Projections

by The Blues Project

Projections cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1966
  • Label: Verve Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:06
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Al Kooper, Muddy Waters, Andy Kulberg, Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Steve Katz, Bob Lind

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring Al Kooper on keyboards and Danny Kalb on guitar, this New York quintet expands traditional Chicago blues with jazz improvisation and electric folk structures. The lengthy, instrumental centerpiece 'Flute Thing' demonstrates their ability to stretch standard blues-rock forms into extended, psychedelic jamming.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes (4:27)
  2. Steve's Song (4:57)
  3. You Can't Catch Me (4:17)
  4. Two Trains Running (11:29)
  5. Wake Me, Shake Me (5:20)
  6. Cheryl's Going Home (2:38)
  7. Flute Thing (6:03)
  8. Caress Me Baby (7:18)
  9. Fly Away (3:34)

Credits

  • The Blues Project - primary artist
  • Ken Kendall - design [cover design]
  • Val Valentin - engineer [director of engineering]
  • Sid Bernstein - liner notes
  • Jim Marshall - photography by [cover photo]
  • Marcus James - producer
  • Tom Wilson - producer
  • Jerry Schoenbaum - supervised by [production supervisor]
  • Al Kooper - arranged by, written-by
  • Steve Katz - written-by, guitar harmonica
  • Chuck Berry - written-by
  • McKinley Morganfield - written-by
  • Bob Lind - written-by
  • Jimmy Reed - written-by
  • Andy Kulberg - bass flute

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