Super Session (Bonus Tracks) CD

MUSIC

POP

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Albert's Shuffle ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

2. Stop ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

3. Man's Temptation ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

4. His Holy Modal Majesty ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

5. Really ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

7. Season Of The Witch ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

8. You Don't Love Me ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

9. Harvey's Tune ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

10. Albert's Shuffle - (mix without horns, previously unreleased) ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

11. Season Of The Witch - (mix without horns, previously unreleased) ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

12. Blues For Nothing - (studio outtake) ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

13. Fat Grey Cloud - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Mike Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Full performer name: Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills.
	Personnel: Mike Bloomfield (electric guitar); Al Kooper (vocals, 12-string & electric guitars, piano, organ, ondioline); Steve Stills (electric guitar); Barry Goldberg (electric piano); Harvey Brooks (bass); Eddie Hoh (drums).
	Includes liner notes by Al Kooper, Michael Thomas.
	Full performer name: Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills.
	Personnel: Mike Bloomfield (electric guitar); Al Kooper (piano, organ, ondioline, vocals, 12-string & electric guitars); Steve Stills (electric guitar); Barry Goldberg (electric piano); Harvey Brooks (bass); Eddie Hoh (drums).
	Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.
	Includes liner notes by Michael Thomas.
	A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
	All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth.
Producer: Al Kooper
Engineer: Roy Halee; Fred Catero

Artist Overview

Had Al Kooper only ever played the universally recognizable organ part in Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," his place in rock history would be assured. But Kooper's credits as a session player (on guitar and organ), producer, and songwriter are much more extensive. In addition to touring with Dylan in 1965, he also played with Mike Bloomfield, the Rolling Stones, B.B. King, Cream, and the Who, and formed the bands The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat, & Tears. As a producer for Columbia Records Kooper signed the Zombies, and later Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose first three records he also produced. Kooper has appeared on hundreds of albums, and his original music, such as Blood, Sweat, & Tears' debut, THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN, and SUPER SESSION (featuring Stephen Stills) are considered classics by rock intelligentsia.

Artist Influences
Bessie Smith | Bob Dylan | Howlin' Wolf | The Drifters (US) | The Sir Douglas Quintet

Associated Artists and Works

	Ford, Robben
	Gravenites, Nick
	Hard Riot (Hard Rock)
	Kooper, Al
	Mike Bloomfield (Guitar)
	Turner, Big Joe (Modern Blues)

Technical Info

	Release Date : 04/08/2003
	Original Release Date : 1968
	Catalog ID : 63406
	Label : Sony Music Distribution (USA)
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : AAD
	UPC : 00074646340622

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (10/12/68, p.28)
- "...The Bloomfield side is particularly excellent....There is a firmness, a real steady handedness, a determinedly sure feeling to what he puts out here..."

Uncut (6/03, p.133)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...These Dylan sidekicks cut the mustard..."

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Super Session (Bonus Tracks) (1968)

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