Rating: ** (2 stars)
Title: Live & On the Move
Company: Buddah
Catalog: BDS-5661-2
Year: 1976
Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+
Comments: double LP; gatefold sleeve
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4127
Price: $12.00
Cost: $1.00
The mid-1970s saw an explosion of double live concert sets - literally everyone and their mothers' seemingly releasing an in-concert documentary. 1976's "Live & On the Move" saw R&B legend James Cotton join the ever growing throng. Recorded at the Shaboo Inn in Willmantic, Conn. the results are fairly interesting. Backed by a first rate band (guitarist Mat Murphy deserving special recognition), material such as "One More Mile", the group sing along "Flip Flop & Fly" and the pretty ballad "Goodbye My Lady" showed Cotton to be in good form. Our only real complaint stems from the fact the four sides would have benefited from severe pruning. Had this been reduced to a single album it would have made for a pseudo-classic release.
"Live & On the Move" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) Cotton Boogie (instrumental)
2.) One More Mile
3.) All Walks of Life
4.) Born In Missouri
5.) Flip Flop & Fly
(side 2)
1.) Mojo
2.) Goodbye My Lady
3.) I Don't Know
4.) Caldonia
(side 3)
1.) Boogie Thing (Matt Murphey) - 4:19
2.) Good Morning Lil' School Girl (L. Hopkins) - 3:20
3.) Oh Baby You Don't Have To Go - 2:31
4.) Help Me (J. Watson) - 4:12
5.) Fannie Mae (B. Robinson - B. Brown) - 3:56
(side 4)
1.) Hot 'n Cold (Allen Toussaint) - 4:04
2.) Teeny Weeny Bit (Ian Whitcomb) - 3:06
3.) Blow Wind Blow (Don Dickerson - B. Lindsay) - 3:10
4.) How Long Can a Fool Go Wrong (James Cotton) - 6:19