The Blues Project |
Danny Kalb & Stefan Grossman ♦ Tommy Flanders  |
Back-up band (uncredited) for UK only release (12/65) for Phil Ochs' "electric" version of I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Back Door Man³ / Violets Of Dawn Dixon (2:33) / Andersen (2:55) Verve/Forecast 5004, 1/66 |
Live At The Cafe Au-Go-Go | |
Verve/Forecast FVS-9024 | |
4/66 BB [UK: N/R] | |
Side One | ||
Goin' Down Louisiana | Morganfield | 4:03 |
You Go, I'll Go With You | Dixon | 3:45 |
Catch The Wind | Leitch | 3:04 |
I Want To Be Your Driver | Berry | 2:23 |
Alberta | arr Kooper | 4:10 |
The Way My Baby Walks | Kulberg | 3:10 |
Side Two | ||
Violets Of Dawn | Andersen | 2:55 |
Back Door Man | Dixon | 3:16 |
Jelly Jelly Blues | Eckstine-Hines | 4:45 |
Spoonful | Dixon | 4:58 |
Who Do You Love? | McDaniel | 5:30 |
Note: Recorded during the Blues Bag four-day concert on the evenings of November 24-27, 1965 at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City
Tommy Flanders had left the band before this album was released.
Catch The Wind / I Want To Be Your Driver Leitch (3:05)/ Berry (2:28) Verve/Forecast 5013, 5/66 |
What do Sun Ra & The Blues Project have in common ??
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire¹ / Goin' Down Louisiana Brass-Kooper-Levine (2:27) / Morganfield (4:04) Verve/Forecast 5019, 7/66 |
Newport Folk Festival(7/24/66) |
➜ Live: 9/66, The Matrix, SF; released 2014: Live At The Matrix September 1966
Projections | |
Verve/Forecast FTS-3008 | |
11/66 BB [UK: 3/68] | |
Side One | ||
I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes | arr Kooper | 4:25 |
Steve's Song | Katz | 4:55 |
You Can't Catch Me | Berry | 4:14 |
Two Trains Running | Morganfield | 11:20 |
Side Two | ||
Wake Me, Shake Me | arr Kooper | 5:15 |
Cheryl's Goin' Home | Lind | 2:35 |
Flute Thing | Kooper | 5:58 |
Caress Me Baby | Reed | 7:12 |
Fly Away | Kooper | 3:30 |
Note: Steve's Song should be titled September Fifth, but there was a lack of communication when printing time came about.
I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes³ / The Way My Baby Walks Kooper (2:39) / Kulberg (3:10) Verve/Forecast 5032, 11/66 |
No Time Like The Right Time¹ / Steve's Song³ Kooper (2:40) / Katz (3:20) Verve/Forecast 5040, 3/67 BB |
Murray The K's Music In The Fifth Dimension, 3/25-4/2/67 |
Kooper & Katz quit to form Blood, Sweat & Tears
Monterey International Pop Festival(6/18/67) |
Newport Jazz Festival(7/2/67) |
Live At Town Hall | |
Verve/Forecast FTS-3025 | |
9/67 BB [UK: N/R] | |
Side One | ||
Introduction / (Electric) Flute Thing† | Kooper | 10:25 |
I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes‡ | Kooper | 5:33 |
Mean Old Southern | arr Kooper | 2:36 |
Side Two | ||
No Time Like The Right Time | Kooper | 2:48 |
Love Will Endure | Sky | 2:22 |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire | Brass-Kooper-Levine | 2:27 |
Wake Me, Shake Me‡ | Kooper | 9:21 |
Note: †Town Hall (5/5/67) and ‡Stony Brook University (11/19/66); the other tracks are studio recordngs with audience dubbed in
Gentle Dreams¹ / Lost In The Shuffle¹ Katz-Kulberg (2:40) / McDuffy-O'Brien (2:57) Verve/Forecast 5063, 9/67 |
Friday Night City¹ / Reputation¹ Flanders (2:25) / Hardin (4:35) Verve/Forecast 5064, 9/67 |
Danny Kalb quits for awhile
Planned Obsolescence | |
Verve/Forecast FTS-3046 | |
12/68 [UK: N/R] | |
Side One | ||
If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody | Clark | 4:31 |
Calypso | Kulberg-Roberts | 3:41 |
Frank 'N' Curt: Incensed | Gregory | 3:26 |
Turtle Dove | arr Kulberg | 3:24 |
Mojo Hannah | Williams-Paul-Paul | 3:26 |
Side Two | ||
Niartaes Hornpipe | Gregory | 2:09 |
Endless Sleep | Reynolds-Mance | 3:53 |
She Raised Her Hand | Kulberg-Roberts | 3:39 |
Dakota Recollection | Greene-Gregory-Kalb-Kretmar-Kulberg | 12:32 |
Note: More accurately, this is a Sea Train album, but due to legal issues, had to release under The Blues Project name.
Follow the Sea Train story here.
The Best Of The Blues Project Verve Forecast FTS-3077, 4/69 [UK: N/R] no unique tracks |
Crosscurrents | |
Cotillion 9007 | |
5/69 | |
Side One | ||
Devil Round The Moon† | Grossman | 4:46 |
Singing Songs Unsung† | Grossman | 2:22 |
Louise, Louise | McGhee | 3:12 |
Harvest Of Your Days† | Grossman | 3:53 |
Requiem For Patrick Kilroy | Grossman | 6:06 |
Side Two | ||
Eagles On The Half† | Grossman | 3:16 |
Death Letter Blues† | arr Kalb | 4:40 |
Crow Black Squall† | Grossman | 4:26 |
Woman Dear | Grossman | 3:10 |
Danish Drone | Grossman | 2:14 |
The Moonstone | |
Verve/Forecast FTS-3075 | |
10/69 [UK: 2/70] | |
Side One | ||
Since You've Been Gone | Flanders | 2:33 |
Blue Water Blue | Flanders | 3:02 |
Morning Misty Eyes | Flanders-Meckler | 3:15 |
A Detective Story | Flanders | 3:50 |
Purple And Blue | Flanders | 2:40 |
The Moonstone | Flanders | 4:32 |
Side Two | ||
By The Mailbox We Stood | Flanders | 3:12 |
Angel Of Mercy | Flanders | 3:40 |
Boston Girls | Flanders | 3:05 |
Sleepin' | Flanders | 3:49 |
She's My Love | Flanders | 4:55 |
The Moonstone / Between Purple And Blue Flanders (4:32) / Flanders (2:40) Verve/Forecast 3075, 10/69 |
Lazarus | |
Capitol SM-872 | |
9/71 [UK: N/R] | |
Side One | ||
It's Alright | Johnson-Turner | 3:16 |
Personal Mercy | Blumenfeld | 4:02 |
Black Night | Traditional | 5:40 |
Vision Of Flowers | Kalb | 3:16 |
Yellow Cab | Hardin | 2:49 |
Side Two | ||
Lazarus | Traditional | 8:58 |
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man | Berry | 3:16 |
Reachings | Kalb | 2:54 |
Midnight Rain | Blumenfeld | 2:39 |
So Far So Near | Kretmar | 2:52 |
Note: Two originals get together one last time. No magic this time around.
Jewish Blues Group Rocks Central Park (in Washington, DC) The Blues Project, the seminal blues/folk/rock band from The Big Apple, was started by Danny Kalb after working on Elektra's "Blues Project" compilation album. Al Kooper joined after his recording exploits with Dylan. Their albums recorded for Verve were kinda tinny-sounding and parts of Live At Town Hall were in fact studio recordings wih the crowd dubbed in. The group reunited in 1973 for a short tour that culminated in a concert at Central Park, before their beloved City fans. Al wrote in his book "Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor," that they were beat by the time of the Schaeffer gig and that the music actually came from a concert in DC at the Reunion Arena. But the crowd noises and intros were actually from the Central Park show! |
Reunion In Central Park | |
Sounds Of The South MCA2-8003 | |
11/73 [UK: N/R] | |
Side One | ||
Introduction: Ron Delsener | - | 0:37 |
Louisiana Blues | Morganfield | 3:38 |
Steves Song | Katz | 3:34 |
Introduction: Al And Andy | - | 0:42 |
I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes | Kooper | 5:26 |
Side Two | ||
You Can't Catch Me† | Berry | 4:13 |
Introduction: Al | - | 0:55 |
Fly Away† | Kooper | 3:28 |
Caress Me Baby | Reed | 7:36 |
Side Three | ||
Introduction: Andy | - | 0:35 |
Catch The Wind | Leitch | 4:22 |
(I Heard Her Say) Wake Me Shake Me | arr Kooper | 9:11 |
Side Four | ||
Introduction: Danny Kalb | - | 1:00 |
Two Trains Running† | Morganfield | 13:30 |
Note: Recorded Live at the Schaffer Festival in Central Park, New York on June 24th, 1973 [not really]
Inner sleeves has pictures of the group from earlier days and the concert (see notes)