Artist: Eddie Boyd
Title Of Album: Five Long Years
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: Evidence
Genre: Blues
Notes:
Five Long Years album by Eddie Boyd was released Sep 20, 1994 on the Evidence label. All songs written by Eddie Boyd except "Rosa Lee" (Jimmy Lee Robinson) and "Hound Dog" (Leiber/Stoller). Five Long Years CD music contains a single disc with 16 songs.
One of the first and best of Boyd's many overseas recordings, cut while he was in the midst of that auspicious 1965 American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe. Five Long Years songs While the caravan was ensconced in London, young producer Mike Vernon spirited Boyd and a rhythm section (guitarist Buddy Guy, bassist Jimmie Lee Robinson, and drummer Fred Below) off to the studio, where Boyd ran through some of his classics ("I'm Comin' Home," "24 Hours," the title track) and a few less familiar items while alternating between piano and organ. Five Long Years album ~ Bill Dahl
Recorded at Wessex Sound Studios, London, England on October 21, 1965; and in Hamburg, Germany on October 7, 1965. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
Personnel: Eddie Boyd (vocals, piano, organ); Jimmie Lee Robinson (vocals, guitar); Big Mama Thornton (vocals); Buddy Guy (guitar); Fred Below (drums).
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Tracklist:
1. Five Long Years
2. Hello Stranger
3. Where You Belong
4. I'm Coming Home
5. My Idea
6. The Big Question
7. Come on Home
8. Blue Monday Blues
9. Eddie's Blues (Eddie South Blues)
10. All the Way
11. Twenty-Four Hours
12. Rock the Rock
13. Five Long Years [Alternate Take]
14. The Big Question [Alternate Take]
15. Rosa Lee Swing
16. Hound Dog
