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Track Listing
1. After Midnight
2. Crazy Moon
3. Call Me the Breeze
4. Magnolia
5. Crying Eyes
6. Lies
7. I'll Kiss the World Goodbye
8. If You're Ever in Oklahoma
9. Changes
10. Crying
11. Cajun Moon
12. Okie
13. Anyway the Wind Blows
14. Cocaine
15. Travelin Light
16. Hey Baby
17. Cherry
18. You Got Something
19. I'll Make Love to You Anytime
20. Don't Cry Sister
21. Sensitive Kind
22. Thirteen Days
23. Mona
24. Carry On
25. Mama Don't
26. If You Leave Her
27. City Girls
28. Don't Wait
29. Downtown L A
30. Devil in Disguise
31. Grasshopper
32. Money Talks
33. Hard Times
34. Teardrops in My Tequila
35. Trouble in the City
36. Change Your Mind
37. Lady Luck
38. Lonesome Train
39. Jailer
40. Borrowed Time
41. Low Down
42. Guitar Man
43. Stone River
44. Problem
45. Midnight in Memphis
46. Woke up This Moring
47. Durango
48. Things Ain't Simple
49. Wish I Had Me a Dollar (Live)
50. Santa Cruz
51. Cocaine (Live)
52. After Midnight (Live)
53. Call Me the Breeze (Live)
54. Travelin Light (2 Meter Sessie)
55. Tijuana (2 Meter Sessie)
56. Hold up (2 Meter Sessie)
57. Rose in the Garden (2 Meter Sessie)
58. After Midnight (2 Meter Sessie)
59. Ride Me High (2 Meter Sessie)
60. Devil in Disguise (2 Meter Sessie)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Tommy Tedesco | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: J.J. Cale (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass, drums); Tommy Tedesco, Mac Gayden, Harold Bradley (guitar); Shelly Kurland, Carl Gorodetezy, Roy Christensen (strings); Ed Colis (harmonica); Dennis Goode, Bill Humble, Bob Phillips, Norm Ray (horns); David Briggs, Jerry Whitehurst, Bob Wilson (piano); Barry Beckett, Beegie Cruzer (electric piano); Christine Lakeland (organ); Tommy Cogbill, Tim Drummond, Joel Green, David Hood (bass); Chck Browning, Kenny Buttrey, Buddy Harmon, Russ Kunkel (drums); Farrell Morris, Jimmy Karstein (percussion); Diane Davidson, Christine Lakeland, Joann Sweeney (background vocals).
Producers: Audie Ashworth, J.J. Cale.
Compilation producer: Bill Levenson.
Recorded between 1970 & 1980. Includes liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of Universal Records "20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection" series.
If you were to compare the J. Geils Band's 1970 self-titled debut to their final album with singer Peter Wolf, 1981's FREEZE FRAME, you could easily be fooled into thinking they were two completely different bands. Although they'd later become best known for chart-storming pop-rock, the J. Geils Band started out as a straight-ahead blues-rock band, much like their mentors the Rolling Stones and their peers ZZ Top and Aerosmith.
J. Geils's debut has a fun, loose, and very rootsy feel, not far from how the band sounded on the concert stage early on. The choice of covers speaks volumes about the group's influences, as treatments of John Lee Hooker's "It Serves You Right to Suffer" and Albert Collins's "Sno-Cone" are served up with downhome, bluesy fervor. But there are some fine original compositions too, like the Stax/Booker T. sounds of "Ice Breaker (For the Big 'M')," and the FM radio-ready "Hard Drivin' Man." This is a thoroughly entertaining snapshot of the J. Geils Band's beginnings.
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