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Harvey, Alex - And His Soul Band (CD)

Genre:

Progressive

Label:

Walhalla

Format:

CD

Condition:

New


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Original release 1963
Re-issue 2006 Walhalla


TRACKLIST:

Framed
I Ain't Worrying Baby
Backwater Blues
Let The Good Times Roll
Going Home
I've Got My Mojo Working
Teens Ville USA
New Orleans
Bo Diddley is A Gunslinger
When I Grow To Old To Rock
Evil Hearted Man
I Just Wanna Make Love To You
The Blind Man
Reeling And Rocking

All-Music Guide REVIEW

He would come to fame in the 1970s for offering eccentric, theatrical rock, but Alex Harvey came from an R&B background that was, like so many other groups from the British Isles, cultivated by long residences in Hamburg, Germany. This LP was apparently the first full-blown rock & roll album by a Scottish artist, and though it hardly stands up as one of the era's major statements, it's likable enough in its own way. Apparently the backing group on this recording -- made at a Hamburg club, or simulated to sound like a show -- doesn't feature the actual Soul Band, but musicians from the obscure Liverpool group Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes. Anyway, the music is pretty standard British R&B, perhaps a bit more soul-oriented than most, including horns. The set features some usual suspect covers -- Let The Good Times Roll, I Just Wanna Make Love To You, New Orleans, I've Got My Mojo Working -- along with less well-traveled warhorses. Standouts include the sax-driven instrumental Teensville USA and the acoustic blues The Blind Man. A pleasant, though not trailblazing, historical document with warm and sincere vocals by Alex. A German version of this album, oddly, includes a bonus studio track from the same era, a scorching cover of Chuck Berry's Reeling And Rocking. - Richie Unterberger

Alex Harvey (* 5. Februar 1935 in Glasgow, Schottland; † 4. Februar 1982 in Zeebrugge, Belgien) war ein schottischer Rockmusiker. Mit seiner Sensational Alex Harvey Band war er in den 1970ern einer der Protagonisten des Glam Rock.

Seine musikalischen Wurzeln hatte Harvey in Dixieland- und Skiffle-Musik, die in den 1950ern in Großbritannien populär waren. Er gewann einen Wettbewerb, in dem Schottlands Antwort auf Tommy Steele gesucht wurde.

1959 hatte Harvey seine eigene Band, Alex Harvey's Big Soul Band, die mit mäßigem Erfolg Blues und Rock'n'Roll spielte und auch Engagements in Hamburg hatte. 1967 gründete Harvey Giant Moth, eine kurzlebige psychedelische Band. Anschließend spielte er in der Londoner Produktion des Musicals Hair.

1972 entstand die Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB). Neben Harvey gehörten Zal Cleminson (Gitarre), Chris Glen (Bass) sowie die Cousins Ted (Schlagzeug) und Hugh McKenna (Keyboards) dazu, die zuvor unter dem Namen Tear Gas zusammen gespielt hatten. Mit dieser Gruppe hatte Harvey seine größten musikalischen und kommerziellen Erfolge. Die Band löste sich 1978 auf.

Alex Harvey starb während einer Tournee in Belgien an einem Herzinfarkt, einen Tag vor seinem 47. Geburtstag.