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Long John Baldry &#;It Ain&#;t Easy&#;
&#;Don&#;t Try and Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock & Roll&#;
John&#;s first solo record &#;It Ain&#;t Easy&#;
was recorded in late , early and had what became his only big hit. Although it was truly two songs:
- &#;Intro: Conditional Discharge&#; and
- &#;Don&#;t Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll&#;
Even the back cover of the album calls it by the later song name but on the record itself you can see that it really is two songs. What makes the song so great is the story Long John Baldry tells in &#;conditional discharge&#; about how he was playing his guitar on the streets one day and gets arrested by the police. The minute plus story then goes through his court appearance and how the police officer explained why he arrested him to the judge. &#;Well, I decided that he was contravening a breach of the peace&#; and after the judge asks what kind of music he was playing the officer says &#;Oh, well, Mi lord,
It&#;s a kind of jazz-rhythm music peculiar to the American Black Man.&#; While Baldry is telling his story there is this funky, blues piano beat by Ian Armitt playing that completes the musical journey.
Then the songs kicks into a new gear as the entire studio band kicks in with
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Long John BALDRY &#; Crossing Ain&#;t Go down
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It Ain't Easy (Long John Baldry album)
studio album by Long John Baldry
It Ain't Easy is a album by Long John Baldry. It marked his return to the edgier blues sound that he performed in the mids.[1] It was Baldry's fifth solo album.
Background
[edit]According to extensive notes about Long John Baldry's career in the re-release CD, Rod Stewart was brought on board to produce It Ain't Easy for Warner Brothers. Soon after in , Stewart met Baldry’s former Bluesology bandmate Elton John at a party and the piano player joined on, too. Stewart and John each produced half of this bluesyalbum, with John contributing much of the piano work. Stewart brought in mate Ronnie Wood to play guitar, as well as many others who would appear on Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story, released later in
The Baldry album features his biggest U.S. hit, "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll"; Baldry once noted how Stewart's loose and late-night recording sessions affected the tracks, "especially those recorded on my thirtieth birthday when he showed up with cases of Remy Martin cognac and several measures of good quality champagne!" Baldry points out that "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll" was recorded "whilst layi