Woke up this morning......and put on a blues album. "Blues Helping" by Love Sculpture to be exact. It's one of those rare mornings where it's just me and the dog and I don't have to be quiet so i can actually enjoy the bass response of ye olde JBL speakers.
I think I'm missing my friend Ted really. He was the guy who used to rave about Love Sculpture albums. Love Sculpture was Dave Edmunds first band. Ted and I collected records in different areas with a lot of overlap. He had a job from the womb. So though he was pretty thrifty, his early record collection dusted mine.
Let me clarify. Ted isn't dead, he just appears to be stuck in a dead-end and is afraid to accept help. Anyway, Love Sculpture was Dave trying on many hats until he found the updated roots rock that would cement his rep in the late 70's mid-80s. He admitted in Trouser Press that "Blues Helping" was white boys trying to cash in on the other white boys playing the blues in the mid-sixties.
When I pulled this one out, I could tell it had barely been played. This was an album I knew from hanging out at Ted's. I must have bought it cheap on a record shopping trip because it has the cut out marking. It's on EMI-America and Digitally remastered from 2-track tape to vinyl. So I'm guessing it was reissued mid- to late 1980's. I knew it was a worthy addition but probably didn't to absorb it.
My mixtape highlight cuts would be "Wang Dang Doodle" and "On the road again" though Canned Heat did it better. Ted where art thou?