Time: 35:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back
01. Ninety Nine (2:28)
02. Sweet Little Angel (4:35)
03. Baby Please Don't Go (7:52)
04. Evil (2:50)
05. Sunday Morning Revival (0:47)
06. Long Distance Call (5:04)
07. Dissatisfied (3:08)
08. Checkin' On My Baby (2:45)
09. Dust My Broom (5:28)
"As I grew to love the blues, I wanted to try to see if we could come up with something worthy of recording, and the only way to do that was to actually try it." ~Jimmy Fox (James Gang/Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade)
Though once believed to have been lost or to only exist in theory, the lone recording by The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade featuring Mr. Stress – consisting of Cleveland legends Glenn Schwartz (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fox (drums), Bill “Mr. Stress” Miller (vocals/harmonica), Tom Kriss (bass), Rich Kriss (guitar/vocals), and Mike Sands (piano) – is finally being released for music fans to savor and enjoy.
Taped one Sunday morning in the Spring of 1967, this is a piece of true Cleveland folklore that grew out of the Sunday jam sessions at the east side’s The Coffeehouse. This recording could be considered a soundtrack for the University Circle district (a then gathering place for motorcycle gangs, beatniks, hippies, counter-culture personalities) as it became the center of Cleveland's underground from roughly 1965 through 1968.
Glenn Schwartz, Jimmy Fox, and Tom Kriss were three of the then five members of the James Gang who respectively played lead guitar, drums, and bass. By the spring of 1967 the James Gang were quickly becoming one of the most beloved bands in Cleveland and the surrounding areas. When Schwartz left the James Gang suddenly in late 1967 to eventually join Pacific Gas & Electric in California, his guitar pupil, Joe Walsh (The Eagles), took over for him and soon led the James Gang to international success.
Guitarist Rich Kriss was between being a member of Chuck Bates & The Barons (whose drummer, Steve Nemeth, would go on to local fame as progressive Cleveland radio DJ Doc Nemo) and The Joyful Wisdom, led by the late Dave Griggs who, next to Schwartz and Robert Jr. Lockwood, was considered one of the finest blues guitarists in Cleveland.
Blues harpist and vocalist Bill “Mr. Stress” Miller and pianist Mike Sands were members of an up and coming hard Chicago-style blues group called The Mr. Stress Blues Band. Formed in the late summer of 1966, the group would soon become a long running Cleveland institution through which such luminaries as Chrissie Hynde, Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs), and Anton Fier (Feelies/Lounge Lizards/X__X) would pass through.
This fine piece of living, breathing Cleveland audio history is much more than just another blues jam session.
Though once believed to have been lost or to only exist in theory, the lone recording by The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade featuring Mr. Stress – consisting of Cleveland legends Glenn Schwartz (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fox (drums), Bill “Mr. Stress” Miller (vocals/harmonica), Tom Kriss (bass), Rich Kriss (guitar/vocals), and Mike Sands (piano) – is finally being released for music fans to savor and enjoy.
Taped one Sunday morning in the Spring of 1967, this is a piece of true Cleveland folklore that grew out of the Sunday jam sessions at the east side’s The Coffeehouse. This recording could be considered a soundtrack for the University Circle district (a then gathering place for motorcycle gangs, beatniks, hippies, counter-culture personalities) as it became the center of Cleveland's underground from roughly 1965 through 1968.
Glenn Schwartz, Jimmy Fox, and Tom Kriss were three of the then five members of the James Gang who respectively played lead guitar, drums, and bass. By the spring of 1967 the James Gang were quickly becoming one of the most beloved bands in Cleveland and the surrounding areas. When Schwartz left the James Gang suddenly in late 1967 to eventually join Pacific Gas & Electric in California, his guitar pupil, Joe Walsh (The Eagles), took over for him and soon led the James Gang to international success.
Guitarist Rich Kriss was between being a member of Chuck Bates & The Barons (whose drummer, Steve Nemeth, would go on to local fame as progressive Cleveland radio DJ Doc Nemo) and The Joyful Wisdom, led by the late Dave Griggs who, next to Schwartz and Robert Jr. Lockwood, was considered one of the finest blues guitarists in Cleveland.
Blues harpist and vocalist Bill “Mr. Stress” Miller and pianist Mike Sands were members of an up and coming hard Chicago-style blues group called The Mr. Stress Blues Band. Formed in the late summer of 1966, the group would soon become a long running Cleveland institution through which such luminaries as Chrissie Hynde, Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs), and Anton Fier (Feelies/Lounge Lizards/X__X) would pass through.
This fine piece of living, breathing Cleveland audio history is much more than just another blues jam session.
Sunday Morning Revival
4 comments:
And another 96kb/s. Wouldn't it be an idea to check bitrates before posting?
No, this is not another 96kbps. This was not reencoded from 96kbps to 320kbps.
Frequencies 'per si' don't define the rip quality. There's another factors that we have to consider like how or when the recordings were made.
As I, you should have lots of old stuff, flacs or 320 kbps rips, with frequencies not higher than 11 or 12 KHz/s. Even in today CDs, there's some that don't have 22.1 KHz as higher frequency and are below 20 KHz.
For your information, before I post this, I checked the frequencies. It don't have the frequencies that we were expecting from a modern studio recording. But this is not the case. This recording was made using a cassette rec/player in 1967 and for the time and the device used 16 KHz as higher frequency is very good. For me, is a real 320 kbps that's why I decided to post it. If you have different conclusions and this is not a 320 kbps rip, Shift+Delete will solve your problem my friend.
All clear Bluestender. Did not read the info when it was actually recorded. My fault. Checked the release year, wich says 2016, so that is why the bitrate surprised me. I appologize for my comment.
Apologies not needed my friend :)
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