Al Kooper

1971 to 78, and it's coming out November 6th.

It's a four-disc or five-LP collection featuring previously unreleased material, collaborations with Al Cooper, Leon Russell.

A preview track, Parade Outloons, is available now.

Next October marks the 10th anniversary of his passing.

You should read The Economist.

So very elegantly, as David Abbott was wont to do, he leads you on this logical, persuasive bit of conversation from Wonderful Me by Al Cooper to you actually find out a load more stuff And these were

cross-tracks

and

And I think the

story was that like, I think maybe it was like Al Cooper.

There was like, it was a label that was being distributed by CBS.

And he was like, you know, try this one.

I got Dylan on the phone.

Al Cooper is trying to kill me for stealing his weed.

So Garth and I end up in this club with a one-armed go-go dancer who Jack Ruby had been

having an affair with.

And that is Blood, Sweat & Tears from the very first album, Child as Father to the Man from 1968.

Al Cooper at the helm with Steve Katz on guitar.

And that is called Something Going On.

Star Swarm on the other side from Moksha out of Las Vegas.

it feels like for the first time he's referencing himself as sort of like a musical set of signifiers where there's songs on this record that kind of sound like mellower versions of what he did in the mid-60s.

And some of that has to do with Al Cooper coming back and having a very distinctive organ sound.

Not on all the record, but on some...

Because this record's interesting because it has this reputation as being a makeup for a self-portrait.

If it did, it was... for a very short period of time

Al Cooper is amazing he went on to of course Blood Sweat and Tears for a short little stint that he left but his book is fascinating but yours is just absolutely one it's a must read for anybody who really loves music and I'd love to know a little bit because you know album radio started and then a few years later something happened in Woodstock You were more.

I was.

My experience of Woodstock is probably not, you know, indicative of the wider impact of it.

Session Man turned solo artist Billy Preston, British R&B influenced mods like Graham Bond and Stevie Winwood, Georgie Fame, Rod Argent from the Zombies, Small Faces Ian McClagan, Brian Auger from the Trinity, yet more progressive and complex players like Keith Emerson from the Knights.

Matthew Fisher from Procol Harem, Rick Wakeman from Yes, and then you had American rockers like Al Cooper and Greg Allman who infused gospel-style fervor into secular pop music.

Now, wait a second, Brett, you left somebody off.

John Lord from Deep Purple.