A1 Pigmeat Theme
A2 New Fort Worth Blues
A3 Kind Hearted Woman
A4 Like A Circle Around The Sun
A5 Come Back
A6 Desert Blues (Big Chief Buffalo Nickel)
B1 Sweet, Sweet Marie
B2 Don't You Lie To Me
B3 Tombstone
B4 Down The Highway
B5 Me And The Devil
Bass, Vocals – Marty Brennan
Drums, Vocals – Steve Winchell
Guitar – Kurt Braunstein
Guitar, Vocals – Ian Buchanan
Harmonica – Buddy Lucas
Lead Guitar – Ian Buchanan (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B1, B2), Kurt Braunstein (tracks: A2, A5)
Lead Vocals – Ian Buchanan (tracks: A1 to A5, B1, B2, B5), Marty Brennan (tracks: A6, B3), Steve Winchell (tracks: A6)
Piano – Richie Gottherer
Back in 1964, folk label Elektra released an LP called The Blues Project, an anthology featuring such big names (in the folk scene at least) as Dave van Ronk, Geoff Muldaur, Spider John Koerner, and Danny Kalb (who went on to found a band called the Blues Project). And then there was one song by a guy named Ian Buchanan, who promptly disappeared from view… hence the title of this, his only LP. It came out in 1969, but the sound is more pre-1966 – very little of the juiced-up blues-rock pyrotechnics of groups like Cream; this is mostly understated and rather old-timey, although not as retro as Ry Cooder or Leon Redbone. Buchanan provides most of the lead guitar, which is not bad but not outstanding, and most of the lead vocals, which are frankly not great; he sings thinly, with a tendency to yelp, although sometimes he does a back-of-the-throat thing that’s kind of interesting. There’s some pretty good harmonica, and the rhythm section is fairly basic. The track selection is nice; the ones that stand out the most are “Tombstone”, with slide guitar and highly echoed vocals (neither by Buchanan); a sparse and haunting treatment of Robert Johnson’s “Me and the Devil”; and “Desert Blues”, a highly camped-up version of an old cowboy song by Jimmie Rodgers. Whatever happened to Ian Buchanan after this LP is not generally known.
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