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       "DOME" COVER FIRST PRINT FROM 48 YEARS AGO
 
         1968  ORIGINAL  HARD BLUES LEGEND !

                               ..

           THE LOVE SCULPTURE

                ...Blues Helping...

               

                                      

                    USA - Rare Earth Records - RS 505

Original ...

Scarce Collection copy

1968 first pressing in the famous rounded (dome) cover design.

48 years old, a bluesrock, British 60's blues boom legend:

The LOVE SCUPLTURE was a bold powerful trio led by young Dave Edmunds who emerged as a guitar hero of extreme prowess. As hyperkinetic blues albums by white English kids go, this is a great one. Dave Edmunds, armed only with a 1959 Gibson 335 and a 100-watt Marshall stack, cranks through both sides of this hardblues rocker with reckless abandon and gobs of technique. Backup support is handled by bassist John Williams and drummer Bob Jones, who do their best to keep up and provide a rhythmic foundation for Edmunds to wail over. Edmunds also handled nearly all the vocals, and what makes this album worthwhile is the revved-up guitar playing, especially when Edmunds shreds both Freddy King's "The Stumble" and Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle.

The album is an excellent piece of vintage 1968 blues rock with yet another highlight being Canned Heat's "On The Road Again" that shines because of Edmunds' guitar power. The album is incredible considering Edmunds' guitar exhibition within a blues rock structure. "B;ues Helping" did accomplish the group's goal of allowing a second album to be recorded, the absolutely stunning, psychedelic classic "Forms and Feelings" recorded a year later in 1969. Never approaching the fame of other power trios such as Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Love Sculpture's recordings hold up incredibly well over the 40+ years passed since the releases of their two Lp's.

"The Stumble" "3 O'Clock Blues" "I Believe to My Soul" "So Unkind" "Summertime" "On The Road Again" "Don't Answer the Door" "Wang Dang Doodle" "Come Back Baby" "Shake Your Hips" "Blues Helping"

CONDITION: The cover: custom dome designed cover is "EX" (excellent) a shade away from M- or a handling crease to far left side away from a M- front; otherwise sharp all over ... the back cover has a 'touch' of shelf wear starting = most copies have much more wear as the back cover is extremely prone to wear! ...so, all in all, harder to find THIS clean than you think ...guaranteed first issue. no split seams, no bends, no writing, no delete marks

The vinyl: Rated: M- stunning clean! All glossy clean and smooth, VG++ has a couple of light marks, played with excellent clean enjoyable audio here ...also has clean Rare Earth labels ...

                 

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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