M- 1970 TON-TON MACOUTE JENKINS + DUANE ALLMAN Blues

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  RARE 1970 ORIG BLUES COOKER WITH DUANE ALLMAN !

                    Johnny Jenkins

                   Ton-Ton Macoute

\                                            USA - (yellow) Atco Records - 33 - 331

RARE, 1970 original first pressing in thick textured gatefold cover...Johnny Jenkins was an American left-handed blues guitarist, who helped launch the career of Otis Redding. His flamboyant style of guitar playing also influenced Jimi Hendrix, who would later use some of Jenkins's tricks in his stage show 

Recorded in 1969/1970, "TON-TON MACOUTE"  is a long lost bluesy Southern rock album with the late, great Duane Allman and Dickey Betts  from the ALLMAN Brothers...

Duane Allman's bottle-neck slide work is legendary. On this historic work you can hear for yourself that, both on electric and acoustic guitars, the legend is elegantly understated. Just as the man was. Though brilliant, his playing never dominates the music here. The rhythm section is made up of solid studio veterans, whose playing consistently supports the songs and the singer.

Stylistically varied, from the New Orleans "sassyness" of Walk On Gilded Splinters to the straight-ahead drive of Bad News ("...bad news travels like wild fire, good news travels slow, that's why they call me Bad News every place I go...") the song selection and the production is superbly balanced. One could not begin to adequately praise the assembled rhythm section. They are not just 'hired guns' but obviously applied loving care in crafting this jewel of the Rhythm & Blues genre. Johnny Jenkins, though not well known, had the absolutely necessary swagger to step up and front a group of this calibre. His voice is leathery yet warmly confiding. He may never have had a huge following but even a cursory listen bears out that Johnny Jenkins had "paid his dues" on countless bandstands before he walked into this session. Hearing this music makes the listener feel afresh the abject pain of losing Berry Oakley and Duane Allman. If you like your Blues where matchless playing skills predominate and a peerless production provides a confident yet discrete setting, you will enjoy this album. Over 40 years oward this album has lost none of its immediacy, sparkle or wine-warm glow. No stars or limousines here, friends, just the truth in blues etched deeply in every groove.

I Walk on Gilded Splinters

5:23

Leaving Drunk

4:07

Blind Bats & Swamp Rats

4:46

Rollin' Stone

4:48

B:

Sick and Tired

4:11

Down Along the Cove

3:03

Bad News

3:21

Dimples

2:40

Voodoo in You

4:42

CONDITION:

The cover: the thick grainy gatefold cover has a very small promo circle at top left and what appears to be a very minor, small sticker stain at top right. things that should be insignificant to most everybody...Solid and crisp "EX" (excellent) should be a nice addition to a collection

The vinyl:  all glossy clean and smooth over both sides M- TOP level

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record