The House of Blue Lights (album)

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The House of Blue Lights
The House of Blue Lights cover
Studio album by Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
Released 1969
Recorded Herb Abramson's A-1 Studio
Genre R&B
Electric blues
Soul blues
Blues-Rock
Label Atlantic
Sepia Tone
Producer Don Covay
Professional reviews
Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band chronology
See Saw
 The House of Blue Lights
(1969)		 Country Funk

The House of Blue Lights is an Rhythm & blues album by the soul music artist Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band. It was released in 1969 on Atlantic records. (See 1969 in music).

Unlike Covay's previous two more Southern soul oriented albums, Covay teamed with former Shirelles guitarist Joe Richardson and folk musician John Hammond in the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, an attempt at an underground blues-rock album titled The House of Blue Lights.[1]

The album was re-issued on compact disc on September 26, 2002 by Sepia-tone records.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Key to the Highway" (Big Bill Broonzy, Charles Segar) – 2:21
  2. "Mad Dog Blues" (Don Covay, Joe Richardson) – 3:28
  3. "The Blues Don't Knock" (John Denioa, Sidney Wyche) – 3:11
  4. "Blues Ain't Nothin' but a Good Woman on Your Mind" (Covay, Richardson) – 3:12
  5. "The House of Blue Lights, Pt. 1" (Covay) – 7:33
  6. "Four Women" (Covay) – 3:34
  7. "Steady Roller" (Covay, John Hammond Jr.) – 3:17
  8. "Homemade Love" (Covay) – 6:26
  9. "But I Forgive You Blues" (Hudson Whittaker) – 2:31
  10. "Shut Your Mouth" (Dave Clowney) – 3:23
  11. "The House of Blue Lights, Pt. 2" (Covay) – 4:09

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The band

[edit] Technical staff

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Jason Ankeny, "Don Covay > Biography", All Music Guide Website. Retrieved 29 December 2006.