The Dirty Blues Band was a white blues outfit best known as the stamping grounds, for a time, for Rod Piazza and Glenn Ross Campbell. The group was spawned in Riverside, CA, from a convergence of members of a handful of notable local outfits -- their rhythm section, John Millikan (drums) and Les Morrison (bass), were high school classmates who'd previously played in the L-J's, whence also came keyboard player Pat Moloney. The L-J's had started out playing jazz in 1964, but by the end of 1965 had evolved into the Mystics, a much more blues-focused outfit, whose ranks included Bob Sandell on rhythm guitar and Rod Piazza on lead vocals and harp. Their main influences were such British Invasion bands as Them (whose \"Mystic Eyes\" had provided their name), the Animals, the Yardbirds, and the Rolling Stones -- although nominally a blues band, their sound was really more an amalgam of blues and R&B as done by those groups...
Artist: Dirty Blues Band
Location: USA
Album: Dirty Blues Band
Year: 1967
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Duration: 37:07
Tracks:
01. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 2:55
02. What Is Soul, Babe? (John Milliken, Rod Piazza) - 3:57
03. Hound Dog (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 2:53
04. New Orleans Woman (Roy Brown) - 1:53
05. I'll Do Anything Babe (Rod Piazza) - 4:22
06. Checkin' Up On My Baby (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 3:41
07. Shake It Babe (Robert Sandell, Rod Piazza) - 2:58
08. Worry, Worry Blues (Rod Piazza) - 3:46
09. Born Under A Bad Sign (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) - 2:48
10. Spoonful (Willie Dixon) - 3:51
11. Chicken Shack (Ike Turner) - 4:03
Personnel:
- Rod \"Gingerman\" Piazza - lead vocals, harmonica
