John McLaughlin - Devotion -1970 {Out of Print}

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Originally posted May 7, 2016

John McLaughlin - Devotion -1970

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

 

Audio CD $54+ at the 'Zon 

 

Devotion is a hard driving, spaced-out, distorted hard-jazz-rock album featuring organist Larry Young, drummer Buddy Miles, and the little known bassist Billy Rich. This album was recorded close to the period when McLaughlin had been jamming with Jimi Hendrix, Young, Miles and Dave Holland. Terrible bootlegs exist of some of their jams, but bad sound quality and McLaughlin's guitar on the fritz make the bootlegs a ripoff.
Devotion was also sort of a ripoff. To this day, McLaughlin is angry about the way former Hendrix producer Alan Douglas mixed this record. Apparently, Douglas spliced bits of music together here and there that were not supposed to be connected. Despite this obvious problem, and the fact Douglas paid McLaughlin only $2,000 to record both Devotion and My Goal’s Beyond , this album is chock full of wonderfully ominous riffs and sounds. Devotion is an overlooked landmark album. 
~Walter Kolosky - All About Jazz

Track List:

1. Marbles (4:05)
2. Siren (5:55)
3. Don't Let the Dragon Eat Your Mother (5:18)
4. Purpose of When (4:42)
5. Dragon Song (4:13)
6. Devotion (11:25) 

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