This 50-track, three-CD collection brings together anything of any consequence that Peter Green's group did in the way of a 12-bar. It includes the whole of their first two albums, the hit singles Albatross and Man Of The World, the comparative flops Black Magic Woman and Need Your Love So Bad, a few nuggets from Blues Jam At Chess wherein they skirmished with the likes of Willie Dixon and Otis Span; it even has the nerve to appropriate one Chicken Shack track in the shape of Christine McVie's terrific I'd Rather Go Blind from 1969. It's interesting to reflect just how many blues records the extended Mac family were responsible for putting in the charts in the late '60s and heartening to report how little here has dated. Peter Green's ability to submerge his ego and reluctance to go in for grandstanding when the instrumental break came around is wholly vindicated by material as brooding and adult as Love That Burns (in which he seems to play without touching the strings) and soulful as Need Your Love So Bad, wherein he's the equal of Little Willie John. McVie and Fleetwood's no-nonsense approach to rhythm, learned in ministering to the boozier patrons of the college circuit, is admirably suited to lifting Jeremy Spencer's repertoire of Elmore James impressions above the run-of-the-mill. There are more spectacular relics of the Home Counties' affair with sweet home Chicago but for blues with a feeling this takes some beating.
DISC 1:
01. My Heart Beat Like A Hammer
02. Merry Go Round
03. Long Grey Mare
04. Hell Hound On My Trail
05. Shake Your Money Maker
06. Looking For Somebody
07. No Place To Go
08. My Baby's Good To Me
09. I Loved Another Woman
10. Cold Black Night
11. The World Keeps On Turning
12. Got To Move
13. Stop Messin' Around
14. Coming Home
15. Rollin' Man
16. Dust My Broom
17. Love That Burns
18. Doctor Brown
DISC 2:
01. Need Your Love Tonight
02. If You Be My Baby
03. Evenin' Boogie
04. Lazy Poker Blues
05. I've Lost My Baby
06. Trying So Hard To Forget
07. I Believe My Time Ain't Long
08. Ramblin' Pony
09. Black Magic Woman
10. The Sun Is Shining
11. Need Your Love So Bad
12. Albatross
13. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
14. Man Of The World
15. Someone'e Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite
16. Watch Out
17. Worried Dream
DISC 3:
01. Fleetwood Mac
02. First Train Home
03. Drifting
04. Mean Old Fireman
05. Allow Me One More Show
06. Just The Blues
07. The Big Boat
08. I'd Rather Go Blind
09. Watch Out
10. Homework
11. I Can't Hold Out
12. Like It This Way
13. Last Night
14. I'm Worried
15. Words In A Tangle
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