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Salemspider Ebay Page Sam Apple Pie s/t Very Rare original UK LP released on Decca Records in 1969.
1st UK Stereo pressing on the Unboxed Blue Decca Label, the sleeve is laminated on the front with a peep hole on the back.
Matrix No s Side One - XZAL.9099.P-1W Side Two - XZAL.9100.P-1W The British blues-rock boom was such a big deal at the end of the 1960s that plenty of also-ran bands got the chance to fill out the bottom of concert and festival bills, and also to record.
Sam Apple Pie were among them, and their self-titled debut album didn t offer much in the style that was out of the ordinary, though it did possess basic competence.
You needed more than basic competence to make a mark, however, even in a genre that could be as hidebound as British blues.
Sam Apple Pie didn t have those extra special somethings, relying too much upon stock blues riffs and good-time energy that might have been effective in a concert setting, but are pretty dull on record.
If any influence from their peers seems strongest, it s early Fleetwood Mac in both their stinging blues modes and their quieter, more reflective ones .
Songs like Stranger, Sometime Girl, and Winter of My Love, with its swooping slide, downcast lyrics, and minor keys, definitely recall some of the Mac s early tunes.
But this is way below the level of the Peter Green-helmed Fleetwood Mac in singing, playing, and songwriting, though at least the band wrote every song on the album except one Tiger Man King of the Jungle , where the macho bluster is so callow that it s uncertain whether it s a parody or a sincere attempt at the real thing .
Certainly the standout track, though the least typical one, is Annabelle, with a soft jazz-classical-rock blend -- and little of the blues -- that s, again, very reminiscent of some of Fleetwood Mac s work in the 1969-1970 period.
The sudden detour into a jazzy jam with flute in Moonlight Man is another promising avenue that, alas, wasn t explored elsewhere on this release.
Tracks Are :- Side One 1 Hawk 2 Winter Of My Love 3 Stranger 4 Swan Song 5 Tiger Man Side Two 1 Something Nation 2 Sometime Girl 3 Uncle Sam s Blues 4 Annabelle 5 Moonlight Man Released on Decca Records in 1969 Catalogue Number SKL-R 5005 Record is in Ex condition couple of light surface marks Sleeve is in Ex condition couple of crease lines and a date indentation from a pen in bottom right corner All Items must be paid for within 7 days
