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Original UK Vinyl Pressing Tracklisting: | Coming Your Way  
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:47 | Closing My Eyes
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 4:50 | Fighting For Madge 
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:45 | Show-Biz Blues
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:50 | When You Say
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 4:22 | Underway
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:51
Comments: (Edit) | One Sunny Day
Date Performance: 1968-10-06, Running Time: 3:11
Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond St, London. Harmonica can be heard on this track (presumably played by Peter Green. However, Mike Vernon does not list this instrument as being played on this track in his notes for The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions. | Although The Sun Is Shining
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:31 | Rattlesnake Shake
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:32 | Without You
Date Performance: 1968-10-06, Running Time: 4:30
Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. | Searching For Madge
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 6:56 | My Dream
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:30 | Like Crying
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:21 | Before The Beginning
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:28 | |
CD Reissue Tracklisting: | Coming Your Way
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:47 | Closing My Eyes
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 4:50 | Show-Biz Blues
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:50 | My Dream
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:30 | Underway
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:51
Comments: (Edit) | Oh Well
Date Performance: 1969, Running Time: 8:56 | Although The Sun Is Shining
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:31 | Rattlesnake Shake
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:32 | Searching For Madge
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 6:56 | Fighting For Madge
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:45 | When You Say
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 4:22 | Like Crying
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:21 | Before The Beginning
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:28 |
| Guest Appearance » |
Sandra Elsdon
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| Released » |
1969-09-09
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| Format » |
Domestic Vinyl/CD Album
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| Other Appearances » |
Mick Fleetwood (Songwriter), Mick Fleetwood (Songwriter), Peter Green (Songwriter), Peter Green (Songwriter), Danny Kirwan (Songwriter), Danny Kirwan (Songwriter), John McVie (Songwriter), John McVie (Songwriter), Mick Fleetwood (Produced By), Mick Fleetwood (Produced By), Fleetwood Mac (Produced By), Peter Green (Produced By), Peter Green (Produced By), Danny Kirwan (Produced By), Danny Kirwan (Produced By), John McVie (Produced By), John McVie (Produced By), Jeremy Spencer (Produced By), Jeremy Spencer (Produced By), Mike Vernon (Produced By), Mike Ross(-Trevor) (Engineered By), Martin Birch (Recording Engineer), Mick Fleetwood (Production), Mick Fleetwood (Production), Fleetwood Mac (Production), Peter Green (Production), Peter Green (Production), Danny Kirwan (Production), Danny Kirwan (Production), John McVie (Production), John McVie (Production), Jeremy Spencer (Production), Jeremy Spencer (Production), Terence Ibbot(t) (Photo Design), Maxwell Armfield (Front Cover Painting) |
| Record Label » |
Reprise Records |
| Catalogue Number » |
RS 6368 (US LP) 6368-2 (CD Reissue) RSLP 9000 (Original UK LP) K 44103 (Reissue UK LP) 927448 2 (UK CD Reissue)
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| Running Time » |
53:39 (CD)
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| Liner Notes » |
Front Cover Painting: John Jesse Collection
CD Reissue Notes:
Flexing the lean blues muscle that earned them a solid reputation among musical purists, Fleetwood Mac, on their landmark 1969 release Then Play On, also demonstrated a songwriting and performing skill that would eventually catapult the band into world class status. The LP spotlights several indispensable Fleetwood Mac classics, including Peter Green's nearly nine-minute opus "Oh Well," one of the most innovative, and oft-imitated blues/rock workouts in modern music. Other standouts include the Hendrix-influenced "Underway," the fierce "Rattlesnake Shake" and the subtly shaded "Although The Sun Is Shining."
Fleetwood Mac was built around the formidable talents of guitarist Peter Green and the rhythm section of John McVie (bass) and Mick Fleetwood (drums). In 1967 the threesome left John Mayall's pioneering Bluesbreakers and, with Elmore James enthusiast Jeremy Spencer, played their first gig in the summer of that year at the British Jazz and Blues Festival. The quartet's stunning blend of blues classics and Green originals landed them a recording contract. Their self-titled debut album, released in 1968, was an immediate smash, hovering near the top of the British charts for over a year. It yielded the hit single "Black Magic Woman," later a hit for Santana. "Fleetwood Mac" was followed by Mr. Wonderful (1968), which featured a horn section and keyboard work from a singer/songwriter named Christine Perfect (the future Mrs. John McVie). Taking a sharp stylistic turn, the band then released one of its most memorable singles, the stately "Albatross," which, with graceful rhythms and plaintive harmonies, came as something of a surprise to the group's blues loyalists.
Then Play On, released in the fall of 1969, featured a new addition to the original line-up, guitarist Danny Kirwan. Also sitting in on the session was Perfect, who had sung with Spencer Davis and had been a member of another British blues outfit, Chicken Shack. Then Play On reached the Top 5 on British charts and was the group's first solid commercial success in America.
Printed/Made in U.S.A.
(C) 1970 Reprise Records, a division of Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Warner Communications Company.
All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
Mfg. by WEA Manufacturing.
Printed in U.S.A.
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The Compact Disc Digital Audio System offers the best possible sound reproduction - on a small, convenient disc. Its remarkable performance is the result of a unique combination of digital storage and laser optics.
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this is the beginning of danny kirwan's fleetwood mac
Review written by james prichard, April 15th, 2013
i was transformed . twice. first, it seemed at the time, to me and all my blues friends, that peter green was establishing a new direction for fleetwood mac, and that blues can be exciting . move forward 40 years. peter is revered far and wide. good for him . the second transformation was discovering that this record and the new direction was more likely due to danny kirwan's influence . comparing everything by danny with everything by peter leads me to conclude that from the time danny joined to the time peter left they are equals . and comparing everything they both created after peter left, well, danny is nearly divine . try danny kirwan. you may love him, too. more than just about anything.
Which record to recommend?
Review written by Anonymous, March 18th, 2013
Need I recommend what (almost) everybody knows? And what version of this classic record with which songs?
I write my own review because I can't completely agree with any of the others, but I share opinions with many of them...
I bought this record about 1976 in an ugly WEA series (Rock Collection) reissue cover with only half of the cover painting as much smaller picture in a frame, and it was the second American version with 'Oh Well'. Not all the songs I find great, the good ones are all mentioned yet, I think: Coming your Way, Although the Sun..., my favourite Like Crying, all from Danny Kirwan, plus Green's raunchy 'Rattlesnake Shake' (for years I thought it a stolen old blues standard) and, of course, Oh Well. The rest of the tunes, I agree, is not great, some not even good.
Then, only a few years ago, on a fleamarket, I stumbled over a worn copy with a fold-out cover, and, surprise, there was no 'Oh Well' on it, but four tunes I didn't know about. Some great stuff. This turned out to be the original UK version with this really beautiful cover. But as it is, a very different album, albeit a better one I think. It seems Peter Green had given the band to Danny Kirwan at this point. Why Jeremy Spencer did not play on it I don't know, for he is on the band photograph.
The CD version also mentioned here is a hodgepodge of the two that leaves many wishes open, more than it fulfills maybe: there is no good remastering discernible, and the sequencing is a real mess that refuses all sense. The most crazy thing is that up to this digital age the two sides of the 'Oh Well' single have been plastered together completely unedited, that is, part two (imo. a completely different, instrumental tune that has nothing to do with part 1, which the band played always separately live) begins twice, the first fades out at the end of the A side and then the tune begins again on the B side !!! For the second edition of the US LP version Reprise brought both single sides as one tune instead of leaving the beginning and fade-out on the end of the A side out! Most stupid!!!
What we could have had would be a fine remastered CD with the fourteen songs of the original UK album in original sequencing plus Oh Well without the stupid doubling fadeout. That would be a fine hour of music. As bonus tracks they could give us the two surrounding singles, 'Man of the world' and 'The green Manalishi' with the fine 'World in Harmony' on back. That would add to about 75 minutes and make us all happy. So what, Reprise?
new data on album art
Review written by Anonymous, April 24th, 2012
The remarkable cover art by Maxwell Armfield has been vexing to track down. Now however we know more. Painted before 1917 and titled "Domesticated Mural Painting", Armfield wrote about it “The illustration here is a mural designed for the dining room of a London mansion. The windows had been hung with a heavy plum-coloured brocade that, in spite of the white panelling, made the room rather dark and fragmentary in general effect. The mural was placed in a large panel above the fireplace. The colours of the room were used in it; the plum colour was heightened into magenta in the rhododendrons, the white was lowered a little in the horse to a pearl grey, and the sky was a yellow used in the curtains, also lowered a little in tone and enriched with gold pattern. This scheme had the effect of reconciling the various elements in a satisfactory way and gave the impression to the whole room of having been lived in.”
How FM came across it is still a *mystery to me*.
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The most diverse and accomplished album by the Peter Green-led lineup. Features some wrenching, introspective originals that draw from both blues and progressive rock, highlighted by the doomy British hit single "Oh Well." (Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide)
This album has been released with many different tracklistings. We've included the 2 most relevant tracklistings here as of this date.
Most tracks recorded between April & July 1969
Charts Peak : US #109, UK #6 (Oct 1969)
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Discography entry submitted by Christy Valkman. All Music Guide review submitted by Luke Arnott. Image supplied by Pablo Roufogalis. |
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