made at various concerts and shows, following on from Volume One's Live in the Studio recordings made for radio broadcast. Again this collection shows how the Group were able to really cut it live as a musical unit and here in front of audiences too, and why with their own sound they are so well liked by todays 60's music fans, mods, R&8 enthusiasts. Recording quality wise we admittedly range from high to low-fi: the high being at the beginning which is a recently discovered tape master of their performance at a London venue early on in their career, superb sound quality and driving performance with the Group making up the set as they go along. 25 minutes of terrific R&B that not even the generations of bootleggers have ever got their hands on - you are hearing it for the first time in 35 years! The lo-fi is their appearance at a show in Finland which was obviously recorded on very sub-standard equipment as some of the performance is lost to the mists of time. However it is still a fascinating recording of the band in action complete with a comperes intro naming the band as having a drummer called Peter Tork! The albums' highlight appears in this section too which is the rendition of 'Georgia On My Mind'-just sublime. This collection is rounded of with the one recording of the Mk II line up taken from the NME Poll Winners concert in 1968 that blasts out some gritty guitar work from Ray Fenwick.