Jimmy Bell's Still In Town

Originally released in 1976. Recorded live at The Agora, Cleveland, Oh., June 16, 1975. ℗© 1976 Water Brothers Made in Debtville Hype sticker on shrink wrap: "Chosen to suggest an Orwellian darkness and the 1-4-5 ratio - the chord progression on which the blues is based - the group is also called, simply, The Numbers. For 30 year, they have kept the blues alive. Where the guardians of the form starved it of innovation, 15-60-75 nurtured abstract evolution...aspired to vision. Blues reimbued with meaning, purged and purified by flame, shorn of every superfluous moment, sound or word. Because their songs are compiled over a series markers - words, sounds, phrases, pauses - they don't count measures and can't outline the structure of their songs to an outsider. For a form routinely approached as a compendium of formulas, this is startling. - David Thomas (Pere Ubu)