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Spencer Davis
Mulberry Bush
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Time Seller
2. Don't Want You No More
3. Mr. Second Class
4. Sanity Inspector
5. Taking Out Time
6. Every Little Thing
7. Virginals Dream
8. Looking Back
9. Picture of Her
10. Just Like Me
11. Possession - Spencer Davis, Davis, Spencer Grou
12. Morning Sun
13. Feel Your Way
14. Picture of Her [*]
15. Just Like Me [*]
16. Possession [*] - Spencer Davis, Davis, Spencer Grou

CD Details

All Artists: Spencer Davis
Title: Mulberry Bush
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rpm Records UK
Release Date: 1/27/2003
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Soul, British Invasion
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 5013929518827, 766489789729, 8013252354816

Synopsis

Album Description

Unavailable for over a year this album is being re-issued due to collectors demand! The Spencer Davis Group will be well known to you through their classic R&B singles which are still club & radio favorites, thanks to great riffs, thumping production & mature vocals. 'Mulberry Bush' is a collection of original recordings from mid '67 sessions. If the '67 lineup of Spencer Davis, Pete York, Eddie Hardin, Phil Sawyer had released an album of the studio recordings they made together that summer this is what it would have been. As it was some of the tracks appeared on the 'Mulberry Bush' film soundtrack, a couple on singles, a few on the 'New Face On' album & all in 1968 (notable exception of the 'Time Seller' single), plus some three bonus tracks, 'Picture Of Her', 'Just Like Me', & 'Possession'. When Phil Sawyer left the group in December 1967 many of that summers recordings were remixed or overdubbed with new vocals. So

CD Reviews

Could Have Been Davis' First Post Winwood Album!

Morten Vindberg | Denmark | 03/21/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This CD collection contains material recorded by Spencer Davis' 1967 line-up; after the Winwood brothers had left. Eddie Hardin on keyboards and vocals and Phil Sawyer on guitar and vocals were the new members.

The new band soon began recording new material for future singles and a new album; some songs eventually turned up on the soundtrack album "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" to which Stevie Winwood's Traffic also contributed a couple of songs.

Other 1967 recordings showed up on their 1968 album "With Their New Face on". By this time Phil Sawyer had already left the band, and it was decided to add new vocals to the tracks where Sawyer had sung the lead.

This CD contains the original versions of these songs.

The opening track "Time Seller", which was also their first single is a typical 1967 psychedelia pop-piece; could have been Creation or Mike DÁbo's Manfred Mann.

The B-side "Don't Want You no More" is classical S.D. Group sound, and apart from the vocals you might mistake it for the original band.

The follow-up single "Mr Second Class" / "Sanity Inspector" is an even stronger release with both tracks having hit-potential. I epecially like "Sanity Inspector", which I again find very much sounding like Mike DÁbo.

All four tracks were written by band-members Davis/Hardin.

The soundtrack songs are also a mixture of pscychedelia and R&B. Good recordings, but apart from Davis'and Sawyer's outstanding "Looking Back" not particularly memorable.

The previously unreleased version of "Feel Your Way" ( originally released on "With Their New face On" ) is another highlight - sounds a lot like the Yardbirds!

A great release of music from one of the most influential bands of the 1960's.

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