Artist:  Eric Burdon and Jimmy Witherspoon

Title:  Black & White Blues

Date:  1976

Label:  LA Records   GG58001

Album Design:   Eric Chan / Gribbitti 

Notes:  An album I picked up right after high school. After a few plays it sounded very familiar and as I discovered while digging through the piles of vinyl around my room it had been released as a Jimmy Witherspoon album released in 1971 called Guilty. The combination of Burdon and Witherspoon works out well and there are a few very nice tunes here. Even the weaker material is a fun listen. You want the blues, well here's the blues. The cover has a road shot of the two principals enjoying the ride.

Line Up:

Eric Burdon: Vocals
Jimmy Witherspoon: Vocals
Bob Mercereau, Lee Oskar: Harmonica
Papa Dee Allen: Congas
Harold Brown, George Suranovich: Drums
Charles Miller: Tenor Saxophone
Howard Scott, John Sterling: Guitar
Lonnie Jordan, Terry Ryan: Piano, Organ
B.B. Dickerson, Kim Kesterson: bass

…and on location with the Far Out Remote Unit - San Quentin Prison Band (featuring Ike White on guitar)

Track Listing

Side 1

I've Been Drifting/Once upon a Time
Steamroller
The Laws Must Change
Have Mercy Judge
Going Down Slow

Side 2

Soledad
Home Dream
Headin' for Home
The Time Has Come