Live At The BBC Stefan Grossman

• 1Medley. Hot Dogs - Cincinnati Flow Rag - New York City Rag (Live John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)02:43
• 2So They Say (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)03:11
• 3Soldier's March (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)05:41
• 4Little Sally Walker (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)02:58
• 5Mississippi Blues (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)03:21
• 6I'm Satisfied And Tickled Too (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)01:57
• 7Roll And Tumble Blues (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)03:35
• 8Poor Boy A Long Way From Home (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)05:20
• 9High Society (John Peel Sunday Concert, 28 February 1971)03:36
• 10All My Friends Are Gone (Night Ride, 5 June 1968)03:30
• 11Soldier's March (Mike Raven Show, 5 December 1970)03:40
• 12Mississippi Blues #2 (Mike Raven Show, 5 December 1970)02:42
• 13Poor Boy A Long Way From Home (Mike Raven Show, 5 December 1970)04:04
• 14I'm Satisfied And Tickled Too (Mike Raven Show, 5 December 1970)02:01
• 15Make Believe Stunt (Mike Raven Show, 5 December 1970)02:24
• 16Religious Trainfare Blues (The Blues Roll On, 9 July 1968)03:01
• 17Interview with Alexis Korner (The Blues Roll On, 9 July 1968)03:23
• 18Whistlin' Blues (The Blues Roll On, 9 July 1968)02:24
• 19Medley. Hot Dogs - Cincinnati Flow Rag - New York City Rag (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)02:47
• 20Teddy Roosevelt (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)02:22
• 21The Theme From 'Joe Hill' (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)04:06
• 22River Of Jordan (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)04:03
• 23Medley. Hot Dogs - Cincinnati Flow Rag - New York Rag (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)02:04
• 24Song For A Brother (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)08:55
• 25Candy Man (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)05:46
• 26Mississippi Blues (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)02:50
• 27My Travelling Song (John Peel Sunday Concert, 2 November 1971)03:19
• 28Medley. Hot Dogs · Cincinnati Flow Rag · New York City Rag (Old Grey Whistle Test, 19 March 1974)02:15
• 29Memphis Jellyroll (Old Grey Whistle Test, 19 March 1974)03:29
• 30Dallas Rag (In Concert, 23 March 1974)02:07
• 31My Creole Belle (In Concert, 23 March 1974)03:59
• 32Oh, Babe It Ain't No Lie (In Concert, 26 February 1976)03:03
• 33I'm So Glad (In Concert, 26 February 1976)03:02
• 34Requiem For Patrick Kilroy (In Concert, 26 February 1976)05:37
• 35Danish Drone (In Concert, 26 February 1976)04:08
• 36Mississippi Swamp March (In Concert, 26 February 1976)06:05
• 37Bermuda Triangle Exit (In Concert, 26 February 1976)03:09
• 38Relax Your Mind (In Concert, 26 February 1976)04:19
• 39I Am A Pilgrim (In Concert, 26 February 1976)04:17
• 40Eighth Of January (In Concert, 26 February 1976)03:12
• 41Bermuda Triangle Exit (In Concert, 2 July 1977)03:17
• 42I'm Satisfied And Tickled Too (In Concert, 2 July 1977)02:11
• 43Brownsville Blues (In Concert, 2 July 1977)03:42
• 44Special Rider Blues (In Concert, 2 July 1977)04:34
• 45Someday Baby (In Concert, 2 July 1977)03:33
• 46Twelve Sticks (In Concert, 2 July 1977)03:00
• 47Blues Medley. The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers - Struttin’ Rag (In Concert, 2 July 1977)06:27
• 48Ragtime Mama Blues (In Concert, 2 July 1977)02:13
• 49Moon Goin' Down (In Concert, 2 July 1977)05:04
• 50Pete Drummond Announcement (In Concert, 2 July 1977)00:20
• 51Pallet On Your Floor (In Concert, 2 July 1977)04:10
• 52Looper's Corner (In Concert, 29 July 1978)03:08
• 53Snap A Little Owl (In Concert, 29 July 1978)03:50
• 54All Things Parallel Must Converge (In Concert, 29 July 1978)05:12
• 55Medley. Bonaparte's Retreat - Billy In The Lowground (In Concert, 29 July 1978)04:01
• 56Spirit Levels (In Concert, 29 July 1978)05:23
• 57Looper's Corner (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)02:18
• 58Bermuda Triangle Exit (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)03:25
• 59Blues For The Mann (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)04:42
• 60Great Dreams From Heaven (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)04:46
• 61Lord Franklin (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)03:19
• 62Medley Bonaparte's Retreat - Billy In The Lowground (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)02:58
• 63Mississippi Blues #3 (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)04:59
• 64Minuet in D Minor (Reel To Reel, 26 March 1987)03:18
• Total Runtime03:54:15

Info for Live At The BBC

World-renowned archivist, author and blues educator, Stefan Grossman learned at the feet of the greats during the 60s folk and blues revival in the US. He appeared on a few records in the mid-60s before making his debut album How To Play Blues Guitar (Elektra, 1966). As with Jimi Hendrix, his arrival in the UK marked the true start of his career. “I was here to sight-see,” Stefan told an interviewer in 1975, “and at that point I had never played solo. I went to see the Young Tradition at a club. They said, ‘Why don’t you play?’ I did and it was very enjoyable. I got good reviews from that guest spot… I was playing music 26 hours a day, but it took me a long time to realise I was a musician.”

Two albums for Fontana (1968-69) were followed by seven for Transatlantic (1970–77), and then a few for his own label Kicking Mule and for Shanachie (1978-90). Between 1968-87, Stefan lived in Britain and later Italy, writing books, making records and touring exclusively in Britain and Europe. He moved back to the States in 1987 and withdrew from touring for many years, focusing on his label venture, Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop, which continues to be the gold standard for instructional audio-visual material on folk, blues and jazz playing styles alongside an impressive catalogue of historical performances.

This Repertoire box set does for Stefan what he has done for many others: it brings together rare and previously unreleased performances and anthologises them for posterity and sheer enjoyment. Curated, in collaboration with the artist, by Bert Jansch biographer Colin Harper and annotated by legendary British folk journalist Robin Denselow (whose notes accompanied Stefan’s very first live album back in 1973), Stefan Grossman Live at the BBC precisely covers his ‘European era’ of 1968-1987 with four hours of BBC studio sessions and concert recordings that are almost all previously unreleased.

A 1968 Alexis Korner session showcases Stefan the blues scholar, while two 1971 John Peel Sunday Concerts find him at ease as the rambunctious ringmaster at a counter-cultural circus. The later concerts reveal Stefan as an elder statesman of the 60s folk revival, with that dry-as-dust humour intact and his playing even better than ever. This 4-album set is an exhilarating alternative anthology of Stefan Grossman’s most prolific and influential years, packed with sensational solo performances and duets with a coterie of his greatest peers in the acoustic guitar world – John Renbourn, Duck Baker and Jo-Ann Kelly, among them.

Stefan Grossman, vocals, guitar

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