Name: Super Session
Brand: Columbia
SKU: 80543331
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Super Session

Rating

Album: Super Session
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Albert's Shuffle	More Info...	0:07
2)	Stop	More Info...	0:04
3)	Man's Temptation	More Info...	0:03
4)	His Holy Modal Majesty	More Info...	0:09
5)	Really	More Info...	0:05
6)	It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry	More Info...	0:03
7)	Season of the Witch	More Info...	0:11
8)	You Don't Love Me	More Info...	0:04
9)	Harvey's Tune	More Info...	0:02
10)	Albert's Shuffle	More Info...	0:07
11)	Season of the Witch	More Info...	0:11
12)	Blues for Nothing	More Info...	0:04
13)	Fat Grey Cloud	More Info...	0:04

Album: Super Session
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Albert's Shuffle	More Info...	0:07
2)	Stop	More Info...	0:04
3)	Man's Temptation	More Info...	0:03
4)	His Holy Modal Majesty	More Info...	0:09
5)	Really	More Info...	0:05
6)	It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry	More Info...	0:03
7)	Season of the Witch	More Info...	0:11
8)	You Don't Love Me	More Info...	0:04
9)	Harvey's Tune	More Info...	0:02
10)	Albert's Shuffle	More Info...	0:07
11)	Season of the Witch	More Info...	0:11
12)	Blues for Nothing	More Info...	0:04
13)	Fat Grey Cloud	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

Full performer name: Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills.
Personnel: Mike Bloomfield (electric guitar); Al Kooper (vocals, 12-string & electric guitars, piano, organ, ondioline); Steve Stills (electric guitar); Barry Goldberg (electric piano); Harvey Brooks (bass); Eddie Hoh (drums).
Includes liner notes by Al Kooper, Michael Thomas.
Full performer name: Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills.
Personnel: Mike Bloomfield (electric guitar); Al Kooper (piano, organ, ondioline, vocals, 12-string & electric guitars); Steve Stills (electric guitar); Barry Goldberg (electric piano); Harvey Brooks (bass); Eddie Hoh (drums).
Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.
Includes liner notes by 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.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (10/12/68, p.28) - "...The Bloomfield side is particularly excellent....There is a firmness, a real steady handedness, a determinedly sure feeling to what he puts out here..."

Uncut (6/03, p.133) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...These Dylan sidekicks cut the mustard..."