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1969 compilation album by Fleetwood Mac From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, one track from their first album Fleetwood Mac, two tracks from their second album Mr. Wonderful, and two tracks by the blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These came from Boyd's album 7936 South Rhodes.
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Released | 15 August 1969 | |||
Recorded | September 1967, January–April & October 1968 | |||
Genre | Blues rock | |||
Length | 36:00 | |||
Label | Blue Horizon | |||
Producer | Mike Vernon | |||
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The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss (marginal note) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The phrase refers to the albatross killed in the poem ("The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen"). Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross".
The Pious Bird of Good Omen was not released in the US. The closest US equivalent is the English Rose compilation album, released in December 1968 and sharing four songs with Pious Bird.
In 2002, the album was repackaged by Sony BMG as Greatest Hits with cover art very closely resembling the 1971 Greatest Hits album, and with "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns" added to the track listing. In 2004, when Fleetwood Mac's Blue Horizon era albums were remastered, Pious Bird was reconfigured to remove tracks from the previous two Mac albums and the Boyd tracks, which were replaced by archival recordings from the 1967 and 1968 period.
Reaction to the album has been highly positive. It was described as "excellent" by the Rolling Stone Album Guide.[3] TeamRock ranked the album in the "20 Greatest Blues Albums: 1967-70".[4]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Need Your Love So Bad" | Little Willie John, Mertis John Jr.[5] | 3:50 |
2. | "Comin' Home" | Elmore James | 2:38 |
3. | "Rambling Pony" | Peter Green | 2:40 |
4. | "The Big Boat" (with Eddie Boyd) | Eddie Boyd | 2:35 |
5. | "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" | James | 2:55 |
6. | "The Sun Is Shining" | James | 3:10 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Albatross" | Green | 3:10 |
2. | "Black Magic Woman" | Green | 2:46 |
3. | "Just the Blues" (with Eddie Boyd) | Boyd | 5:35 |
4. | "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" | Danny Kirwan | 1:33 |
5. | "Looking for Somebody" | Green | 2:50 |
6. | "Stop Messin' Round" | Clifford Adams, Green | 2:18 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Need Your Love So Bad – Version No. 2 (Remake)" (Take 4 – complete master version/remix*) | John, John Jr. | 6:55 |
2. | "Rambling Pony" (Complete master version/remix*) | Green | 3:32 |
3. | "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" (Master version with studio talk/remix*) | Elmore James | 3:01 |
4. | "The Sun Is Shining" | James | 3:10 |
5. | "Albatross" | Green | 3:10 |
6. | "Black Magic Woman" | Green | 2:51 |
7. | "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" | Kirwan | 1:33 |
8. | "Like Crying" (*) | Kirwan | 2:29 |
9. | "Need Your Love So Bad – Version No. 1" (Take 1 – false start*, take 2 – incomplete* and take 3*) | John, John Jr. | 11:33 |
10. | "Need Your Love So Bad – Version No. 2 (Remake)" (Take 1* and take 2*) | John, John Jr. | 13:06 |
11. | "Need Your Love So Bad – Version No. 2 (Remake)" (Take 3*) | John, John Jr. | 6:18 |
12. | "Need Your Love So Bad – USA Version" (*) | John, John Jr. | 6:18 |
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