MIGHTY BABY A Jug Of Love LP BSF 1971re EUROPE reissue THE ACTION-SAVOY BROWN

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 ALAN KING, MARTIN STONE, IAN WHITEMAN, MICHAEL EVANS, ROGER POWELL

plus ZAHARA AND ABD'AL KABIR

The British psychedelic band Mighty Baby grew out of the Action, the North London-based R&B 

outfit signed to Parlophone by George Martin in 1965. Long considered one of Martin's 

best discoveries this side of the Beatles, the Action consisted of Reggie King (vocals), 

Alan King (guitar), Pete Watson (guitar), Mike Evans (bass), and Roger Powell (drums). 

After Watson left in 1967, he was succeeded by keyboardist Ian Whiteman 

and blues guitarist Martin Stone, a veteran of the Savoy Brown Blues Band. 

This new lineup evolved beyond the R&B/soul sound that the original Action had played 

and into a top-flight experimental group, incorporating the kinds of long jams and folk/blues influences 

that the West Coast bands were starting to export around the world.

Both Mighty Baby albums are now very rare

"A JUG OF LOVE"

<reissue, originally published on Blue Horizon in 1971>    

 LP     BSF RECORDS      96 82 25 - 04

MADE IN EUROPE   LATE-80s/EARLY-90s UNOFFICIAL  REPRESSING

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  BSF -  DARK ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: none

Catalog on labels: 96 82 25 - 04 (Side 1 / Side 2)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 968225-04-A   II. U. AT.

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 968225-04-B   II. U. AT. 

On labels: ?1971

Toad Stool Records, Canada,

A Company Of Gulff, Sidney, Australia

On Back Sleeve: Produced by Mike Vernon and Mighty Baby

Recorded at Sound Techniques, London July August 1971

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: JUG OF LOVE

THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE CARNIVAL - KEEP ON JUGGIN'

Side B: VIRGIN SPRING

TASTING THE LIFE - SLIPSTREAMS

  grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

 Originally released in 1971, Mighty Baby's second and, for nearly a quarter of a century, 

final release is a deft, understated, and often magical synthesis of any number of musical strains. 

Stepping further away from the group's louder roots in the Action and taking in everything from 

an embrace of Sufism to further explorations ranging from Gram Parsons and the Band's country-rock 

to jazz and obscure folk, A Jug of Love is all the more remarkable for being a rushed effort, 

recorded in barely a week's time. But the group's strength in performing together for years 

served it well, and the resultant album, while a minor classic rather than a holy grail, 

is still a classic as it stands. Certainly anyone familiar with the Byrds and Spirit, to name 

two groups among many, won't be surprised by the end result, but the bandmembers themselves 

freely admitted to the influence (the cover is surely a nod to Fifth Dimension, at least), 

and songs like the gentle gospel-blues of the title track and the mandolin-tinged "Slipstreams" 

speak to it clearly. Moments like the beautiful buried harmonies that help open 

"The Happiest Man in the Carnival" and the subtle interplay of the musicians during the extended 

instrumental break on "Virgin Spring," at over nine minutes the longest of the album's tracks, 

show the band's evident talent well in hand. Even the fairly straightforward boogie 

of "Keep on Jugging" works well enough instead of simply killing time, 

thanks in part to a fantastic extended coda...(AllMusic)