EDDIE BOYD w/PETER GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC MEGA-RARE ORIG'68 EPIC LP w/SHRINK MINT

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·      EDDIE BOYD AND HIS BLUES BAND featuring THREE MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL PETER GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC, PETER GREEN INCLUDED!  - 7936 SOUTH RHODES– ORIGINAL 1968 EPIC STEREO LP BN-26409

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      ORIGINAL YELLOW EPIC LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT, MID-'60s TO EARLY '70s STYLE

·      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

·      COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·      MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1A'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

·      MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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This is undoubtedly one of the finest Blues recordings ever. Eddie plays and sings his heart out. He was one of the great song writers of the era when Freddy King, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Albert King and Little Walter still ruled the roost. Eddie was one of Chicago's great Blues pianists and was a fine vocalist as well. Its difficult to find most of Eddie's recordings--however, this one is a gem. Pity its out of print. This is the one to own--Blues fans won't be sorry.Supported by Fleetwood Mac's: Peter Green, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood when they were the best Blues men in England, you are treated to an album that will never grow old. Peter plays some of his most inspired solos with the sweetest tone and is perhaps his best work. McVie and Fleetwood provide a wonderful Blues bottom. This is a must have recording for serious Blues fans!

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEW)

Few postwar blues standards have retained the universal appeal of Eddie Boyd's "Five Long Years." Cut in 1951, Boyd's masterpiece has attracted faithful covers by B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy, and too many other bluesmen to recount here. But Boyd's discography is filled with evocative compositions, often full of after-hours ambience.

Like so many Chicago blues stalwarts, Boyd hailed from the fertile Mississippi Delta. The segregationist policies that had a stranglehold on much of the South didn't appeal to the youngster, so he migrated up to Memphis (where he began to play the piano, influenced by Roosevelt Sykes and Leroy Carr). In 1941, Boyd settled in Chicago, falling in with the "Bluebird beat" crowd that recorded for producer Lester Melrose. He backed harp legend Sonny Boy Williamson on his 1945 classic "Elevator Woman," also accompanying Bluebird stars Jazz Gillum, Tampa Red, and Jazz Gillum on wax. Melrose produced Boyd's own 1947 recording debut for RCA as well; the pianist stayed with Victor through 1949.

Boyd reportedly paid for the date that produced "Five Long Years" himself, peddling the track to JOB Records (where the stolid blues topped the R&B charts during 1952). Powerful DJ Al Benson signed Boyd to a contract with his Parrot imprint and promptly sold the pact to Chess, inaugurating a stormy few years with Chicago's top blues outlet. There he waxed "24 Hours" and "Third Degree," both huge R&B hits in 1953, and a host of other Chicago blues gems. But Boyd and Leonard Chess were often at loggerheads, so it was on to Narvel "Cadillac Baby" Eatmon's Bea & Baby imprint in 1959 for eight solid sides with Robert Jr. Lockwood on guitar, and a slew of lesser labels after that. A serious auto wreck in 1957 had stalled his career for a spell.

Sick of the discrimination he perceived toward African Americans in this country, Boyd became enamored of Europe during his tour with the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival, so he moved to Belgium. The recording opportunities long denied him in his native land were plentiful overseas; Boyd cut prolifically during the late '60s, including two LPs for producer Mike Vernon. In the early '70s, he settled in Helsinki, Finland, where he played often and lived comfortably until his death.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE BIO BY BILL DAHL, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·                          CONDITION:

·                          RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)         US Mono copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

(d)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                          THE COVER

COVER IS STONE MINT, STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP  AND NOTHING SHORT OF ABSOLUTE PERFECTION, WITHOUT EVEN A HINT OF A FLAW OR DEFECT; A KIND OF BEAUTY YOU ONLY GET TO SEE ONCE IN A LIFETIME.

NO SIGNIFICANT FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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