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PETER GREEN’S FLEETWOOD MAC

Before The Beginning 1968-1970 Rare Live & Demo Sessions SONY LEGACY

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“CAN blue men sing the whites?”, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band sang in 1968, satirising the strange journey of the music of black sharecroppers from the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to the heart of ’60s British pop culture.

By the late 1960s, British bands playing the music of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker et al were everywhere. Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin all plundered the blues repertoire, yet their wider musical vision

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