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Workin’ it out

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Hector and the Mediators  Philips Records (France)   Get it?  The Mediators? – “working it out”? – the Mediators?

Check out the guy on the left and that cool guitar!

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In a bluesy groove

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Freddie Robbinson  “The Coming Atlantis”  With Orchestration by Monk Higgins.  World Pacific Records.  Freddie cut his teeth with Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf on classic Chess recordings such as “Spoonful” and “Mean Ol’ Frisco” in the late fifties and early sixties before taking the spotlight on this, his first album as a leader in 1968.  This Lp was later reissued with the title “Black Fox”, one of the cuts included and heard here.

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Have a Les and Mary Christmas

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“Christmas Cheer!”  Les Paul and Mary Ford  Capitol Records

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“It’s a guitar!”

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The Cousins Celebrate Christmas  Palette Records

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Clap your hands say yeah!

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“Hully Gully”  The Angels

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Guitar Boy

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This one is from Sao Paulo, Brasil.  MusiColor Records  I don’t know who this mysterious “Guitar Boy” is.  There’s a cover of Telstar here and some soundtrack themes.

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Hooker with a heart of gold

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John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues  Chess LP 1454.  Early fifties recordings (When Hook was a younger stud) compiled and released by Chess in 1961.  Personnel: John Lee Hooker vocals; guitar.  (Eddie Kirkland guitar on “Just Me and My Telephone”.)  Studs Terkel writes the liner notes.  Another cool cover photo by Chess house photog Don Bronstein.  This is back porch music from the heart of the Delta.  “Although he often reworked themes by earlier bluesmen during this period, it was rare that Hooker outright covered another artist’s material. So his riveting interpretations of Muddy Waters’s ‘Please Don’t Go’ and Big Maceo Merriweather’s ‘Worried Life Blues’ peak this collection”

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Peter picks for a pack of pretty Pattys

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“String Along With Peter”  The Multi Guitars of Peter Posa   Zodiac Records  Another nice cover delivered in person by Magic Mel from Wellington, New Zealand.

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Love your Fellowmen

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Straight from New Zealand – The dynamic, the incomprable, the amazing FELLOWMEN!

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Don’t shoot the guitar player

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Bruce Murdoch “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute”  Stormy Forest Records (1971)  Canadian folky.  Here’s a nice post about this record.  Thanks again to Joe in Maine!

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