1967 Dutch R&B Blues Rock CUBY & THE BLIZZARDS Praise

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       1967 RHYTHM & BLUESROCK FROM HOLLAND

      CUBY & THE BLIZZARDS

        PRAISE THE BLUES

                            Holland  - Philips - 6440 308   

Scarce long gone exact (25+ years ago) 2nd pressing issued by parent label PHILIPS...in nice laminated cover...

When Eddie Boyd, an American blues legend, appeared in The Hague Netherlands at the Blues Festival in 1965, the first big blues concert ever to be heard in Holland, members of a group from Assen, Drenthe, Cuby and the Blizzards, were watching him. This group had started around Christmas the year before and consisted of: leader, singer and harmonica-player Harry Muskee, then 23 years old; 18-year old guitarist Eelco Gelling; 19-yearold bass guitarist Willy Middel and two others, who since then have disappeared. Harry Muskee, 'Cuby', had been bass-player and singer in 'The Old-Fashioned Group' and at that time had yet to discover the  blues. When he formed his own group, which played in a cellar in Assen, he played a lot of Rhythm and Blues, just like the British groups who started the new trend of group-playing in pop music had done; like them he found in the blues (especially the 'Chicago' blues) an agressive individualism and emotional expressiveness which fit in well with his own musical ideas. Cuby and the Blizzards turned into full-professionals after some time, stuck to the repertoire of their own choice as much as possible, developed a local reputation in the North and began to make records -- the first in October 1965, the month when Eddie Boyd visited Holland.

In no time flat Cuby & tHe Blizzards acquired a large following as the most popular blues-influenced group of the Netherlands; they played with natural ease their brand of blues rock. Particularly the young guitar player Gelling seemed a gifted musician. One of the advantages of the approach of 'C + B', as they are also known, is that they try to integrate their favourite examples from the bluesfield in a new style of their own - as opposed to the rather pretentious efforts af young white folk and blues singers who laborlously try to recreate a past they were never part af. Since 1966 Cuby lives the country-life of his neighbours at the farm in Grollo. After three days of rehearsing there (Eddie Boyd slept in the cupboard-bed; they had to stop at 7 p.m. because the little children of the village had to go to sleep), they made their way to Hilversum, Holland where Boyd, Gelling, Middel and 18-yearold Hans Waterman on drums recorded the "PRAISE THE BLUES" album the 9th of March 1967. As Boyd was handling the vacals, Cuby had to content himself with background vocals and percussions; he played this role with enthusiasm, because in those three days an atmosphere of mutual friendship and a lot of fun had been built up (Eddie Boyd's favourite saying was 'mellow, man, mellow' and he possessed a great capacity to enjoy himself). "Praise The Blues" contains ten compositions by Boyd (name originals, name re-recordings, e.g. 'Mr. Highwayman' from the Victor-days and 'Nuttin' 'But Trouble' and 'Twenty-four Hours' from his Chess-period), on two of which he plays organ, and Willie Dixon's 'Little Red Rooster', made famous by versions of Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke and The Rolling Stones. Apart from the musical qualities, the album also is a lasting souvenir to the years when the 52-years old American blues singer could be accompanied by three Dutch boys, aged 21,20 and 18. A combination nobody would have dreamt of, but which became possible in a period when the blues were, for the first time, not only an obscure form of American black entertainment, but also a vital musical form which was accepted by a new generation in other parts of the world as a very fine means of expression.

Nothin'but trouble
No place like home
Understanding
Twenty four hours
The hammond sings the blues
The big boat

Mr. Highwayman
I'm in your corner
Swinging boogie
Early grave
Little red rooster

CONDITION: The cover is fragile yet clean and laminated nicely on both sides with only light previous handling "EX" (excellent) gets a high levels rating...no split seams, no writing and very collectible...

The vinyl is all glossy clean on both sides...M- top level with clean Philips labels ...should be aan immediate keeper with this high quality.... 

                keeper copy!

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