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Blues Obituary was the follow up album from the London blues rock group The Groundhogs. They would enjoy a huge surge in support from British fans during the early 1970s.
“This is the only Groundhogs album that I've ever liked. All of the others, released after this, were attempts by Tony McPhee and his mates to cater for the prog-rock college student market. This, however, is a set of brilliantly basic snippets of blues music, with Tony’s mournful vocals and clever, unpretentious, little guitar riffs decorating the whole thing. Properly good, honest British blues.”
“Good solid bass-guitar-drums blues (with a slight edge towards prog, but not much), the trio are obviously well in tune with each other. The riffs and tunes blast along with huge energy, and in the rather angular (but great) Groundhogs style.”
“A significant improvement, from a rock standpoint, over their debut, but still not quite up to the par of it's follow-up. At least they are clearly moving in a positive direction. This is fairly straight forward blues oriented hard rock, though somewhat lacking in period flavour.”
“This is the kind of stuff that could lead to an excessive live jam. It is great blues rock from the roots of great blues rock music.”
“Here the Hogs begin their journey toward greatness, moving outside of the blues into new and different waters. But the accent here is still on their muse, and it wouldn't be until the next record that they'd really break loose. Get this and hear a band on the brink of brilliance.”
“A timeless classic. Warning to any guitarist; after hearing this you'll want to either sit down and practice or hang it up. McPhee is so good it'll leave your head spinning. An essential listen.”
“This album captures them moving away from their traditional blues format into different territory. Rock music was becoming more virtuoso driven at this time, and the Groundhogs reflected the new sound with their own, still heavily blues-inflected take on it.”
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