The latest release from Aztec Music is the classic Blackfeather `Boppin` The Blues` album from 1972.
‘Boppin’ The Blues’ was the second album from Blackfeather. Original guitarist John Robinson doesn't want the first album ‘At The Mountains of Madness’ reissued. He wasn’t around for ‘Boppin’ The Blues’ which was given the go-ahead for Gil Matthews and Ted Lethborg to do their magic from singer Neale Johns.The original studio version of the number one hit ‘Boppin’ The Blues’ features Gil Matthews on drums. It is included on the reissue.
Johns recently performed as Blackfeather at Melbourne’s Crown Casino for the Aztec Records Rock of Ages show for the launch of this album.
Johns joined Blackfeather as a teenager. The progression of names sounds like a bad Monty Python or Spinal Tap sketch. “At one point it was Sweaty Betty and then it became Stoned Ostrich”, Johns says in the liner notes.
The ‘Boppin’ The Blues’ album captured a sound unique not only to Australia as a country by Australia at the time.
Tracklisting:
Pineapple
Gee Willikers
One Way Of Living
Red Head Rag
D. Blues
Get It On
Boppin’ The Blues
Lay Down Lady
Bonus tracks:
Boppin’ The Blues
Find Somebody
Slippin’ and Slidin’
Fly On My Nose
