UUSI 4 x Buddy Miles Masterpiece Album 2CD (2021) - Ilmainen Toimitus

Four (4) Rare Fantastic & Classic

Buddy Miles Albums 2CD (2021)

- Expressway To Your Skull 1968

- Electric Church 1969

- Them Changes 1970

- We Got To Live Together 1970

Its impossible to talk about Buddy Miles

without mentioning Jimi Hendrix.

Best known as the drummer in Jimi Hen-

drix's Band of Gypsys, Buddy Miles also

had a lengthy solo career that drew from

rock blues soul and funk in varying com-

binations.

Buddy Miles debut at the Monterey Pop

Festival the Electric Flag which splintered

in 1968.

Miles split to form his own group, the si-

milarly eclectic Buddy Miles Express.

Signed to Mercury, the group issued its

debut album, Expressway to Your Skull,

in 1968, with Miles' fellow Monterey Pop

alum Jimi Hendrix in the producer's chair.

In turn, Miles played on Hendrix's Electric

Ladyland album. Hendrix also produced

the Miles Express' follow-up 1969's Elec-

tric Church. Hendrix, Miles, and bassist

Billy Cox formed Band of Gypsys, one of

the first all-Black rock bands. Miles depar-

ted Band of Gypsys in 1970, replaced by

Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell.

Genre:

Funk, blues-rock, funk-rock,

soul-rock, hard-rock, classic rock

Disc 1

Buddy Miles Express:

Expressway To Your Skull (1968)

Although Buddy Miles' alchemical fusion

of psychedelia, blues, and soul did not

truly coalesce until his masterpiece Them

Changes, his debut LP, Expressway to

Your Skull, remains an inspired and origi-

nal statement of intent, a record that's

both timeless and an unmistakable pro-

duct of counterculture consciousness.

Each of the album's seven songs is a fas-

cinating montage of sounds and styles -

acid-fuzz guitar collides with zig-zagging

funk horns and shrieking keyboards meet

juke joint blues riffs head on. The mate-

rial is brilliant, its twists and turns naviga-

ted by Miles' deeply soulful vocals and

monster drumming.

01. Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIWIS4evMQ

02. Let Your Lovelight Shine

03. Dont Mess With Cupid

04. Funky Mule

05. Youre The One (That I Adore)

06. Wrap It Up

07. Spot On The Wall

Buddy Miles Express:

Electric Church (1969)

More than half of the original LP produ-

ced by the Master Himself, Jimi Hendrix.

Buddy Miles' second album (credited to

Buddy Miles Express) gets most of its at-

tention in retrospect for the role of Jimi

Hendrix who produced part of it and play-

ed on some tracks as well. On its own

merits, though, it's a fairly respectable

soul-rock album. Hendrix was referring

to his own material as "electric church"

music on some occasions in the late 60s,

and likely he had something like the soul-

funk-rock fusion of Band of Gypsys in

mind when he conceived this. Of course

Miles played in Band of Gypsys. His wri-

ting and singing benefit from not being

placed within the context of a band in

which Hendrix was primarily responsible

for those functions, as was the case on

the Band of Gypsys album. The songs

are mostly vehicles for Miles' high soulful

vocals and the energetic funky arrange-

ments, but as such things go they're pret-

ty solid and pleasurable. "69 Freedom

Special" is a true highlight which has so-

me good Hendrix wah-wah licks and

"Miss Lady," on which Jimi plays in a mo-

re conventional R&B style. While the ma-

jority of this is feel-good and brassy Miles

does show he's capable of handling more

tender soul melodies and sentiments in

"Cigarettes & Coffee" and "My Chant."

08. Miss Lady

09. 69 Freedom Special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8kfqXEUZ78

10. Cigarettes & Coffee

11. Destructive Love

12. Texas

13. My Chant

14. Wrap It Up

Disc 2

Buddy Miles:

Them Changes (1970)

This 1970 release by former Band of

Gypsy's drummer Buddy Miles is, quite

simply, one of the great lost treasures of

soul-inspired rock music. From the funky

drive of the title track to Miles' plaintive

singing on "I Still Love You, Anyway" and

Greg Allman's "Dreams," the album is fil-

led with the best qualities of both genres.

Not only does Miles prove himself to be a

great interpreter of songs, but with the tit-

le track and "Heart's Delight," he demon-

strates his ability to write solid material on

his own. Complemented by the Memphis

Horns, Miles' songs soar and swing as

hard as any Stax release, and his voice

combines the nuance of soul singing with

the grit of rock. Them Changes is defini-

tely a true masterpiece.

01. Them Changes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DDbjm_fId8

The song Them Changes made the US

Top 40 spending nearly 18 months (!)

on the charts.

02. I Still Love You, Anyway

03. Hearts Delight

04. Dreams

05. Down By The River

06. Memphis Train

07. Paul B. Allen, Omaha, Nebraska

08. Your Feeling Is Mine

Buddy Miles:

We Got To Live Together (1970)

Another solid BM album which will not

let the listener down. All killer, no filler.

09. Runaway Child (Little Miss Nothin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kcgKK5Ab1s

10. Walking Down The Highway

11. Easy Greasy

12. We Got To Live Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EnAmUUzlM

13. Take It Off Him And Put It On Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61pqJAEVpv0

Digitaalinen remasterointi ja

2CD:n julkaisu: 2021

Extensive new liner notes.

Levy-yhtiö: BGO (Mercury)

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