The 50’s and 60’s gave us a lot of delta blues dressed up, first as rock
and roll, then as blues rock. No
surprise that Cream applied that treatment – brilliantly, in my books - to I’m So Glad by Skip James.
So if you’re a contemporary of Cream, you go looking for another tune,
right? I mean, what’s the point in
re-doing See See Rider after the
Animals? No wait, someone did. Actually, lots of people. Nevermind.
Anyway, it turned out if you were Deep Purple you could re-do I’m So Glad
and make it totally new. You know, just
weave Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade
around it. Obvious!
Not really, and that’s what made that psychedelic era so freakin’
amazing. Thanks to the fearless,
restless exploration that dominated the times, a simple little ditty became a
psychedelic, early prog rock tour de force.
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