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Rediscovering Cold Blood

I noticed Cold Blood "Thriller" in my collection a week ago, which I hadn't played in a year or so. Damn, I forgot just how good that disc is....the incomparable Lydia Pence, a rhythm section tighter than the jeans you wore in high school, sophisticated arrangements that build and progress until you can hardly keep from dancing in the living room. Tons of fun for fans of Janis Joplin, funk/rock/blues, horn section dynamite and a drum/bass groove as solid as Bobby Colomby and Jim Fielder.
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dayglow
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Since Cold Blood was popular before my time, I was first introduced to them from the "Fillmore: Last Days" 2-disc cd about 20 years ago. I originally bought the cd for the Santana, Malo and Quicksilver Messenger Service tracks, but discovered many other gems including Cold Blood. I recommend this recording not for it's sound quality but for the great performers that many other gen-xers are unfamiliar with.
r_burke
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Chazro - In addition to Transfusion, there is also Live Blood from 2008, it's a good one also.

I had the luck to follow Cold Blood from the streets of Palo Alto to being the headliner at Filmore and Winterland back in the day. I've also seen them a few times in recent years and they still put it out.
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chazro
635 posts
 
Thx for the head's up, I'll be on the lookout!
mrmitch
359 posts
 
Huge fan! "I'm a Good Woman" was on the set list of one of the bands I played in during the 70's.
gbart
290 posts
 
Another big Cold Blood fan here, since high school in the early '70s. My favorite album has always been their first, so much so that I have two copies on vinyl and 2 copies on CD.
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