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Recorded in January 1968 [this album] stands out in Lightnin's discography due to unusual line-up on the sessions, with the veteran bluesman fuelled by homemade moonshine supported by a young hippy rhythm section, comprising Danny Thomas and Duke Davis from the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, both high on acid at the time This however is no failed hippy/blues amalgam just a straight forward honest blues album with the great man backed by fans, who happened to be members of a psychedelic band. Its significance lies in how the music cut across the generation and racial boundaries within the segregated and repressive atmosphere of late 1960s Texas.

Alongside recording the album for International Artists producer Lelan Rogers set out to generate the definitive interview with the great bluesman and so left the tapes running in the studio as the album was cut. These recordings have sat in a series of dump tapes for 44 years but have now been put back together as unique documentation of one of the 20th century's most revered bluesmen. We now have a coherent combination of songs, studio chatter and a candid conversations with Lightnin' about his life and times. On the two additional discs the songs are as the band played them in the studio, live and unmixed and the conversations are as they were with only unintelligible chatter left out. (aus der Produktbeschreibung)

Disc: 1

1. Mr. Charlie

2. Give Me Time To Think

3. Fox Chase

4. Mr. Ditta`s Grocery Store

5. Open Up Your Door

6. Baby Child

7. Cooking`s Done

8. Got Her Letter This Morning (Aka She`s Almost Dead)

9. Rain Falling

10. Mini Skirt

11. Black Ghost Blues

Disc: 2

1. Chat 1 - I`d Like To Get In Tune With The Boys

2. Song 1 - Give Me Time To Think

3. Chat 2 - Harmonica Players

4. Song 2 - Miniskirt

5. Chat 3 - Lelan: Is Billy A Hippy?

6. Song 3 - Got Her Letter This Morning

7. Chat 4 - Drinking Chat 1: No No, I Don`t Fool With Nothin` But What I Fool With

8. Song 4 - Mixed Up (Previously Unreleased)

9. Chat 5 - Band Direction / Billy

10. Song 5 - (Mr. Dillon`s) Grocery Store Blues

11. Chat 6 - You Know Mr. Dillon?

12. Fox Chase False Starts / Band Direction

13. Song 6 - Fox Chase

14. Chat 7 - Drinking Chat 2 - I`m The Best Person In The World When I`m Drinking

15. Song 7 - Lord Have Mercy (Previously Unreleased)

16. Chat 8 - Drinking Chat 3 - Don`t Think It Ain`t Got Something In It

Disc: 3

1. Song 8 - Rain Falling

2. Chat 9 - Argument Over Songs

3. Song 9 - Cooking`s Done

4. Chat 10 - Sweet Lil` Woman, But You Ain`t Got No Hair + Chat

5. Song 11 - Mr Charlie

6. Song 12 - Straw Hat (Previously Unreleased)

7. Chat 11 - They Got 100 Songs

8. Song 13 - Green Onions (Previously Unreleased)

9. Chat 12 - Vietnam Song Snippet / Oh Oh Lyric

10. Song/chat - Poppa Was A Preacher Rehearsal/chat

11. Chat 13 - That Had The Feeling, Finishing Session

12. Conversation 1 - Trouble In Crackett Tx

13. Conversation 2 - Whiskey On Prescription

14. Conversation 3 - Musician`s Hours: Tommy Hall / Stacy Sutherland

15. Conversation 4 - Where`d You Pick Up The Name Lightnin`

16. Conversation 5 - You Not Gonna Mess With Elmore (Nixon) Anymore?

17. Conversation 6 - Centreville Tx

18. Conversation 7 - Politics