COB - Live at the Old Ash Tree, Kent (private label, rec. 1972)

This live concert surfaced on LP about 20 or 25 years ago and it was the only time I saw it on vinyl. Precisely, I found 2 copies, one with insert, the other without, and I bite my hands today that I didn't buy them both, but "my pockets were full  green" (*see footpage note).  The concert must in any case have toured the world, cos I remember of a collector who once told me he has a CD of it, found a few years ago at some record fair in Hungary. Anonymous cover sleeve, anonymous label, only an insert inside with this picture and song titles. The band here seems to give more attention to percussive possibilities. Three new songs including the two  originally issued on single only (Blue morning / Bones) and the final wonderful "Nile roses". Shame, "Sheba's return" is cut and "Lion of Judah" is incomplete, it was surely the end of the original tape. It's likely that the band was planning a third album... But it never saw the light.

Recording quality not too good, but not even too dreadful.

And anyway, hey, people,
come on ..... it's the COB...!

*WINK!*

Song titles:

1. I told her

2. Music of the ages

3. Bones

4. Sweet slavery

5. Wade in the water

6. Bright eyed one

7. Scranky black farmer

8. Blue morning

9. When he came home

10. Spirit of love

11. Intro/ The lion of Judah

12. Nile roses

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COB's two glorious albums: "Spirit of love" (CBS, 1971 - left),

and "Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan lancers of the sacred heart" (Polydor Folk Mill, 1972 - right), works created under the production of an absolute Grand, Ralph McTell.

  

CBS and Polydor labels
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* (quote: Ralph McTell, "From Clare to here", lovely song, soon to appear here, promised!!).

So, now  I wish happy listening to GRAAF, ALAN and GHERA, the three Password-Maze Heroes!

Kiss, Your VANESSA :-)))