Super Session

Super Session [Remaster]: Includes liner notes by Al Kooper, Michael Thomas. A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth. Bonus Tracks: 10. Remix from Columbia album tapes for Super Session CS 9701 11. Remix from Columbia album tapes for Super Session CS 9701 12. Outtake from the sessions for the Columbia album Super Session CS 9701, previously only available on the Master Sound CD version of Super Session CK 64611 13. Previously unreleased, recorded 196 at the Fillmore West, An Francisco, CA